Hello! Excellent idea. I wonder if it is possible to interact while it's on the surface if the animation rig in the mesh is removed. There will be an error message but the animation could work. Maybe?

Having to move it to interact might actually be a boon, because the findings end up in all kinds of impossible to reach places and result in a huge mess more often than not.
This way I won't be tempted to just click instead of moving it to an empty area first.
And this will look great in a shelf!

Maybe ideally the boxes would be live-draggable. Huh. There's a thought.

In any event, thank you greatly!

EDIT: All right! I followed this tutorial and just changed the object tuning for ALL decoration boxes to be draggable. Tested it and it works fine.
The normal interactions even work inside some shelving, depending on whether the Sim can access it. Of course the animations will clip, but that's not an issue for me.

I am just thrilled now to be able to have the deco boxes accessible for their functions but not taking up large amounts of floor space.

Thank you ever so much again!