Today's task

This is the card table at the foot of my bed, put there some months back to accommodate ancestry files, but which seems to have grown into a dumping place for everything. Today's task (which may well grow into weeks), is to tidy this mess up.

For my own edification, as I remove each piece of this stuff I'm going to categorise it here:

On the floor:

• Paper bag for recylable rubbish (too lazy to get my shredder out, so just rip it into small pieces)
• Old address books to be updated into a new one (as people have a habit of moving, marrying, divorcing and dying)
• Booklets of sticky notes; crossword book (which I've never opened, as every morning I do the Herald online crossword); birthday book (in spite of this, I reliably forget all my friends' birthdays, anyway)
• Bag containing things for weekly preschool French lessons
• Yellow Esky containing the treasured purse my mother had when she died in 1998, with coins and her house key in it; a purse containing foreign notes and coins from travel and superseded Australian notes and coins; a beautiful fabric-covered folder (a gift from my Japanese piano teacher); printed class times for Aquatic and Leisure Centre (where I no longer go, but might one day); list of tax paid between 1985 and 1993!!!; magnifying sheet (didn't know where it was, so haven't been using it); WWF information (I donate monthly to orang-utangs in Borneo - easily talked into this by a handsome young Frenchman in the shopping centre one day); green cleaning recipes; operating manual for my Dyson stick; details of MyPost account (for cheaper stamps for pensioners); copy of letters to and from local member re cutting the grass on footpath near Emma's school; brochure explaining online government services; brochure explaining Opal transport card; Seniors' Directory 2015 (which I never use); 2012 and 2014 personal planners (the others and a lifetime of diaries are elsewhere!); and papers related to the development of the Oz Phonics apps.

I'll have to stop here and do what's on top of the table another day. I do have several filing cabinets, so will put what I can into drawers, but that still leaves where to put the miscellaneous stuff like my mother's purse, etc.

Tell me, please, where do you put all your stuff????