“Clutter, like emotional chaos, has a way of running in families, passed down like curly hair or blue eyes or musical ability.”
“Clutter, like emotional chaos, has a way of running in families, passed down like blue eyes or curly hair or musical ability.”
“The walls are lined with Bankers Boxes and plastic bins. These boxes contain things like rag dolls with missing eyes and tablecloths permanently marred with mustard stains because my mother does not believe in throwing anything away. In her opinion, failures of foresight are the worst kind.”
Source: State of Paradise
“Clutter may rob us of the life we imagined or prevent us from creating a new vision for our future.”
Source: Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.
“Hoarding does not discriminate on the basis of income or intellect.”
Source: The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
“I throw away stacks of newspaper and catalogs, bills that probably went unpaid for years, plastic bags of hangers and wires, and the hockey stick.”
Source: White Cat
“I knew then that the fewer items I was acquiring, dusting, packing, moving, and lugging around in life would free up my energy and time to create...”
“I've always believed that a hoarder house is a house full of quitting. To make a change, the hoarder has to stop quitting and start trying. The hoarder has to want to change...
When hoarders quit, they are cheating their potential. Every time they quit, they are taking a shortcut and they know it. The guilt builds, which is why hoarders can't allow themselves to quit again, not even once. Quitting on small actions eventually leads to completely giving up.”
Source: The Secret Lives of Hoarders: True Stories of Tackling Extreme Clutter
“For a hoarder, staying clean isn't really about bins and labels; it's about processing items that come into the house. A good organizer can help a hoarder develop methods for sorting mail, for staying on top of recycling, and for making sure donated items get to their destinations... The repetition of bad cleaning skills is usually what got the hoarder into trouble in the first place, so an organizer works on repetition of new, positive cleaning skills.”
Source: The Secret Lives of Hoarders: True Stories of Tackling Extreme Clutter
“If I’m owed anything, it would be all of the consequences that come with believing that I’m owed.”