I'm a bit better than I used to be - it's the state of mind thing for me too. I don't like the mess and don't like seeing surfaces covered.

But it did take me a while to move from being peed off about it to working out that it wouldn't clear itself. I know that seems obvious but beforehand I could just look at mess and huff and puff.

Now, my new motto is, it won't get clean if you don't clean it.