"Improving Efficiency & Mojo with a Workshop Overhaul" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 12 Sep 2025 9:33 p.m. PST |
Inch High Guy: link I particularly liked this idea: When I go to the bench, I put something away. When I get up from the bench, I put something away. This is a simple habit but it significantly reduces workbench clutter. |
| jdpintex | 13 Sep 2025 7:36 a.m. PST |
Nope. I would scare the hell out of my family if my desk ever looked like that. I've always wondered about people who have clean desks (either at work or for their hobbies). |
myxemail  | 13 Sep 2025 7:41 a.m. PST |
I clean up or reorganize every year or two. Even so, I cannot get my work table that clean. I find my biggest obstacles or sources of disorganization are unfinished or stalled projects |
| DisasterWargamer | 13 Sep 2025 8:50 a.m. PST |
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| Zephyr1 | 13 Sep 2025 2:12 p.m. PST |
Clean as you go, then you don't have to go clean (wisdom from a former boss of mine.) |
| 79thPA | 13 Sep 2025 7:03 p.m. PST |
How do you find anything on a desk like that? |
| Stryderg | 13 Sep 2025 7:59 p.m. PST |
Well, if you are like me, you start 15 new projects and don't save any of them because they are on-going projects. It would take me about 10 to 'normalize' that desk. |
 Wolfshanza | 13 Sep 2025 10:30 p.m. PST |
More fun (?) to rummage thru the piles of stuff and projects on my desk  |
| robert piepenbrink | 14 Sep 2025 1:22 p.m. PST |
It reads as though he's finishing one project before starting another. Surely that can't be right? |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 14 Sep 2025 5:41 p.m. PST |
Inspiring. Thanks. Robert Piepenbrink for the win, though. |
GildasFacit  | 15 Sep 2025 1:55 a.m. PST |
Mess is part of creativity but I'd have to agree that keeping a work area clean between sessions is sensible. I don't do 'tidy'; I do 'organised' – much more effective (sometimes). My workbench is also my playing area so it is only temporarily cluttered with 'in progress' tasks and has to be cleared for a game. My eldest daughter is both organised and tidy and was constantly nagging me about not being so. She could never accept that I could find what I needed most of the time but the thought of actively working on up to a dozen projects were just beyond her comprehension – 'tidy' doesn't work for that. |
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