I was never the neat freak, but then I started rooming with of my friends who is she is SO NEAT...she keeps her room like a model house bedroom. Two years and counting with her and it's really rubbed of on me...Now I HAVE to vacuum every week, sometimes twice, dust particles wiped every week from table tops, dishes in the kitchen annoy the heck out of me, books must be neatly placed, and the bed must be made before I do anything else...
The only thing I need to do is learn now is how to fold clothes immendiatly after they're dried....the most boring chore in the world. But I'm working on that!
I learned that really it doesn't take that long to be neat....I look back now, and I'm sort of embarrassed at my "messy" period of my life...it's really just laziness...Cleaning is also good exercise too! Now whenever I see someone with a messy room I automaticaclly thick "Get off your lazy butt and start cleaning". lol!!
A clean room really gives a mental piece of mind, I think!