De-clutter: NOW

Some people have no clutter. Yes, they have loads of stuff, but it's all organised and neat, de-earning it the status of "clutter" and re-earning the label "functional living."
"This hamper is wonderful", my friend told me, "It's got one pocket for bills, one for personal mail, and one for crap we will throw away". The hamper/wall-ornament with little blue and white fluffy clouds printed on ( a result of my friends passion for arts and craft, hangs right inside the entrance door. "So, when we get in, we just sort it out then and there! Neat, huh?" she smiles.
I imaging what it looks like when I come home after a 11 hr. job at the office.
Bang! The wall shows how I fight my way through the door 1,5 meter broad with shopping, the mail clutched in my teeth, a laptop worth it's weight in lead, overcoat, umbrella, files and work-related paperwork..e.t.c.
My shoes kicked off in each direction, usually later found between the hallway and kitchen. I usually throw my coat on the kitchen table or chairs, bag on the kitchen counter, keys in the always empty fruit-bowl and I put away the fridge/freezer first before I force my partner to put aside the rest while I have a rest with my feet up.
Yes, we have tried to make systems to where what goes. It works as a repellent on me. If there's a bowl for coins, I'll drop them in the vase next to it. If there's a shoe-rack, mine goes off in the kitchen.
No hamper will change clutter in my home, I'm afraid.
Currently pondering a different solution.

TV, endless source of negotiation

As a working (and somewhat bone idle) couple, the evening is spent snuggled on the couch with our dinners, watching TV.
There's the remote control issue to start off with. When he has the remote, he drives me insane flicking trough channels at solar speed, where all I get is a headache. How he can absorb the picture and make a decision on the eligibility of the program in a split second of a blurred flash of the picture, where I cant even make out if it's a program, commercials or in color or black & white is a riddle to this day.. But, hey, I get to flick most of the time.
There are programs that are so girlish that any man would rather wear lace panties before admitting to have seen a full episode of "Who's wedding is it anyway", "Tyra Banks show", "Yummy Mummy", "Charmed", "Celebrity Makeover" or "Women on men", so best just let it go.
Then again there are programs men love, even if they are both educational and "current", us girls just can't muster up the enthusiasm to last through a full episode. You have those hi-tech "futuristic/scientific" specials we know and love, such as "Mega structures", "Uncovered: Life on Mars", "Physics of Athletics" and the "History/Myth-Busting"- category such as "The Third Reich:5 hrs. behind-the-senes special", "Djenghis Khan: War Strategy" or the "Adventure/Wildlife" category with goodies such as "Worlds most dangerous Predators", " Whitewater rafting: Alaska gone wild!" or " Reptiles in the outback".
So, what can we agree on.
Thanks to whatever good forces was with me, but my man is blessed with an almost complete lack of interest in the no.1 enemy of female TV-viewing: Sports. That's right, no.sports.necessary.
We both enjoy a good comedy, and we can agree on several.
We like Malcom in the middle, coupling, Scrubs, Two and a half men, king of Queens, Fraiser, The Office (Brit version, please!), How I met your mother, Rules of engagement e.t.c.
He can endure an occasional Sex and the City or Lipstick Jungle, and I'm compromising to see NYPD Blue or CSI.
All in all we both agree on two things as far as the TV is concerned:
1: What's up with all those commercials!
2: What's up with those constant re-runs?!