Quote Originally Posted by Iris lily View Post
You are the breadwinner, you are keeping a roof over his head, you can bloody well claim some space in your own home as clutter free. Notice I said "some." It may be part of a room--start with that. It doesn't matter how ugly a place is, lack of clutter makes it better. Well, with me it does, anyway.
I agree. Pick one place to make someplace you love to be. It may take a year or longer - to declutter, to experiment with different decorating ideas, to figure out what would make it feel good to you, to get it where you want it - but pick a place and work towards it.

Please don't give up. One of the things that inspired me to start working on my clutter issues many years ago was the death of my mom, who had big issues with clutter. It wasn't so much because it was so hard to clean out her house (though it was - my siblings, admittedly, did most of it). It was that I realized how compromised her quality of life was by being weighed down by all that clutter.

I still struggle with this all the time, but I've made a little progress.