Based on my Reader Survey I had many requests for some Organizing Challenges. I loved that idea! (I need a challenge myself!) So this month I am launching my first challenge. (Should you choose to accept.)
To be candid with you…I’m a little scared to start my particular challenge project. It has been at the very bottom of my “To Do” list forever. In fact I’ve tried to take it off my list completely. (Nobody even knows about it, so why bother?) But it is time for me to actually do this project 100%. I know I will feel so much better when it is all done!
Monthly Organizing Challenge {No.1}
We are going to attack ONE area that NEEDS to be organized. Together! (Notice there’s no me in there – it’s a WE!) Pick a place that you have been neglecting for a LONG time. This could be an under the stairs area, a guest room closet, or if you are like me, it will be a dumping ground piece of furniture. (Also known as my hope chest.) Enough talking about it. Go ahead and take a look.
What’s going on inside of this place? A whole lot of chaos! Let’s just start with exhibit “A” – my sorority Pledge Manual? Good thing I have that! I have been dumping “memories” in here for 20 years. Some memories I want to save but many of them just need to be recycled. The whole chest needs to be organized so that when I want to add a memory item to the chest I’m not just shoving it in here and trying to get the lid to close.
Here are the specifics that I want to tackle this month. Can you say overachiever?
1-Move the picture to my office. It is a sentimental picture that my mother in law painted and I want to have it in my office as a reminder of her love while I’m working. (Eventually I want to re-frame it too.) In its place I want to do a black and white canvas from our family photos. (A project almost two years in the making.)
2-Paint the hope chest black. It will make a better “pop!” Then I want to add some pillows on top of the chest to soften and add some color.
3-Purge the entire chest and organize it so that it is a better place to store my memories. I’ll need to carve out some time as look through things I haven’t looked at in years.
Are you excited? Apprehensive? Ready to get to work? I’m starting today! Here goes nothing! I’ll be posting some pictures along the way on instagram if you want to see the progress or maybe lack there of.
What are you going to do? Share with me in the comments! WE can do this!!!
You will have the remainder of the month to work on your challenge, with a due date of Mach 31st. I will be back on April 1st, with my own reveal.
“Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?” – Joyce Meyer
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