Organization Ain’t All Its Cracked Up to Be

Clutter Love seeks to counteract the forces of organization mania. We want to show that one person’s clutter is another’s creative jungle. We are sick and tired of lifestyle industry pushing organizing systems like eager meth dealers, doing their best to make Americans feel guilty about the harmless mess in their closets. At Clutter Love, we say “So What! Embrace your clutter–it will set you free. Follow the link to read the Clutter Love Manifesto:

• Clutter is nothing to be ashamed of (unless all of your doorways are blocked with plastic bags full of clothes you bought at the thrift store 10 years ago and old plastic utensils–just in case. That would make you a hoarder and that is harmful).
• Clutter doesn’t demonstrate a lack of morality.
• Clutter will not break up your family or make lose your job.
• Clutter, in reasonable amounts, is nothing to be ashamed of. In fact, it might actually be a sign that you are more creative than the average bear.

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?