Quick: Neat Freak vs. "Creative Disorder"?

I know I've loaded the "decision" of this post by using the labels above, but I mean no prejudice. I simply cannot remember the characterization for the "neat" side of the scale from my college rooming form. Frankly, I think "creative disorder" was employed to refrain from such pejorative terms as "slob" or, worse, "pig." But whether you seek "spick-and-span" in your environment, or you cannot be happy unless surrounded by (apparent) clutter, we all know whereof I speak: people tend to be either neat or messy - with the caveat that most people are somewhat neat and somewhat messy, often for different things, or under different circumstances.

Is this a matter of temperament or one of choice? If it's a matter of temperament, does that mean we have no choice?

Are you a naturally messy person, who thrives, as the expression goes, in the disorder? Emerging with comfort and creativity?

Are you a naturally neat person, whose uncluttered environment yields an uncluttered mind? For whom clean surfaces is an indication of well-being?

My guess is that most people would like to climb out from under the clutter, but find themselves chasing a moving train (this will happen if you naturally leave your possessions out - where you use them - instead of returning them to their proper abodes...or if you don't have a designated home for your possessions, if only because you don't have the proper receptacles or room for your things (there's a reason The Container Store makes a killing (and the "organizer" sections of Target, Wal-Mart, etc. as well)). And most other people would like to loosen up a little, and rest easy despite the presence of dishes in the sink overnight (for example) or unmade beds all day.

It's the need for those efforts, both successful and unsatisfied, that suggest that nature may play the stronger role in our propensities towards neatness/disorder. But we can also conquer ourselves - with enough will (or so we may choose to believe).

Personally, I thrive best in a pristine environment, though I'm able to close my eyes to some degree of jumbled possessions in the public arena.

PS: For the sake of this post, my assumption is that both kinds of people are hygienic in a healthy way. As in: no grossness, but tidy people who are not compulsive, and sterile surfaces under the messy mess.