Organise a Neat Clutter in All Your Spaces

Summary

The article discusses the concept of "neat clutter," which is about organizing one's personal spaces in a tidy manner despite the presence of many items.

Abstract

The article titled "Organise a Neat Clutter in All Your Spaces" presents a unique approach to maintaining order in personal spaces such as the house, room, or desk. The author emphasizes that even during busy times when decluttering is not feasible, one can still achieve a sense of neatness by arranging items systematically. Drawing from a memorable visit to a friend's house, the author describes how aligning shoes parallel or at right angles to the walls and organizing stationery and books like cars in a parking lot can create a visually pleasing and orderly environment, which the author terms "neat clutter." The piece suggests that this method can be a temporary solution to make clutter more acceptable to the eye until there is time to reduce or conceal it properly.

Opinions

The author values neatness and believes in the visual and psychological benefits of an organized space.
Decluttering is ideal but not always possible, and during such times, neatly arranging the clutter is a practical alternative.
The concept of "neat clutter" is introduced as a way to maintain order amidst chaos, with the author having been inspired by the practical application of this concept in a friend's home.
There is an acknowledgment that reducing clutter or hiding items on shelves is preferable but not always immediately achievable.
The author suggests that even cluttered spaces can be aesthetically pleasing if items are arranged with precision and attention to geometric alignment.
The article implies that maintaining a sense of order, even in cluttered conditions, can have a positive impact on one's personal environment and well-being.

How can we make our cluttered items neat?

Clutter is often quite disorganised and untidy. To be neat, we often have to reduce all the mess.

I like to be neat in my personal spaces, always trying to remove as much clutter as possible. For our discussion today, I am talking about areas like your house, your room, your desk etc.

Most people try to make their areas neat by decluttering. However, it is sometimes impossible due to a busy period of your life.

Hence, I suggest that you make your spaces neat, even though they are cluttered or messy.

I learnt this concept when I visited a friend’s house many years ago. That visit left a deep impression on my mind.

His house has a lot of clutter. I saw many shoes on the floor and books, folders and other stationaries on his desk.

What impressed me was this. All the shoes are aligned parallel to the walls or at a perfect right angle to the walls. All his stationaries and books on his desk are neatly arranged like cars in a car park with parking lines.

As you can imagine, although there is much clutter, everything is either vertically straight, parallel, or right angle to any walls or cabinets. It was all neatly arranged. Hence, I coined the term neat clutter.

So, I learnt something. When we cannot get rid of any clutter for the time being, re-arrange your clutter very neatly. It may be acceptable to our eyes because they are a neat clutter.

Of course, reducing the clutter or hiding some items on your shelves is good if you have time. But at worse, it is still impeccably neat.

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