"Stand shoulder to shoulder to solve, together, this mutual problem"

A Salon reader writes to Cary Tennis, Salon's advice columnist ("How can I make my husband get organized?"):

I’m fearful about the future. Not the future in general. But a specific future.

I’m worried that my husband is — for want of a better phrase — a pre-hoarder. I’ve seen the TV show with the maze-like houses of trash and the shrines to junk. And we are certainly not at that point. But what concerns me it that so many stories begin, “Well, they were always messy, but then at a point it just spiraled out of control.”

My headline gives his answer away, but Cary's column is worth reading in its entirety, whether you're someone who struggles with clutter or lives with someone who does.