I feel like clutter and disorganization are bigger problems than they’re treated as tbh

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I think about it almost like a computer’s performance. Clutter in your life adds wasted cycles, each one ever so slightly degrading your performance. Most are probably things you’ve thought about fairly little, but they’re there, each one eating up your mental functioning and adding a tiny bit of stress to your life. Every day you walk by them and see them for a second and there’s a part of your brain that knows they’re out of place, it’s slowly eating away at you.

One lone sock out of place isn’t doing much, but if you actually inventoried every single bit of clutter or mess in your life, it adds up. They’re spread out in random places all over your house, it gets even worse with kids. That marker cap in the corner, a loose piece of thread, a suction cup foam bullet, a lone sock, a crayon under a chair, an old piece of paper with scribbles on it, a cheerio, a pebble, a tiny screw, small plastic baggies, a splash of something blue on the wall, a plastic part from a happy meal long gone, a rubber band, a pile of old notepads, etc etc etc.

There might be hundreds of these micro tasks all dragging you down, bit by bit. None of them alone ever seem to rise to the level of “I should do something about this,” so they just sort of sit around, just there. Clutter adds up though.