I like drawers in my bedroom, kitchen, office, laundry, sewing room, to be neat. To me, “neat and clean” is a great enhancement to my sense of well-being. This feeling is especially present every other Friday following the departure of my cleaning woman, Bronya Leniart, after her 8-hour stint. She doesn’t stint! She’s Polish, speaks but a little English and is 69. She does floors the old-fashioned way, on her knees. We have to hide the snow shovel in winter and the rake in autumn to keep her cleaning restricted to indoors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My compulsion about neat drawers is probably a reaction to my mother’s methods. Her drawers were always in disarray. However, she always knew where everything was. Maybe her mind was actually like a filing cabinet. No, she probably knew where everything was because she was a visualizer. She could lay her hands on what she was looking for because she could visualize it in the mess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My father is also a neat nut. He cannot abide disorder in any realm – his office or his kitchen. In his life as a butcher and meat-packer, he worked with one hand and cleaned up with the other. Or he called for a clean-up crew now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
To make drawers neat I fill those that hold lots of little things with dividers: small baskets, flat boxes that once held note cards, or store-bought drawer dividers of various sizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I could say, presumptiously, that neat and orderly drawers are evidence of a neat and orderly mind. But my three kids have neat and orderly minds but only two of them keep their belongings in an orderly way. Seymour’s mind is very<\/em> orderly, but whereas he keeps his clothing neat, his office is a monumental clutter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Neat and orderly is really a personal method of operating. I need to be organized in order to feel secure and in control and to keep from wasting time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At this moment most of my drawers are far from neat and I am feeling some anxiety about not having – or making – the time to sort out accumulated papers, memorabilia, pictures – all sorts of things. I have this horror of dying and leaving a big mess for my kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I like drawers in my bedroom, kitchen, office, laundry, sewing room, to be neat. To me, “neat and clean” is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n