It’s a fight I simply can’t win.

I’m not very far into Unpacking but I think it’s a really soothing time.

I take it out, revel in the story it tells, then plop it somewhere.

A horde of boxes lie unpacked in a kitchen, in Unpacking.

Often, “somewhere” is a bedside table or a desk.

I fully understand the game wouldn’t work if you could just chuck everything on the floor.

I have a yoga mat standing upright next to my little kitchen table, for example.

The photo album menu in Unpacking, showing an unpacked living room with TV and bookshelf in a snapshot put in a photo album.

To me, the yoga mat is unpacked.

I also have a box on the floor filled with cables and a spare keyboard.

Despite my misgivings, I’ll continue with Unpacking because it’s genuinely really good.

Although I have to ask, is anyone with me?

Are you a floor-packer?

Am I alone in my views on the floor as one shelf?