I generally don't like having my desktop look cluttered, so I usually just uncheck "show icons" for the desktop. Clutter fixed! Maybe.

Ideally, this forces me to use the usual organizational folders (documents, downloads, pictures, etc), but files usually just accumulate in my downloads folder instead. The other downside is that if anything does get saved to my desktop folder, I usually forget it exists entirely.

Still, at least all that clutter isn't quite as visible as it would be on the desktop! XD