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Clutter Clutter. The word starts arguments between husbands and wives. Thinking about clutter causes anxiety and stress. Some people yell at their children because of clutter. It causes high blood pressure. Clutter causes us to put “buts” in our sentences. Examples: “My house would be clean, but my husband just won’t get rid of his junk.” “I am saving these magazines because sometime I might want a recipe or a craft pattern out of them, but I have so many, I can’t remember what issue that taco recipe I wanted to save was in.” We hold on to stuff for many reasons. Below are a few: I might need it someday. My mom kept everything. I am going to sew/macramé/quilt/scrapbook/build model rockets/fish someday, but right now I just don’t have the time. I have this ugly furniture I hate, but my grandmother gave it to me. There is that BUT word again. How many reasons (excuses) have you come up for not dealing with your clutter? Clutter, according to the New Heritage Dictionary means NOUN: 1. A confused or disordered state or collection: a jumble. VERB: Cluttered, cluttering, clutters 1. To run or move with bustle and confusion. ORIGIN: Probably from Middle English cloteren, to clot, from clot, lump, from Old English clott. I cracked up laughing when I read the origins of the word clutter. The picture that it brought to mind was having clots and lumps lying about our house! Other words for clutter are mess, litter, disorder, confusion, untidiness, muddle…just to name a few. Clutter is beginning to sound less and less appealing. What do you intend to do about your clutter? |
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