Oh, just put it in the office

Where should I put this?
I dunno. Just put it in the office.

I've been keeping up with my quest to deal with 5 things in my office each day. It's been a week and it's going well. I have even (gasp!) filed some papers - and I HATE filing. I'm a piler, not a filer, man!

However, there is a big challenge coming up. We are having a birthday party in a few weeks and do you know what happens when we clean up for a party? We dump a whole bunch of stuff in there. That's an OK strategy if it's just a temporary holding location (for things like the infant car seat, for example). But what happens more often than not is that the stuff just sits there... and sits there... and sits there...

I'm not sure how this party will affect the cleanliness level of the office. What I do know is that I had the floor of my office clear twice last year, and parties are what undid that good work.