How come everyone else's work station looks so clean and nice?

Mine looks just like this:

Except after a tornado has ripped through it.

Actually even then, that might still be too nice for what my desk looks like.

I will admit that it runs in my family though so it may not fully be my fault. My grandparent's house is filled with stacks and stacks of papers.

These stacks are so big that the show Hoarders declined to intervene in that situation...

~WC