Shorts and Bits from the FlyLady Project

Hotspots, per FlyLady, are areas of clutter that eventually take over a room. Every room in my house has at least one, and I need to spend more than 2 minutes per day (Her limit) on one spot if I’m going to see the kind of progress I want. I can see how this short amount of time might be enough for maintenance, but not for [mumblety-]years worth of neglect.
[picture forthcoming as soon as my learning curve allows it] So, this is our coffee table. The husband’s, actually. It is currently my workspace because the other 2 spots that would make more sense were covered or blocked long ago. It has everything from laundry to medicine to books, etc. I think it should take me only 20 minutes to get all the unessentials put away. The tough part is keeping it clean while I tackle the other spots.
Here is our kitchen bar [pic] This is probably at least a 2-hour job, if I do it right. When this is clear, I can move off the couch, and the coffee table won’t pile up (if it does, I won’t be the culprit).
Dining room table. [pic] I used to fold the laundry here. Perfect height, and plenty of space for organizing. This is a smallish hotspot, maybe about 30 minutes effort, including a scrubdown of the surface. At one point, we noticed fruit flies in the house; they were feeding on DH’s abandoned oranges that were in the middle of this mound.
In the utility room are my official desk [pic], the top of the dryer [pic], and the built-in desk [pic] that I had cleared a few years ago for the purpose of starting some seeds indoors. Less than 24 hours later, DH had taken over the space with his computerish equipment. We didn’t have a garden that year, and I have not made an effort towards one since. Yes, there’s a pattern here! This room will probably be an all-day project, since there’s no way I can “only” declutter the space to make it useable.
There are more spots to be tackled, but these are the public areas (I’m not including bookshelves, or the kids’ area), and therefore, the first priority.