One MORE week has now gone by... and it is time to set up the Declutter Challenge! Wouldn't you love to be able to come home to a clean, neat, peaceful house? Imagine the pleasure of cooking in a kitchen where all your utensils are where they should be, and where your counters glisten and beg to be covered with home made cookies as opposed to clutter? Take the Declutter Challenge today! What is a Declutter Challenge, you ask? It put it simply, a Declutter Challenge is a challenge you assign yourself (and/or your siblings and friends) to get a huge part of your house clutter-free in a specific time frame. And it WORKS!
The One Week Declutter Challenge
A different type of challenge will need you to designate one entire week to your project. This will be a serious "no one can distract me" week for the duration of which you empty your schedule with the goal of getting back what used to be your decluttered house. Each day, select one area, close yourself within it so to speak, and go crazy! Garbage bins, bins for donations and re-sell, and not surprisingly some ordinary cleaning supplies are your must-haves. Pull your significant other, your room-mate, or your children along with you! Remember, many hands make light work!
Perhaps you'll see the need to cut back and go with a One Week Bedroom Declutter Challenge, or a One Week Basement Declutter Challenge. Don't let that worry you! By committing yourself for 7 days (and seriously, what is 7 days in the grand scheme of life), and you'll without a doubt bring order back to a big part of your chaotic home!
The 2010 in 2010 Declutter Challenge
This kind of Declutter Challenge is a very popular one this year. Commit yourself to decluttering (by selling, throwing out, or donating) 2010 things in the year 2010. Does that sound like a lot of stuff?? If you do the math though, it really is not too crazy at all. 2010 divided into 365 days is only 5.5 items per day. Look around you... your junk drawer, the cupboard in the basement, your closet, the garage... that makes it seem more reasonable now, does it? Keep track by ticking it off on the calendar or somewhere handy, and see the clutter melt away!
Yet another way you can do the 2010 Declutter Challenge is to commit 2010 minutes specifically to decluttering! That is 33.5 hours.... A lot until you remember that there are 8,760 hours in one year! That is not even one 45 minute session per week! However, 2010 minutes is enough to get a LOT clutter-free!
The 30 Day Declutter Challenge
The final kind of challenge is labeled the 30 Day Declutter Challenge, and the idea is that on each of the 30 days of the month you declutter one thing or section of your house, large or little. The objects can vary from the bottom shelf in your pantry cupboard to your son's old sports equipment in your work shop, from your junk drawer to the stationery collection that gets hidden in the spare room closet. The secret is to be reasonable with your chore assignment. Assigning "put photos collected the last 4 years into photo albums" almost certainly isn't do-able in one day, but perhaps "separate the pictures into piles or envelopes according to the event or person and dispose of photographs you won't need to keep" CAN be completed!
As soon as your tasks are assigned, think about arranging for yourself a reward to look forward to when your 30 Day Challenge ends victoriously! Yes, having a much less cluttered house will be a reward in itself, you most likely know that we tend to give more energy to our work if we have something tangible to get from our efforts!
So, the "One Week Declutter Challenge", and the "2010 in 2010 Declutter Challenge", and the the "30 Day Declutter Challenge"... three great ways to begin decluttering your house! Which one are you going to do?
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Intrigued? Want more info on how to take a Declutter Challenge? Click the link! The end result of ANY OF THEM will be a much less cluttered home - a place where you will enjoy being, enjoy hosting others, and enjoy living! Also check out http://www.declutterdiva.info for some other fantastic decluttering tricks!
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