Being disorganized and having lots of clutter can cost families between 10-15% of their income!

 

"Women with shoe racks were seven times more likely to be on time for work than women without shoe racks."

Stephen Goode. Couples Best Steer Clear of Closet Organizers. Insight on the News 5/14/2001

Statistic by/from IKEA, "You Can't Be Too Organized" survey of 620 consumers.

 

"Only 11% of respondents knew where their Social Security cards were located."

Stephen Goode. Couples Best Steer Clear of Closet Organizers. Insight on the News 5/14/2001

Statistic by/from IKEA, "You Can't Be Too Organized" survey of 620 consumers.

 

People now receive more mail in one month than their great-grandparents did in their whole lifetime! 

 

"Each year, we scrap 400 million units of electronics in the US."

Electronics Take Back Coalition. E-WASTE: The Exploding Global Electronic Waste Crisis. E-Waste Briefing Book 2/8/2008. Fact by/from Internation Association of Electronics Recyclers Industry Report

 

"11 million American households currently rent storage space, an increase of 90% since 1995 - even as the size of new American houses has grown and the size of the American family has shrunk. Storage space earned more than $22 billion in gross revenue in 2006."

Suzanne Gannon. Hooked on Storage. New York Times 3/8/2007

Statistic by/from Michael T. Scanlon Jr., president of the Self Storage Association

 

"Parents spend an average of 23% of their free time outside work scheduling and coordinating their children's and family's schedules."

Center'd Eases Back-To-School Stress for Parents and Helps Schools Take Advantage of the Internet with New Time-Saving Group Planning Tools. Internal Report 8/20/2008

Statistic by/from harris Interactive Online Survey of 2010 US Adults, August 2008

 

"77% of Americans say they regularly engage in spring cleaning. That number is up considerably from SDA's 2002 and 2007 surveys, when 65% said they regularly spring clean."

Brian Sansoni. Upswing in Spring Cleaning. 3/3/2008

Statistic by/from SDA 2008 Spring Cleaning Survey of 1,013 American adults, conducted by International Communications Research (ICR).

 

80% of the clutter in the home is a result of disorganization, not a lack of space.