• Research has shown that the number one irritant of American homes is clutter.
• Experts say that 80% of household congestion - whether in a drawer or closet, on the counter, table or desk, or even the whole room - is the result of disorganization rather than insufficient space.
• An average 3 bedroom home has over 350,000 items in it.
• The National Soap and Detergent Association believes getting rid of clutter would eliminate 40% of the housework in the average home.
• The average American receives 49,060 pieces of mail in their lifetime, one third of it is junk mail.
• Harris Interactive reports that 23% of adults say they pay their bills late (and incur fees) because they lose them.
• The U.S. Department of Energy reports that 25% of people with two-car garages don't park any cars in their garages, and 32% only have room for one.
• 50% of homeowners rate the garage as the most disorganized place in the house and a place that the entire family uses regularly.
• The Self Storage Association estimates that there are almost 40,000 self-stoarge facilities in the United States, and the demand for them doubled from 1994 to 2004.

Commercial Organizing

• The Wall Stree Journal reports the average U.S. executive wastes six weeks annually searching for imporant documents lost in clutter.
• 45 sheets of paper are generated each day in each office, and the average office has 19 sheets of the same document.
• The Small Business Association (SBA) estimates that 80% of filed papers are never look at again.
• Secretaries have estimated that 20% of their time is spent on filing and retrieving.  That is equivalent to one work day each week.

General Organizing

• For every hour spent in the planning phase, three to four hours are saved during the execution phase. 
• A peice of paper is moved at least 8 times before it is tossed or filed.
• The use of office paper has tripled since the birth of the computer.
• The documents for the Boeing 747 weigh more than the airplane itself.