If people have clutter in their home, does it look terrible?
It is almost always pointless to compare yourself to someone else and measure yourself to their standards. That is like saying a 300 lb cow is fat because 300 lb people are fat. Wrong set of measurements! That cow is just getting started and is perfectly healthy! Other people are not you, even other people in similar looking situations aren’t you and it may not be fair to compare yourself to them. We can learn from each other but be sure that you set your own standards and then work as a family to uphold them. It is comforting to me to see a home that is lived in. To me, it is a home that has happy busy people that enjoy being there. A home should have evidence of its occupants, and I consider it a bonus that you can learn something about the people who live there by the things that are laying around the house. I think clutter is not the word for the everyday stuff that makes the house look junky. When I think of clutter, I think of excessiveness and unnecessary stuff that is taking aw
