And the winners of the 30 Day Org Challenge are….
The time has finally arrived to announce our winners! Whew, my fabulous judges Lara, Marcia and I, definitely didn’t have an easy task that is for sure, but we have reached a decision and are now ready for a nap 🙂
I really enjoyed reading all of your answers to the questions I asked. Wow you guys blew my socks off! Here is a sample of some of them:
The cost it takes to keep something is more than just tucking it away to be used “someday”. It is time, energy and sometimes money. I have found that a lot of things are just not worth keeping.
I learned that organizing a room motivates me to keep it organized because I know how much work went into getting it organized and I don’t want it to get out of control again …..
It has already made a huge difference! I feel less burdened and quite happy with myself when I see my organized areas. Plus the closet was just the beginning. I have gone on to organize so many other parts of the house, and now I feel so free. It sounds silly, but it’s funny how a mess can weigh on you emotionally. Not only that, but all those organized spaces have reduced the time my daily cleaning routine takes, so I have been benefitting from this change in several ways!
I need to take time to clean our office. It really doesn’t take alot to maintain; I just need to do it daily. If I don’t, things pile up and I become overwhelmed. When I’m overwhelmed, I stress, and something as simple as paying one bill becomes a major undertaking.
That in order to keep things organized, everything needs to have a place. Otherwise it is just too easy to throw something onto a shelf or into a pile and things become cluttered and messy.
No matter how overwhelming the task seems, just start. You might be a little surprised at what you can accomplish in a relatively short period of time!
Thank you again to all the participants and congratulations to all of you. So here we go!
First place in the Whole Room category and winner of $100.00 goes to Marianne of Wigglywourms and her amazing laundry room! Wow, what an awesome space she has created in order to manage laundry for 8 kids!!! Be sure to check it out!
First place in the Small Space category and winner of $30.00 and BHG’s Simply Perfect Storage magazine goes to Tammy of Tammy’s Times for her carefully planned sewing closet!
Second place in the Whole Room category and winner of $70.00 goes to Stacy (Aussie in America) for the amazing transformation in her garage. Awesome purging….wow!
Second place in the Small Space category and winner of To Love, Honor, and Vacuum donated by author, Sheila Wray Gregoire plus a Household Organizing File donated by Marcia goes to Kimberly of Temporary? Insanity for the creative changes she made in her bedroom closet.
Third place in the Whole Room category and winner of Organization Transformation donated by author, Liana George plus a spot in Marcia Francois’ Simplify your Life ecourse goes to Cindy of Life with Littles for her beautiful scrapbook room transformation!
Third place in the Small Space category and winner of a Household Organizing File donated by Marcia goes to Haley of Love, Life, Family for her wonderfully organized bedroom closet!
We have also chosen to give an honorable mention prize of the book Restoring Order to Your Home, kindly donated by my friend Kim, to Stacey of A Measure of Grace for the stunning retreat she created for herself and her husband in their master bedroom. I loved her motivation!
Our random draw winner of the Taste of Home’s 2007 Slow Cooker Recipes soft cover cookbook is……Motomom!
To all our remaining participants Marcia is offering a 15% discount on both her Simplify your Life ecourse and her Household Organizing File.
A HUGE thank you to Lifeorganizers for sponsoring this event and the sweet lovely ladies, Lara and Marcia, that gave up precious time to help me judge this challenge!!
Hi Laura
Woohoo – isn’t it exciting?
Cindy, Kymberly and Haley – I will get you started as soon as I get your email addresses.
The rest of the participants – I changed the discount to 15% so please email me first BEFORE you order for your secret discount code.
Congrats to all!
Congratulations to the winners–and to all who completed the challenge! I feel like I “won” as well because my basement has stayed tidy for 3 whole weeks and it’s easy to find whatever I need in there! Thanks for hosting and the motivation.
Well Laura, I’ll bet you’re as glad to have that done as the rest of us, aren’t you? I agree with Barb…I think we’re all feeling like winners with our great new spaces!
Congrats to all the winners! I feel like I won every time I go into my spare room. I open the door and think “Who’s house it this”? I’m so relieved that it’s not a mess anymore 🙂 Oh and I tagged you http://zumfamily.blogspot.com/2007/05/ive-been-taggedtwice.html
Congrats to all the winners! Everyone did such a good job!
Congrats to all the winners!!!
I can’t believe I won!!!!! Everyone did such a great job with their projects. It has been so fun to spend time in my clean, relaxing scrap room. I can actually find stuff now! Thank you to everyone who donated prizes,and judged the entries and thank you to Laura who initiated the whole thing! I know I needed the motivation to get it all done!
Congrats all! Your spaces look AWESOME!
Wow! I wasn’t trying to win anything, but of course, I’m insanely excited that I did!
Thanks for all your hard work putting this on. It truly has been a life changing experience.
And my closet is still organized. Whoohoo!
Oh WOW! I can’t believe I won, either! Everyone did such a fantastic job on their rooms and I think everyone was a winner. My laundry room still looks fantastic (hehe) doing laundry is actually fun now :o)
I really need to thank Laura again for this great challenge…I wouldn’t have gotten around to it if it wasn’t for taking the challenge and posting those horrible before pictures on my blog. Organizing makes such a huge difference as opposed to just cleaning…I’m sure if I’d just cleaned it wouldn’t look the way it does now. Thank you!!! Thanks to all the judges and those who donated prizes as well…and to all those who participated.
Wheeee…I’m so excited. I can’t wait to tell my husband ;o)
Marianne
What a great contest! Someday, when I actually own our home (soon, I hope, soon), I’m going to have to participate too. Congrats to the winners!!
Oh my! I’m so excited to have won! Thank you so much!!!
Wow those ladies did great! Those rooms and spaces all look fantastic.
Congratulations to the winners!! I can’t wait to go back and look again at their results!!
Thank you for the honorable mention! I will email you straight away with my address!!
I have really enjoyed looking at all the projects – what an inspiration!! Great job everyone! Thanks for hosting this again, Laura!
Congrats to all the winners! I can’t wait to have a few minutes to visit all the blogs and see what everyone accomplished.
Congrats to you too Laura for hosting such a fantastic challenge!
Oh, these are such an inspiration! Congratulations to the winners,
I won I won! I’m so happy for myself and all the other winners! Although I’ve been enjoying the benefits of my clean closet for weeks! Yay!
I emailed you my info! I can’t wait to get my file!
Haley 🙂
Congratulations everyone!!
Whether we received prizes or not, we all came out winners – I can *still* see my laundry room floor and walk through it without fear! Now that’s a prize. =)
Wow! I think everyone did a fantastic job. I’m feeling inspired to tackle some problem areas of my own. Thanks for the motivation!
Dear Laura,
I have been so busy this week that I had not checked your blog in a few days. And now I come and see I won second place!! Thank you so much! How nice.
It was a great experience and everyone did a good job.
Thanks again Laura and also Lara and Marcia. I really appreciate it!
Stacy
I’m so late here, but a big congratulations to the winners! How fabulous! =)
wow, those look great!
I just discovered your blog a few weeks ago….are you going to do another one of these challenges?
~Amy