Can you learn to be Tidy?

[Orangesauce1]

Following Maggies previous post it has made me ponder about a few things...

I am a messy person... but physically I have to be smart and Tidy and spend ages making sure I am clean and dressing perfectly etc!! (crazy I know)

but when it comes to the house.. putting away clothes.. my desk at work. I live in an organised chaos!! I have been trying for 25 years to be tidy and put my cr@p away after me but I just don't do it naturally...

My Q is can you change?

[Eve]

I think you can if you want too. I guess it's the place for everything and everything in its place thing.

I'm funny about my work desk, always has to be neat and tidy before I go home. Used to work with some very untidy lads and used to find myself serrupticiously tidying up their desks while in the vicinity :) I just make sure I have somewhere easy to put things such as penpots, filing trays, paperclips, rubberbands and such so they automatically go where they should.

If things are getting a bit untidy in the day I take 5 to just have a quick tidy up before starting again.

Do you have loads of clutter? If so a big ruthless clearout can help and you can give stuff you don't need anymore such as clothes to charity.

Try and be surface tidy at first, get a load of space saving things such as pretty boxes and chests and rather than just pile different crap in allocate one for specific things, just be ruthless and shove them in and any crap in a binbag until everything's out of sight eg wardrobe, under the bed, drawers, so it "looks" tidy then once you can keep it like that go through and tidy the boxes one by one in your own time.

[what..the?]

I think you are naturally tidy at home or not. I you cannot change you are the way you are!!!

I am tidy and my boyfriend def. is not, which is one big pain in the ass. I spend 24 hrs a day following him round tidying up after him ...oh and he is extremely clumsy and heavy handed. I quite frankly dont stand a chance making the place tidy because he's like a slug he leaves a tall of destruction where ever he goes.

I have not got OCD or anything but I find it hard to relax in a untidy filthy pit. And to make my life that much more worth not living we work togther, alone in an office full of records and filling you can imagine what thats like to keep tidy.

aaaaaaaaaaaargh someone kill me now!!!!!