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Do you find yourself keeping things you don’t need because you tell yourself you might use them one day? It’s a common misconception that holding on to those unused items will somehow save you money down the road, but the truth is your clutter is actually costing you money, right now and a lot of it. Statistics show that Americans spend $38 billion every year on self-storage units. Just think of all that cash that is being spent for items to simply sit in storage. Woman organizing her clothes into baskets
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Even if you don’t rent a storage unit, your clutter is expensive. Storing unused items in your home costs roughly $10 per square foot. Of course, that cost depends on how much you pay for your residence; you can calculate your clutter cost by dividing your monthly rent or mortgage by the square footage of your home. That s how