Why should I declutter my stuff?

Why should you do that? There are several reasons.

1. Stuff eats space, and space eats money. How clutter eats space? Everything has some volume. Therefore you should have enough space in your home to store stuff. You can even calculate how much money costs one cubic feet. If for an example, you have one thousand square feet apartment that costs $400,000, and the height of ceiling is 8 feet. Then you have in your apartment 8000 cubic feet and one cubic foot costs 50$. One cubic foot is a box which base is one square foot and which height is one foot. If you have 20 such boxes full of unneeded stuff, then you have lost one thousand dollars.

2. Stuff eats time, and time is money. How clutter eats time? First of all, everything needs some kind of maintenance, and maintenance eats time if you do it, or it eats money if you pay someone to do it. If you have two TV sets, than you will have to clean both of them. The second way that stuff eats time, is in increased effort to find something. For example if you have a pile of 10 magazines, with five useful, and five useless. Then each time you search for a specific magazine, you spend one half of search time unnecessary. There are examples even drastic examples.

3. Stuff eats mental energy. For example: you play with your kids, but something is nagging about what to do with that closet or garage that is full of stuff.