This is something I worry about when I go off to uni. I can be a little OCD about tidiness, but I'm happy for things to be slightly untidy as long as it doesn't get ridiculous.
But, by the sounds of things, in student accomodation it does get ridiculous.
How do you put up with it? How do you, on the one hand, try and get your flatmates to do some clearing up, but on the other hand, try not to come across as a boring old sod?