Why are old people so messy?
I can’t find any info on this on the Internet. My parents are 75 and 88. My mother, 75, is messier than Dad, so that’s her nature, yes. But he doesn’t seem to mind it. But he does mind her sloppy manners, another problem, related to the first. What’s going on with them? I’ve seen this in other very old people as well. Do you know? ANSWER: Hello Lindasue Whether a person is clean, or messy, is the way they are their entire life. I am a average person, not messy or clean-freak. My wife is clean-freak. What I find acceptable, she never finds to be “clean enough.” But that is what makes a marriage work; opposites-attract. I find in many situations that, as people get older and older, they become more AFRAID of life. Therefor their desire to be clean, or messy, takes-on a new and more serious purpose in life. Clean people become frantic with keeping clean, and in order. They feel they have better control of their lives that way. While people who do not value cleaniness as a measurement of l
