You have too much stuff. A lot of it is dumb. You’re being lazy about it. Hey, if you don’t want to get rid of it, pile it higher, crowd it in, live your monster life. But if you do de-clutter, it’s probably a good thing. Can we just agree on that? Because this is a fact: De-cluttering is an unassailably good idea.
If you were a girl in the 80s or 90s, odds are you carried some fresh-ass Lisa Frank insanity with pride. Whether it was a unicorn shitting sparkles on your binder or a cracked-out koala bear clinging to a rainbow tree for dear life on your jumbo pencil, this magical shit grabbed our imaginations and our parents'…
One of the worst parts of a breakup is when you come to from the initial crying and yelling and flouncing off and realize that your can opener/DVD player/French dictionary/pants are still at your now-ex's house. Or that you are unwillingly in possession of your until-recently-beloved's crap. Luckily, we have some tips…
A 76-year-old-woman and 79-year-old man from Chicago who'd been missing for three weeks were found. At home. Buried alive in under heaps of crap. A police spokesman described the couple as "hoarders." Ever worry it could be you?
In 2007, Annie Leonard created "The Story of Stuff," a short, child-friendly video that explains the problems with consumer culture. Teachers love it because of its straight-forward format, but many parents aren't so happy.
I gave this "personal library kit" to three bookish young sisters for Christmas, and they loved it. Or at least, they said they did. [New York]
In Newsweek, Pulitzer-prize winning writer Anna Quindlen is waxing philosophical about something some of us know about all too well: Accumulation of "stuff":
