OrganizingStatistics

We wear 20% of the clothes we own 80% of the time. The rest hangs there… just in case.

Each year, about 100 million households receive 16.6 billion catalogs. - Direct Mail Assoc.

80% of papers that are filed are never referenced again. - Small Business Administration

Getting rid of clutter would eliminate 40% of the housework, in the average home. - The National Soap and Detergent Association

23% of adults say they pay bills late (thus incur fees) because they loose them. -  Harris Interactive

50% of homeowners rate the garage as the most disorganized place in the house and a place the entire family uses regularly. 

Our car is one of our most expensive possessions … yet we ‘store’ it outside, while our ‘clutter’ is stored safely in the garage!  25% of people with two-car garages don’t park any cars in their garages, and 32% only have room for one.  - The U.S. Department of Energy

The Self Storage Association estimates that there are almost 40,000 self-storage facilities in the United States, and the demand for them doubled from 1994 to 2004. 

Women spend approximately 55 minutes every day searching for items, they know they have.  That’s roughly 12 weeks a year! -  Real Simple Magazine

Americans waste more than nine million hours each day looking for lost and misplaced articles

75% of all visits to physicians are stress related

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that unequivocally that 80% of our medical expenditures are now stress related.  - Fast Company Magazine

80% of household clutter is the result of disorganization, not lack of space.
The National Soap and Detergent Association

Based on one employee working full-time, making $50 per hour, the annual salary cost of spending five hours each week looking for lost or hard-to-find information is $13,000. Now multiply this by the number of employees you have in your company!

The Wall Street Journal reports that the average U.S. executive wastes six weeks annually searching for important documents lost in clutter

65% of people describe themselves as “very” or “insanely” busy according to a Day Runner Survey.

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