Do you know the colour of your desk-top?

bonnie

@bunnybon7 (50970)

• Holiday, Florida

9 Feb 22

@JudyEv very hard to clean really that way, but luckily I was the only one there knowing how to do that, so I got the best job and most profitable of all.

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@JudyEv (382412)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Feb 22

@bunnybon7 Were you sometimes itching to tidy and clean just a bit more?

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@JudyEv (382412)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Feb 22

My sister cleaned for someone like that too - don't touch anything, he said.

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@DaddyEvil (174657)

• United States

9 Feb 22

My desktop is on my laptop and it displays various photos from the Hubble telescope. My physical desktop is invisible since I don't have one.

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@Sreekala (34312)

• India

9 Feb 22

I wonder how your desktop look like then

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@Sreekala (34312)

• India

9 Feb 22

@DaddyEvil

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@DaddyEvil (174657)

• United States

9 Feb 22

@Sreekala It is beautifully clean and clear.

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@Sreekala (34312)

• India

9 Feb 22

My table is also covered with cloth so I have checked the colour to confirm it

It is wooden and colour is the same. My table is tidy indeed, but I am not completely a tidy person, at times I also mess it up

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@JudyEv (382412)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Feb 22

It is hard to be tidy all the time. I seem to have got a bit more obsessed with tidiness as I've got older.

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@Sreekala (34312)

• India

9 Feb 22

@JudyEv I am getting scolds whenever I become untidy. No one there to praise me when I keep my table tidy.

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@JudyEv (382412)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Feb 22

@Sreekala That happens often, doesn't it? You get into trouble for doing something wrong but you don't get any praise for doing something right.

Anna

@LadyDuck (502729)

• Italy

9 Feb 22

I have stuff on my desk of course, my camera, a notebook, pens and paper, my phone, but I can very well see the colour of my desktop. I refuse to look at my husband's desktop.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502729)

• Italy

9 Feb 22

@JudyEv - I cannot stand when he "invades" my desk, I push his stuff to his side of the desk.

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@JudyEv (382412)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Feb 22

Haha - I try not to look at Vince's either but it makes me nervous.

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@JudyEv (382412)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Feb 22

@LadyDuck Good for you. I don't allow that either although he is allowed to ask me nicely if I could file such and such.

And he has learnt not to criticise my filing!

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (14794)

• Ireland

9 Feb 22

@judyev I have very tidy intentions.

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@JudyEv (382412)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Feb 22

You know what they say about intentions! It's not a good path to travel!

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Ron Rybs

@Ronrybs (21492)

• London, England

9 Feb 22

I like an untidy desk top! Everything I want is on the desk... somewhere!

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@JudyEv (382412)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Feb 22

Ahah - somewhere!! That's the operative word!

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@JudyEv (382412)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Feb 22

@Ronrybs Forgive me for asking but are you one of those men who never look UNDER anything? Vince is always losing something but he never picks anything up to look under it!

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Ron Rybs

@Ronrybs (21492)

• London, England

9 Feb 22

@JudyEv Never too far from hand!

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BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (51838)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

9 Feb 22

I recently cleared up my desk (actually my old family kitchen table) but things are starting to migrate to it again.

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BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (51838)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

10 Feb 22

@JudyEv Any flat surface.

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@JudyEv (382412)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Feb 22

You can tidy it up once but then it gradually gets messy again. At least, that's how it is here.

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aubrey

@averygirl72 (38848)

• Philippines

10 Feb 22

I like organizing and decluttering but after a short while it becomes messy again

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aubrey

@averygirl72 (38848)

• Philippines

16 Feb 22

@JudyEv So we need to continuously declutter our place

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@JudyEv (382412)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Feb 22

Yes, that's how I feel. It's easy to tidy up an area but it never stays tidy for long.

@JudyEv (382412)

• Rockingham, Australia

16 Feb 22

@averygirl72 Yes, I think that is the answer.

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Shavkat

@Shavkat (141905)

• Philippines

9 Feb 22

I have my own way to make my working place tidy or not. In addition, no one dares to touch anything or tidy it.

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Shavkat

@Shavkat (141905)

• Philippines

10 Feb 22

@JudyEv See, I used to tell my mom about this. But she keeps on doing it.

I suddenly missed her.

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@JudyEv (382412)

• Rockingham, Australia

10 Feb 22

@Shavkat Awww, I'm sorry. I'm sure you'd give anything to have her back tidying up your desk.

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@JudyEv (382412)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Feb 22

Haha - Vince says if I tidy his desk, then he can't find anything. So I don't touch it any more.

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OceanTiara

@RebeccasFarm (91297)

• United States

9 Feb 22

I do..yours is lovely there. I havent much at all on my tiny little desk thingie here..just a pic of my son only.

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OceanTiara

@RebeccasFarm (91297)

• United States

9 Feb 22

@JudyEv I do and rarely on the uncomfortable couch

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@JudyEv (382412)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Feb 22

Is that where you myLot from?

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Four Walls

@FourWalls (86829)

• United States

9 Feb 22

Would you believe I don’t have a desk anymore? Well, not one I use as a desk. That’s a great thing about tablets and laptops. I have an adjustable rolling cart for the computer that I can move into any room I’m working in. Oh, and it’s brown.

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Four Walls

@FourWalls (86829)

• United States

10 Feb 22

@JudyEv — if you have work it probably wouldn’t suffice, but I don’t need an office/work station anymore.

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@JudyEv (382412)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Feb 22

That's a good idea. We're finding our current office pretty hot in the summer although we can run the A/C for nothing while the sun is shining. A rolling cart is a great idea.

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DW Davis

@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

10 Feb 22

Depends on which desk you mean. My desk at school is sort of light brown fake wood grain. In my writing office, it's a white plastic table.

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DW Davis

@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

11 Feb 22

@JudyEv Um, well, I didn't mention the roll-top desk. It's actually in my wife's home office (what was once our dining room), and I never use it. If memory serves, the desktop is wood stained the same as the rest of the desk.

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@JudyEv (382412)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Feb 22

@DWDavis I love the old roll-top desks. They always ook very 'professional' although in the computer era they are not always very practical.

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@JudyEv (382412)

• Rockingham, Australia

10 Feb 22

At least it sounds like yours aren't covered with papers.

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Sharon Elton

@sharonelton (30756)

• Lichfield, England

10 Feb 22

My desk in my bedroom is covered in stuff! Aswell as my computer, computer monitor, keyboard and photocopier, I have papers, containers, jars and little vitamin pots (all empty) and a Doctor Who thing that a Dalek can go in. Forget what it's actually called but in the programme it was like the Doctors TARDIS as in it was bigger on the inside and millions of Daleks kept coming out of it! That's on my desk too!

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@JudyEv (382412)

• Rockingham, Australia

10 Feb 22

Haha - sounds like all your treasures are there!

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Sharon Elton

@sharonelton (30756)

• Lichfield, England

10 Feb 22

@JudyEv Yeah!

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Faster16

@Faster16 (3248)

• Indonesia

10 Feb 22

my work desk uses a brown office desk, made of solid wood

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@JudyEv (382412)

• Rockingham, Australia

10 Feb 22

And are you a tidy worker or do you have papers all over the place?

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Faster16

@Faster16 (3248)

• Indonesia

10 Feb 22

@JudyEv I like a tidy workspace, it makes the mind better

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Juliaacv

@Juliaacv (56358)

• Canada

9 Feb 22

My desk is actually our former oak kitchen table. I needed something large enough, and with the leaf inserted, this fit the bill, to accommodate 2 large monitors as well as the laptop which I have on a stand. I keep it as clutter free as possible as I like to keep it dust-free.

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Juliaacv

@Juliaacv (56358)

• Canada

9 Feb 22

@JudyEv

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@JudyEv (382412)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Feb 22

Our desks are really just quite long planks but it does give plenty of room for mess - oops, I mean documents!

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (135944)

• Marion, Ohio

9 Feb 22

Mine is brown. Right now it is tidy but that doesnt always stay that way

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (135944)

• Marion, Ohio

10 Feb 22

@JudyEv Very hard

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@JudyEv (382412)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Feb 22

They can be difficult to keep tidy.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (323168)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

9 Feb 22

I can see the table, but it's still messy.

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@JudyEv (382412)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Feb 22

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99367)

• Atlanta, Georgia

10 Feb 22

Mine isn’t terribly messy but it could be a little neater.

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@JudyEv (382412)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Feb 22

We each have different 'comfort zones' when it comes to neatness.

LindaOH

@LindaOHio (222726)

• United States

9 Feb 22

Mine always had a lot of papers on it; but I knew where to find everything.

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@JudyEv (382412)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Feb 22

And that is the main thing, isn't it? Knowing where to find things.

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MrsJ

@SophiaMorros (5044)

• Belews Creek, North Carolina

9 Feb 22

My desk-top is a couple of heavy slabs of wood harvested from our back yard (and inherited from the son who made it). It isn't as tidy as I would like, but that is because I don't have any drawers to stash things in so everything I need for work is on the surface. Two large computer monitors, a thermometer so I know just how cold it is in here when I start working, and assorted other detritus. When I call it a desk-top I am actually being very literal. When I inherited it from my son it came without legs and is currently sitting on top of a much smaller slab-of-wood table that was made a couple of years earlier (also inherited from the same son). We put two narrow strips of wood on the bottom to keep it from sliding. If I ever want to downsize all I have to do is take the top surface off and I'm back to a desk of about half the size.

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