Clutter monopolizes our time.

"How much time do you spend looking for your keys, or an unpaid bill, or the permission slip for your kid's field trip?  Does listening to a favorite CD involve sorting through your disorganized music collection?  Does setting up a place for your kids to make Halloween decorations require moving piles and hunting fruitlessly for last year's long-lost supplies?  The time you lose because of the clutter is doubled when you consider the time, energy, and effort that are sapped from you mentally and psychologically."

-Peter Walsh
It's All Too Much

Sometimes that makes people shut down.  You can make the time to free yourself from clutter.  It's an investment that will turn things around.  And after you've invested?  Well, that comes back to you!