Being a particularly messy person, I was recently told you could tell a lot about a person from the contents of their desk. Here's mine, what does it say?

It says your mind isn't constrained by the straitjacket of tidiness 😉

🙂 I'm glad you're on my side! Anyone else want to subject their tables to ridicule?

It tells me that I've just had a drink and I like to pick my ears with a bent paperclip…..

I'd show you mine if I could find my camera 🙂

dunno but the motors too big for the marshmallow ferry…engineering fail

Mine tells me I am engrossed in research as to the relative merits of chorley cakes vs eccles cakes, meanwhile the work laptop in the background is blubbing at how it is being ignored despite deadlines looming and me being out on a night ride tonight.

Think Francis Drake did the same, only with bowls.

@Ian 😆 I'm currently hunting for the locking wheel nut key for my car, not seen it for 3 years 😯

composite – that engine goes in a composite boat hull I made that's no bigger than the yacht in the background 🙂 Engineering pass (quickly) 🙂

And eccles cakes must be the winners, with a little marg on top.

Not today but not much has changed. Theres a box of kleenex, a couple pens, some printouts and an iphone, keys, wallet and spare pair if trousers to go home tonight.

not sure if the knife or latex worries me more coffeeking

Go on then…

i stand corrected must be a bit of a different scale

Surfr – thats one seriously devoid desk. Are you in management? 🙂

Ski – latex – bikey ghetto goo. Knife – just like knives.
Thats a serious array of fishing floats there! And what are those public bridleway things that look like badges?

composite –

Only 18cc. C of G is all wrong, its in bits again for modification.

Mine is the same as yours ck but its the kitchen table…..

You have latex and knives too? Ace! I'm not alone!

Ha Ha, my sister was round last week and could'nt believe the mess, 'it looks like a bloody garage in here!'

As for the gf….i just tell her not to worry about it.

that it needs to be tidied as in about 3 hours it becomes part of the guest bedroom for my mother in law

mmw – that IS tidy isnt it?

it is tidier than it was, purely because the vast mountain of receipts are now filed in the box on the right 🙂

out of shot is a rather full bin bag as well

Work desk says, I'm busy with too much paperwork, disorganised and that I like ladybirds and bikes.

Home table says I'm a scruffy get who doesn't like washing up or paperwork but likes bikes.

MMW – doesn't the mother-in-law live under the desk and the grill then get fitted to the front?

bridleway signs, were fake ones made up by my boss as a prank who decided to put a bridleway past my desk as a joke one day. kept the signs as they were quite good mock ups.

Think it was his way of objecting to me keeping my bike in the office, went over my head anyway 😉

Floats, bought to go fishing with my little one next week, crucian carp bashing at a local pool.

You guys need introducing to the joy that is 5S from lean manaufacturing!! I have my laptop a pen and my current document on my desk. 🙁

Jon – no, how the hell is she going to paint the bedroom/mow the lawn/dig the garden from there?

Guess I'm in the untidy camp?

You're borderline there uplink, I see bare desk!

uplink, are you really really tall, or are you standing on a chair?

uplink, are you really really tall, or are you standing on a chair?

stool 🙂

that i should do some washing up?

Yesterday morning I tidied my desk, today it is covered with lots of papers, post it notes with ramblings on them, 4 cups of half drunk coffee or juice and then there is the gold (99.99.996% purity) 25m of the stuff along with some lasers.

Uplink, that's not messy from where I'm sitting, Straighten up the paper and it's tidy…. isn't it?

Or am I just a scruffy slattern?

Tidier than usual.

Uplink, that's not messy from where I'm sitting

d'you mind having a quick word with the missus for me?

Full marks to JoJo for use of "slattern". Like it.

My desk is a mess, but I am not sure it really opens a window on the full darkness of my wizened little soul.

My desk at work is always a complete mess of papers, but I know where everything is and I never lose anything.
My bosses on the other hand, is always immaculate with not a piece of paper in sight. She files/throws everything away and can never find it again!!

For me this is tidy

but Mrsjova keeps wanting to tidy it. 👿

This is the cleanest its been in years

Though I had a bit of entertainment for a couple of days watching this out of the office/workshop window

My desk is currntly JD Wetherspoon in Edinburgh airport. Hotdesking sometimes has advantages

Jamie, are you allowed on the internets without parental supervision?, just asking like… 😉

Clean and tidy are very different though aren't they? My desk is both untidy and unclean. I'm currently cultivating a nice collection of oatcake crumbs amongst the keys on my computer. My colleague however, who suffers from dry skin, well he's trying to create a whole other person, judging by the amount of scurf on his mouse matt and wrist support.

I'm also about to run out of clean mugs… what tools for peeling off coffee mould?

Mine at work, at home is alot tidier.

I'm also about to run out of clean mugs… what tools for peeling off coffee mould?

Clearly the tongue is the only tool in this situation.