Challenge

2. One year subscription to Blis (Best Life Information System) – valued at $125.00!

Too busy to waste time looking for important documents? Have a hectic family schedule which makes it difficult to communicate and organize everything? BLIS: best life information system, can house all your household information in one central and organized location so that important information can be found quickly and conveniently. In addition, the web-based home-life management system simplifies day to day life by color coding multiple family members’ schedules and communicating events with detailed email reminders, pop up reminders, and to do list reminders so that even busy families can keep it together. From menu planning to home inventory documentation to warranty expiration tracking, BLIS organizes the fine details of life.

Small Space Category

Small Space First Place Prizes:

1. A seat in Simplify 101’s Organize Your Paper Clutter online workshop – valued at $75.00!

Paper, paper everywhere! That paper mountain growing on your countertop represents a loss of freedom, a loss of control, and a nagging feeling in your gut that something important isn’t getting attended to. Your paper, and the feelings it creates, makes it hard to relax, focus or even have fun. Here’s the good news: there is a better way! With the right paper organizing systems in place—those created with you, your paper, and your home in mind—you can free yourself from paper clutter and the stress that comes along with it. In Organize Your Paper Clutter, you’ll learn a step-by-step process on how to decide if you need a piece of paper (and for how long!) and how to organize it so you’ll find it again right when you need it! Your piles (and your stress!) will be replaced by organizing systems you love, and feelings of confidence, relief and peace of mind!

2. One set of Clearly Organized Bags – valued at $35.00!

The organizing bags I absolutely love are back! New owners Lynette and Holly have just opened up shop and are once again selling these bags online. Your prize sample set will include 1 xsmall bag, 2 small bags, 2 medium bags, 2 large bags, and 1 xlarge bag.

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Small Space Second Place Prizes:

1. Organize Your Home in 12 Weeks e-course with Take Charge Solutions – valued at $47.00!

Marcia Francois offers support and encouragement as she walks you through the process of getting your home organized in just 12 weeks. You’ll receive one email every week for 12 weeks with four separate 30 minute organizing projects, access to a members only website with tons of organizing forms to help you on your organizing journey, a 60 minute audio on How to Organize Any Space where she’ll teach you how to get organized and give you practical examples in the home and office, plus much more!

2. The Clutter Code Six Step Organizing System DVD created by Organizing Connection – valued at $29.99!

In this instructional yet entertaining DVD you be will guided from start to finish through the Six Step Organizing System™, putting you back in the driver’s seat of your life. Included in this DVD is four distinct videos: Organizing The Kitchen, Organizing The Bedroom, Organizing the Entrance/Mudroom and The Organizing Paper Trail. As an added bonus you will have access to download the companion worksheets for each of these videos.

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Small Space Third Place Prizes:

1. Prize package from Organize It Mom! – valued at $30.00!

Organize It Mom! is THE place to find solutions to problems that drive moms crazy. The winner of this $30 gift prize will get to choose from the products on www.organizeitmom.com – from chore charts to toy labels, from routine cards to budget envelopes.

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2. One year download membership to List Plan It – valued at $30.00!

A Download Membership to ListPlanIt.com allows you to have instant, 24/7 access to the hundreds of lists & planning pages available. Find grocery lists and menu planners in Meal Planning, cleaning and project lists in Home Management, birthday and holiday planning pages in Holidays & Occasions, blog post planners and financial tracking pages in Business Planning, calendars and to do lists in Time Management, and so much more! Simply view the pages you want, type your own information right into them and save to your computer, and print whenever you would and as often as you would like.

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Plus I’ll be giving away TWO random prizes as well and they are:

1. Another prize package from Organize It Mom! – valued at $30.00!

“Organize It Mom! is THE place to find solutions to problems that drive moms crazy. The winner of this $30 gift prize will get to choose from the products on www.organizeitmom.com – from chore charts to toy labels, from routine cards to budget envelopes.”

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2. The Household Helper’s Guide To Home Organization For Busy Moms – e-book valued at $8.97!

This guide teaches you great techniques on Home Organization. Some of the things you’ll learn from reading this e-book are what it means to get organized and how to get started, discover how to rid your life of clutter for good, how to stop kitchen chaos, how to quickly & easily get the family room under control, the A-B-C formula for tackling the bedroom & bathroom and discover the no lose way to organizing the home office, garage, car, and all those seasonal items too! Also included is a bonus report “Organizing The Kids” as well as the recording and transcripts to a tele-seminar answering YOUR questions on how to get started organizing!

If you’d like to help spread the word please feel free to add the challenge button to your site or how about letting everyone know you’re participating by tweeting:

I’m participating in Org Junkie’s 28 Day Organizing Challenge with @orgjunkie during the month of Feb.  Wish me luck!  http://tiny.cc/KYtro

The Twitter hashtag we’ll use for this event will be #28DOC

This year I have asked my good friend and fellow Professional Organizer, Tanna from Complete Organizing Solutions to help me select the winners.  Be sure to visit her site throughout the month for helpful organizing tips and encouragement.

The Official 28 Day Organizing Challenge Rules:

• During the month of February participants have 28 days to organize either a whole room and/or small space in their home
• You must have a blog to participate
• You can enter multiple spaces if you’d like but participants will be asked to create a separate blog post for each entry
• Two Mr. Linky posts (one for small space and one for whole room) will go up on the morning of March 1st for participants to link up to with a post showcasing BOTH their before and after pictures of the newly organized space.  Participants will also be asked to answer a few questions about the process they followed.  Questions can be found here.
• Entries that don’t include both before and after pictures and/or question summary will be eliminated.
• The challenge end Mr. Linky cut off will be March 2nd at 12:00 pm PST.
• Judges will be specifically looking at overall transformation, creative use of space, storage solutions that work and overall experience.

Overall Transformation – A well organized, uncluttered, clearly defined and efficient space that lends itself to easy maintenance.

Creative Use of Space – Using creative solutions to allow you to maximize your space and create zones in a new and manageable way.

Storage Solutions that Work – Using storage solutions that allow you to establish boundaries and limits and contain “like with like”.

Overall Experience – The process that got you to the uncluttered space mentally and physically.

Sidenote:  My philosophy on organizing is that it doesn’t need to cost big bucks to do it and so you’ll notice that $$ spent is not even a factor in the judging criteria.  Many a creative storage solution can be found for next to nothing.  Be creative, think outside of the box and let your organizing imaginations run wild :)

Good luck everyone!!