Editing Homemaking (section)

===House organization===
House organization<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-01-26 |title=Home Decor Archives |url=https://livingcraze.com/category/home-decor/ |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=LivingCraze |language=en-US}}</ref> or home organization includes [[interior design]] to make the home aesthetically pleasing by arranging furniture, plants, blinds, and so forth. [[De-cluttering]] means removing unnecessary things from the house.

====De-cluttering====
Household de-cluttering involves putting things in their proper place after they have been used. "Cleaning up your mess" might involve removing glasses, eating utensils or gadgets i.e. toys from the living room if you have eaten a meal there in front of the television. If several people have done that over a few days and not removed their glasses, dishes and utensils from the living room, the living room is considered to be "cluttered" with dishes. The dishes are out of place because they belong in the kitchen, washed and put away in the cupboards. That is the most common example of clutter in a modern North American household.{{Citation needed|reason=a claim like that ought to be backed up by a source|date=March 2025}}

There is another definition of clutter, which refers to having simply too many things and not enough room for all of it. Sometimes as happens in Asian households, the items are necessary, but the home is simply too small, and ingenious methods are needed to organize everything to minimize unsightly clutter. Removing unneeded or no longer necessary objects from a household or home is also an aspect of de-cluttering. Objects can be [[Gift|given away]] to friends or [[Charitable organization|charitable]] organizations, [[selling|sold]] as [[second-hand]], [[Recycling|recycled]] or [[Waste management|thrown away]].

Extreme forms of an inability to de-clutter is a behavioral aspect of [[compulsive hoarding]]. On the other end, a society that relies overly much on generating and then disposing of [[waste]] is referred to as a [[throw-away society]].