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* Make your entry way a priority in neatness and cleanliness.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

* Make your entry way a priority in neatness and cleanliness.

Bringing Serenity to the Home 2009

Sponsored by publisher Little, Brown and Co., the competition promoted "A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder," by Eric Abrahamson and David Freedman, a new book that argues neatness is overrated, costs money, wastes time and quashes creativity.

Messy People are More Productive | Impact Lab 2007

It’s not that extreme, to be honest, although the neatness is somewhat scary.

EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The ultimate computer setup 2007

Barry Wise was dressed in his usual coat and tie-his neatness was another leftover from the Marines-and he knocked on the door, finding the expected local-he was tempted to call them "natives," but that was too English, and distantly racist-at the door to conduct them in.

The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000

'How simple and manly!' she cried: 'none of that effeminacy of neatness, which is so detestable in a man!'

The Dynamiter Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

The upper garment of the females, besides being cut according to a regular and uniform pattern, and sewed with exceeding neatness, which is the case with all the dresses of these people, has also the flaps ornamented in a very becoming manner by a neat border of deerskin, so arranged as to display alternate breadths of white and dark fur.

Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2 William Edward Parry 1822

The upper garment of the females, besides being cut according to a regular and uniform pattern, and sewed with exceeding neatness, which is the case with all the dresses of these people, has also the flaps ornamented in a very becoming manner by a neat border of deer-skin, so arranged as to display alternate breadths of white and dark fur.

Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage William Edward Parry 1822

In this conveniency of lodging that I desire, I mix nothing of pomp and amplitude -- I hate it rather; but a certain plain neatness, which is oftenest found in places where there is less of art, and that Nature has adorned with some grace that is all her own:

The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562

In this conveniency of lodging that I desire, I mix nothing of pomp and amplitude -- I hate it rather; but a certain plain neatness, which is oftenest found in places where there is less of art, and that Nature has adorned with some grace that is all her own:

The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 17 Michel de Montaigne 1562