I cleaned off my desk last week (the M-I-L came to stay with the kids and the desk was a little embarrassing). Within the bookends, I have a section of desk that does have books set up—45 to be exact—they stay there, it looks nice to me. Yeah, that's a lot, but sadly not all. I also had 25 *other books* just strewn around the top of the desk (it is a pretty big desk) as well as umpteen notebooks. Not to mention piles upon piles of loose notes. There was pretty much one small space where I could set something down if I was using it but if I needed to write "on" something, I had to shove my keyboard under the little stand that the laptop is on. It was shameful, I know.

But like I said, it's clean now. So clean in fact, I don't even want to put any extra papers on it 'cause it looks so nice and may never look like this again (well, aside from the occasion visit that requires tidiness). And despite the mess, I did know where everything was—which pile held what set of notes, etc. Nothing was ever lost, though I may have had to dig for a bit to get to something.

I was at the hubby's office the other day and his desk was just as tore up. I made fun of him for it (though, we both knew mine was far worse). I mentioned that old adage, "cluttered desk, cluttered mind." I don't know if that is necessarily true. I mean, sure, I am ditzy, but that has more to do with being a mom of 4, blond-ish and female... HA!   And lets not forget, I am an admitted hoarder-lite/pack rat so clutter comes with the territory. I tend not to throw things away until it is absolutely, positively necessary—you never know when it will come in handy!

What's your workspace like? Is it managed piles of thoughts and ideas or are you more the clean and tidy type? Has your mess ever come back to haunt you?