Quotes About Tidiness

I'm pretty good at getting things out of the way, especially paperwork. I hate it sitting about, as it somehow weighs me down.

Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.

Everyone deserves to have some caged clutter, to tuck away a few items somewhere, but this is not the same as cramming stuff to the ceiling in the garage,

Actually, clutter stems from four bad habits, which I call the Deadly Sins of Clutter. Do you: • Save everything (whether you need it or want it or not)? • Insist on bringing home (or allowing into your home) stuff you don't need? • Never assign a place where each thing belongs? • Set things aside or drop them, intending "to put them away later"?

There is an immediate emotional and psychological payoff to getting our houses in order. —Sarah Ban Breathnach, author of Simple Abundance: A Day book of Comfort and Joy

The trouble with, "A place for everything and everything in its place" is that there's always more everything than places.

Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.

The fact is that making messes is always slower than staying clean, no matter which time scale you are using.

When Marilla took Anne up to bed that night she said stiffly: Now, Anne, I noticed last night that you threw your clothes all about the floor when you took them off. That is a very untidy habit, and I can't allow it at all. As soon as you take off any article of clothing fold it neatly and place it on the chair. I haven't any use at all for little girls who aren't neat.

The main sitting-room is large, and though certainly not dirty it is not particularly clean. … [Lewis] never bothers with ashtrays but flicks his cigarette ash … on to the carpet wherever he happens to be standing or sitting. He even absurdly maintains that ash is good for carpets.

I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold

Literal cleanliness and orderliness can release us from abstract cognitive and affective distress - just consider how, during moments where life seems to be spiraling out of control, it can be calming to organize your clothes, clean the living room, get the car washed.

I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.

If I see something dirty or untidy, I have to clean it up.

I'm pretty clean, hygienic and all that, but sometimes when I come home, I throw my coat over there, take one shoe off here, one shoe off there, but I'm not dirty.

I don't want food all over the place, down the sides of the sofa... When I shared a flat before I got married, we would always eat around the telly, but not now!

Scully liked neatness and order. This office was her notion of a nightmare. She had no idea how Mulder ever found anything he wanted. But he always seemed to.

Out of clutter, find simplicity.

If you did not keep your yard in reasonable order, then your whole life would be similarly untidy. A messy yard told Mma Ramotswe everything she needed to know about its owner.

there should be a place for everything, and everything in its place.

My most important [wardrobe] rule is: Never put anything back soiled.

What is elegance? Soap and water! CECIL BEATON

Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.

case any dirt had accumulated overnight.