The Challenge: Organizing, purging, and generally trying to make more room in our 1800 sq. ft. house (+/- 200 sq. ft.) by the time our baby is born in October.

The Motivation: Alicia, Danielle, Elizabeth, Jessica

The Reading List:
Clutter’s Last Stand: It’s Time To De-junk Your Life!
Confessions of an Organized Homemaker: The Secrets of Uncluttering Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life
The Hidden Art of Homemaking
Is There Life After Housework
It’s All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff
Keeping House: The Litany of Everyday Life
Splendor in the Ordinary: Your Home as a Holy Place

The First Step: “Just do it“

The Second Step (begun yesterday): An adapted version of Danielle Bean’s simple chore chart (It works much better than telling your children to do something and then forgetting who you told to do it.)

I hope to be able to share my family’s progress over the next few months.