That’s right everybody, the countdown to the new year is on, and that is why I am getting the 2016 52 Week Home Organization Challenge up and ready to go!

52 Week Home Organization Challenge

Are you ready to join us? If so, I have made two ways for you to be able to keep up with the challenge, and it is super easy!

1. Join the newsletter to have a reminder sent to you every Monday!
2. Download this PDF  that I have created, and you can mark off each challenge as you complete it!

I hope that you’ll all join me on the 52 week organization challenge, I think it will be a great way to better ourselves for the coming year, and for the rest of our lives! For me, it’s all about making my life less stressful!

Here’s a peak into what you can expect from this year’s challenge:

Although some of the challenges are the same as last year, some of them have been updated to give a greener, more environmentally friendly approach. I hope you like them and that you continue coming back for more!

Please make sure to comment or email me at aliciainasmalltown@gmail.com to let me know what you think of the challenge, and if there is anything that you would like to see added and I will do my best to accommodate you!

This week’s challenge is to organize makeup and cosmetics, to get yourself looking good without having to search for everything you need constantly.

Once you’ve completed this challenge the goal is that your morning and/or evening beauty routine will be shortened because you’ll have less clutter to deal with, and can spend more time applying your makeup and other beauty products, rather than searching for them.

Some concepts covered in this challenge were already mentioned briefly in the bathroom organization challenge, but that was a while ago, and so you can probably hear a refresher anyway.

Plus, this will be geared specifically to your beauty products, and not the whole bathroom in general.

Organize Makeup And Cosmetics

This week we will deal with organizing personal care products of many varieties, including not only makeup, but also lotions, cleansers, toiletries, nail products, and makeup applicators.

Continue reading Organize Makeup and Cosmetics →

This week’s challenge is to organize shoes and boots for yourself and family members. In a way this week’s task isn’t really too hard, even if you tackle every pair of shoes in the house, because we’re just dealing with shoes.

But on the other hand, at least for some of us, we absolutely love shoes. And since I’ll be asking you to declutter the pairs down to what you can really realistically store in your house, in the space you’ve got, this can be difficult.

Don’t panic though if this is you. Just work through it one pair at a time, and you’ll most likely discover some shoes you’ve completely forgotten but that will quickly become new favorites, while gaining the resolve to reduce your collection.

Continue reading Organize Shoes →

In this week’s challenge we’re going to organize jewelry and other accessories so we can find what items we want or need each day, and properly care for the items we own.

This challenge continues the task we have been on for several weeks now, of dealing with our clothing items to get everything organized, so we pair down and use what we already own, and can put our fingers on any item we want to wear quickly when we get the urge.

This week we’ll organize the following types of items:

• Jewelry
• Hair accessories
• Scarves, ties and belts
• Glasses and sunglasses

Are you new here? The Organize Jewelry & Accessories Challenge is part of the 52 Week Home Organization Challenge. (Click the link to learn how to join us for free for future and past challenges if you aren’t already a regular reader). Continue reading Organize Jewelry →