You need a delicate balance of "clean" and "mess".
If you keep absolutely clean and "organized" at all times, things actually end up in inconvenient places, and you have a lot of surface area that just isn't being used. It's like living in a museum or a church, and that blows.
If you're a total slob, well, you lose things, you have no room to work; I don't need to explain the intricacies of living in a mess to
you people I'm sure.
Keep things where you can reach 'em. That's what things are for. Reaching.