Take The Decluttering Challenge!

Yet ANOTHER month has gone by... and it is time to set up the Declutter Challenge! Wouldn't it be wonderful to be able to return home to a clean, orderly, peaceful home? Wouldn't it be brilliant to be working in a kitchen where all of your utensils are in their correct places, and where your counters gleam and beg to be filled with home made cookies rather than clutter? Give yourself a Decluttering Challenge today! Uncertain of what is meant by Decluttering Challenge? It put it simply, it is a challenge you give yourself (and/or your siblings and friends) to get a huge part of your home decluttered in a prespecified time frame. And it WORKS!

The 30 Day DeClutter Challenge

One kind of challenge is referred to as the 30 Day Declutter Challenge, and the concept is that on all of the 30 days of the month you declutter one object or part of your home, large or little. The items can range from the bottom drawer in your armoir to your son's old sports equipment in your garage, from your junk drawer to the kraft supply kit that gets stuffed in the spare room closet. The key is to be realistic with your chore assignment. Writing "put pictures collected the last 2 years into albums" most likely won't be able to be accomplished in a single afternoon, but possibly "sort the pictures into piles or envelopes based on the occasion or person and throw out of photographs you do not wish to keep" CAN be done!
After your chores are assigned, think about arranging for yourself a reward to look ahead to when your 30 Day Challenge ends victoriously! Yes, it will be rewarding enough to see your decluttered home, you can not deny that we have a tendency to work harder if we have something extra to get from our hard work!

The One Week Declutter Challenge

Another kind of challenge will need you to reserve one complete week to your challenge. This will be a serious "no one can distract me" week for the duration of which you clear out your schedule in order to gaining back what used to be your decluttered house. Assign yourself one room of the house for every day, close yourself within it so to speak, and get working! Garbage bags, boxes for donations and re-sell, and certainly some basic cleaning supplies are going to be your necessities. Pull your significant other, your friends, or your family into the challenge! The more the merrier!
Perhaps you will see the need to scale back and go with a One Week Bedroom Declutter Challenge, or a One Week Toy Room Declutter Challenge. Don't worry about it! Commit yourself to decluttering for 7 days (and seriously, what is seven days on the whole), and you'll surely bring order back to a big part of your chaotic home!

The 2010 in 2010 Declutter Challenge

This category of Decluttering Challenge is a favorite. Commit yourself to decluttering (by donating, selling, or throwing out) 2010 things throughout 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 just 5.5 things per day. Look around you... your junk drawer, the cupboard under the stairs, your recroom, the garage... that seems not so impossible now, does it? Tick off your success on your calendar, and watch the clutter melt away!
One more way one might do the 2010 Decluttering Challenge is to commit 2010 minutes specifically to decluttering! That is 33.5 hours.... An awful lot until you remember that there are 8,760 hours in one year! This is less than one 45 minute session per week! However, 2010 minutes is enough to get a LOT decluttered!

So, the "30 Day Declutter Challenge", the "One Week Declutter Challenge", and the "2010 in 2010 Decluttering Challenge"... three great ways to begin decluttering your home! Which challenge will you do?

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

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