To not know where 'the-things-in-the-place-where-things-without-a-ho me-go-but-are-important' should go?

[AgentZigzag]

Our place where relatively important things go that don't have another home is behind the fruitbowl on a corner shelf in the kitchen.

Got a small pot for change, post that shouldn't get lost in the cupboard shelf for post we're trying to ignore that can't be chucked away, stuffed around the back.

But little things get put under the edge of it when I'm trying to keep the worktop clear (which I'm very anal about ), stuff like a plaggy bag of tulip bulbs, thermomether, screws, pencil sharpener...

If I put them in a cupboard they'll never see the light of day again, but I'm making a half whole hearted attempt to clear up for PILs visit tomorrow (where I'll be paying particular critical attention to what's being said so I can take offence afterwards ) and it needs doing.

Control. I need control! And things that don't fit in anywhere make me feel uneasy.

DH should leave me shouldn't he?

On the side

Everything is kept on the side in this house...even if it was round.

Shove it in a drawer

(as I have been doing today )

I think I've broken the title

tulip bulbs go in the fridge in the salad drawer - plant out lat jan

glad to have helped!

The bastard Borrowers take all my stuff like that, cost me loads they do..

I have an old wine crate for this - PILs are staying and have clearly had a good rummage!

Hahahaha at being able to get anything else in the fridge salad draw

It's as full as the cupboard the post shelf is in (which is pushing up the shelf above it there are so many letters crammed in )

We have two drawers like that. A miscellaneous drawer and a man drawer.

I dream of achieving a cleared worktop.

But DH is a Buyer and Collector - utter bastard. He dumps stuff

I may kill him.

Then bury him tidily.

You're underestimating the mess a fresh corpse can make sal.

Having pints of blood sprayed across the room is a bugger to clean up and puts me right off a repeat of that night

have a special "these bastard things that don't go anywhere else" bag that hangs off a doorknob of a closet. Behind the fruitbowl is just too small a space. Closet doorknob (inside) is tidy yet always accessible.

Sorted.

Tulip bulbs: Drawer 3 of the unit in the garage (misc gardening supplies)
Thermometer [cooking] Pantry, top shelf (baking equipment)
Thermometer [ear] Airing cupboard, bottom shelf (medicine & first aid)
Screws: Drawer 7 of the unit in the garage (screws, nails & other fixings)
Pencil Sharpener: Pencil case, bottom shelf, office.

There are surely ways to kill someone with no blood splatter Agent.

Pan - tell me how to hang a car engine in a bag behind a door?? Eh? Eh?

Well, Sal.....you need a really big door........oh dear. A friend of mine had the engine of a Suzuki 550cc motorbike on her kitchen table for 3 months.

I am really sorry.

My stuff-that-doesnt-have-a-home would not fit behind the fruit bowl which incidentally is on top of the cupboard atm with no fruit in it It wasnt content with three bedrooms and has started sneaking out onto the landing!!

My stuff without a home is in a disused scale on the side, it is crammed, we also have man drawer (crammed) and 3 other misc drawers (children and me). All full, am going to have to rummage before il arrive and chuck.........

Don't be sorry Pan - I am well used to my DH's effing annoying little ways.

Grrrr.

Actually, he is a lovely man - everything he does is for his family but boy his hobbies are annoying.

... and breathe.

Polythene, bleach, hacksaw, luminol to check for hidden splatter marks etc...they all add up sal, depends on whether the life insurance would cover it.

I chucked out all our manky fruit refreshed the fruitbowl yesterday Rocking, mostly to keep back the tide of rubbish we've got behind it