h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The Age of Arthur - thick history book
Some photos
Lamp
Radio alarm clock (set to Radio 3)
Fiancés jewellery
Random bits of paper (old bills, etc.)
dust
Smelly stuff belonging to Fiancé
The Day of the Triffids (half-read)
Something plastic and unidentifiable
More books (simply because we ran out of space elsewhere)
Candlestick + candle
Incense burner
One hat
Ornately carved box with stuff in it
A crystal of some description (belonging to fiancé)

It's a big table, about 4 feet long. There's other stuff on it as well but can't remember what. If it says anything at all about me (or us) then it's that we aren't the tidiest of people.

Don't have bed-side table, have shoe rack doubling as bookshelf-come-bedside table.

In it is a tonne of books, which I can't possibly remember the titles of all of then, but there's a couple of cook books and some scif fi and fantasy and travelogues and comic books and some hard science too.

Second shelf is also the drug box with multivits, evening primrose oil, cod liver oil, pills (of those sort), painkillers, plasters, daktarin, hydrocortisone, betnovate etc (does everyone on this site have excema/psorisis I wonder?) Other basics like tissues, cotton buds, twesers, nail scissors and files etc.

On the top of it (level with bed) Dragon batik, card and drawing from boyfreind, pint glass, tea mug, choccie in various forms, (bar towel to prevent liquids from splashing down onto books)CD/Radio/alarm clock (radio 2), angle poise desk lamp, embroidery needles. Remotes for TV, video and DVD.

And a whole pile of other junk of much the same type stuff on the floor beside the bed.

I rent a single room...I live my life on or around my bed. That's all it says about me....I hope...

It's the floor rather than a table, but contains

Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe (a book)
A laptop
Odds and sods of wires
About a quarter of a bottle of gin
Half a bottle of tonic
Telephone with no ringer, so I've no idea if someone is phoning me.
About half a dozen empty mugs.

*Scientists have shown that skin disease makes you more likely to join online communities*

Right, here we go, in no particular order...

A clock, some random papers, three beermats, my hi-fi, a plastic organiser thingy for pens and othe desk-equipment-stuff, a yellow duster, a hole-punch, mouse, keyboard and monitor, stapler, floppy disk, stack of notes and other papers, chequebook, cutting mat, a pile of random coins, a book, postgraduate handbook, a couple of chunks of stainless steel, a length of wire, an anglepoise style lamp, a pad of notepaper, an old phine bill...

My bedside table is also my desk, and also a convenient flat space to put stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else...

Your duster is the closest to hygienic bedside tableness that we've found so far....

...or is it just for show?

on the one on my right there is:

Radio alarm clock (Radio Waky)
Glasses case
Glass of water (half full)
A china dish containing business cards of people I meet

on the one on the left there is:

A matching china dish containing jewellry
A Prada shoe box which is the "house" of my imaginary boyfriend, and so contains him, his clothes, a miniature Harley, pills AND condoms (don't ask)
A notebook and pen
A dictaphone (for those brilliant middle-of-the-night ideas)
Whatever book I'm reading

- size obviously doesn't matter with you and boyfriends!

The business cards thing sounds *very* dodgy - I assume that you put the cards there - not the card owners?

I don't have excema (sp?)/psoriasis...but I do have dry skin. Hence why my room always smells faintly of baby lotion (and incense and hair wax)...

...I just discovered some pornographic novels and "An Introduction to Nietzsche" stashed in the back of my guitar amp...



Wonder what that says about me.

On my bedside table I've got:

lava lamp
alarm clock/ radio
cordless telephone
answering machine
pink plastic piggy bank
incense burner
silk tapestry box containing Chinese therapy balls
nail clippers, nail file, and a bottle of blue nail varnish
tube of hand cream
3 bottles aromatherapy oil
black frame containing a photo
TV, VCR and DVD remotes
small pile of books
glass of water
inhalers
lip balm
my watch and my glasses
reading lamp that looks like an elephant (has posable trunk which contains the bulb)
wind-up Grim Reaper

either you people have *huge* bedside tables or you've got big heaps of stuff.

*looks at 8" x 4" shelf/table*

Do you not have an 'overflow' pile on the floor beneath?

*Feels guilty because she didn't mention the dirty tissues, empty inhaler boxes etc that were *under* her bedside table *

I used to have, but since I now live in a show flat (open to the public for no cost, come and gawk at my bathroom) mess is forbidden and I get black looks from my boyfriend if I so much as leave a coffee cup there for more than 10 minutes. I probably deserve a good glaring at for the glass of water...

My bedside table is all cluttered with communal stuff...hubby uses excuse of *lack of co-ordination* and periodically knocks everything off his side so I have to be guardian of all his crap...the only things on his side are a toilet roll(we're too tight for tissues) and space for glasses/watch/phone.

Although it's his junk that makes it messy...I get the blame

A small bearded man, who is throwing kiwi fruit at a knitted woolen effigy of Arthur C. Clarke.

I think we all have too much stuff.

Chronic, you have one of them too? Thank god, I thought I was wierd or something.

desklamp
deodorant
vick's nasal inhaler
copy of "The Darwin Awards"
Salmon of doubt cassettes
glass of water
1 sock
a pack of playing cards
my spare keys
a fork

Where's the other sock?

I don't know, I haven't seen it since before christmas.