POLL: NEAT FREAK OR PACKRAT?

i have ocd so i am a neat freak

Definitely a pack rat!

inbetween

I am definitely a packrat and have to work hard at being neat....

It depends on what room I'm in.

George Vreeland Hill

I am a packrat. I take after my dad. He loves STUFF and so do I. My mom and my husband could do without it. So, I'm thinking it's a little genetic except my dad's family hates clutter and everything collectible. I don't know where he gets it. My mom's family and husband's family are like them, they don't keep anything don't collect anything and do like stuff laying around.

Somewhere happily in the middle.

I want to throw out all of this stuff and live the live of a neat person but I have this terrible fear that I will need it all one day and we are financially strapped and cannot afford to buy a replacemtent.

What Joy said.

I'm a neat freak packrat. I keep absolutely everything and yeah, sometimes it gets out of hand....but then it bugs me, so I go through, separate, organize, and rearrange everything so that it looks really neat and no one can tell that I have things from when I was a child all the way up through last week's mail, magazines, clippings, and kids' homework. I'm not quite as bad as I used to be, but I still like to keep most things while trying to maintain order and organization. Such a crazy hectic task!

thanks for sharing,, I am a super pack rat. even save little pieces of wood that I don't need to be saving..

LARGE STORAGE CONTAINERS THAT STACK, AND A 10 BY 12 ROOM FULL OF THEM

And, I never claimed to be able to find anything in them. Someplace in those cases there are a couple of bb guns that have been missing since my 1975, when my son was 10.

i'm definitely a packrat. i start getting rid of stuff when i'm going to have company. then i do pretty well, because even though everybody knows i'm a packrat i don't like to display it.

Watch out for me. If it's not in it's proper place I will throw it out.

Sadly a packrat!

I'm a recovering packrat. I'm getting better at throwing things away. Such as, when I get the mail, I stop at my recycling bin and throw all the junk mail in it before entering my home.

Dawn....come to my house and you and my husband can throw my stuff away and intervene in my packrat ways !!!

Yeah! I'm a pack rat, but so is my sweetie and we keep all our stuff piled in nice neat piles, and it works til you need to find something.

a bit of both

Easiest poll ever: pack rat

RE: How do you become a neat person if you are a packrat?

You can be a packrat and still be a neat person, as illustrated by this article I wrote on a Seattle packrat: DIY Decorating: Collective Inspiration.

Another way to still be neat as a packrat is to use decorative containers and shelving to hold all of the piles. I use plain brown boxes that I pick up at the craft store, or old shoe boxes, to paint to match the color of the room and store odds and ends.

I believe I am both.

I am a packrat, I collect everything.

I tend to be a packrat with stuff (come on, it could be useful for a craft someday!) but I don't have a problem throwing out the newspaper and junk mail.

I am a neat freak....... but I collect some things, only they are pretty organized too. LOL


I am not a clean freak as much as I used to be, but I am still highly organized, I know where everything I have is located. Guess I am saying I am more neat than I am clean. I used to be nuts with OCD , grew up with a neat freak Mom. Thought it was normal. I was obsessed during my first marriage. Now, I feel more balanced but I do feel nervous STILL at times when things are out of order. I fight it. I've come a long way.
When I do go visit my Mother, she won't let us in with our shoes on and she sweeps while we are still there and she can't enjoy life much. I don't too much enjoy to visit her. I would say it is better not to be TOO clean because of her. Has anybody seen MOMMY DEAREST? LOL

Now when I do go visit her, my kids and I have secret codes for when we want to leave and my 16 year old daughter jokes "I'm down with OCD" instead of that song that says "I'm down with OPP".

LOL

I am a complete and total bonafide packrat! And the wierd thing is, I am a Virgo and they are supposed to be neat and tidy. Just goes to show you that astrology is a bunch of bull!

I am mostly a packrat. I have areas though, where I am a neat freak. The kitchen is one.

Living with a neat freak has helped a lot. But in the areas where he doesn't go, I have gotten worse than usual. My closet and bathroom are terrible!

I am a neat pack rat freak, I guess. I like to keep things "just in case I might need it in the future" but then I feel cluttered and straighten up all the packrat collection.

Pack rat. But mostly because I'm too lazy to go through and get rid of the stuff I don't need anymore.

I'm a pack rat just like my mom & my grandma. My son is too. I think it's genetic! :-)

not one or the other

I am neat freak child of an entire family of pack rats. So I even get stuff that's been saved in the mail sometimes - it's crazy. I am in a constant state of trying to clean up & toss things that I don't need.

Oh my, hubby and I both inherited the packrat gene! I'm especially bad this time of year, when I work during summer, because f keeping anything useful for kids craft projects, like toilet paper tubes and small jars and empty spice shakers.

I am definitely in between.

I am a big-time pack rat. If it looks good, I keep it. I just know that if I get rid of it, I will need it next week. That has happened to me before, several times. I am really trying to organize things lately. It is taking a long, long time to organize.