Clutter

My dorm room is a cluttered mess of books, clothes, and papers. Don't ask me how it got this way. My rooms have been like this all my life. I don't know how to turn off my compulsion to have piles or to have random things in random place.

When people say, "It makes sense to have paper here, clothes there, books here, and useless junk in the trash." I think they're insane. Honestly people with clean rooms don't understand that their clean room is terrifying to me. When I clean a room I take what is useless/broken/shit and toss it out and then I make piles or assign spaces in open drawers and open floor areas for other things.

My laundry system consist of a hamper for dirty and a hamper for clean. I don't like ironing. I never really buy anything that gets wrinkled easily either. I don't need to be well dressed because I never have money for expensive new clothes. So any wrinkling that might happen in a hamper is of no consequence to me.

I wash everything though. I will wash my floor provided I have money for the proper materials (living in cafaro stuff is provided, sometimes, not always though) and I wash my sheets as often as I can (that is whenever I do laundry.)

I throw out gross trash every once and a while. I don't eat or drink much in my room so there is never a need for it much. When I do eat I don't leave open food or open bottles in my room to go rancid. Nothing smells dirty, it just looks cluttered. I myself shower at least once a day and brush my teeth 2 to 3 times a day. I'm no slob.

I work my tail off and wake up bright and early most everyday. I also work on things into the night. I'm not lazy in the slightest. I can be a procrastinator but that is usually only with studying and academia.

Honestly, when I hear parents talk about their kids being slobs or being lazy because of messy rooms I just think, "Really? Well, instead of just complaining about that what are they GOOD at?" They could be so preoccupied with drawing the perfect picture or writing an excellent story that to them organization is the least important.

People don't have to be filed and post it organized to lead a happy and healthy life. Some people need piles and some people need the clutter to really think. I do. I only clean my room when I know I have someone to impress because in our culture it is pounded into us that "organization is key." That is total bullshit. I know I'm not alone. So don't judge me based on my room or my wash/wear clothes. Judge me on my talent, my personality, the way I make you laugh, and the workaholic that I am. Really. It is all that matters.