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Tidiness
Tidiness means keeping things out of sight and yet available when wanted. It implies that there is a
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for everything and that each thing used finds its way
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to its place by a continuos process, not by a spasmodic
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. The process depends, however, upon the drawer, cupboard and storage
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being provided, for lack of which one things may literally have
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place to go. Like the perambulator and trolley, the luggage and the golfclubs
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be homeless. The same may be true of the deck-chairs
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the bulkier plastic toys. As there is no place for them, it is no
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telling people to put them away. The architect who thus economises on
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space is apt to claim that a good-sized sitting-room is
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result. What advantage is there in that, however,
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half the living-room has to be used for storage? The aesthetic
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depends, in turn, upon storage space.
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it may be true that no house ever had cupboards enough,
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are some houses which have practically no cupboards
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all. In these our choice must lie between chronic
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and ruthless destruction. That is not to say, however,
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cupboard space will itself create tidiness. Some people
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happier, it would seem, in chaos. There is the question, furthermore,
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the cupboards themselves are tidy. That
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has been swept out of sight is no proof, in itself, that everything can be found.