Celebrity Clutterbugs
From supermodels to philosophers to actors - some are neat freaks and some not! The rich and famous (or infamous, as it may be) give their opinions below on organization, clutter, neatness, cleanliness, and time management.
"I'm an organizational freak. My label maker is my best friend. It's to the
point where sometimes it annoys even me."
Singer Christina Aguilera
Source:
"I find it helps to
organize chores into categories: Things I won't do now; Things I won't do
later; Things I'll never do."
Cartoon Personality Maxine
Source: www.webshots.com
"I'm very disorganized. It's a great shame for me. The only
organizational skills I ever developed involved using a Filofax."
Actress Uma Thurman
Source: In Style
"I clean the [hotel] room before the maid comes - you will never find
laundry on my floor."
Actress
Scarlett Johansson
Source:
www.askmen.com
“I'm
definitely a messy person... I know where everything is but I just can't
organize.
I don't make lists and find scripts on the laundry machine, and under my
bed, or in the bathroom, kitchen.”
Actress Katie Holmes
Source:
www.thinkexist.com
"There comes a point of gluttony that I can't accept. When that
happens, I feel like I have to clean out and give stuff to my sister, mom,
and friends.”
Actress Katherine Heigl
Source: US Weekly
"You're home is a garbage processing center where new things are
purchased and slowly demoted through various stages of trashification until
you're done.”
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld
Source: Stand-up routine on Late Night with Conan O'Brien
"He's got that obsessive compulsive thing where everything has to match. If
you open our fridge, it's all coordinated down either side.”
Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham on husband
David
Beckham
Source: The London Independent
"It's important to edit your closet. If you don't wear it, get rid of
it!”
Project Runway Judge and Elle Fashion Director
Nina Garcia
Source: US Weekly
“My [2007] New Year's resolution is to get rid of some stuff because I bring
it in and I can't get rid of it.”
Source: Internet Movie Database
“Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
Roman Catholic Saint Francis of Assisi on time
management in 1200AD
Source: www.brainyquote.com
“I'm a neat freak. I'm constantly rearranging the pantry and cleaning up
around the house.”
Singer John Mellencamp
Source:
www.tv.com
"[My mom] was big on cleaning stuff, which is actually a disservice in a
way. Because when I got my first place I had pizza boxes and Coca-Cola
bottles all over the place. I just didn't have those skill sets, I was like,
'Wow, this is weird because usually I put this down and tomorrow it's gone,
but this thing ain't going anywhere.' "
Actor Vince Vaughn
Source: World Entertainment News Network
"I am the most disorganized person, but I would rather be that than have
somebody looking after me like a nanny. It would be freaky.”
Actress Keira Knightley
Source: www.contractmusic.com
"I don't actually 'clean' anything, but my maid's got it great. She
doesn't have to pick up anything, because I do it and I keep the house very
organized. I'm a straightener and an organizer."
Soap Star Joshua Morrow
Source: www.soapoperadigest.com
“Life
is too complicated not to be orderly.”
Entrepreneur
Martha Stewart
Source:
Harper's Bazaar
“…I'm not very good at cleaning up and doing the homemaker thing."
Singer Gwen Stefani
Source: Cosmopolitan
“I will clean house when Sears makes a vacuum you can ride on."
Comedian Roseanne Barr
Source: Reader's Digest
“Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes
narrows the mind.”
French Theologian
Francois Fénelon
Source:
www.worldofquotes.com
"I'm an organization freak. Cleaning out a drawer...makes me feel calm
and sorted. I remember organizing my toys when I was seven years old."
Actress Reese Witherspoon
Source: Vanity Fair
"Keeping the house together is the hardest thing I've ever done and the most
rewarding. I handle it by putting one foot in front of the other.
I make a lot of lists."
Actress Katey Sagal
Source:
"I can't go to bed with a messy room. That would totally wig me out."
Singer Hillary Duff
Source:
US Weekly
“Good
order is the foundation of all things.”
British Philosopher Edmund Burke
“I
travel so much that if [my wardrobe] is not organized, I don't know where
anything is. All my clothes
are color coded and I have closets for winter and summer.”
Source:
www.exposay.com
“I really have to force myself to tidy up around the house.
I wish I could do all the things [my
Desperate
Housewives character] Bree does.”
Actress Marcia Cross
Source: US Weekly
"I am a bit messy, I admit it. You'll usually find a few cigarettes in [my
dressing room] and dirty socks."
Actress
Sienna Miller
Source: www.contactmusic.com
“We went to the Container Store today - we’re obsessed
with it.
We got so much stuff…We put
all
of our food on these enormous lazy Susans!”
Actress Jessica Alba
on a shopping spree with her boyfriend
Source: US Weekly
"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won
was over themselves … self discipline with all of them came first."
Former
Source:
www.thinkexist.com
“A place for everything, everything in its place.”
Founding Father Benjamin
Franklin
Source:
www.worldofquotes.com
"I make the bed in my hotel rooms."
Golfer Tiger Woods
“If you look at this office, there isn't much paper in it.”
Microsoft's
Chairman Bill Gates
Source:
www.money.com
"I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and
she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's
perfect. My shoes are all arranged."
Actress Dakota Fanning
Source: www.celebsquotes.com
"Separate bathrooms is always a really great idea. Mine is so messy, I'd
absolutely hate for my husband to realize just how incredibly cluttery I can
be."
Actress
Catherine
Zeta-Jones on the secrets of a successful marriage
Source: www.allgreatquotes.com
"Foster traces her current need for 'meticulous' housekeeping (she says she
squeegees her shower after every use) to her upbringing.”
Actress Jodie Foster, as quoted in feature
Source:
“I am the best cleaning lady in the world.
I fire housekeepers all the time because I don’t
think anyone cleans as good as me.”
Supermodel Gisele Bundchen
Source: In Touch
“My friend
calls me Martha Junior, because...I'm a neat freak...”
Actress Jaime Pressly
Source: www.tv.com
“…keep a tidy soul.”
Author Mark Twain
Source:
www.whatquote.com
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