Honestly how often do you clean...

[shootingstar]

I think I'll start calling you "Silver" and him "Mr. Silver" The ongoing joke in our marriage is that I like things "clean and tidy". Silver doesn't care about "untidy" as long as the untidiness is on top of something "clean".

His tidy habits probably stems from long string of childhood sicknesses which included tuberculosis, ringworm, etc. of which the latter he nearly died from. This was just after WWII, when Germany was trying to rebuild itself and its infrastructure (sewage, water) was still not in good shpae.

He was a boy that did not enjoy playing in the mud.