Do you have washing hampers in everyone's bedrooms, or just a central one in the laundry? Does it work well? I have a hamper in each bedroom for clothes and a basket in the laundry for towels/face washers/etc. I used to have one of those Ikea hampers in the laundry for towels but it tended to get mouldy from the damp towels at the bottom. I find that the baskets have better airflow and I don't get mould.

Where do you keep your extra doonas, sleeping bags etc? Folded up on the top shelf of the wardrobe in the relevant bedroom.

My big kitchen bench is wonderful but attracts all sort of crap from everywhere - has anyone found a way to deal with this? I have one corner where I pile things. Needs to be sorted through again.

School notices etc. Bills - I can't keep them in a file cabinet because it's out of sight out of mind for me. I used to have a little pile on my desk, but then the pile had babies, then grandbabies....Maybe I should learn to use my NASA ready phone properly? I have an in tray on my desk. I'm on the computer most evenings so they are always in sight plus I tend to put them in my calendar so I know when they're due. All other bits and pieces tend to accumulate on the dining table (drives me nuts!) or the sideboard top drawer.

Kids lunchboxes etc - where do they live in your house? I have one cupboard in the kitchen for all my plastics and the lunchboxes get kept here too.

Are there any other potential black holes of clutter I have missed? Our dining table seems to be the drop off point for everything. It's the centre of our house on the way in through to the kitchen and then through to the bedrooms, so things tend to get dumped on here. I clear it daily or at the very least stack things neatly at one end of it. Currently, it is covered with Christmas presents to be wrapped