Welcome to the 30-Day Organize-athon!
In today’s 5 minutes we’re going to express-organize your surfaces.
Ready? Let’s start.
Day 25: Declutter Your Surfaces
Step 1: Decide which surfaces you want to tackle in today’s 5 minutes. Depending on the state of your surfaces, you could choose to declutter one or more of the following:
- Kitchen counters
- Dining table
- Coffee table and side tables
- Bookshelves/display cabinets
- Sofas and armchairs
- Home office desk and filing cabinet
- Bathroom vanities
- Beds
- Floors
- Entry hall table/consoles.
Step 2: Quickly clear your selected surface(s) by:
- Discarding anything you don’t use or love (a little ruthlessness will earn you lovely, uncluttered surfaces that look great and make you feel wonderful)
- Putting away things that have a home
- Finding a home for things that don’t (if you’re struggling to find a home for something, consider tossing it instead).
And you’re done!
Got an Extra 5 Minutes?
- Repeat step 2 for another surface – or several!
- Wipe down your freshly decluttered surface so it gleams.
Now doesn’t that look and feel fabulous!
The 30-Day Organize-athon Mantra
Move fast. Don’t overthink. Let it go!
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This is going to take me awhile.
All done 🙂
Cleaned off the kitchen counters!
Love this one….finished!
I did the 5 minutes, but this is a work-in-progress, so I’m still at it!
Done! I decluttered our desktop. Now it is clear except for a small stack of papers to be filed.
Finished. Did this on Saturday
5 min = cleaned off kitchen desk.
Did the kitchen table for this one, even took one of the extra leaves out. It looked so much better, I went to work getting rid of the counter top clutter. I love the extra space.
The kitchen table had become cluttered in the last 2 weeks. It’s where everything gets laid when we walk in the door. Cleaned off. 🙂
This job could take me the rest of the week, but I put in my time (plus) for the day…
Hi
This was a quick easy one
Unlike the rest of the house after starting on my bedside
Wait til you see the blog when i get a chance to type it up
Rather than just a 5 minute task it has turned into a three day task
Luv Deb
all done!
Done! 🙂
Kitchen table….done!
it took 5 minutes just to clear the counter/drop zone. It would take literally a day to clean up everything. I didn’t realize how bad I had let things get in here. We really have not done a good job of weeding things out as they come in the door. I nned to stop bringing junk mail in here. Today’s activity is done (the 5 minute part) but is a work in progress!! 🙂
Wow! I had started doing just this task over the weekend so most of mine just required a double-check and they were good. Oh, except for the desk, which is worked on daily and requies a pith helmet and rope around my waist for safety’!!! 🙂
Another one bites the dust!
I chose my floors.
I feel like the whole house is clean when my floors are clean, even when the benches/dinner table/desks are covered with ‘stuff’. I think it is because of the nice smell that is through out the house. A bit like when you do laundry with the door open.
Kitchen counter is cleared.
Boy, I could do a whole month of surfaces! But I did pick one & got it done.