"Order is economy of time and money; it allows us to give a better quality and greater quantity of results in both our material and intellectual labors because with it, we take full advantage of time, avoiding dawdling, delay, and doubt. Disorder is the dissipation of time and talent, the ruin of all the advantages of organization."

Oh dear. Cow did not have the advantage of growing up reading The Catholic Manual of Civility but someone helpfully posted it.

Cow wonders if people are trained to be orderly, or born to be messy. Cow does make sporadic efforts to clean and organize, but they just don't last. In seems a struggle against her nature, to keep things clean.

Is Mess inborn, inculated during gestation because of Mom eating too many cookies, perhaps? Can one successfully train oneself to be orderly?

Picture courtesy of Cultural Manual of Civility.