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  • BellaBefanaBellaBefana
    Posts: 8,140Member
    Why does the center island in my kitchen ALWAYS look like the magnet for all the shit in the house?  I clean it off, and it gets piled back up again within a week...

    What your household nemesis?
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  • NorthernMommyNorthernMommy
    Posts: 347Member
    Deacon's bench in the front entryway.  Used to be the kitchen table, but DS has turned that into a parking garage for his dinky cars.
  • beachmommybeachmommy
    Posts: 2,474Member
    Definitely the center island in our kitchen.  But I am the biggest culprit so I try not to complain!  Drives DH fucking crazy though.
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  • canadamom
    Posts: 876Member
    ANY flat surface will immediately attract all random papers that happen to be in my house.  I'm the type that if I put one piece of paper down and turn around, a hundred peices of paper have been drawn to that spot.  So the dining room table, the coffee table, the counters - its a huge struggle fo rme to get paper dealt with.
  • StarsStars
    Posts: 1,058Member
    My kitchen table seems to be the landing spot for all that walks into the house.  :-w  It drives me absolutely CRAZY!!  My DS 17 likes to use my kitchen for his dressing room and then proceeds to leave his clothes on the floor as if its his bedroom! AUGH!!! Needless to say each and every fucking day I've got to yell at him to pick his shit up and put it where it belongs. To think they wonder why I'm sitting in corner at the end of the day with puddles of drool at my feet.  8-}
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  • MegsueMegsue
    Posts: 1,864Member
    My kitchen counter. Somebody in this house (not me, and not DS, and definately not the cat) is responsible for the garbage...which never gets taken out. So instead lazy ass will put garbage on the counter, right above the garbage can!!!! He also likes to just stack random shit on top of the microwave. Right now here's an inventory: bag of sugar, pack of Marlboros, bubbles, pair of his jeans, 3 empty egg cartons, ratchiting wrench, box of sockets, box with my old break pads in it, bag of m&m's, pack of gum, dish towel, kitty treats, screwdriver, garden shears, and my ONLY contribution: Cascade action pacs. All on the fucking microwave!!!!! Ahhhhggg!
  • shate98shate98
    Posts: 2,749Member
    kitchen table! omfg!
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  • LoveLove
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    canadamom said:

    ANY flat surface will immediately attract all random papers that happen to be in my house.  I'm the type that if I put one piece of paper down and turn around, a hundred peices of paper have been drawn to that spot.  So the dining room table, the coffee table, the counters - its a huge struggle fo rme to get paper dealt with.



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  • BellaBefanaBellaBefana
    Posts: 8,140Member
    oh, thank God.  My mother makes me feel like a complete failure as a housekeeper that my island, even clean, always looks such a freaking mess!!!

    When I bought a house with this huge island, I SWORE I wouldn't let it get piled up...
    =))
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  • PurpleFlowersPurpleFlowers
    Posts: 5,579Member
    shate98 said:

    kitchen table! omfg!


    Me too
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  • FoulMouthedSailorFoulMouthedSailor
    Posts: 1,885Member
    The hallway closet, its an evil son of a bitch. Some how it spits everything I put into out into a giant mess. I even bought a closet organizer for it and it still looks like shit, its like the sock gnomes go in there and screw it up.
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  • BakingmommyBakingmommy
    Posts: 402Member
    End table by the front door, coffee table (full of kid shit), and kitchen table becomes full of DF shit. Also the small kitchen counter next to the sliding glass door always gets piled full of shit when people come and go out that door.
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  • pdxmama
    Posts: 1,489Member
    PurpleFlowers said:

    shate98 said:

    kitchen table! omfg!


    Me too


    Add me to this club! Omg, my kitchen table drives me nuts!

    @megsue how flippin big is your microwave?? I can't believe your DH can even fit all that shit up there, lol. Does he have to do it strategically, like a tetris game?
  • nessamommynessamommy
    Posts: 671Member
    @megsue my dh has a whole lot of things on top of the microwave too... I don't understand why he thinks that is a good place to put things!
    Our desk is usually the "pile-it-up" place, its pretty big, so all the papers we've ever got in the mail, from the kids' school, etc land there. If dh needs to clean his uniforms, he'll even take the clean pile of laundry out of the dryer and put it on the desk...
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  • missmama5missmama5
    Posts: 3,580Member
    I have a "decorative chair" in my bedroom that DH seems to think is for his clothes. It's not, I've tried to tell him, and don't get me wrong I would care a little less if he was actually laying them out to wear/leaving them there to wear again (he wears a uniform at work so usually wears the same pair of jeans for the couple hours in the evening a few days in a row) but he does not. It just piles up and piles up...and then the cats think it's their bed....

    @megsue The top of my mother's microwave was always insane as well. I made it a pact not to have mine the same, and so far I've been successful *fingers crossed*
    @FourMouthedSailor My hallway closet is a STY. Shoes, sweaters, coats, the broom, grocery bags, my god. Life went in there to puke, I'm pretty sure.

  • anonymommy
    Posts: 1,381Member
    Kitchen counters here, too.  We also have a "desk" built into our kitchen counter....about 4 feet away from the main part of the counter.  It starts on the main counter and eventually DH stacks it up and moves it to the desk where, for some reason, I can never find it again.  I suspect the trash can opens its mouth on his way to the desk.
  • irishlassirishlass
    Posts: 6,757Member
    Top of the microwave here too!! Its insane!!
    Also my breakfast bar. Aaaaalways messy.
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  • FreeToBeMee
    Posts: 642Member
    dining room table....its just...I dont understand. Are there gremlins ??
  • BellaBefanaBellaBefana
    Posts: 8,140Member
    @FreeToBeMee:  I'm sure of it!
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  • boring_nameboring_name
    Posts: 667Member
    I have a small table that I use for my laptop. I can clear it completely and within 2 hours it will be full of everyone elses stuff. ALL of the mail, receipts, brushes, yarn, remotes etc. ALWAYS on my computer table. 
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  • chaosmomchaosmom
    Posts: 3,865Member
    We have 3 "collection" spots. Half of the dining room table. The kids eat & do homework on the other half so anything there just gets shoved to one end. The top of the microwave & toaster oven. And the bar between the kitchen & living room (this is by far the worst but actually clean right now. Hmmm. I'm not sure how it is still clean actually lol). And it is mainly just papers, mail, coloring books, writing/coloring instruments. And a Halloween bucket. And a Christmas night light.
  • stinkersmommystinkersmommy
    Posts: 1,322Member
    My kitchen bar amassess every damn thing!!!
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  • shate98shate98
    Posts: 2,749Member
    FreeToBeMee said:

    dining room table....its just...I dont understand. Are there gremlins ??



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  • Thefinder
    Posts: 1,631Member
    Dining room table, ugh.  Bane of my existence.
  • EtoileEtoile
    Posts: 34Member
    My desk. It's near the front door so DH just drops his crap all over it- everything from groceries to socks. That's my place of work, dude.
  • MegsueMegsue
    Posts: 1,864Member
    It's a pretty big microwave...but if you saw it, you'd understand why DH kicks my ass at Jenga every time.
  • BellaBefanaBellaBefana
    Posts: 8,140Member
    Perhaps a little "show and tell" is in order?  uh, maybe not, I'd be too embarrassed...
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  • TorturedbyTWINSTorturedbyTWINS
    Posts: 1,141Member
    I just think it's funny there's a dumping zone in all of our homes that drive us crazy.  Mine is the kitchen island.  My DH has to clean up his stuff once a week on his day off but it's dirty again in half a day. 
  • MarySunshineMarySunshine
    Posts: 5,401Member
    Kitchen table, island in the kitchen and the top of the microwave.



    Wait! And we have 3 junk drawers in the kitchen.

    Yep...we are a mess here at The Center of Excellence.
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  • sunnymommasunnymomma
    Posts: 2,263Member
    Kitchen table. magic baskets have landed on the table and now its like having 2 junk drawers on the table!! hate it hate it hate it. 
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  • ChibikoChibiko
    Posts: 2,672Member
    The ledge by the front door. Piles and piles of crap no matter what I do. Ugh
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  • Katescrazymom
    Posts: 1,848Member
    Every flat horizontal surface in the house. I'm responsible for my share of it, though.
    And dd likes to 'put things away' in every cupboard, closet, basket and bin.
    I so wish I was a minimalist!
    The end of the kitchen counter is the worst. The phone is there, so I keep a note pad and pen there. Then a bill, receipts, and paperwork to be filed upstairs land there. Maybe some coupons....and you can see it all from the front door.
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  • BellaBefanaBellaBefana
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    @MammaTeeRoll:  it takes a LONG time to be able to do that, I remember when my dad passed in 05, but I don't think it's time for him to bite the bullet!
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  • BellaBefanaBellaBefana
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    sorry, meant DO think, not DON'T...@MammaTeeRoll.
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