Quotes About Tidiness

And how orderly the kitchen is." "My secret weapon: clean up as you go.

the fun of keeping things in them. He was not a very tidy boy in general, but he did like arranging things in cupboards and drawers and then opening them later and finding them just as he'd left them.

The bitterness of living in a mess remains long after the sweetness of resting is forgotten.

Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box facing the same way, instead of tossed in sloppy and wild, as if by my evil twin. All week, I kept making lists and crossing things off them, ending each day with a sense of great accomplishment eclipsed only by complete and total exhaustion.

Why should I want to have a lot of copies of this and that lying around? Nothing but clutter in the office, a temptation to prying eyes, and a waste of good paper.

Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.

How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.

Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived. Clutter is wonderfully fertile ground - you can still discover new treasures under all those piles, clean things up, edit things out, fix things, get a grip. Tidiness suggests that something is as good as it's going to get. Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation, while writing needs to breathe and move.

I absolutely don't buy into the current mania for tidiness and decluttering. For a writer, piles of papers and notes are a fertile field. Keep all those books you read in college, or had certainly meant to read. Keep all those clothes that last fit during the Carter administration. Or give them away. It's for you to choose. You has value.

Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation, while writing needs to breathe and move.

My life at the moment is a bit like my wardrobe. Organised chaos.

It seemed to me that I should have a desk, even though I had no real need for a desk. I was afraid that if I had no desk in my room my life would seem too haphazard.

But if you treat it courteously, brush it from time to time, and don't mess it up with mud or spill coffee on it, it should be fine.

There's a lovely character in 'Under Milk Wood' called Mrs. Ogmore Pritchard and she's incredibly tidy and clean. She really is unbearably tidy and clean! And I terrorize my husband when he comes in sometimes from shooting and there's awful dead birds all over the hall that he calls me Mrs. Ogmore Pritchard.

I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.

I have very tidy cupboards. I do like a cupboard to look nice when you open it, with the labels facing forward.

I have OCD, which is not fun. I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on me.

I go to the hairdresser once a month and even if I don't use products, I always want to look tidy.

I'm known as tidy, I like to keep my stuff in order.

I'm a neat freak. I find I work best when I feel organised and together, and as I work from home, that means my house is always so tidy!

Tomorrow I purpose to regulate my room.

Kitchen (and people) maintenance is not very complicated. It boils down to two basic precepts: Handle fragile things with care, and clean up your messes as soon as possible. Anything else is extra.

That chef was right: messy station equals messy mind.

Why on earth declutter when you can just shrinkwrap?