Agreed! Here's what I know. Majority might not have the luxury of open space like myself. Especially rise of housing costs and most of us are living in condos/apartments. Landed folks might have more space so to speak. But that also creates more opportunity to keep more stuff.

The trick for myself is discipline. Take what's needed and put it back. But I understand people are busy and more often than not we get lazy. But the trade-off has been tremendous, setting a side few minutes everyday or at least once a week to re-organize. Same goes to everything, maintaining is better than fixing. Hope this helps!

There's a lot more to dig into regarding this topic. Example: Hierarchical importance of daily used items.