When our lives are filled with clutter it can make us feel helpless and out of control. And when we are not feeling our best selves we can take out our emotions on our spouses, our children, our friends, our families and ourselves. There are many ways clutter can affect our lives: It wastes our time: we spend our days looking for, moving around, dusting, storing, organizing and trying to sell our stuff. A lot of our time is wasted on our stuff. It can cost us money - sometime