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Apr 09, 2018, 09:46 PM
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Originally Posted by CepheidVariable
I'm pretty neat. No, wait -- that sounds like I'm full of myself.  I'm pretty tidy. But I'm not obsessive about it.
I may have a stack of papers or things on a table that I'm not getting around to for some time, but such things are always put to one side. I can't stand having to always dig through things to get at other things. So anything that gets used on a regular basis has an unobstructed spot that it lives in.
Key tones, as for trying to be neat, I can only tell you it's a head thing. In my experience, no amount or quality of "storage solutions" will make a messy person tidy. Buying a larger house doesn't work either. Messy people unconsciously expand their mess to fill all available space. (I postulate that here and now.) Sorry about that.  |
I will say that I have created strategies for staying organized as a messy person. So I disagree that storage solutions can't work. For example, mail use to clutter everything and receipts. Now I have 2 containers on my counter, one for mail, the other for receipts. And it works for me.
I think messy people can build strategies or solutions for keeping things under control but no, they will never turn into neat freaks.
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