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Crazy Effective 5-Day Decluttering Challenge for Quick Wins

December 30

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Declutter My Home Challenge – A FREE 5-Day Decluttering Challenge to Clean Your Home!

Get ready for the Declutter My Home Challenge, a decluttering challenge that will help you see easy results in just five short days.

You can start this challenge at any time!!!!

Are you sick of cleaning up all the time? Or feeling like a failure with maintaining your home?

I was there. My house was a mess, and I felt like a mess.

Use this challenge to gain momentum in finally clearing the clutter in your home with this decluttering challenge.

What’s included in the decluttering challenge?

  • 5 days filled with simple, actionable tasks you can do to clear the clutter in your home
  • Free decluttering checklists along the way to help you do a deeper dive into each category
  • Ongoing support and encouragement through the Happy Simple Mom Newsletter
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Clutter and anxiety

It was Christmas 2016, and I was over it. I was stressed, working overtime from home (even though I was technically on vacation), and my home was constantly a disaster.

My husband was gone every other week, and I was parenting two toddlers alone the other weeks.

I have anxiety, and the stress of work and the chaos of my home sent me into regular panic attacks. It’s weird how your house being a mess can make you feel like a mess.

I wanted to cry. Every. Single. Day. I was miserable. I felt like a failure, and my crazy house was a visual reminder of my perceived failures as a mother and a wife. 

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Decluttering Challenge - Declutter My Home - Clear the clutter

A new start and a new home

Then I made a New Year’s resolution. Never in my life had I kept a New Year’s resolution, so it wasn’t anything too remarkable.

I figured it would make my January slightly more bearable. Maybe my anxiety would be kept at bay a little longer while I made minor improvements.

I was going to simplify. I didn’t know how. I didn’t really know why. I just knew it was something my soul (and my sanity) needed. 

I started by decluttering my closet. I got rid of a few grocery bags of clothes in the first few days. 

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I decluttered my closet first

I then decided I had an embarrassing amount of clothes and a spending problem. This led to a one month no-spending challenge, specific to clothes.

One month, turned into a commitment for one year. (I know, it sounds crazy. Read my no spending challenge story for more details.) 

Not buying clothes and realizing I had more than enough led me to cleaning out more bags of stuff. Before I knew it, I had cleaned out six van loads of stuff! 

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Declutter your closet in the declutering challenge.

Clutter me crazy!

It was crazy. And relieving. I was putting aside at least 30 minutes three days a week to clear out another space. 

You know how people get who don’t get their workout and feel like they NEED it?

That was me with decluttering. If I didn’t get my decluttering session, I could feel the anxiety of all our stuff creeping back up on me. 

Clearing out the clutter in our home was life-changing. It helped me simplify my life in ways I didn’t know possible, and it all started with a half-hearted New Year’s resolution. 

I now LOVE a good New Year’s resolution. I love the potential it can hold to change one’s life. It’s a fresh slate. 

Join the challenge!

If you are where I was a few years ago, I have a challenge for you. This decluttering challenge will help get you started and help build the momentum you need to see a difference in your home, once and for all. 

Stop letting your home make you feel like a failure. 

Simplify your life. Simplify your home. 

Join me for a 5-day Declutter My Home Challenge . I will give you support and small, actionable steps to help you make a real difference in your home.

At the end of the challenge, I will give you an extra boost of tips and direction to help you get through the rest of your year. 

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