change my habit of squalor to one of neatness and tidyness

What is there to say about this. My wife, Betsie has been SO understanding about my squalor problem. I used to think it was just a packrat problem but there are neat and tidy pack rats… i am attempting to become one of them. It took a trip to http://www.squalorsurvivors.com/ several months ago by Betsie to open my mind on this. I am not a worse case scenario and i do periodically fight it back. I learned this about dishes and laundry somehow but now need to apply the same techniques of right here right now no waiting to the rest of my bad squalor creating habits. I know it would be easier to throw stuff away … and i suspect i will still do quite a bit of that. Digging out of the hole is not the hard part, i’ve done that before, most squalors have. It’s preventing the hole from filling in with squalor that is the key to being squalor free. Parting with things, not necessarily throwing them away, is not yet part of my nature, i am still working on it.