Two years' worth of magazines spill off the coffee table and onto the floor. Shoes and socks, doffed the night before, litter the area. The cat is fast asleep on a sweatshirt discarded after a session on the excercise bike. This is clutter. And therapists say that it's one of the most insidious causes of stress in a woman's life today.
Stress is an automatic reaction.
So when we enter a room cluttered with the sneakers, books, bags and papers of our busy lives, we often unconsciously get uneasy or overwhelmed. But clutter means that things are not where they should be and that you'll probably have to spend valuable time hunting for them. Here are some tips that you can use for free. Tackle one problem area at a time. To conquer clutter, take a look at the whole house, decide what area bothers you the most and start there, says Schur.