12 Traditions

12 Traditions of CLA

Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon CLA unity.
For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority -- a loving God as expressed through our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
The only requirement for CLA membership is a desire to stop cluttering.
Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or CLA as a whole.
Each group has but one primary purpose -- to carry its message to the person who still suffers.
A CLA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the Clutterers Anonymous name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, or prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
Every CLA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
Clutterers Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
Clutterers Anonymous, as such, ought never be organized, but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
CLA has no opinion on outside issues; hence the Clutterers Anonymous name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, films, television, and all other media..
Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.

The Twelve Steps are reprinted and adapted with permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. Permission to reprint and adapt this material does not mean that AA is affiliated with this program. AA is a program of recovery from alcoholism only -- use of the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions in connection with these programs and activities which are patterned after AA, but which address other problems, does not imply otherwise.