Tidying Up Quotes

Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupations, picking up. I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.

Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.

Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, makes that and the action fine.

I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.

Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to "'clean'" it, and suddenly you can't find anything?

If you do not clean up, you won't be stronger in the long run.

I have a lot of stuff. Slowly I'm getting all my materials organized.

I love cleaning the house. I'd never have a cleaner - I wouldn't trust them to do it.

But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.

(About sweeping).... What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends.

Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.

I don't have a lot of domestic instincts," Ranger said to me, his attention fixing on the unidentifiable glob in my hair, "but I have a real strong urge to take you home and hose you down." I went dry mouth. Connie bit into her lower lip, and Lula fanned herself with a file.

If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, 'Who could have done this? We have no enemies!'

I like getting rid of things. I really do.

I want to be a person that isn't surrounded by their mail and their cat.

You are a terror, aren't you? Leave this yard alone. I know just where everything is in it, and I won't be able to find the things I need for my transport spells if you tidy them up.'So there was probably a bundle of souls or a box of chewed hearts somewhere out here, Sophie thought. She felt really thwarted. 'Tidying up is what I'm here for!' she shouted at Howl. 'Then you must think of a new meaning for your life,' Howl said.

Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.

Get rid of things or you'll spend your whole life tidying up.

A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life.

Having a messy coat closet should not be a big deal in a full life, and yet there's something about getting control of that coat closet that's surprisingly satisfying.

No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

Quite a few books about decluttering are published in a year.

When I get home I'll still have to unload the dishwasher and clean my room. Last night my mom got so fed up of my messy floor in my room she picked it all up off the floor and put it on my bed so I would have to clean it up before I went to bed!

One time I actually cleaned out my closet so good I ended up on the cover of Time magazine.