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[ksmith]

Thanks for voting. Cluttery loves company.

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[mindyklasky.livejournal.com]

Now, my *dining room* table...

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...thing is, I don't really have a dining room. There's an area adjacent to the kitchen that's technically a room, but it's too small for anything but a 4-chair table and a small hutch, which is what I have now. Sometimes I call it the dining room. Other times, the kitchen. I think a realtor would call it a dining room.

In any case, one table, and it's pretty much buried except for this little area....

[difrancis.livejournal.com]

Mostly because we are trying to sell the house and are forced to keep it clean. But really the answer should be: PIE! or CAKE!!!

[affreca.livejournal.com]

Only because we cleaned it off to move it to remove carpet. Or because it isn't in the kitchen, but the dining room. I doubt it will last.

[naomikritzer]

We do not have a kitchen table, just one in the dining room.

Our dining room table collects stuff through the day (the newspaper, the homework, a book or two...) and then gets completely cleared off when we sit down for dinner. My husband grew up in a house that was severely cluttered, and although he also tends to save too much and ignore piles, he draws the line at burying the dinner table.

It tends to accumulate more in the summer, when we'll eat outside on the patio for days in a row and doesn't get the daily rigorous clear-off.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

We don't have a kitchen table. Lots of counter space buried in stuff, though. Some of it functional stuff.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I explained about my room situation upstream.

My kitchen is so small that I can't afford to leave too much on the counters. I need a peninsula or an island just to have more room to cook.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

The thing about older houses is, space is a surplus. I could send you an entire room, maybe two. Of course, the flip side is that Stuff accumulates . . .

[djonn]

I am reminded of a story Michael "Moonwulf" Longcor tells, with respect to one of his funnier songs entitled "Kitchen Junk Drawer". After a concert in which he'd performed the song, a gentleman came up to him and offered this riposte:

"I don't have a kitchen junk drawer. I have a garage!"

[cailleuch.livejournal.com]

I don't have a kitchen table but most of the counters are clear of everything but appliances and jars full of ingredients. Dining room table is currently covered with stuff being sorted to be taken to library, Goodwill, etc. Sometime real soon now, hmmm.

I answered pie, because well it's pie!

[trolleypup.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't use the kitchen table, but it does have about 30-40% free space.

The living room...well...there is a table and a coffee table, both completely covered in stuff. The floor is about 75% covered in crosscut saws and associated materials.

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

I have been surprisingly good over the last few years about keeping stuff from piling up on every flat surface. Or, more accurately, when stuff piles up on flat surfaces, I'm pretty good about offloading it into a box instead.

I think this is because my mother's kitchen and dining-room tables (and the coffee table, and her nightstand, and the desk in my old room, etc. etc.) are inches deep in papers and junk. Her bad example gives me strength to resist the inclination to hoard.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

My mom was neat. Dad was a clutterbug. I'm in-between. I've kept my bedroom under control. Bathroom and kitchen are ok. Living room--coffee and end tables need work, as does the desk.

Kitchen table is a mess. I have already shunted off one small batch into a box, and dammit, it built up again.

The spare bedroom is my dirty little secret. It needs a serious cleanout, but I haven't had the time.