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Loves Challenge: Finding Joy in Your Belongings

Struggling to figure out what to get rid of and what to keep? Decluttering challenges are a great way to jump-start decluttering your home. We tend to get frustrated and blocked from getting rid of things because we just don't know where to start. My Loves Challenge will help you pinpoint the items you want to keep and those you are OK with letting go of, so you can declutter and review the other items.

If you are feeling overwhelmed by your stuff, I suggest you start by finding the things in your home that you love. Let's determine what you love and want to keep before we start decluttering.  I am challenging you to a "31 Days of Love" challenge. The premise is simple.  Find 31 items in your home that you truly love and don't want to get rid of. 

Let's Streamline Your Home Declutter Challenge

I've been doing decluttering monthly/weekly challenges since my blog started in 2011. While the challenge has evolved tremendously over the years with the help of clients, followers, and family/friends, it now includes a simple way to plan your attack for these monthly decluttering challenges. Below is how I laid out the Let's Streamline Your

Streamline the Home 2024 Challenge

If you have been visiting my blog for a while, I love sharing challenges to motivate visitors to take action and transform their lives. This year, the Streamline the Home challenge will guide you through 10 monthly challenges broken down into steps. Background Story: Let me give you some background. I asked my Facebook Decluttering

30 Days Spring Cleaning Challenge

Spring cleaning doesn't happen just in one weekend.  Well, it can, but boy, will you be exhausted after you are done. I like to do these tasks over several weekends or even a bit each day. Doing these jobs as a part of the day for the next 30 days or longer will help manage the time more efficiently. You do not need to do these tasks in this exact order. Click below to get our spring cleaning challenge checklist.

12 Monthly Life Challenges to Get You Organized

To change a life, make a move. Small moves will allow for big changes in the long run. Remember that we need to make these incremental changes to progress toward our goals. I am sharing incremental home organizing challenges, incorporating small daily tasks you can accomplish each month. Some of these tasks will take you

How to Awaken from Clutter Blindness - Part 1 - Includes links to Part 2 and Part 3

Are you wondering where the clutter is in your home? Have you ever walked around your home and couldn't find clutter you didn't want or need? Did you ever walk around your house and not see the clutter? You could be walking over things without realizing it. This is clutter blindness.

Easy Weekly Challenges to Completely Change Your Home Life

This year marks the 4th year we have done these weekly challenges ebooks! I hope you have taken advantage of this free 52-week challenge to organize your life. The goal of this year's weekly challenge ebook is to help you improve what matters in your home life while streamlining and removing clutter.

26 Days of Your Favorite Things Challenge

While thinking about November, one word comes to mind -- gratitude -- being grateful for the things we have and the family and friends around us. Since gratitude challenges are common and you can find them anywhere, I decided to add a twist to this Your Favorite Things Challenge. You are probably asking, "Why should

Super Easy Weekly Organizing Challenge for This Year

In this first full week of 2020, I am so excited to share this year's doable weekly organizing challenge ebook with you. I made some modifications to refine it so you can focus on specific challenging areas at home.

2019 Doable Weekly Challenges to Clear the Clutter This Year

This year, we have a new version of the Doable Weekly Challenges ebook to share with you. If you want to try last year's, here's the link. If you are back for another year of challenges, welcome! We are so glad to see you again.

One Year of Doable Weekly Challenges to Clear the Clutter in Your Home

Awakening to what is important in your life is only one benefit of purging and organizing your home. Clearing a cluttered space makes you more attuned to what you have and what you no longer want. And only after you complete your decluttering process does it awaken you to the understanding of

The Sock Drawer Decluttering Checklist

This post is an accompaniment to my post, "How to Organize Socks Once and For All {Sock Organization Options}". I list all the steps to help you stay focused and declutter the sock drawer quickly.

How to Make a Meal Planning System that Works

Creating a tried-and-true quick, easy (and Healthy) dinner idea makes cooking dinner simple for you and your family. Today, we are going to share how to create a meal-planning system and offer you some easy meal ideas to add to your weekly routine.

30+ Easy and Delicious Beach Vacation Recipes

Get your free copy of this PDF on meal planning for beach vacations.

The Ultimate Cruise Packing List Everyone Needs

Soon, we are going on a cruise for the week. We haven't been on a cruise in over 15 years. Wow, it's been a while. So, preparing for a trip with my family (4 people), I started looking for guidance on what to bring for this "relaxing cruise." So, of course,

Easy Self-Care Remedies for Common Ailments at College

This time of year, we are all more susceptible to various ailments because we are usually indoors for most of the day. Germs and viruses are everywhere, especially for college students. I noticed that there are specific self-care remedies we use at home that my kids completely forget about when they are away in college.

How to Easily Pack for a Shore Vacation Without Stress

Going to the shore in the summer is a fun time, especially if you love spending time near the ocean.  I'm not a beach person and have had issues with sun poisoning in the past, so I have to watch how much sun I get exposed to in the summer. However, recently, we decided to do

10 Things to Do to Make Your Moving Process Seamless

There are many reasons why people move - Changing jobs, downsizing to a smaller home, their kids going off to college, wanting to be closer to work, wanting to be closer to their children, whichever reason will be a stressful time - sorry to say.  But to make the process easier, I hope to help make your

Easy And Simple Ways To Save Money This Year

Another big goal this year could be saving money. It could be creating a nest egg for retirement. Saving for a new car or a house. Or just saving, so you don't have to live paycheck to paycheck. Whatever your reason is, make sure it is evident to you and the people you live with

How to Organize Digital Receipts in Your Home

Everything is digital these days, even all the purchases and statements we receive almost every day. And paper store receipts are becoming increasingly difficult to keep track of these days. To streamline your tax return process, I am going to show you a way to organize digital receipts. And

How to Organize Your Holiday Cookie Baking Tradition

Baking this many cookies in one day takes a lot of planning. So, this post is about how we can bake cookies more efficiently without overbuying ingredients or spending extra money, and how we can reduce the time it takes to make them.

Saving Money Tips for Hosting Thanksgiving

Food can get really expensive when hosting a party at home, especially for Thanksgiving. With all the side dishes, desserts, beverages (non-alcoholic) and alcoholic ones, table decorations, and of course the turkey, you may spend a small fortune. It's easy to let the spending run away with you during this wonderful holiday! But no more! Today, I am going to share with you my favorite ways to save money when hosting Thanksgiving.

How to Create a Holiday Season Planner to Save Money and Time

Planning is necessary so we can fit in everything and enjoy the holiday season. From November through the middle of January, we tend to participate in or host several events, either at home or outside the house. To help you keep your expenses in check and your day more

Easy Thanksgiving Party Planning Tips

Are you planning your first Thanksgiving dinner but don't know what to do? It can be stressful getting ready for the big day. This post will help you with party planning tips. I will discuss the different areas, plus recipe options, to efficiently plan and host a Thanksgiving party and make it easy for your

How to Organize Your Family Holiday Traditions

Starting to plan your holiday traditions? It seems early, but if you do holiday traditions around Thanksgiving, it isn't that early. So, let's plan, shall we? Every year in the United States, there are many holiday traditions you can do from Thanksgiving to the New Year, and immediately after, we take part in or host.

How to Organize a Large Party in Your Home

Each year, at the end of the school year, we host an End of School Year Party for our kids and their friends.  This year, my son will graduate from high school, so we decided to celebrate by having an even bigger End of School Year Party. When I say "big," we're talking about 40 people, mostly teens.

7 Easy Home Movie Organizing Tips

Do you take home movies?  What do you do with them after you make the movie?  Do you transfer them to your computer, or do you upload them to social media?  What is the use of having home movies if you don't watch them again? I have done home movies since I was a teenager.

How to Make a Useful Home Management Plan and Binder

We are so excited to share with you my new FREE ebook that contains 55-pages on how to make a home management binder!

How to Make A DIY Holiday Porch DIY Reversible Sign

I saw several reversible signs on Pinterest and in catalogs recently, and thought I could create a customized version of it for my own home. This DIY Reversible Sign project is more affordable, and I could write whatever I wanted on it.

How to Make Fun Sock Stuffed Favor Gifts for Your Next Party

Party favor gifts are an excellent way to show your guests how much you appreciate them. You can offer guests many favors when they visit your home. I thought this was easy to make, and everyone enjoyed the uniqueness. Plus, it did not generate trash for the guests.

The Busy Mom's No Statement Cheat Sheet

If you are having trouble saying no as a mom, this list of responses is for you. It includes every scenario you have most likely experienced while raising kids.

How to Make a Family Heritage Scrapbook

I am a self-proclaimed genealogist for my family. When I was about 15, I visited Italy with my family and started documenting dates, stories, and family history from various trips there. Interviewing my grandparents and parents, I created a paper genealogy book and added several details. Over the years, this genealogy book was