Clutterers Anonymous
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Clutterers Anonymous (CLA) is a 12-Step program that focuses on the underlying emotional problem made manifest by unnecessary physical and emotional clutter. The purpose of CLA is not providing housekeeping hints, tips on sorting and filing, or lectures on time management.
Some people come to Clutterers Anonymous to overcome hoarding. Others find that no matter how much they try they have been unable to follow reasonable plans to reduce clutter in their lives, plans that often work for others.
As a 12-Step program, it is modeled after AA (Alcoholics Anonymous.) CLA conference approved literature includes AA's Big Book and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions as well as 8 CLA specific pamphlets.
Founded in May of 1989, the first CLA meeting was held in Simi Valley, California. The CLA World Service Organization is located in Los Angeles, California.
CLA views clutter broadly. Resentments, time clutter, mental clutter, relationship clutter, and purposeless activity all come within the scope of the problem that the program is meant to address.
The 4th step in CLA includes a physical inventory of possessions as well as the moral inventory of other 12 Step groups.
Clutterers Anonymous is not associated with Messies Anonymous, a non-12 step based support group founded by Sandra Felton and utilizing her copyrighted publications.
