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Posted AT 3:03 AM EDT on 16/05/08

It's time to come clean about the benefits of clutter

JOHN DOYLE

From Friday's Globe and Mail

I'm a mess. You can tell by the mess in the TV Cranny which, by the way, I have been planning to clean up, big time. The mess means I'm mental. Unclean. Unfit to function in society. So I'm told, anyway. Mosey on over to those channels with multiple home-decorating programs, and you'll find alleged experts and consultants descending on people's homes and offices to clear up the clutter and make things neat. "No clutter!" is the vainglorious battle cry.

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