CHICAGO (WLS) -- A new book is shedding light on the meaning behind your mess. "Behind the Clutter: Truth. Love. Meaning. Purpose" shows readers how to uncover the thoughts, feelings, memories, and ...

Most people identify clutter as a tangible entity. It’s that pile of papers, books, and objects sitting on your desk waiting to be put away. While the physical stuff is obvious, most of our clutter is ...

We all know that one person whose room looks like a storm hit it—clothes everywhere, books stacked on the floor, and random things scattered around. But the moment you move something or try to tidy up ...

We all have it. Paperwork we will never look at again, memorabilia that really isn’t that memorable, books and magazines we will never read. Why are they hanging around? If you can’t answer that, they ...

Re “Clutter Is Good for You,” by Rob Walker (Opinion guest essay, Jan. 1): In his essay dissenting from the orthodoxy that clutter is uniformly undesirable, Mr. Walker argues that clutterers’ ...