Do The Declutter Challenge, and Get Results Fast!

One MORE week has now gone by... and it's time to start the Declutter Challenge! Wouldn't you love to be able to come home to a clean, orderly, peaceful house? Can you imagine cooking in a kitchen where all your utensils are in their proper places, and where your counter tops glisten and beg to be covered with home made cookies as opposed to clutter? Give yourself a Declutter Challenge today! Never heard of a Declutter Challenge? Simply put, it's 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 One Week Declutter Challenge

This category of challenge will require you to set aside one whole week to your challenge. This will be a genuine "no distractions allowed" week throughout which you clear your schedule with the objective of reclaiming what was once your decluttered home. Assign yourself one area of the house for each day, close yourself within it so to speak, and go crazy! Garbage bags, boxes for donations, boxes for re-sell, and not surprisingly some good ole' cleaning supplies are your must-haves. Pull your spouse, your friends, or your family into the challenge! Remember, many hands make light work!
Perhaps you will be better off to scale back and assign yourself a One Week Playroom Declutter Challenge, or a One Week Spare Room Declutter Challenge. No worries! If you commit to decluttering for seven days (and seriously, what is 7 days in the scheme of things), and you'll certainly bring order back to at least part of your chaotic house!

The 2010 in 2010 Declutter Challenge

This kind of Declutter Challenge is a favorite. Commit yourself to decluttering (by selling, throwing out, or donating) 2010 items in the course of the year 2010. Does that sound 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 every day. Look around you... your junk drawer, the cupboard under the stairs, your recroom, the storage shed... that doesn' t seem unreasonable, does it? Tick off your success on a calendar, and watch the clutter melt away!
Yet one more way you could do the 2010 Declutter Challenge is to commit 2010 minutes specifically to decluttering! That's 33.5 hours.... A lot until you consider that there are 8,760 hours in one year! That's not even one 45 minute session per week! And yet 2010 minutes is enough to get a LOT decluttered!

The 30 Day Declutter Challenge

The final kind of challenge is known as the 30 Day Declutter Challenge, and the concept is that on each of the 30 days of the month you declutter one thing or part of your home, large or small. The items can vary from the middle shelf in your hallway closet to your son's old sports equipment in your work shop, from your junk drawer to the stationery collection that gets stuffed in the office closet. The key is to be practical with your chore assignment. Writing "put photographs accumulated from the last 3 years into photo albums" most likely won't be able to be accomplished in a single afternoon, but possibly "sort the photos into envelopes or piles based on the occasion or person and get rid of photographs you do not want to keep" CAN be finished!
When your chores have been assigned, consider arranging for yourself a reward to look ahead to when your 30 Day Challenge ends successfully! Yes, having a much less cluttered house will be a reward in itself, certainly you've noticed that we tend to give more effort to our work if we have something tangible to gain from our efforts!

So, the "One Week Declutter Challenge", and the "2010 in 2010 Declutter Challenge", and the the "30 Day Declutter Challenge"... three awesome ways to start decluttering your house! Which challenge are you going to do?

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