Clutter Love

No matter what home lifestyle “experts” like Martha Stewart and the editors of Real Simple claim, clutter is not the bane all human existence. For them, clutter, or rather, decluttering, is big business–that’s why volumes of copy has been written about how cleaning up the clutter in your life can set you free. But as A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder points out, there is a big fat greedy reason for lifestyle mavens to try and convince us that clutter is something deeply shameful. Home-organizing products constitute a $6 billion industry, closet-organizing systems rake in another $3 billion, and who knows how much the burgeoning professional organizing industry is raking in?