So I am going to try and actually finish what I planned last year, making this my New Year’s Resolution! Be sure to check back each week to see what I get accomplished and how you can finish these tasks at your home and get organized for 2013!
My New Year’s Resolution is to get our home in order and keep it that way. So I have been searching 100′s of books and websites to get ideas and tips on the problem area’s of our home to find solutions for each space! I need to find a home for every item in our house so that our kiddos will know where to put all of our belongings, making our home less cluttered!
Every year I start off with a huge list of things I want to accomplish for the new year but by March I feel overwhelmed and end up “forgetting” the rest of my list. This year I figured I would try and spread my tasks out over the whole year. One a week doesn’t seem so scary! So I listed below all the tasks I plan to complete over 2012 2013 and as I post them I will link to the post below for you to see how I organized and DE-cluttered some part of my house! Some of these tasks are to de-clutter spaces in our home that just seems to always have stuff there and to be frank, I am sick of seeing it!
If you have plans for this year share them below, I love to get fresh ideas!
Week 1: Clear Out Old and Unworn Clothes- Donate, Toss or Sell
Week 2: Organize Our Scarves
Week 3: Un-Clutter the Computer Cords
Week 4: Organize Our Socks
Week 5: Creating a Chore Chart That We Really Will Use
Week 6: Organize The Game Shelf
Week 7: Find a New Home For Our Batteries
Week 8: Organize Under The Sink
Week 9: Finish Our Family Home Binder
Week 10: Creating a Vacation Planner
Week 11: Organize Refrigerator & Freezer
Week 12: Create New Storage for Our Cooking Utensils
Week 13: Organize Our Upstairs Hallways Closet
Week 14: Create Travel Games & Activities for the Kids
Week 15: Create a Recipe Binder
Week 16: Organize and Find A Home For Our Greeting Cards, Birthday Cards, Etc that we will Send
Week 17: Create a Mail Station
Week 18: Organize and Find A Home For Our Greeting Cards, Birthday Cards, Etc That we have Received
Week 19: Organize Our 11 Year Old’s Jewelry
Week 20: Organize All Gardening Equipment
Week 21: Create Storage for Spices
Week 22: Create Better Storage for the Laundry Room
Week 23: Create a Dog Food & Accessories Station
Week 24: Organize Our Kiddos Outside Toys
Week 25: Organize Under Our Bed
Week 26: Find a Home For My 8,000 + Photos
Week 27: Create a Bathroom System to Get Kids In & Out of The Bathtub
Week 28: Organize Our Kitchen Silverware Drawer
Week 29: Create a Homework Station
Week 30: Create A Better Way To Store Pot & Pans and their Lids
Week 31: Organize Hubby’s Tools & Tool Box
Week 32: Create A Better Desk Area for Our 11 Year Old
Week 33: Organize Shelves in Garage
Week 34: Plan a Freezer Meal Cooking Day
Week 35: Organize Our 4 & 8 Year Old’s Closet
Week 36: Create Our Christmas Binder
Week 37: Create a Sock Sorting Station
Week 38: Create a Fire Escape Plan
Week 39: Organize Kids School Papers
Week 40: Organize Our Bathroom
Week 41: Organize & Create a Car Caddy
Week 42: Create a Plan In Case of a Emergency (Tornado, Power Outage, etc)
Week 43: Organizing Our Entry Way Closet
Week 44: Organize & Create Kids Activity Station for Car Travel
Week 45: Organizing The Tupperware
Week 46: Create a New Way To Store Bath Tub Accessories
Week 47: Organize Bill Payment
Week 48: Organize Our 11 Year Old’s Closet
Week 49: Organizing Our Bedroom Closet
Week 50: Covering Kitchen Drawers With Contact Paper
Week 51: Create a Dirty Clothes Station for our Girls
Week 52: Organizing Our Holiday Decorations and Making Better Use Of the Space
I love that list. I am going to have to do something similar, thanks so much for sharing…I’m going to pin this so I remember!!
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Thanks! Let me know when you get your list together, I love see how others get their house in order!!
Oh this list is fantastic, I’m bookmarking it to use because I’m determined to keep an orderly house this year
That was the only goal I plan to accomplish this year!!
I definitely will look forward to the computer cords post!
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Our is a mess right now, can’t wait to get them organized!!
What a great list! I think I’m going to play along with you!
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Send me your list when you get it done!!
I love this idea of spreading things out by week. I really need to make my own to do list to tackle the house as the clutter can rob me of peace quite quickly.
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When I made my very large list for the whole year, I would get so overwhelmed by the length of it and by March was over it! I always tried to get it all done asap, with no success! Now knowing that I only have to accomplish 1 a week, I seem to get a little more accomplished!!