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    GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
    And this fall's under my definition of "clean." But this is just my computer desk. I do most of my coin work on a different desk.

    You should have seen it a month ago. There was literally 2 years worth of clutter stacked up.
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    Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Hoard the keys.
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    mheffner2mheffner2 Posts: 728 ✭
    Nice lava lamp GoldenEye! And is that a twig you're growing in the red foil pot to the right?

    You guys have what my set-up needs, ROOM to spread out! I have a 4'x3' desk with monitor stand, phone, etc on it. Just doesn't work well.
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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow...you guys have cleeeeeeeean desks.... (sign of a sick mind - as the saying goes)... mine does not deserve a picture... but at least I know where everything is (somewhere on my desk) image Cheers, RickO
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    AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 25,053 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I really need something a bit larger. There are many, many times I'm triping over myself on my desk!
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    MORGANHUNTER2MORGANHUNTER2 Posts: 4,473 ✭


    << <i>I really need something a bit larger. There are many, many times I'm triping over myself on my desk!
    bob
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    I like the wall art- ponies and country....makes me wanna move back to texas....






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    RWBRWB Posts: 8,082 ✭
    I’m not sure what my desk looks like. There’s a small bare spot under the computer monitor that appears to be mahogany or rosewood, but the dust obscures part of the color. The balance of the desk (or whatever is holding up stuff) has stacks of archive copies, books, file folders, and binders filled with NARA copies and transcriptions. The overall impression is what you might have had from your college professor’s campus office. The bookcases are filled with books ranging from astronomy to religion to numismatics to history; plus the sections on music and psychiatry from grad school.

    The overall clutter is the result of a decision made when my wife and I built the house: either put in a nice brick front walk or install built-in bookcases in my office. Guess which option won…. (I thought the mud and gravel path looked rustic – she disagreed.)
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    jdimmickjdimmick Posts: 9,996 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My desk area Is pratical, but plain as the house was just built 2 months ago so I hadnt had time to "decorate" the area yet sort of speak.
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    slipgateslipgate Posts: 2,301 ✭✭
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    cinman14cinman14 Posts: 2,489 ✭
    jdimmick that desk wouldn't be in a closet would it. I tried that when we built our house last year but the wife filled it up very quickly.image
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    hrlaserhrlaser Posts: 1,133 ✭✭
    desk? what desk? you mean the laptop on the coffee table stacked with so much stuff there's no room to set down a drink?..

    i used to have a dining table too..

    yes, that's all Silver that was literally socked away (see the sock?).. for decades.. tell ya the story some time if anyone cares..

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    UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not mine....


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    hrlaserhrlaser Posts: 1,133 ✭✭
    UtahCoin.. now THAT'S more like it.. image

    that desk.. uhh.. area.. uhh.. landfill has some character to it.. not like all these Martha Stewart Living pictures.. "eeek! There's a magazine on that table and we have guests coming over!".. image
    "I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a hand on.. I don't do these things to other people.. I require the same of them.."
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    CarlWohlforthCarlWohlforth Posts: 11,074 ✭
    This is where I spend many hours every day. I still need to sand and finish the monitor/speaker platform I made. It puts the monitor at just the right height and conveniently leaves room for several boxes of coins underneath. The copystand is on the left with 2 of my 4 lamps clamped on to bookshelves. My printer is on the right. The network router and receiver is under the desk, I can adjust the music volume with my right toe. image

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    coinsarefuncoinsarefun Posts: 21,781 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Does anyone else care to share what their workspace looks like?
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    WTCGWTCG Posts: 8,940 ✭✭✭
    It looks like every office so far has one thing in common...clutter.
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    lonelyplonelyp Posts: 1,634
    What desk?
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    66RB66RB Posts: 2,516 ✭✭✭
    Man, you guys got some clean desks!



    << <i>So what does your desk look like? >>



    A disaster!
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    bestclser1bestclser1 Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Man, you guys got some clean desks!



    << <i>So what does your desk look like? >>



    A disaster! >>

    I was thinking the same thing.image
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    Dennis88Dennis88 Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭
    Well, my desk isn't that clean either. Whenever I decide, in one of the few bright moments I have once in a while to clean it up, I'm always amazed by the size of the thing. That normally stops after 2 hours when it's the same mess again.

    Taken a few minutes ago:

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    NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 11,051 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My "desk" consists of my dresser top and these two shelves on the other side of the room.image

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    ajiaajia Posts: 5,411 ✭✭✭
    Disaster.....& proud of it!

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    Somewhere down there is a keyboard! image
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    mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    The monitors on the left are for xray lookin'.

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    messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,857 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'd post a picture if I could find it around here. image
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    orieorie Posts: 998 ✭
    Third time I've seen the portable Testirite copy stand on here in a week. image
    Cool set...poor pics
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    pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭


    << <i>Disaster.....& proud of it!

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    Somewhere down there is a keyboard! image >>



    Im headed over to Augies to clean that desk!


    on a lighter note, when this was done in the past, the best desk posted IMHO was Adrian Cranes (anaconda)

    someone please pullup the old thread if you can find it.
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    edix2001edix2001 Posts: 3,388 ✭
    Straightening up before the holidays:

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    SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,269 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    DJCoinzDJCoinz Posts: 3,856 ✭
    Just took these 5 minutes ago...

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    ThenewguyThenewguy Posts: 755 ✭
    How my desk used to look several years ago..

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    How it looks most of the time now..And yes that is a little blanket on the window image. Haven't gotten around to putting up blinds on the window since I moved my desk and in the afternoon the sun shines directly in the window.

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    LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    All I can say is you neat freaks make me too ashamed to take a picture.
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    coinsarefuncoinsarefun Posts: 21,781 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "How my desk used to look several years ago..


    How it looks most of the time now..And yes that is a little blanket on the window image. Haven't gotten around to putting up blinds on the window since I moved my desk and in the afternoon the sun shines directly in the window. "




    I like it. Before and after's. Good idea. You got some accent paint on the walls.Looks much betterimage

    I really like everyone's desk pictures.image

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    LouisLouis Posts: 3,687


    << <i>My desk area Is pratical, but plain as the house was just built 2 months ago so I hadnt had time to "decorate" the area yet sort of speak.
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    You need to come out of the closet. image


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    coinsarefuncoinsarefun Posts: 21,781 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>All I can say is you neat freaks make me too ashamed to take a picture.
    image >>




    Come on lets see, please.......
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    PreussenPreussen Posts: 2,307 ✭✭✭
    Here's mine. -Preussen

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    DJCoinzDJCoinz Posts: 3,856 ✭


    << <i>Here's mine. -Preussen

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    Now that's a sweet setup. Wanna trade? image
    aka Dan
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    PreussenPreussen Posts: 2,307 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Here's mine. -Preussen >>



    << <i>Now that's a sweet setup. Wanna trade? image >>

    Thanks; the only reason it's reasonably neat is because the cable guy had to come over the other day to fix my internet connection. It's usually a mess image -Preussen
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    DollarhunterDollarhunter Posts: 217
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    tydyetydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭
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    ajiaajia Posts: 5,411 ✭✭✭
    All I can say is you neat freaks make me too ashamed to take a picture.

    Didn't stop me. image
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    coinsarefuncoinsarefun Posts: 21,781 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It can always' be worseimage


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    SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,269 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>desk? what desk? you mean the laptop on the coffee table stacked with so much stuff there's no room to set down a drink?..

    i used to have a dining table too..

    yes, that's all Silver that was literally socked away (see the sock?).. for decades.. tell ya the story some time if anyone cares..

    image >>




    Say, hrlaser.... we need the rest of the silver in the sock story.

    I hope it's not a murder mystery. Ouch!!!

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

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    RayboRaybo Posts: 5,363 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>How my desk used to look several years ago..

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    How it looks most of the time now..And yes that is a little blanket on the window image. Haven't gotten around to putting up blinds on the window since I moved my desk and in the afternoon the sun shines directly in the window.

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    / My vote for best desk (if we are voting)

    Ray
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    Tyler1924STyler1924S Posts: 1,328
    The first pic is from last year. Part of my bottle collection can be seen at lower right. The second pic is from last night. There is another table, with nothing on it, where I work on the albums. There's a closet where I keep the coin supplies & reference materials, etc.

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    ahooka454ahooka454 Posts: 3,466 ✭
    imagepart of my 1890's roll top desk.


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    jfoot13jfoot13 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Not mine....


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    YOU ARE MY HERO... I'm gonna make this into a poster and the next time the old lady tells me I make pigpen look like MONK I can show her what taking it to the next level is....
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    Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Not mine....


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    Utah Do you like Coca-cola? image


    Hoard the keys.
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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,392 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>So what does your desk look like? >>

    I wish I had a desk to call my own. In our cramped, too-small singlewide mobile home, I'm forced to share part of the kitchen table, which gets piled high with my wife and daughter's projects, not to mention the occasional meal.

    It isn't a pretty sight.

    (Yeah, we're "trailer trash", and from Georgia, to boot. If Jeff Foxworthy did comedic routines with a numismatic twist, he'd probably describe my setup.)

    It's smoewhere in between what hrlaser posted, and what Utahcoin posted. (Very similar to what hrlaser posted, in fact... but messier. Not quite as bad as Utahcoin's pic.)

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,392 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This is not a picture of the table, but of one of the benches alongside it. Our kitchen table has picnic-table style benches, though they aren't attached.

    They're frequently occupied by one or more of our beasties.

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    drwstr123drwstr123 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Rob-I've got a restrike of one of those:
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