I don't mind putting stuff I'm not using away, but the sheer range of my interests means I'm more-or-less using things for several projects at once, and I want them all *out*! Mind you, part of my problem is not taking the trash out often enough, so there's a huge pile o'stuff in my living room at the moment, which is at least 50% cardboard boxes that need to be taken to the dumpster, and lots of my other random piles are partially composed of pieces of paper that need to be put into the trash and then taken out. Get rid of those, find a bookshelf on which to pile the majority of the books in stacks everywhere, and the rest of the place is cheerfully cluttered, not a mess.