All that clutter

Pam and I watch a new show called Clean Sweep every once in a while. People with these incredibly messy houses call in a team of professional organizers to help clean and organize several rooms of their house. They are made to “purge” a good portion of the stuff and with the help of a decorator and carpenter, redo the rooms into some nice living areas. What’s amazing is these morons actually come on national TV and show us how they are huge slobs.

Watching the show I can’t help thinking that the soon after the Clean Sweep team leaves, the room will be back to its original mess. People that have such cluttered areas are not going to change. On the show, they often blame the clutter on being too busy or having too much stuff. I say they’re just lazy. Keeping yourself organized actually takes less time since you aren’t hunting through a ton of garbage to get what you want.

Here at work there are several people that have extremely messy desks. One guy has so much clutter that there’s not one open square inch of desk space or floor space. I wonder how much time this person wastes hunting through the flood of papers to find that report he needs. It makes me think he is wired differently than others to feel the need to save every last freakin piece of paper that he handles. He needs professional help.

Other people have trouble letting go of their email. Our place gives a generous amount of space to store your email files. It takes work but if properly managed, this amount is fine. But keeping that 3 year old report that you think you may need is not good. Delete it and get on with business.