Good relationships are built on filth

To Clean: a verb meaning to hide things from one's spouse.

After a weekend of cleaning neither my wife nor I can find anything in our condo. It's not that we're trying to drive each other crazy, but rather that when asked to imagine what a clean home looks like we both have different visions. Both are remarkably similar, but in each vision everything is 'put away' in a slightly different place.

This is why it is important to be tolerant of messiness in the people you live with. You're not a messy people- you've just reached a happy compromise on where all your possessions belong.