The phrase "avoid mess" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when advising someone to keep things organized or to prevent disorder in a situation.
Example: "To ensure a smooth event, we need to plan carefully and avoid mess during the setup."
Alternatives: "prevent chaos" or "keep things tidy".
"Most researchers in this area, including myself, have selected samples that are strongly right-handed, just in order to avoid mess in the data".
In order to avoid mess, we only selected a part of the hand trajectory in 3-dimensional space.
Mothers reported doing this to avoid mess, to increase iron intake by spoon-feeding iron-fortified infant cereal, or to increase energy intake especially when their infant was sick or appeared too tired to self-feed.
Put a newspaper, tissue or anything to avoid mess.
Public park grills avoid mess, expense, and fire hazard.
You may put something beneath like newspaper to avoid mess.
Bollini's present task is recalibrating the PR2 to perfectly mix flour, sugar and butter, as dry beans were initially used to avoid messes.
Although Mr Ortega has steamrolled institutions such as the electoral commission and the courts, he has been careful to avoid messing up the economy.
November 28, 2013 Dan F. (@avatar81) @Paolo_Bandini As a #Bengals fan, A.J. Green, Gio Bernard and the defense, as well as Dalton being competent enough to avoid messing it up.
For more options for reprepro, see the comments at the top of /opt/apt/bin/reprepro, which is a wrapper script around the reprepro command to avoid messing up paths and permissions.
To avoid messing up their computers and surrendering their privacy, people may be more willing to pay for their music -- so long as it comes in a form they want and at a price they don't mind paying.
