I’m going to get this out of the way before I report this story – a similar thing happened to me when I was Lindsay’s age. This is a true story. At 22, I won second place in the state lottery with 5/6 two digit numbers on a Quick Pick. It was nearly $3k and was a huge deal to me at the time. I went wild putting clothes in a suitcase, and basically threw stuff all around getting packed to go on vacation, thinking I’d deal with it later. When I was away, the maintenance people had to enter my place to check something out and called the cops because they thought that I was either robbed or had been in a fight. Embarrassing, but true. Now over 10 years later I keep a clean house.

So I have a smidgen of sympathy hearing that cops thought Lindsay Lohan’s house was ransacked, but are now guessing that she’s just a slob. Her house was really broken into yesterday afternoon while she was away in Europe, but how much damage the burglars did is up to question:

Turns out her it’s not just her life that’s a mess — so is her home.

When police responded to a tripped burglar alarm at the Hollywood home of Mean Girls star Lindsay Lohan around 3pm Tuesday afternoon, they found a mess and at first, and thought LiLo’s home had been ransacked.

Despite signs that a rear window and a rear door showed evidence tampering and that an alarm apparently scared the burglars off, police later determined no one had entered the home and nothing was taken.

Yep, that means the burglars didn’t trash the home. It was that way.

Speaking to the AP, officer Karen Rayner said: “[We had to ask] is it normally like this, or did the intruders do it?”

No one was home at the time of the incident, and no one’s been arrested.

Lohan — who’s in Paris Wednesday — has yet to comment on the reports.

[From Radar Online]

A couple of years ago, photos came out of Lohan’s room at the Chateau Marmot and it was trashed. There were designer clothes, purses and shoes laying all over the place. The hotel has a cleaning staff so it’s not like she had much of an excuse apart from wanting to keep her drinking and drug use under wraps.

Maybe she’s so messy she can’t even hire cleaning help for her place as she doesn’t know where to start. If you don’t have a decent system for storing your stuff it can seem overwhelming and you might give up. Lindsay could hire an professional organizer. It must be depressing to have hundreds of thousands worth of designer goods and not be able to enjoy them because they’re strewn all over your home.

This has got to be embarrassing for Lohan. At least after cops examined my mess for signs of a crime I had the option of not even telling friends and family about it. They know now.

Lindsay is shown at LAX Airport on 5/11/09. Credit: Fame Pictures