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Statistic # 1
We wear 20% of the clothes we own 80% of the time. The rest hangs there just in case.
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Statistic # 2
Each year about 100 million households receive 16.6 billion catalogs.
- Direct Mail Assoc.
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Statistic # 3
80% of papers that are filed are never referenced again.
- Small Business Administration
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Statistic # 4
Getting rid of clutter would eliminate 40% of the housework,
in the average home.
-The National Soap and Detergent Association
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Statistic # 5
23% of adults say they pay bills late (thus incurring fees) because they lose them.
-Harris Interactive
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Statistic # 6
50% of homeowners rate the garage as the most disorganized place in the house and this is an area that the entire family uses regularly.
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Statistic # 7
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
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Statistic # 8
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.
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Statistic # 9
Women spend approximately 55 minutes every day searching for items, they know they have. That's roughly 2 weeks a year!
- Real Simple Magazine
Americans waste more than nine million hours each day looking for lost and misplaced articles. |
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Statistic # 10
75% of all visits to physicians are stress related. |
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Statistic # 11
Centers for disease control and prevention show unequivocally that 80% of our medical expenditures are now stress related.
- Fast Company Magazine
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Statistic # 12
80% of household clutter is the result of disorganization, not lack of space.
- The National Soap and Detergent Association
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Statistic # 13
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!
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Statistic # 14
The Wall Street Journal reports that the average U.S. executive wastes six weeks annually searching for important documents lost in clutter.
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Statistic # 15
65% of people describe themselves as "very" or "insanely"
busy according to a
- Day Runner Survey. |
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