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Have you ever heard that the state of your house represents the state of your heart (emotions)?  
 
I know from personal experience that this is true. Up until a few years ago, my home was usually in complete chaos (clutter everywhere, too much furniture, just stuff everywhere in general..). I once had a complete room that the door remained closed for the simple reason that I couldn't bear to look at it. It had become the room where anything went when I didn't know what else to do with it - in an attempt to declutter the rest of the house when company came over. lol Things were piled neck high in that room.  
 
Quite a few years ago, I read The New Birth Order Book by Dr. Kevin Leman. Near the back of the book there is a chapter for Discouraged Perfectionists (people who have to do everything perfect - if they don't think they can do it perfect, they won't tackle it at all). Well this was me. Previous to reading this chapter, I would open the door to that room, the overwhelming feeling of trying to figure what I might do with each item in that room was so much that I would just close the door and walk away. Well, I finished that chapter at 4am and knew I had to tackled that room. I knew I had put it off long enough.  
 
It took a few weeks for me to slowly clean it out, decide what was going and what was staying - ultimately turning it into a playroom for my child - he was delighted.  
 
But I've been noticing over the years, that as my emotional state improved - as I dealt with baggage in my life, and found happiness - slowly my house became a place I could no longer stand. I started purging, getting rid of clutter - things that were of no use to me.. Anything I hadn't used in a long time and didn't foresee using in the future, went. I sold SO many things on this site. lol My house went from literally wall to wall furniture to looking cozy but not cluttered.  
 
What are you thoughts on this? Have you noticed the same in your life?  
 
Is it time to clean out your "closets"? Sometime we hang onto things or collect items because this is where we have found happiness or sometimes we are scared to let go - which represents something in our life emotionally that we haven't dealt with.  
 
To make things worse, people who keep their house in a state of chaos, have to come home after a bad day to this "chaos" - which just overwhelms them more. Leaves them feeling less able to deal with what is going on at the moment, when their house is in a complete state of disaster. When outside the home stresses are getting to you, nothing seems under control when your house is in this state. It just adds to the stress of what you are already going through.  
 
Coming home to a well-kept home provides you with a place to be happy, relax, not worry about everything around you that might need to be done - but you might even see it as an oasis - a place to escape from the outside world with your loved ones or just your own oasis, if you live on your own.  
 
Declutter your home:  
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1915750/how_to_declutter_your_home_in_seven.html  
 
This is just one site that may help, Declutter your heart:  
http://drlaman.com/blog/?p=49  
 
Just wanted to add that decluttering your home is different that being a neat freak who has to have every item in the house in it's place at all times. A home where people cannot be free to roam about and "live" is obviously not a happy home.