Ah, I see that my incredible crude joke was a bit too subtle.... (think about the area-touching part...)
Thankfully though having my own flat, and being a bit of a tidy/OCD/perfectionist freak means that I keep my room & bench tidy- all my spares live in the shoe box stand, and everything else lives in plastic tubs in/on the cd rack tower thingy. I do hate slobbishness though; if its rubbish, throw it away, if its tiny and easily lost, then it needs to go in an organiser. If its big and gets in the way, it can go on a shelf or in a drawer- theres no reason really to have a million items of crap strewn across a room.