If walking into your rooms, waking up in your bedroom or coming home after a long day makes you feel stressed, frustrated or simply overwhelmed, then the VKZ Declutter Challenge is just the thing to help you quickly and easily get a grip on all the stuff stressing you out. You won’t be alone. We have a group of families who are helping each other with encouragement and tips in our Facebook group chat! A local professional organizer will be available in our Facebook group to provide tips and encouragement throughout the month-long challenge. Go here to get allll the freebies from our October Declutter Challenge!
In our 30-day challenge to get rid of clutter, you will learn:
- Why and how decluttering just a few minutes a day can add up to big things
- Decluttering Tips to make your home feel neat and tidy every day
- Ways to begin decluttering that doesn’t add to the overwhelm
- How to get the most out of decluttering in 15-minute spurts
- What cleaning and organizing supplies to have on hand to make the process easier
Every day in the group and for those who sign up via email – we will offer up a tip to declutter one thing with a 15-minute time limit. We’ll occasionally include pics of our horrible spaces before and tidy and cute spaces after and what we did to make it better quickly and affordably.
Every Wednesday we’ll have a giveaway. Each entry into the weekly giveaway is entered into the big giveaway at the end of the challenge month.
Every Week – We’ll have free downloads each week to help you get and stay on top of clutter, from organizers to pantry labels and chore charts for kids by age. We’ll also share tips on how to get kids involved and overhaul your kid-filled spaces.
Services in Las Vegas
There are many cleaning services to help you get your home in order before the busy school year and holiday season are upon us. If you want your business included, please fill out the application here.
Added bonus! New advertisers are immediately offered a free ad in the VKZ City Guide Magazine!
How the VKZ 30-Day Declutter Challenge Works
The VKZ Declutter Challenge is going to help you clear out the stuff that makes your house feel cluttered.
Each week you are tasked with a room to declutter. But you’re not alone. We will help you. We have a 15-minute Whole House cleaning plan you can follow along with us. Follow along with the decluttering month calendar to get a good start and habits and concentrate on one room per week for a deeper decluttering routine.
Here’s the breakdown of where we will start each week. We will have daily tips and how to begin each week in the Facebook group:
Week 1: Living Spaces
Take it easy and let’s just make clean surfaces. What room are you working on this week? What room has been really bugging you? Don’t overdo it and choose the room that is piled high with all the things you’ve been given and don’t know what to do with.
Week 2: Bedrooms
The big goal is to have places for everything to go home to. For basic organizing, you can get two boxes, or a trashbag, and mark one keep and one toss. Start in one corner of the room and pick up one item and put it in either toss or keep or simply put it away.
Week 3: Closets
There are a few ways to slim down your stuffed closets. Before you start, determine your specific goals for the closet. Are you aiming to create more space, improve organization, or update your wardrobe? Having a clear objective will guide your decisions. Take everything out of the closet and immediately put into keep or donate.
Week 4: Bathrooms
Start on the countertops and work your way down. If you have help, have someone emptying the cabinets and cleaning them so that you can put things away. Know what you need to organize and have bins ready to put into the clean cupboards. Label the bins, if you like, I find it easier, and put everything away. Keep the countertops at a minimum of clutter to clean up in your quick morning pickup.
Grab the Free Declutter and Cleaning Plan
Spending 15 minutes a day on small tasks can keep the clutter at bay and the house acceptable for friends and family to pop over, particularly during the holidays. This is also a great tool for teaching kids executive skills. Give them the chart and make them responsible for certain days or tasks on the chart.
We do the daily tasks and take about 10 minutes in the a.m., lunchtime and p.m. to get it all done. Some days are better than others, some days nothing gets done! But that’s life, and that’s okay. Having a guide to go back to keeps us on track and makes it easier to function, particularly in small spaces with littles running around!
This printable calendar is going to make it easy! I love using cleaning printables like calendars and charts to keep me on track. Our Daily, Weekly, Monthly cleaning chart is one of our most popular charts along with the Age-Appropriate Chore Chart. Bonus! Get a chore chart by age with your download! Comes in handy when your tween says it’s too hard! Ahem.