When a person asks me what I do for a living and I tell them I’m a professional organizer, often they’ll comment, “Your place must be SO ORGANIZED! Do you put labels on everything?”

If you're looking for another reason to live with less, how about this: A 2014 study in the Journal of Consumer Research found that people who lived in cluttered environments were more likely to overspend than those who lived in uncluttered spaces. The studies' findings concluded that cluttered environments decrease self-control and increase the likelihood of impulse spending.