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 with @orgjunkie in her 29 Day Organizing Challenge during the month of Feb. and you can to! http://bit.ly/ddpVMV

The Twitter hashtag we’ll use for this event will be #29DOC

Also if you haven’t done so yet be sure to follow me on Facebook for regular updates as well.

Buttons:

Please feel free to use both challenge buttons on your site.  These fun and colorful buttons were designed for me by the lovely Amanda at Espresso Chic Design.

Official Challenge Rules:

• During the month of February participants have 29 days to organize a whole room(s) 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
• A linky post 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 their newly organized space.  Participants will also be asked to answer a few questions about the process they followed and experience they had.  Questions to come.
• Entries that don’t include both before and after pictures and/or question summary will be eliminated.
• The challenge end linky cut off will be March 2nd at 2:00 pm PST.
• Judging will specifically look at overall transformation, creative use of space, storage solutions that work and overall personal experience.  A point system will be assigned to each and used for simplification.

Judging Criteria:

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

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.  I’m not necessarily going for designer spaces here, I’m more interested in the journey you took to get to the end result.  I’m looking for evidence that shows me that not only did you clear the clutter from your space but that you are ready to take what you learned in the PROCESS to move on and tackle other cluttered spaces in your life.  Now that to me is a success story!

Prize Details:

$50 Gift Card from Organized Living

Organized Living offers high quality organizational items. From the closet to the kitchen to the garage, we help make life easier!

One Year Subscription to Getting Organized Magazine

Getting Organize Magazine is the go-to resource for those looking to organize their homes or their work. This comprehensive, easy to read magazine makes organizing fun, easy and how-to as possible. You’ll get previews of the latest products, tips on how to conquer your paper piles, advice on issues like attention deficit disorder (ADD) and much more. Getting Organized Magazine was created by a Professional Organizer with several years of client experience and is the only one on the market solely dedicated to the top of organization.

52 Home Organizing Missions + Ultimate To-Do List Pack: Home & Family from Get Organized Wizard

Both of these programs were created by Michele Connolly of Get Organized Wizard to help you move from procrastination to action. Tens of thousands of people around the globe use their materials to set goals and get organized in business life, personal life, and home & family life. Get Organized Wizard programs help busy men and women take action toward a life of greater happiness, productivity and personal organization.

Big Mesh Sports Basket from freedomRail

freedomRail offers the perfect combination of strength, ease and versatility to save you time, money and stress. freedomRail puts you in control!

Six Stackable Organizing Bins from SpaceSavers

SpaceSavers offers products that increase household efficiency and functional storage space for DIY home organizers and small businesses. Find them on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.

$50 Gift Card from Clever Container

Clever Container is all about organizing, functionality, ideas and fun! The only DSA approved company marketing exclusively organizing products, we undoubtedly fill a niche! We have fabulous products to help you organize your life. We’ll provide clever & helpful tips whether you are just getting started on your organizational journey or are already an organizing “junkie”. We offer excellent incentives and free products whether you host a party or join our team. So, fulfill your curiosity and contact Colleen – Consultant #10 for more information!

A Collection of Glow Baby Products

(menu planner, weekly undated grid pad, chore chart pad, to-do list notepad and shopping list notepad)

Glow Baby is dedicated to providing unique and user-friendly scheduling tools for today’s busy parents. Glow Baby products are all about helping parents save time and stay organized. Glow Baby Journals, Planners, Calendars and Lists help parents keep track of daily activities such as; feeding, sleeping, diapering, bathing, first foods by type, meal planning, family activities, general to do lists for daily tasks, groceries etc. Also find Glow Baby on Facebook.

Large Lay-n-Go Storage and Activity Mat (blue)

Lay-n-Go™ is a patent pending activity mat, cleanup, storage and carryall solution in one that offers kids and parents a great way to easily manage their toy collections at home or wherever your travels may take you!

Download Membership from ListPlanIt.com

ListPlanIt.com is home to hundreds of lists, checklists, worksheets, schedules, inventories, and to dos, all geared toward helping its members live a more organized life. A Download Membership allows you to print or download the lists you want, type into them with your own information, and save them to your computer for future reference.

$50 Ikea Gift Card from Simply Savvy

The Simply Savvy blog is all about sharing organization and design solutions which are affordable, flexible, interesting, and inspiring. Our goals for both our readers and our clients is to help simplify your daily life in a way that is manageable and orderly–creating solutions which fit your needs, style, and personality–and are just Simply Savvy!

Three Sweater Bins (Ivory/Red) from G.U.S – Great Useful Stuff

Great Useful Stuff is a boutique online retailer based in San Francisco that designs and sells a highly edited selection of products that meet our simple criteria: If it’s Great + it’s Useful = then it’s got to be GUS! From stylish gear to organize your high-tech personal electronic gadgets to specialized totes, boxes and bags to conceal your clutter, we have it all! For more information, please visit http://www.greatusefulstuff.com.

$50.00 Gift Card from Thirty-One Gifts

Thirty-One Gifts is a company that sells organizing products with style, convenience and quality at an amazingly affordable price. Thirty-One offers fashionable solutions for our busy go-here, go-there lifestyles, and has many options to fit every personality type and every situation. New products are continually being developed building on the idea that they must be stylish, functional, affordable and easy to give as gifts to encourage someone special. For more information on Thirty-One products including specials and organizing ideas visit consultant, Kristie Jo on Facebook.

3 ePlanners (Meals, Home, Planner) from ListPlanIt.com

ListPlanIt.com is home to hundreds of lists, checklists, worksheets, schedules, inventories, and to dos, all geared toward helping its members live a more organized life. ListPlanIt has 17 ePlanners available as a convenient, downloadable packet. Each ePlanner is filled with lists that can be typed into, printed, and/or saved to your computer for future reference.

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One Year Subscription to Getting Organized Magazine

Getting Organize Magazine is the go-to resource for those looking to organize their homes or their work. This comprehensive, easy to read magazine makes organizing fun, easy and how-to as possible. You’ll get previews of the latest products, tips on how to conquer your paper piles, advice on issues like attention deficit disorder (ADD) and much more. Getting Organized Magazine was created by a Professional Organizer with several years of client experience and is the only one on the market solely dedicated to the top of organization.

BONUS

I’ll also be giving away one prize to one random participant selected from those that link up their finished room at the end of the month. That prize is a:

$50 Amazon Gift Card from HATCHEDit.com

HATCHEDit.com wants to help you organize the chaos and more efficiently communicate and collaborate with those closest to you. HATCHEDit.com is the creation of two women, Megan Brown & Kirsten Bischoff. As both busy women and busy moms, they sought to create a free, organization tool that would streamline and improve the way families communicate with each other and with those closest to them. At the core of HATCHEDit.com is a family calendar that provides the ability to fluidly communicate important information to the people that assist you (grandparents, babysitters, au pairs, spouses, and children). Other key features include the ability to create personal groups to get rid of email streams, updating news & blog feeds, and a place to curate all that is important in your life.

Questions?

Ask in the comments below.

Good luck on your month long organizing adventure everyone!!