Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. – William Morris, lecture, 1880

I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Freedom is hiding under the clutter. – Terri Guillemets, “At home,” 2005

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