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January 9, 2016
New Year Cleaning Challenge Day 7: Weekend Wrap-Up
The weekend's here! Time to take stock of the week's progress at the New Year Cleaning Challenge.
Preview Week saw us store holiday decorations, and tidy up after last year's holiday season.
How have you fared on the New Year Cleaning Challenge so far? Be sure to celebrate your progress today, as we wrap up Preview Week!
January 8, 2016
New Year Cleaning Challenge Day 6: Update Address Books
For many of us, it's the last evidence of Christmas Past: a piled-up heap of Christmas cards, letters and photos. Time to tuck away those holiday greetings.
Whether you'll read and recycle, or file cards and letters away, stop!
Before you consign Christmas cards and letters to their forever home, take advantage of this treasure trove of information about loved ones, friends, and neighbors.
January 7, 2016
New Year Cleaning Challenge Day 5: Inventory Cleaning Products
Cleaning products are your closest ally in the war against grime--but they can be expensive, and their effectiveness can fall all over the map.
What's in your cleaning cupboard? Are your cleaning partners up to the job ahead?
You'll want to choose cleaning products carefully to cut time spent on chores as we work our way through the Cleaning Grand Plan.
January 6, 2016
New Year Cleaning Challenge Day 4: Banish Those Boxes
For most of us, the holiday season brings a bumper crop ... of boxes!
Stacked and scattered through house, garage and storage areas, they've shipped gifts, contained new toys or encased electronics.
Now they're empty and taking up space; it's only a matter of time before they attract more clutter to join their ranks.
It's time to banish them to clear space in your organized home.
January 5, 2016
New Year Cleaning Challenge Day 3: Clean Out the Refrigerator!
A few days into January, it's easy to spot our New Year's resolutions going adrift. No matter how earnestly we make them, it's hard for resolutions to survive the rapids of daily life.
Time, money and energy seem in short supply in early January, so how to keep the progress going toward that new and more organized life?
Today, take 20 minutes to recharge most New Year's Resolutions: clean out the refrigerator.
January 4, 2016
New Year Cleaning Challenge Day 2: Haul Away the Holidays
All good things must come to an end, and so it is with the holiday season.
Is the Ghost of Christmas Past still haunting your house?
Even if decorations have been boxed and banished until next year, holiday stragglers can still circle the house for weeks to come. We've got a tip to tame these last few holiday hold-outs!
It's time to haul off the holidays, and prepare for the new year on Day 2 of the New Year Cleaning Challenge!
January 3, 2016
Cleaning Challenge Day 1: It's Preview Week
Ready to clean house for the New Year? It's Preview Week at the New Year Cleaning Challenge!
Our 14-week Challenge kicks off with a transitional week, designed to put the holidays to bed and prepare for the organizing and cleaning projects ahead.
During Preview Week, we'll get the Challenge rolling, banish the Ghost of Christmas Past, and craft a personalized plan for the coming weeks.
Be it resolved: in 2016, it's time to live clean and serene ... in an organized home!
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December 27, 2015
Take the New Year Cleaning Challenge
Christmas has come and gone ... and left a mess behind. Looking around, you wonder how you'll ever dig out in time for Spring!
Solution? Take the Challenge!
Roar into the New Year and clean house fast with the New Year Cleaning Challenge from OrganizedHome.Com.
Based on Katie Leckey's Cleaning Grand Plan, the New Year Cleaning Challenge kicks off 2016 with a 14-week plan to clean and organize a spring-clean house.
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Prepare for Christmas Day by Day with 101DaystoChristmas.com!
Fall's in full swing, and the holidays will be here before you know it. Are you ready to prepare for Christmas?
Sister site Organized Christmas is pleased to introduce focus site, 101 Days to Christmas. Designed to bring you a daily dose of holiday motivation, 101 Days to Christmas offers daily messages via the Web, e-mail, and social networking.
By breaking down holiday preparations into small daily assignments, 101 Days to Christmas makes...
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Ready for Christmas? Try A Holiday Organizing Plan!
Labor Day weekend ahead! School bells are ringing, football fills the airwaves and September looms. Will the holidays be far behind?
Sure, you're dreaming of the perfect Christmas--then you open your eyes to reality. Looking around the house, it's hard to imagine how to cut the clutter, manage fall cleaning and prepare for Christmas all at once.
How will you bring the current state of domestic chaos into holiday readiness: clean, organized, p...
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