Aw Kat - look at it this way - a clean table top AND a clean bum!
Stilly - we had one of those 'places'... we called it ERIC. The Electricity Related Items Container. It started out as a shoebox and ended up as a big red crate. Now it has 'Son of ERIC' and 'ERIC's love child' scattered about the house.
Of course, all the original ERIC stuff is in the loft and hasn't been touched for years. I suspect we could throw it out and start again by now.