Is a clutter free home a clutter free mind..does it work for you.

I cannot cope if surrounded by clutter. If the place is getting untidy, it means I am unwell or stressed about something.

I am not a minimalist (like *Free and Easy*) but I do have a place for everything and like to have everything in its place.

I have always been like this and in my youth always said that I could not marry a man who smoked or was untidy. DH doesn't smoke .........

He hid his untidiness from me very carefully until I had married him and life since is often on an edge between my need for order and his tendency to put things down where he is and then not remember where that was. Usually I have picked them up and put them where they ought to be, but I can now tolerate more clutter than I used to.

I like clutter free and pretty much know where to lay my hand on anything important. DH's man cave is a shambles and after 40+ years he still asks where obvious things are even though I've had a similar system in all the houses we've lived in. I despair......

I wish DH would use the lovely big workshop at the end of the garden, but he prefers to be in the house around people, so the house, thankfully fairly large, has a succession of his little heaps of things to be done and as for the kitchen table.....

My friends husband calls it suffering from piles.
Piles of stuff at the bottom of the stairs, waiting to go up.
Piles of stuff at the top, waiting to come down...

What is clutter.
If by clutter you include books on shelves, paintings, mirrors on walls, lamps on chests and tables, a favourite ornament bought on travels as a memory, a shell collection from places visited then I have clutter.
Or
If your idea of clutter is piles of newspapers stacked, so many ornaments you can't count, needing to move one thing to find another, not being able to find anything because of stuff all over etc then I am tidy.
I am very organised and know where to find documents bills, receipts, they are all filed.
I couldn't leave dirty pots in a sink until the next day, I always clean up my kitchen after every meal and wipe round. I put things away when I have used them, but that's the way I am.
I have what I consider and my friends do a very tidy home and I am happy the way it is.
I don't see the point of leaving things out and making work for myself at a later time when it takes seconds to put things away.
Does it really matter what your home is like if whatever it is like suits you that is the only thing that matters.