Take A Declutter Challenge, and Finally Get Clutter-Free!!

Yet ANOTHER month has gone by... and it's time to set up the Declutter Challenge! Wouldn't you love to be able to return home to a clean, orderly, peaceful home? Think about how nice it would be working in a kitchen where all of your utensils are where they are supposed to be, and where your counter tops glisten and beg to be filled with home made cookies instead of clutter? Give yourself a Declutter Challenge right now! Never heard of a Declutter Challenge? It put it simply, a Declutter Challenge is a challenge you offer yourself (and/or your friends and family) to get a huge part of your home clutter-free in a prespecified time frame. And it WORKS!

The One Week Declutter Challenge

Another kind of challenge will need you to set aside one complete week to your project. This will be a serious "no distractions allowed" week throughout which you clear your schedule with the goal of getting back what used to be your decluttered house. Assign yourself one room of the house for each day, lock yourself inside it so to speak, and get working! Garbage bags, boxes for donations, boxes for re-sell, and of course some basic cleaning supplies are going to be your necessities. Pull your spouse, your girlfriends, or your children into the challenge! Remember, many hands make light work!
Perhaps you'll be better off to cut back and give yourself a One Week Kitchen Declutter Challenge, or a One Week Spare Room Declutter Challenge. Don't let that concern you! If you commit to decluttering for 7 days (and seriously, what is 7 days in the grand scheme of life), and you'll definitely bring order back to a big part of your chaotic home!

The 2010 in 2010 Declutter Challenge

This type of Declutter Challenge is a favorite. Commit yourself to decluttering (by throwing out, donating, or selling) 2010 things in the year 2010. Does that sound like a lot of stuff?? If you do the math though, it really is not as bad as it sounds. 2010 divided into 365 days is only 5.5 things daily. Look around you... the junk drawer, the cupboard in the basement, your bedroom, the work shop... that doesn' t seem unreasonable, does it? Tick off your success on a calendar, and watch the clutter melt away!
Yet another way it is possible to do the 2010 Declutter Challenge is to commit 2010 minutes specifically to decluttering! That's 33.5 hours.... A great deal until you take into account that there are actually 8,760 hours in one year! It is not even one 45 minute session per week! And yet 2010 minutes is sufficient 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 idea is that on each one of the 30 days of the month you declutter one object or section of your home, great or small. The objects can range from the bottom shelf in your spare room closet to the media centre in your den, from your junk drawer to the gift wrap bin that gets hidden in the home office closet. The secret is to be reasonable with your chore assignment. Putting "put photos collected the previous 3 years into photo albums" probably isn't do-able in a single afternoon, but possibly "organize the photos into piles or envelopes by the occasion or child and get rid of photographs you do not want to keep" COULD be finished!
After your chores are assigned, think about giving yourself a reward to look ahead to once your 30 Day Challenge ends victoriously! Yes, you will feel rewarded just looking at your decluttered home, certainly you've noticed that we tend to work harder if we have something extra to win 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 start decluttering your home! Which challenge will you do?

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Intrigued? Want more information on how you can take a Declutter Challenge? Click the link! The final outcome of ANY OF THEM will be a much less cluttered house - a place where you will enjoy being, enjoy hosting your friends, and enjoy living! Also check out www.declutterdiva.info for some other excellent decluttering tips!

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