Are you or your family tired of looking at the clutter from your overcrowded home office? Would you like to reclaim your dining room, bedroom, or whatever space you've been using to operate your business at home? If so, Offices2share.com, a Web site that focuses exclusively on short-term, ready-to-use office space, has a contest you'll want to enter.

It's called The Home Office From Hell (tm) contest. To enter it you have to submit your Top 10 reasons for wanting to move out of your home office.

Although working from home offers many benefits, there are lots of pitfalls, too. A child picking up an extension during an important phone call, the doorbell ringing and dogs barking while you're trying to convince a major client that your company is big enough to handle their project, or a cat that wants attention jumping on your keyboard or knocking over your coffee onto your keyboard are typical problems with which home office workers have to deal.

The Home Office From Hell contest is aimed at home business owners who face these and other productivity-robbing distractions such as crying babies, nagging spouses and annoying neighbors.

The prize - a rent-free office for one year- will go to the person who submits the most compelling and wittiest Top 10 reasons for needing an office. For additional details and to enter go to www.offices2share.com/contest. Entries will be judged by an independent panel that includes volunteers from SCORE, "Counselors to America's Small Business," a national nonprofit organization which provides counseling and training to small businesses.

Official rules, prize description, guidelines and helpful hints are are also available at www.offices2share.com/contest.

Contestants can base their Top 10 list on both real-life and whimsical situations; entries will be judged on originality, creativity, humor and relevance to topic. Entries may be submitted through February 28, 2006.