An impossible aspiration or OCD?

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So neatly that they can't be seen

This might work:

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All my cupboards look like this....................I wish.

Thanks, ana.

I think I'd call it art, mice

The military one and the photographer one makes perfect sense to me in that in those sorts of occupations you need to be extremely organised so as to have exactly what you need in the right place at the right time.

That VW Golf pic is fantastic! OH will love it....

Amazing - I woudn't have the patience!

I am not comfortable with neatness , never have been, most odd I know

My favourite is the brown things in the market. 4th July 2013

I have just looked round my room and it would give any of these organisers a heart attack. Can anyone explain the bottle opener in the sauna?

annodomini, do tell me you don't keep cutlery in a cutlery drawer please, I wouldn't feel quite so alone in the world

I don't actually fold my jumpers a la Benetton but in a tiny flat you have to be neat as every inch of storage has to be used efficiently. It would be impossible for an untidy person to cook a meal in my corner kitchen! Just as Anno and When!
I really enjoy organising things and when I visit my sister she very kindly lets me clear out her two sheds and take all her accumulated rubbish to the tip. We are both happy!

Anniebach, not only do I keep my cutlery in the tray, but I have to have all the items in their own compartment. I don't want to have to waste time looking for a knife in a jumble of other things.

I love the stacked wood. Makes me realise why we haven't got a woodburner.

My cutlery drawer is a shambles. All are on their own compartment, but it's the addition of things like garlic press, skewers, potato peelers etc that make it untidy?

Once when my youngest brother was visiting, I asked him to pass me a certain utensil from the kitchen utensils drawer (different from the cutlery drawer). He opened the drawer and laughed aloud at the guddle.

Strangely enough, on the whole the most used items tend to be at the front and the least used items at the back. Organisation sufficient unto the need

Greatnan, I live in a small bungalow but it does nothing to help me be organised , I have three sisters and two daughters who 'have a place for everything ' when asked where something is in my home I can say in all honest my reply will end with 'somewhere' such as ' in a drawer somewhere'

I do try. I have little islands of order amongst the chaos. I sometimes get carried away organising a small pocket of my life and I find I can then ignore the general mayhem

I loved the colours of the waste "landscape" and the Golf just reminded me of the too many times we have taken things to bits (e.g. to locate a "funny noise") and been unable to put them together again.
I'm with thatbags with kitchen drawers where I can usually put my hand on exactly what I need but no one else can see the "method" in my apparent muddle.

But I caught a glimpse inside my neighbour's garage last week and I was . Everything in neat rows, all tools hanging in size order, nothing out of place and a floor you could eat your dinner off. Goodness knows what he thinks of our place.

I try too. My top kitchen drawer has the cutlery in the right compartments. The one under that has kitchen implements, wooden spoons etc. The one under that has foil and cling film packets, freezer bags and instruction leaflets. The one under that has the pizza trays and table mats. The one under that is deeper and holds bigger implements and.....torches and batteries and everything else that won't fit in.
That drawer is very near the floor and when I'm feeling lazy or can't be bothered everything gets muddled up.
As long as the top drawer is reasonable I can tell myself that all the others are.

My SIL in NZ has been a seaman since he left school and it shows! His garage is immaculate - luckily, my daughter is also very neat and between the two of them the house is always spick and span so there is absolutely nothing for me to do when I stay with them, except sit in the sun on the swinging seat - but I do feed the hens.
My employer in Monaco, although used to having staff to clean the house, was also extremely tidy and he, too, had been in the navy. He told me that if any possession was found out of place, it was put in the 'gash bag' and it cost one shilling to get it back - a good inducement to be tidy, as the wage was just over a pound a week.

In my opinion there is no point in my keeping things too tidy as I then have to spend ages trying to find whatever it was I tidied away.

The idea is to keep thing in one place so you know exactly how to find it!