<p>Wow, baseballmom!</p>
<p>A very big black stained wooden bowl.</p>
<p>My laptop, 2 cats - one quite wet from the rain, a photo box frame my wife wants me to put my great-grandfather’s Polish passport in (which I need to dig out of a box), and a spalted maple bowl with 4 apples.</p>
<p>Rolled up photos from my Dad’s time in WWII.</p>
<p>A decorative bowl on a table runner and a completed Lord of the Rings Lego set.</p>
<p>A gold table runner, two crystal candlesticks with white column candles, a Villeroy and Boch soup tureen as a centerpiece and a pair of German crystal salt and pepper shakers.</p>
<p>Don’t have a dining room table–only a kitchen table. I don’t even know what’s all on it–a faded old red/white checkered tablecloth that I just can’t find a good replacement for, a bunch of old mail, kids’ school papers, a napkin holder, H’s computer cables, one of those tacky Italian wine bottle candle holders covered with all different colors of wax from years of dripping. . .dirty dishes from breakfast and maybe last night, too, cat hair. . .</p>
<p>Tablecloth and crystal candlesticks. Also, several of S’s textbooks, notebooks, papers, etc. that were dumped on the kitchen island last week (I have to move them every other Fri. so the cleaning ladies can clean). And a case of juice boxes as well as a case of boxes of shelf milk which we will take to church this week for the backpack program.</p>
<p>My dining room table is not a happy place. It has just piles of things to do on it. A will to update, garbage that needs to be sent to the IRS, bills, things that need to be done but are just not fun things or items I can make decisions on, so I just put them there to delay, delay, delay. </p>
<p>Wouldn’t it be nice if there were no more piles of unpleasant things to do?</p>
<p>Interesting to me how many of us have candlesticks (lots of candlelight dinners?) or decorative bowls. Like I said in the OP, I have a decorative bowl - now maybe I should ask if your bowls are empty or filled with something!!!</p>
<p>A cream damask tablecloth, 2 crystal candleabras with cream and white candles.</p>
<p>A woven table runner that my sister made, a set of antique french bowls, one filled with clementines, one with pears, a smaller one with chocolate, my grandmother’s silver candlesticks, a painting done by my great-grandfather that is supposed to be hung on the wall, but is just lying on the table for now, and a pair of my son’s socks. Since he went back to school almost three weeks ago I am not sure where they came from or how they got there. They were not there on Saturday when I cleaned the room, I will have to ask H why the socks.</p>
<p>Bus, tackle them one at a time, and break the one you’re working on into smaller chunks if necessary. Small steps is what will get you there.</p>
<p>Right now, a large Morrocan ceramic platter. Rotates with a couple of other ceramic pieces. And, my daughter probably left a diet coke can there, which will irritate me when I get home.</p>
<p>On my dining room table, soon to be consigned to the dustbin of history, are my new serger, a set of pillowcases I should have finished by now, two sound effects boxes from World Market, my GPS, a bowl of clementines, a bowl of Honeycrisp apples, my music for the current concert, a lamp and some mail. Where will all this stuff end up when I get rid of the table?</p>
<p>Clutter…</p>
<p>I feel really bad, lots of others have clutter, but no one else had a deadish plant?
OK, so you have put a fire under me, before I got to bed the plant will be out along
with it’s offending debris!</p>
<p>My dining table is the staging area for two hiking backpacks. This time of year, each time out requires different combinations of jackets and fleeces and gloves and hats, depending on the weather. So everything comes out of a backpack to the table and new stuff gets rolled up, stuffed in sacks, and put in either the large or the small backpack. I haven’t found any other surface that is as well suited to the task!</p>
<p>Lol! Great thread! On our table along with the standard table condiments on a rooster shaped lazy susan are stacks of college letters sorted by merit awards and feasibility of attendance…and some junk mail, too. Oh, and a dirty cowboy hat…grrr.</p>
<p>I could be in the running if there is a prize for “hoarding” or “messiest”!</p>
<p>srw-if you have pets be careful of dropping leaves. Poinsettias are poinsonous.</p>