I read somewhere that the average American has over 300,000 items in his or her house and that that house is so cluttered that he or she spends, on average, 55 minutes a day looking for his or her things.
Probably, I have 300,000 things in my house if I count two boxes of toothpicks and a lot of nails of assorted sizes in a large coffee can. But the apotheosis of my clutter is…