This Week’s Focus: Jan 14 – 20, 2008

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This week’s focus is de-cluttering. In this week’s episode of The Household Helper Talk Show, I talk about how easy it is to begin de-cluttering. Here are the tools and steps:

The Tools: A box or laundry basket, trash bag, kitchen timer

The Steps: You’ll be surprised how simple this is!

Pick a room that needs to be de-cluttered and head there with your supplies. Set your kitchen timer for 15 minutes and get going!

• Grab everything that doesn’t belong in that room and put it in your box
• Grab everything that is garbage and put it in the trash bag
• Start putting stray items where they belong in that room

Keep doing these 3 steps until the timer rings. Do not leave the room you are focusing on – losing focus is one of the reasons we live with clutter.

When the timer goes off, grab yourself a drink and sit for a minute. Next grab the box of items that don’t belong in that room and put them away. If your room is still cluttered, repeat this process. Once a room is de-cluttered, move to the next room.

Keep doing this until you’ve de-cluttered your entire home. Why? Because the first step in getting your home organized is to eliminate the clutter. You cant organize clutter!

Places to visit this week:

• MommyCommunity.com is talking about bathroom clutter
• FlyLady.net is focusing on the bathroom and one other room on her flight plan
• For more de-cluttering tips, visit DeclutterYourHouse.com

Join me in getting our homes in order by getting back to basics! Pick up the code to link here.