40 years into the war on clutter, and we’re still overwhelmed by stuff
It’s hard to put a start date on America’s War on Clutter, but you could trace it to 1978, when the first Container Store opened in a 1,600-square-foot space in Dallas, or to 1985, when a few professional organizers from California saw gold in people’s junk and started a trade association that today counts about 3,400 members, the Globe’s Beth Teitell reports.
But despite an industry that’s grown so massive it’s become its own form of clutter — with books, and experts, and storage containers, and apps and YouTube videos — we’ve made so little progress that even the professional organizers aren’t pretending the problem has been solved — or even that it’s solvable. Continue reading the story here.
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