You're correct -- I'm not processing often enough.

But the prob with my desk is that it isn't just catching "desk stuff." Right now it has several books, two or three items I bought online that need to be returned in addition to the "desk stuff." Often it's worse than that. I go through the living room and end up with a pile of stuff that has nothing to do with my office at all, but end up putting it on my desk to sort through later.

Once the desk is piled up and the living room isn't, I find myself sitting down in the living room with my laptop to work, and the desk doesn't get processed.

I realize it's bad habits and not processing that causes the prob. My question is, does anybody have a better "in-box" idea for stuff that needs to be handled (ex: returned to online shopping place)? , books, other things that may not actually have anything to do with my office, but I do end up processing them here because here is where all the stuff is that I use. (Printer, tape, packing tape, etc.)

Desk seems obvious at the moment, but then I'm still in the same place I was when the return-items (for example) were on the floor in the living room. I'm not ready to take care it right now, and so now instead of on the floor, they're on my desk!