1、Neat People vs. Sloppy PeopleSuzanne BrittI ve finally figured out the difference between neat people and sloppy people. The distinction is, as always, moral. Neat people are lazier and meaner than sloppy people.Sloppy people, you see, are not really sloppy. Their sloppiness is merely the unfortunat 。

2、e consequence of their extreme moral rectitude. Sloppy people carry in their mindeasvenyley avishion,a precise plan, which is so stupendous, so perfect, it can bt e achieved in this world or the next.Sloppy people live in Never-Never Land. Someday is their me tier Someday they are planning to alphab 。

3、etize all their books and set up home catalogs. Someday they will go through their wardrobes and mark certain items for tentative mending and certain items for passing on to relatives of similar shape and size. Someday sloppy people will make family scrapbooks into which they will put newspaper clip 。

4、pings, postcards, locks of hair, and the dried corsage from their senior prom. Someday they will file everything on the surface of their desks, including the cash receipts from coffee purchases at the snack shop. Someday they will sit down and read all the back issues ofThe New Yorker.For all these。

5、noble reasons and more, sloppy people never get neat. They aim too high and wide. They save everything, planning someday to file order and straighten out the world. But while these ambitious plans take clearer and clearer shape in their heads, the books spill from the shelves onto the floor, the clo 。

6、thes pile up in the hamper and closet, the family mementos accumulate in every drawer, the surface of the desk is buried under mounds of paper and the unread magazines threaten to reach the ceiling.Sloppy people can t bear to part with anything. They give loving attention to every detail. When slopp 。

7、y people say they re going totackle the surface of a desk, they really mean it. Not a paper will go unturned;
not a rubber band 橡皮筋 will go unboxed. Four hours or two weeks into the excavation, the desk looks exactly the same, primarily because the sloppy person is meticulously creating new piles of 。

8、 papers with new headings and scrupulously stopping to read all the old book catalogs before he throws them away. A neat person would just bulldoze the desk.Neat people are bums and clods at heart. They have cavalier attitudes toward possessions, including family heirlooms . Everything is just anoth 。

9、er dust- catcher to them. If anything collects dust, it to go and that s that. Neat people will toy with the idea of throwingthe children out of the house just to cut down the clutter.Neat people donct are about process. They like results. What they want to do is get the whole thing over with so the 。

10、y can sit down and watch the rasslin on TV. Neat people operate on two unvarying principles: Never handle any item twice, and throw everything away.The only thing messy in a neat persons house is the trash can.The minute something comes to a neat person s hand, he will look at it, try to decide if i 。

11、t has immediate use and, finding none, throw it in the trash.Neat people are especially vicious with mail. They never go through their mail unless they are standing directly over a trash can. If the trash can is beside the mailbox, even better. All ads, catalogs, pleas for charitable contributions,。

12、church bulletins and money-saving coupons go straight into the trash can without being opened. All letters from home, postcards from Europe, bills and paychecks are opened, immediately responded to, then dropped in the trash can. Neat people keep their receipts only for tax purposes. That s it. No s 。

13、entimental salvaging of birthday cards or the last letter of a dying relative ever wrote. Into the trash it goes.Neat people place neatness above everything, even economics. They are incredibly wasteful. Neat people throw away several toys every time they walk through the den. I knew a neat person o 。

14、nce who threw away a perfectly good dish drainer because it had moldon it. The drainer was too much trouble to wash. And neat people sell their furniture when they move. They will sell a La-Z-Boy recliner while you are reclining in it.Neat people are no good to borrow from. Neat people buy everythin 。

15、g in expensive little single portions. They get their flour and sugar in two- pound bags. They wouldn ctonsider clipping a coupon, saving leftover, reusing plastic non-dairy 不含牛奶的； 没有 乳制品 whipped cream n. 生奶油 containers or rinsing off tin foil and draping it over the unmold dish drainer. You can nev 。

16、er borrow a neat person s newspaper to see whats playing at thNeemaot vies.people have the paper all wadded up and in the trash by 7:05 a.m.Neat people cut a clean swath through the organic as well as the inorganic world. People, animals, and things are all one to them. They are so insensitive. Afte 。

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