Evelyn Golib Ali

Writing and Research

Reference number 82367 Professor Arietta

October 27,2014
Britt Does Not Oppose Sloppy People

Britt compares neat and sloppy people in her essay ‘’Neat People vs. Sloppy People.’’ She describes sloppy people using a positive tone but not the same case with neat people. In Britt’s opinion sloppy people are more organized and way better than neat people. Britt thinks sloppy people are not sloppy per se. Sloppy people are morally upright, caring and sentimental. Their sloppiness is merely the unfortunate consequence of their extreme moral rectitude while neat people are wasteful and insensitive. She has a remarkable explanation as to why sloppy people never seem to get all things tidy. Britt states ‘’when a sloppy person says they are going to tackle the surface of a desk, they really mean it, not a paper will go unturned; … primarily because the sloppy person is meticulously creating new piles of papers and scrupulously stopping to read all the old books and catalogs before he throws them away. A neat person will just bulldoze the desk.’’(Britt 5) Britt portrays sloppy people as wanting to be neat and they also make efforts to clean but in their effort to do so, they create a new pile because they love to stop and read everything. This is not a bad thing but neat people will just throw out everything. Neat people don’t really care about anything. Britt talks about how they try to get rid of everything. They do not want their own children around or want to keep things from a dying relative. Britt states ‘’Neat people are especially vicious with mail. They never go through their mail unless they are standing directly over the trashcan. If the trashcan is directly beside the mailbox, even better’’ (Britt 9). She talks about how neat people will throw away mail from charity without even opening it. Britt states ‘’Neat people toy with the idea of throwing their children out of the house just to cut down clutter’’(Britt 6). This makes them really insensitive as compared to sloppy people who can’t bear to part with anything. Britt also states that ads , catalogs, pleas for charitable contributions, church bulletins, and money saving coupons go straight into the trashcan. Neat people keep their receipts only for tax purposes’’(Britt 9). They will throw away everything, excluding anything they can gain from. Due to the sentimental nature of sloppy people they can hardly throw things away, for them everything is of extreme importance. Britt states ‘’Neat people place neatness above everything, even economics. They are incredibly wasteful. Neat people throw away several toys every time they walk through them… The drainer was too much trouble to wash, they will sell a L-Z-Boy recliner while you are reclining in it’’(Britt 10). Britt mentions that neat people are not economical in any way whatsoever and also you cannot borrow anything at all from them because they don’t keep them in the first place. A neat person won’t wash anything to make it clean; he would rather throw it away. This makes them extremely wasteful. Sloppy people on the other hand value everything and will keep it, which makes them better economists. We have come across neat people and sloppy people at some point in our lives and we tend to think neat people are great people. We even aspire to be neat if we think of ourselves as sloppy. Britt talks about how sloppy people are not sloppy by choice, but as a result of being sentimental, and caring. Neat people are being neat because they want to destroy everything around them. Britt clearly does not oppose sloppy people. She makes you love them.