Take A Declutter Challenge And SUCCEED!

Posted by 04mar29 | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 25-09-2010

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It’s a new month or simply a new day… and it’s the PERFECT time to set up a Decluttering Challenge!
 
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be able to return home to a clean, neat, peaceful house? Imagine the fun of working in a kitchen where all of your utensils are where they ought to be, and where your countertops gleam and beg to be filled with home made cookies as opposed to clutter?  
 
If so, then YOU, my friend, may be very interested in taking a Declutter Challenge right now! Unsure of what is meant by Decluttering Challenge? It put it simply, a Declutter Challenge is a challenge you give yourself (and/or your siblings and friends) to get a big part of your house decluttered in a prespecified time frame. And it WORKS!

 The 30 Day DeClutter Challenge 

 One category of challenge is termed the 30 Day Decluttering Challenge, and the concept is that on each one of the 30 days of the month you declutter one thing or section of your home, large or small. The things can range from the bottom drawer in your armoir to the toy bin in your son’s bedroom, from your underwear drawer to the gift wrap bin that gets hidden in the home office closet.
 
The most important thing is to be realistic with your chore assignment. Putting “put photos taken in the last several years into photo-albums” most likely won’t be able to be done in a single evening, but perhaps “sort the photographs into piles or envelopes according to the occasion or person and throw out of pictures you won’t wish to keep” CAN be completed! 
As soon as your tasks are assigned, think about arranging for yourself a reward to look ahead to once your 30 Day Declutter Challenge ends successfully! Yes, you will feel pleased just seeing your clutter-free home, you most likely know that we have a tendency to work harder if we have something tangible to win from our pains!  (For more information, read 30 Day Declutter Challenge) 

The One Week Declutter Challenge 

This kind of challenge will require you to designate one whole week to your project. This will be a genuine “no one can distract me” week during which you free your schedule with the objective of reclaiming what was once your clutter-free home. Assign yourself one area of the house for each day, lock yourself within it so to speak, and get working! Garbage bins, boxes for donations, boxes for re-sell, and obviously some good old cleaning supplies are going to be your necessities.

Pull your significant other, your room-mate, or your kids into the challenge! Many hands make light work, but also many hands make much clean! 

Perhaps you’ll need to scale back and give yourself a One Week Bedroom Declutter Challenge, or a One Week Basement Decluttering Challenge. Don’t let that bother you! Commit yourself to decluttering for seven days (and really, what is 7 days in the grand scheme of life), and you’ll surely bring order back to a big part of your chaotic home! (Read Declutter In One Week for more info.) 

The 2010 in 2010 Decluttering Challenge 

This category of Declutter Challenge is a very popular one this year. Commit yourself to decluttering (by throwing out, donating, or selling) 2010 things in the course of the year 2010.

Does that sound unreasonable? If you do the math though, it truly is not as bad as it sounds. 2010 divided into 365 days is merely 5.5 things every day. Look around you… the junk drawer, the cupboard under the stairs, your bedroom, the storage shed… that seems not so impossible now, does it? Tick off your success on a calendar, and watch the clutter vanish! 

One more way you can do the 2010 Decluttering Challenge is to commit 2010 minutes specifically to decluttering! That’s 33.5 hours…. Quite a lot until you consider that there are 8,760 hours in one year! It is less than one 45 minute session per week! BUT, 2010 minutes is sufficient to get a LOT decluttered! (See 2010 in 2010 Declutter Challenge) 

So, the “30 Day Declutter Challenge”, the “One Week Declutter Challenge”, and the “2010 in 2010 Declutter Challenge”… three excellent ways to begin decluttering your home! Which one will you do? 

Want more info on great ways to declutter fast? Click HERE! 

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