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Not a flashlight bat. Still would probably work, though. (photo by Todd Cravens at Unsplash)

Mefites are discussing emotional blocks and emotional magnets related to clutter, but before you start getting terribly nervous, taquito sunrise is here to reassure us that "the authors of these articles probably don't even know where you live and if they're particularly insistent about getting in your house to take all your books, you could probably defeat them with a flashlight bat, they don't seem that tough."

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Welcome to cluttercore. People have opinions! In fact, every nook and cranny of this thread on TikTok's newest design trend is filled with different, fun, colorful opinions!

And in other news on filling things to the brim, Remittance by the Barrel is an interesting read about Caribbean communities carefully, lovingly curating barrels of items to ship to relatives outside of the U.S. Nice!

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... we're more like marriage counselors in the relationship between you and your stuff: The Wrong Kind of Cheese has a very interesting comment about the multi-various aspects of professional organizing in unstrungharp's question Is a professional organizer a worthwhile investment?

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If this sounds more like psychology than household stuff, then it should. I tell everyone that the difference between housekeeping and professional organizing is that housekeeping/cleaning is about the stuff, and professional organizing is about the person who owns the stuff.

Mefi member The Wrong Kind of Cheese offers a very interesting, in-depth answer to fermion's question "How do you find a really good professional organizer?"