Most of us have too much stuff. Our culture and economy are based on people acquiring more and more — and then needing to find help to organize it all.

With spring cleaning looming (even though the snow in my yard makes that hard to believe), getting control of your stuff is even more important. It's hard to clean around tons of things you don't need.

We hold on to things we don't need for several reasons. We may have a sentimental attachment. We may be afraid that we'll need it later. The stuff may represent some future we hope to achieve (the dress you dream of wearing again, perhaps?) We may be afraid to get rid of things we;ve acquired because it seems wasteful.

Even if you've decided that it's time to escape from the tyranny of stuff, putting that decision into action is hard.

We'll start looking at some ways to do that in our next post.