Control your clutter or it will control you. – Author unknown

There is hardly a place where, in the course of a year, some things are not purchased and never used, and where spring cleaning does not unearth them. Spring is the time when the good housewife puts all doubtful things into the trash barrel. – E.F. White, “Spring Soda Fountain Thoughts,” 1908 [a little altered —t&#94

Owning less is far more beneficial than organizing more. – Joshua Becker, becomingminimalist.com

I will not make a scrapbasket of my mind. – Author unknown, c. early 1900s