Clutter..

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Is anyone else here bothered by clutter.

Personally I hate it but I know some people seem to find comfort in it.

I do acquire large amounts of stuff related to my collections (which are related to my interests only, I don't collect any old thing) but prefer it when they are tucked away neatly. I like space around me otherwise I feel really stressed out for some reason.

I also like to keep my furniture out of the center of the room. This is because:

1 I can tend to walk into things and its best if i don't put too much stuff in the way
2 I like the feeling of space there
3 I like to dance and its saves me from having to move the furniture out the way first

What is your preference? Are you bothered by clutter or do you not mind it?

I really hate clutter as well.

I'm a control freak especially when it comes to organizing and cleaning, if it's not my way then I just give up and fall into a rut and that's when clutter starts to build-up. If I owned a house then it would most certainly have everything neatly packed away and ordered in a way that I would want it to be. My situation now is living with my parents, and my mum tends to control everything in the house and always has, so over the years I just stopped trying/caring except for brief bursts where I go on a 'renovating' spree in the one room I'm always in, which even then I don't have complete control of so I give up when I run into something I can't have my way.

I don't have meltdowns when I run in to a problem, my brain just flips the switch from 'controlling everything' to 'complete apathy'.

I despise clutter, but I have had to learn to live with it.

If you dislike clutter, you'd better never see my room

I am a disorganized and messy person. I'm actually getting better. It used to be way worse once. When I was in elementary and middle school I often forgot to bring stuff to school, I was massier at home than I am now, my backpack was always stuffed with papers of unfinished homework.

But it's weird. When I see things that are not lined up I feel the need to line them up, otherwise they make me anxious.

this photo bugs me because the pencils are not lined up the way I want them to.
In school I am always lining up my pencil, pen and eraser.
But my room is messy. There's an armchair in my room and there are books, notebooks, papers, pillows, paper bags and clothes on it. It's a real mess. And I always forget to order my stuff and when I try I get anxious because I don't know where to put stuff and I don't know what to do.
I guess that happens when one's whole-brained.

I really hate it. But sometimes my office and closet especially get cluttered and it bugs me. My bedroom was cluttered too when I lived with my parents because the room was really small. But if I had my choice in the matter, I would not have any clutter. I feel like it clutters my mind.

I would say that might be OCD related.

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Freshly sharpened pencils, wooohooo!

I hate clutter too. Right now, my room is cluttered, and I hate it. I will clean as soon as I meet the next important stuff deadline, maybe.

Hate Hate Hate HATE! Clutter...
It distresses me no end, this is why I want to live on my own. Then I can control it. I dont like collecting stuff unless like Bumble said it relates to a special interest - for me this is mostly books on specific subjects - Wrestlers Autobiographies, Sherlock Holmes books, RL Stine books.
I think services like LOVEfilm are great because I dont like owning boxsets or dvds (again only ones relating to my interests) so its great to not have to keep things and I can send them back.

I dont have many items i cant throw away due to memories with them, if it will make more space then I am happy to throw it.
I even have book shelve spaces with nothing in soley to create a feeling of space.

Hate Hate Hate HATE! Clutter...
It distresses me no end, this is why I want to live on my own. Then I can control it. I dont like collecting stuff unless like Bumble said it relates to a special interest - for me this is mostly books on specific subjects - Wrestlers Autobiographies, Sherlock Holmes books, RL Stine books.
I think services like LOVEfilm are great because I dont like owning boxsets or dvds (again only ones relating to my interests) so its great to not have to keep things and I can send them back.

I dont have many items i cant throw away due to memories with them, if it will make more space then I am happy to throw it.
I even have book shelve spaces with nothing in soley to create a feeling of space.

My head is very cluttered, and so is most of my stuff, except for my books. They used to be INCREDIBlY tidy when I didn't go to uni yet and had... well, free time. Now they're just normal tidy, but it actually bothers me. I like organizing things like files, books and clothes but then my room gets crammed with stuff I forget to throw out, dirty clothes which I forget to put in the wash...

It used to be in the old days when family would frequently drop by, that I kept my place neat as a pin.
But now that all of the family has moved out of state and virtually no one ever comes over, my place turns into a landfill. Then eventually I clean it all up to where it's neat as a pin again. Then it becomes a landfill again. Repeat.
I really don't know why this happens, because I prefer it neat and organized and everything in its place, and it really doesn't require that much effort to maintain it that way.

I like organization of my stuff.

Preferably that means everything neatly stored and shelved in labelled translusent containers. But until I can get to that point I often have piles of stuff laying around. Someone coming in might see that as disorganized chaos. But actually, each pile represents a categorized accumulation of like items that are just awaiting containerization.

When I need something I can usually find it in very short order, and to me that is what matters most.

What I find endlessly frustrating is that in the abstract, I can create awesome and efficient systems of organization, but in practice, I can't keep track of too many things at the same time and the random, chaotic nature of life, particularly sudden demands on time, disrupt all my attempts to build systems.

So I am never able to implement the really great organizational structures I imagine. Instead I fall back on contingency plans to protect just the level of order I need to get by over the next 24-48 hours, and the rest spirals into chaos.

But trying to fight it takes too much energy, so given the choice between moving on with life or getting stuck trying to make things more perfect today, I get on with life and things are uncomfortably messy.

Leonardo misquoted: "Clutter in the room makes clutter in the mind".

Landfill. I like that term. My place right now.

I freaking HATE CLUTTER! I wish I could burn my place to the ground as start over.

My Aspie husband is a hoarder, and with s**t executive functioning skills. He has no clue how to clean up. His office has 8 garbage bags of paper. I think it's trash. No food wrappers. "What if I throw something out that is needed?" Short of old taxes forms, I don't care anymore.

Hoarding issues+inability to do anything=a f*****g festival over here.

I fantasize of having a place with white walls and tatami mats, ONLY . That's how much the hoard has burnt me out.

This sounds much like our home. My husband likes to buy things for his special interest, or new computer parts etc and he very very rarely gets rid of the old. It ends up in a box that I have to shuffle around the house, trying to find the best place where he feels comfortable keeping it without it getting in my way or messing up how the things we actually use need to be put away. If he does get rid of the old it's never on his own. I usually have to prod him gently and find a location for safe e-waste drop off, or arrange a doantion truck to pick things up.
I do ALL of the cleaning/organizing/decluttering/stuff management in the house. That's a big task since there are 4 of us here, all with some ASD. I'm the only one who can keep the house presentable. I can't function in clutter.