That rule I had for my DS when he was small clearly doesn't apply to DCat. It didn't work particularly well with DS either
She has batted her gin-bottle cork around the lounge for five minutes, left it round the back of the coffee table & gone for her Brazil nut, which is now in the hall.
She's back now & has grabbed one of the catnip mice out of her perching tower thing & is racing about with it.
She never tidies up. Everything is supposed to live in the perching tower hidey-hole. including the cat but she sneaks under the throw on the settee She treats this place like a hotel 
The Brazil nut is brilliant, BTW - very whizzy!