Kingston, Karen, Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, 1998.

In Feng Shui terms, says practitioner Karen Kingston, “clutter” is stuck energy that has far-reaching effects physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Any kind of clutter creates an obstacle to the smooth flow of energy around a space, she says, creating stuckness and/or confusion in the lives of occupants.

Kinston describes four categories of clutter:

• Things you don’t use or love.
• Things that are untidy or disorganized.
• Too many things in too small a space.
• Anything unfinished.