lol, everyone knows "my area" is MY AREA. With all the wires and impressive looking components (I use my bench of electronics projects too), people are too scared to go near it for fear of electrocution.
And to those whose parents clean up after them: I say "too bad". As a parent myself, I figure it's my house, my payment, my rules. If it's not clean enough to my standards, it gets "taken care of" in a manner of my choosing depending on how many times I had to ask them to clean it up themselves. And if that's not good enough, the house has two exit doors, both freely available.