My phone has a flip top to show the keyboard and is sort of largish & bulky. My holder has a hole in the bottom where the charging cord comes in, and rubber things on the feet to prevent it from skidding.

Before I had it, the cat bumped the cord and knocked the phone onto the floor where it broke. Now if he (or our toddler) bumps the cord, it unplugs the phone but the phone stays in the holder. Saved phone FTW!

It’s really useful, at least if your phone is designed like mine is.

However, I’d like to nominate my Faberware indoor grill as the ultimate unitasker. It grills. It’s hard to clean. It’s bulky. I’ve used it once, when my mother made me. Guess who gave it to me. I really hate that thing.

My new birth control pills (librel is I think how you spell it) actually come in these obnoxious little packs with a peel-off top and a plastic bottom. I keep trying to find uses for the bottoms because I feel bad throwing them out, and I discovered they’re actually a great size for holding cellphones/other small portable electronics while they charge.

That creature is so ugly, it crossed the line from hideous to cute again. I can’t see myself buying one, but if someone gave it to me, I wouldn’t throw it away. It would make me laugh every day looking at that stupid thing!

LOLOLOL.

This will keep me laughing for days.

And I think that having a designated cell phone holder – whether a cat, a stiletto or a simple tray on your desk – can be a good thing for many people.

It’s the same reason we label (say) storage cubbies. I can easily remember that the second one from the right is for pocket change (and can also easily look inside if I forget), but the act of labeling it nicely means that I’ve “officialized” the place… and now putting change on top of the television instead is “incorrect”.

This thing would be useless and embarrassing to me, but it’s fine for someone like my mother. If I were building her a landing strip, and the cat version were not so ugly, I would buy it and hot-glue it to the strip to make completely clear “This is where the cellphone goes.” “You must put your cellphone here or the kitty is sad and purposeless.”

Uncluttered doesn’t always mean fewer things in your house. I could get down to 100 things and keep them all on the floor and I would still be cluttered. It’s about finding a system that a place’s inhabitants can stick to. If they enjoy the process — because, for example, they love tacky figurines — it reinforces the behavior and it becomes committed to habit.