Maybe, here, we are a superior group of clean people.[/quote]
Most people write that, I figure it’s a joke. Brian, I’m not so sure.
Anyway, I think clutter bothers some people a lot more than it bothers others. It drives my wife nuts. If she goes into a room just, say, to get something, she notices everything in the room without even trying. If you put a paper clip anywhere in that room, she’ll notice it when she walks in again. Even if she’s not looking for it, she’ll notice it instantly. And it will bug her if it isn’t supposed to be there. I’m the opposite, which I shall illustrate: An old roomate and I used to get kicks from startling/scaring each other. One time I came home and didn’t expect him to be there. He doesn’t want to totally freak me out, so he gives me a hint that he’s there. He leaves an air chair foil (it’s a metal, t-shaped thing about 2 feet by 3 feet) in the doorway to the bathroom. I have to practically contort myself to get by this thing. It doesn’t occur to me that that’s not supposed to be there, nor that it wasn’t there when I left (and so I don’t get the hint, and my hair stands on end when he does jump out of wherever he jumps out of). So maybe it’s not noticing things like that that result in clutter not bothering me. Clutter doesn’t bother me at all. Does that make me inferior? Of course not. Not from any reasonable perspective, anyway. Does it mean that I wouldn’t be helped by decluttering? I think it does. I think that people who are bothered by clutter are sometimes not aware that clutter is what’s bothering them. And those people will probably be amazed at how much decluttering helps them. And some of them probably won’t understand how it wouldn’t help everybody. But I think people who aren’t bothered by clutter wouldn’t get much out of it.
