A confession, first: I love clutter. The horizontal surfaces in my family room are covered with newspapers, magazines, books I’ve started, books I intend to read, books I want to read but never will, ...

For example, holding on to a pair of roller blades because one day in the future, the person who used to roller blade will roller blade again,” she says. The meaning we attach to these items often ...

For the most part, clutter isn’t a big problem for me. I’m pretty good at recognizing when clutter is starting to become a problem, and I can usually get rid of whatever we don’t need without ...