One thing I’ve found interesting is that those in the creative professions like architecture, (product) design, writing, etc. seem to have very little “stuff” in their homes…

–S

The idea that you can’t critique someone’s desk unless you are more successful than them is just ridiculous. Besides, Bush was President twice. That is rather successful. And people criticize him all the time. Just because someone is successful doesn’t mean that there isn’t room for improvement. Or that they are successful in ALL areas.

Especially because this site is about clutter, and there is no denying that Mr. Gore’s desk is cluttered. It is an entirely appropriate subject, and I didn’t find anything inappropriate about the way that this site approached this subject.

So please, take YOUR holier than though attitude and inability to read a site that you sometimes disagree with and go crap on someone else conversation.

Or you could come up with logical, thoughtful responses to things that you disagree with, and actually join the conversation.

You might have a useful tip now and then, but your site’s condescending snark seems designed to make you feel better about your own hangups. It’s sad you need to make money for your “uncluttering” services by mocking other people’s successful styles.

You seem to think your self-congratulatory mocking is funny … but it’s really just boorish.

For this, for mocking people’s ideas on Wednesdays (especially your uncultured/untraveled take on the traditional slippers that have kept Swiss farm houses uncluttered and mud free for years), and for your uninformed and holier than though take on Philip Johnson’s glass house I am finished. Unsubscribing.

I want a minion.

@Lose That Girl: I sometimes suspect they have another office hiding in the in-suite bathroom, that has the person’s *real* desk with all the papers and mess.

Also: I want Martin Amis’s sky light! And Steve Jobs’s place gives me the creeps.

If anyone is interested, my article is here:
http://cleverlikeafox.com/blog.....messiness/

Gotta say I admire his sparsely populated In Box. That’s one area that I tend to use as a catch-all, and it frequently gets out of control before I realize it. I need to be better about keeping that cleared out.

Taking the project/topic folder idea into a larger format has been very helpful to me. I recently organized my office closet, which had become a very scary and totally useless space. I used cardboard file boxes (available at office supply and chain stores) to hold materials for projects (work and hobby), as well as reference materials that I must hold onto for a period of time for my jobs. It is very nice to open the closet door to neatly stacked, labeled boxes, rather than the life-threatening, gravity-defying piles of disorganized stuff.