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Selected materials from an ethnographically informed study of home life are used to detail the ways in which families contain their clutter in bowls and drawers. Clutter, within these containers, is found to be made up of a heterogeneous collection of things that, for all manner of reasons, hold an ambiguous status in the home. It is shown that bowls and drawers provide a \u201csafe\u201d site of containment for clutter, giving the miscellany of content the \u201cspace\u201d to be properly dealt with and classified, or to be left unresolved. The shared but idiosyncratic practices families use to contain their clutter are seen to be one of the ways in which the home, or at least the\n            <jats:italic>idea<\/jats:italic>\n            of home, is collectively produced. It is also part of the means by which families come to make their homes distinct and unique. 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