Organizing Statistics

Why should you get organized? Check out the following organizing statistics - they will blow your mind!

• 50% of the people surveyed indicated they receive between 1-5 catalogs a week. (courtesy of onlineorganizing.com)

• 65% of the people surveyed THROW OUT their junk mail immediately. 58% of the people keep their junk mail less than one day after delivery by the United States Postal Service (USPS). (courtesy of onlineorganizing.com)

• 55% of the people surveyed think that holiday catalogs are a waste of time and 38% would prefer to get only one or two catalogs a year and receive updates via EMAIL. (courtesy of onlineorganizing.com)





• People who were surveyed said, on average, they spend 6 minutes looking for their KEYS in the morning. Married men were four times more likely to leave their pajamas on the floor in the morning compared to single men. Women with shoe racks were seven more times likely to be on TIME for work than women without shoe racks. (courtesy of ikea.com)

• The top five items men look for in their homes were clean socks, remote control, wedding album, car KEYS and their driver's license. For women, the top five items were a favorite pair of shoes, child's toy, wallet, LIPSTICK and the remote control. Only 11% of respondents knew where their social security card was located. (courtesy of ikea.com)

• The use of office paper has tripled since the birth of the computer. (courtesy of organizedworld.com)

• Americans spend 9 million hours looking for things. (courtesy of organizedworld.com)

• Everyday Americans buy 62 million newspapers and throw out 44 million. That’s the equivalent of dumping 500,000 trees into a landfill every week. (courtesy of colorado.edu)

• Every year enough paper is thrown away to make a 12’ wall from New York to California. (courtesy of colorado.edu)

• 80% of what we keep we never use. (courtesy of napo.net)

• 23% of adults say they pay bills late (& thus incur fees) because they lose them. (courtesy of napo.net)

• An enterprise employing 1,000 knowledge workers wastes $48,000 per week, or nearly $2.5M per year, due to an inability to locate and retrieve information. (courtesy of napo.net)

• The document for a Boeing 747 weighs more than the plane itself. (courtesy of napo.net)

• We wear 20 per cent of the clothes we own 80 per cent of the time. The rest hangs there, just in case. (courtesy of napo.net)

• IKEA did a survey of customers in which 31% reported they were more satisfied after clearing out their closets than they were after sex. (courtesy of napo.net)

• Did you know...80 per cent of what we file never gets looked at again! (courtesy of napo.net)

• Job stress is estimated to cost U.S. industry between $200 and $300 BILLION annually. (courtesy of napo.net)

• Are 18,000 sheets enough? Your four-drawer file cabinet, when full, holds 18,000 pages. (courtesy of napo.net)

• Getting rid of clutter eliminates 40 per cent of housework in an average home. Eighty per cent of the clutter in homes is a result of disorganization, not lack of space. (courtesy of napo.net)

• 25% of people with two-car garages don’t park any cars in there and 32% parked only one. (courtesy of napo.net)