52 Weeks To An Organized Home:
Join The Weekly Challenges
Do you want an organized home? Most people do, but they go about it in the wrong way expecting overnight success. Let's instead do it the right way, together, with the 52 Week Challenge.
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Why Does It Take 52 Weeks? Why Can't I Get Organized Over Night?
You cannot expect to get your home completely organized over night, even though that would be wonderful. It won't realistically happen for most of us because we have too many areas in our homes that we need to address.
Plus, even if a whole crew came in and organized everything right now, like they do on some of those television shows, you most likely don't have the habits in place to maintain that organization yet.
However, you can get organized slowly, over time, and the habits you create as you go slowly will stick, and make sure you keep it that way from now on.
That is where The 52 Week Organized Home Challenge comes in. Each week we focus on a different challenge area in our homes and make steady forward progress.
The idea is that at the end of the 52 weeks you will have an organized home. Plus, your life and your home will run more smoothly, and you'll have gained the knowledge, skills, habits and routines necessary to actually keep your home and life more organized from now on!
Trust me, maintaining the organization you put in place can be just as much of a challenge as getting there in the first place, so those skills and discipline are very much needed!
When Does The Organized Home Challenge Start? Am I Too Late To Begin?
This challenge is ongoing. You don't have to wait until January 1st or any other arbitrary time to begin. Instead jump in wherever we are right now and take off from there.
How Do I Keep Up With The 52 Weeks To An Organized Home Challenges?
Each Monday we start that week's challenge, and we will all work on it during the week (including me -- I'm doing the challenge right along with you). I've also now created related daily Declutter 365 missions, which roughly correspond to the weekly challenges, to help you do the first part of every organization project - to declutter the space before you begin to organize it.
To remember what area of the home we're working on each week you can come back to this page to find that week's mission and dive right in.
However, I know that it can be hard to remember to check something on the web each week, so I also send out the challenge each week as part of the free newsletter for the site. If you want these reminder emails to come to you, along with additional organizational tips and hints, sign up below.
One Page Summary Of 2023's Challenge
I've run this challenge for several years. In fact, 2023 will be the 12th year. Every year I try to improve it, and 2023 is no different.
I've created this one page printable below to show you at a glance exactly what we'll be doing during the challenge each week, and when you open it as a PDF on your computer the links to each week are clickable, meaning you can read that week's challenge all from this document!
Click here for your free 2023 schedule
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Here's A List Of The 52 Challenges In The Organized Home Series
Below is a list of the 52 challenges that are part of the Organized Home series, and the week we're going to work on them, together, for 2023.
- Week 1: Kitchen organization: countertops and sink (January 2, 2023)
- Week 2: Kitchen drawers and cabinet organization (January 9, 2023)
- Week 3: Organize pantry, spices and food storage areas (January 16, 2023)
- Week 4: Organizing refrigerator and freezer (January 23, 2023)
- Week 5: Organize recipes and cookbooks (January 30, 2023)
- Week 6: Create a home recycling center (plus dealing with trash) (February 6, 2023)
- Week 7: Organize coupons (February 13, 2023)
- Week 8: Healthy meal planning and creating grocery shopping list (February 20, 2023)
- Week 9: Laundry room organization (February 27, 2023)
- Week 10: Laundry organization and schedule (March 6, 2023)
- Week 11: Create a house cleaning schedule and organize cleaning supplies (March 13, 2023)
- Week 12: Create a morning and evening routine (March 20, 2023)
- Week 13: Basement organization (March 27, 2023)
- Week 14: Organize your garage (April 3, 2023)
- Week 15: Attic organizing (April 10, 2023)
- Week 16: Organize contact information (April 17, 2023)
- Week 17: Organize mail (April 24, 2023)
- Week 18: Organize bills (May 1, 2023)
- Week 19: Organize receipts and tax documents (May 8, 2023)
- Week 20: Organize files and create home filing system (May 15, 2023)
- Week 21: Organizing magazines, newspapers and catalogs (May 22, 2023)
- Week 22: Organize passwords, manuals and warranties (May 29, 2023)
- Week 23: Home office organization (June 5, 2023)
- Week 24: Organize email and digital information (June 12, 2023)
- Week 25: Bathroom organization (June 19, 2023)
- Week 26: Cosmetic and makeup organization (June 26, 2023)
- Week 27: Organize linen closet (July 3, 2023)
- Week 28: Organize primary bedroom closet (July 10, 2023)
- Week 29: Primary bedroom organization (July 17, 2023)
- Week 30: Organize jewelry and other accessories (July 24, 2023)
- Week 31: Organize shoes (July 31, 2023)
- Week 32: Back to school organization (August 7, 2023)
- Week 33: Organizing closet space for your kids (August 14, 2023)
- Week 34: Kids' bedroom organizing (August 21, 2023)
- Week 35: Outgrown and seasonal clothing storage (August 28, 2023)
- Week 36: Yard and garden storage and organization (September 4, 2023)
- Week 37: Organize toys and games (September 11, 2023)
- Week 38: Car organization (September 18, 2023)
- Week 39: Mudroom and entryway organization (September 25, 2023)
- Week 40: Organizing living room and family room (October 2, 2023)
- Week 41: Organize dining room and stuff for entertaining guests (October 9, 2023)
- Week 42: Organize photos, both physical and digital, plus negatives (October 16, 2023)
- Week 43: Craft organization (October 23, 2023)
- Week 44: Organize books (October 30, 2023)
- Week 45: Create an emergency preparedness kit (November 6, 2023)
- Week 46: Organize medicine and first aid supplies (November 13, 2023)
- Week 47: Organizing purses, handbags and wallets (November 20, 2023)
- Week 48: CD and DVD storage and organization (November 27, 2023)
- Week 49: Holiday decoration and gift wrap storage and organization (December 4, 2023)
- Week 50: Create home inventory (December 11, 2023)
- Week 51: Organize pet supplies (December 18, 2023)
- Week 52: Keep a family calendar (December 25, 2023)
You Can Report Your Own Progress In The Hall Of Fame
I want people to participate in this challenge, and to be able to show off what they've accomplished since it feels so good when you get something positive done in your home!
If you do even one of the challenges, whether while it is running that week or anytime you get around to it, and want to show off your accomplishments I would be happy to publish your before and after pictures, or story about what you did here on the site. Just for this purpose I've created a "Creative Storage Solutions And Home Organization Hall Of Fame."
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