Are You Messy or Neat?

But that's not stuff. That's different. That's your vital ... um ... stuff.

As a tidy person, I have issues with throwing out trash cans.

If I inadvertently run out of trash cans, I won't be able to get rid of anything and my home will eventually overstuff and explode.

And it just seems wrong somehow to throw out your throwing out thingies.

I’m pretty messy. But I always clean up after myself.

You are always cracking me up, Cep!!

I’m now picturing the garbage service leaving behind the trashcan someone *tried* to throw away

I'm sort of messy but I have a *system*. So don't mess with it! . I know where everything is - the bills, my wallet, my keys, and anything else important. My wife generally sweeps everything into a drawer and it's major point of contention in our marriage. She's an orderly person by nature. She's Italian and grew up in a household that was always clean, presentable, and ready-to-show. I grew up in an Irish household where everything was chaos and no one really knew the time much less where we were going or when we needed to be there.

Oh did I mention the heat? As a sidebar, we didn't have heat in my house.....well we did, but my dad never turned it on. "Turn down the heat, whaddya think I'm heating closets? My shoelaces are melting!" Her house was always somewhere in the neighborhood of 94. So my wife and I have thermostat battles too......but that's a story for another day.

I think sometimes people change over time. For example, my daughter is very messy (not filthy, she keeps things clean but messy and disorganized), but she hates being messy. She always says she would love to be either very neat or be messy and happy about it. Haha So she has been coming up with strategies how to keep organized and less messy and I
think she has been improving and perhaps one day she’ll be neat? Or she will finally be happy about being messy? Ha

I think it becomes challenging when you don’t live alone and your partner is different from you. My brother is married to a hoarder, periodically he reaches his limit how much he can put up with. Last year I thought they’ll get a divorce. When my sister in law was out of town, he and my younger nephew threw away half of their house. Ouch. It was bad.

The kitchen and bathroom are spic and span clean, neat and organized because I take care of them. Everything else? Not so much. I hate it and would love for everything to be neat and tidy. Spouse makes everything an uphill battle. I can't even begin to explain. *sigh*

My girlfriend says I'm messy because I have piles of mail & papers stacked all around the house. The thing is, I know what & where to find things. From time to time, she'll consolidate the papers & place them on my desk...& I'm screwed then, because my sense of order is messed up. There's a method to my clutter. I'm just "organizationally impaired."

I did contact the mother ship. They told me I had to remain on this assignment for the rest of this body’s life. I appealed their decision and and waiting for answer

It's nice to see you around again.

My natural tendencies lean towards being messy. I do feel better when things are in a state of order. So things can only go so far.

I am very neat. Every so often I will go through my belongings to whittle down what I don't need. Not having the clutter makes it easy to keep messiness at bay.

I just looked in my tote bag. Talk about messy...I am carrying a lot of unnecessary things around! No wonder it is so heavy...

Yes, I agree with this. I have strategies for handling my messiness that have worked for me. Do I ever think it will just be natural? No, certainly not, but I'm also not the messiest person on the planet. I have a level of disorganization I'm willing to accept. Although it's not really disorganized, it's just not typical. I know where everything is. Usually.

I used to be compulsively clean and neat. Now that I have a much larger house, a full/OT job, am older, and less vigorous, I am not so much. I WANT to be, if I had the time I would be.

I'm messy. But I do have my moments when I get overwhelmed and I start cleaning.

clean?. organized?

what are those words

what do they mean

yep...... say no more

I want to be neat and organized, but I have physical disabilities and cannot clean the way I'd like to. And I live with other people who don't have the same standards, so they're not going to care if it gets done or not. Since I can't do it myself, this can lead to some frustration.

Typical problem: I'd like to organize the pantry. But the rest of the family and I have differing definitions of the word "organized." To me it means everything has its set place to go, and it's all grouped together in logical categories. Green beans are with green beans, tuna is with tuna, and cooking oil is with cooking oil. To everyone else, "organized" means "lined up in rows looking all neat and pretty," and they can't see what difference it makes when we're the only ones who ever see the inside of our pantry.

I try to explain it's not about what the pantry *looks* like. It's about me being able to just go right to something, rather than having to exhaust myself looking all over for it. I can get a lot more done if I don't have to spend all that energy digging through stuff. Not only is this never understood, but if I do try to clean out the pantry, I can only do part of it at a time. Then someone goes grocery shopping and thinks, "Oh, look. There's lots of space on this shelf now, so I'll just slide over what's there, make a hole, and put in everything I just bought, regardless of what it is."

Constant source of frustration.

I do need to clean up my room. It's starting to get out of hand again.
I miss sitting down to a good, relaxing video game.

When I'm hypo manic or full manic, I get so much done. I recall when I was on Wellbutrin for a week. I was even putting everything in order of kind, size or colour. Everything was perfect. It's not my usual self. I usually forget what I am doing and go do something else. I leave evidence everywhere I go. Then, I see how fast I made a mess without realizing it. I have to use a list to do my stuff, decide which is first, second and third, etc, and check what has been done. This encourages me since I see the good things I've done. Now is the time to unclutter and sell some stuff online to get compensation for stupid spendings.

I’m a ridiculous neat person. A friend came over last week and can’t imagine her home so neat... I kinda felt bad but I have been helping her get her house sorted out , it will get there I assure her... she just has to learn how to get rid of excess.

Hubby put a bowl in the sink !!!! gotta go wash it LOL

I am organized at my job and with the finances but my house is pretty messy.

I cleaned out my tote bag finally last night, but there are several new messes.

Sigh. I’m so messy

I'm very CLEAN but not always NEAT. I'll sanitize but I don't like have my clothes drawers color coded lol.

I very clean i can handle a little bit of clutter but not very long. Everything has to be in it's place