Pack Rat or Organized?

This clutter thing is going to kill me. I have an unusually large house, and every inch of it is full of things that should have gone in the trash or to Goodwill ages ago! I know a maid can be hired. Are there people who undo the clutter? I'll take yet another part-time job to get one of those! I just never get things straightened out entirely.

I don't consider myself a pack rat but I can never keep my desk or closet organized. The other day I had so much stuff in my desk that I finally started cleaning it out, by the time I got though I had a big bag of junk to get rid of. I found papers that had been in there since 2000. One closet was so full of Christmas junk that I couldn't even get in there. At Christmas time I pulled everything out and put up the tree, after I took the tree down I finally went though the closet and cleaned everything out and got rid of what I didn't what. I seen a show one time that talked about how to get rid of clutter, they said to put things in three piles, one for the things you don't want, one for the things you what to keep because you might need it latter on, and one for the things you really what to keep, when you get though sorting take the first two piles and get rid of it because pile number two is never going to be used anyway. This has helped me out a lot.

My husband has so much stuff! And he dont use most of it and I try to get rid of it but then he goes "I use that" or he will pick something up at a garage sale that we dont need and he has "what if we need it and then we will have one." I tend to try to be more organized or at least try. haha. My husband on the other hand is more of the packrat type.

I hate keeping anything that doesnt have a purpose.. except the kids clothes, i can't seem to throw those away.. If i dont use it for 6 months i tend to throw it out.