It's another month, another week, another day... and it's time to begin the Declutter Challenge! Wouldn't it be good to be able to return home to a spotless, neat, peaceful home? Can you imagine working in a kitchen where all your utensils are in their proper spots, and where your countertops sparkle and beg to be covered with fresh cookies as opposed to clutter? Give yourself a Declutter Challenge today! What exactly is a Declutter Challenge, you ask? It put it simply, a Declutter Challenge is a challenge you assign yourself (and/or your family and friends) to get a large part of your house clutter-free in a prespecified time frame. And it WORKS!
The One Week Declutter Challenge
This particular kind of challenge will need you to set aside one entire week to your project. This will be a serious "no one can distract me" week during which you clear out your schedule in order to getting back what used to be your decluttered home. Assign yourself one room of the house for every day, close yourself within it so to speak, and go nuts! Garbage bags, boxes for donations, boxes for re-sell, and not surprisingly some basic cleaning supplies are your necessities. Pull your spouse, your girlfriends, or your family along with you! The bigger your assistance, the bigger your accomplishment!
Perhaps you will see the need to cut back and assign yourself a One Week Office Declutter Challenge, or a One Week Spare Room Declutter Challenge. Don't let that disturb you! If you commit to decluttering for 7 days (and really, what is 7 days in the grand scheme of life), and you will definitely bring order back to at least part of your chaotic house!
The 2010 in 2010 Declutter Challenge
This category of Declutter Challenge is a popular one. Commit yourself to decluttering (by selling, throwing out, or donating) 2010 items in the year 2010. Sounds unreasonable? If you do the math though, it is really not as bad as it sounds. 2010 divided into 365 days is merely 5.5 items each day. Look around you... the junk drawer, the cupboard under the stairs, your closet, the work shop... that seems not so impossible now, does it? Tick off your success on a calendar, and watch the clutter melt away!
One more way one might 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 actually 8,760 hours in one year! It's less than one 45 minute session per week! However, 2010 minutes is enough to get a LOT decluttered!
The 30 Day Declutter Challenge
The final category of challenge is termed the 30 Day Declutter Challenge, and the concept is that on each of the 30 days of the month you declutter one object or section of your home, great or little. The objects can vary from the middle shelf in your pantry cupboard to the toy bin in your kids' playroom, from your sock drawer to the kraft supply kit that gets stuffed in the home office closet. The bottom line is to be reasonable with your task assignment. Putting "put photos taken in the last 2 years into photo albums" probably won't be able to be done in one afternoon, but perhaps "organize the photographs into piles or envelopes based on the event or person and throw out of photographs you don't need to keep" COULD be done!
After your chores are assigned, consider giving yourself a reward to look ahead to once your 30 Day Challenge ends successfully! Yes, it will likely be rewarding enough to see your clutter-free house, you most likely know that we have a tendency to give more energy to our work if we have something tangible to win from our pains!
So, the "One Week Declutter Challenge", and the "2010 in 2010 Declutter Challenge", and the the "30 Day Declutter Challenge"... three fantastic ways to begin decluttering your home! Which one will you do?
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