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.