I have to be honest that I am a reformed slob. First, my wife is a very neat and clean person. Dirt, junk, and clutter drive her crazy. And she has always had a way of making me unhappy when she is unhappy. I quickly learned that it was not worth it to leave messes and start WW111 over them.
Then I had a boss that I worked for in the early 70's that I credit for making a man out of me in many ways. He was an extremely hard worker and demanded that out of his people. If I went home with anything left on my desk, I had to hope that he didn't see it before I could correct it. He would ride in our company cars as a means of inspecting them for cleanliness. One day we went out in the parking lot and looked in the windows of all the company cars. We found some trash in one, empty Coke cans, food wrappers, that sort of thing, and he instructed me to give this person a warning that if he wanted a company car it had to be kept clean and not used as a garbage can. Then he chewed me out royally for either not knowing about it or just not doing anything about, neither of which was acceptable to him.
Was a hard man to work for, but I respected him and loved him for making a better person out of me.
And that is how I got over being a slob and have loved it ever since.
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