Out of Chaos Comes Order???

Atlanta paper this morning, front page of the Living section, comes this article.
How did they know about my rotating pieces of furniture? How did they know I spent twenty minutes this morning looking for some photos, that I never found?? I want to be a tiny bit more organized, I just don't want to lose my style!!!while trying to control the clutter.
They called unsightly clutter, socially acceptable forms of sloppy!!!! Sloppy, I'm not!!! a gather-er-er of piles, maybe!! I have been known to buy antique photos of strangers, I feel terrible that they have no home. Some I have framed in my foyer, who could not want a picture of this precious baby, it came home with me!!! I hope one day, someone picks up one of our photos and takes it home. I use to have them spread all over a coffee table, before another rotation!!! I need some clutter, and chaos, it lets me know I'm in the land of the living!!!!

One of the first rules, this article would have you follow, is to remove all the "things" on your fridge. NO!!! what a horror it is to go in people's houses and see, cold stainless steel fridges with not even a magnet!!! No bulletin board with special notes pinned to it!!! I want to see a house that is lived in. They even suggested to "let go" of the artwork, heaven help these people!!! At one point in my life my entire double garage was covered with my children's art work, it was a masterpiece. Then the second thing they mentioned was cleaning out "the junk drawer"!!! Remove, sort, streamline, bad,bad words. I have three kitchen junk drawers and I know what junk goes in each one!!! Of course they talked about closets, if you haven't worn something in three years, blah, blah, blah. I have my Aunt Adah's fur coat, next to my mom's wedding dress, behind the shawl that Miss Scott made me when I was five!!!! There is nothing simple about simplifying. Instead I will rearrange things, and know that this house has been and is filled with love. Who needs order???