&gt; <i>My yards are a complete mess because I don&#x27;t give a crap about how my yards look.</i><p>I think that&#x27;s the core observation. Some people care about how their house looks. Personally, I don&#x27;t, so I usually clean stuff up only when someone is coming over. Some, like me, care about how their documents look, or about using interpunction, paragraphs, etc. Others (most of the people I know) don&#x27;t. There&#x27;s limited amount of things one can care about, and different people care about different things.