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It's another month, another week, another day... and it's time to set up the Decluttering Challenge! Wouldn't you love to be able to come home to a clutter-free, neat, peaceful home? Don't you dream of cooking in a kitchen where all your utensils are where they should be, and where your counter tops sparkle and beg to be filled with home made cookies rather than clutter? Give yourself a Declutter Challenge today! Uncertain of what is meant by Declutter Challenge? It put it simply, a Declutter Challenge is a challenge you give yourself (and/or your family and friends) to get a big part of your house clutter-free in a specific time frame. And it WORKS! The 30 Day Decluttering Challenge One kind of challenge is named the 30 Day Declutter Challenge, and the idea is that on each one of the 30 days of the month you declutter one item or part of your house, great or little. The items can range from the bottom drawer in your armoir to the media centre in your den, from your junk drawer to the gift wrap bin that gets stuffed in the home office closet. The secret is to be reasonable with your task assignment. Writing "put photographs taken in the last several years into photo albums" probably isn't do-able in one afternoon, but possibly "arrange the pictures into envelopes or piles based on the occasion or person and get rid of pictures you don't want to keep" COULD be finished! After your chores have been assigned, consider giving yourself a reward to look ahead to after your 30 Day Challenge ends victoriously! Yes, having a much less cluttered house will be a reward in itself, certainly you've noticed that we have a tendency to give more effort to our work if we have something tangible to gain from our efforts! The One Week Declutter Challenge This particular category of challenge will require you to designate one complete week to your challenge. This will be a serious "no one can distract me" week during which you empty your schedule with the goal of reclaiming what once wsa your decluttered home. Each day, select one room, lock yourself inside it so to speak, and go crazy! Garbage bags, bins for donations and re-sell, and certainly some good old cleaning supplies will be your must-haves. Pull your significant other, your girlfriends, or your children along for the ride! Many hands make light work, but also many hands make much clean! Perhaps you will be better off to cut back and give yourself a One Week Bedroom Decluttering Challenge, or a One Week Basement Declutter Challenge. Don't let that trouble you! By committing yourself for 7 days (and seriously, what is seven days on the whole), and you will no doubt bring order back to a big part of your chaotic home! The 2010 in 2010 Declutter Challenge This kind of Decluttering Challenge is a favorite. Commit yourself to decluttering (by donating, selling, or throwing out) 2010 items throughout the year 2010. Does that sound impossible? If you do the math though, it really is not too crazy at all. 2010 divided into 365 days is merely 5.5 things every day. Look around you... the junk drawer, the cupboard under the stairs, your office, the storage shed... that seems not so unreasonable now, does it? Record your success on your calendar, and watch the clutter melt away! Yet another way one can do the 2010 Decluttering Challenge is to commit 2010 minutes specifically to decluttering! That is 33.5 hours.... A great deal until you consider that there are 8,760 hours in one year! It is less than one 45 minute session per week! However, 2010 minutes is enough to get a LOT decluttered! So, the "30 Day Decluttering Challenge", the "One Week Decluttering Challenge", and the "2010 in 2010 Declutter Challenge"... three fantastic ways to start decluttering your house! Which challenge will you do?
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