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52 Week Challen e!
Organize your home! Clean your home! Follow this 52-week challenge at your own pace. Mix
up the weeks so that you are always crossing one thing off your list each week.
1. Start off the new year by creating a cleaning schedule 22. Clean the pantry and food storage area again.
Every day = Make beds, wipe bathroom and kitchen 23. Clean refrigerator and freezer.
counters, de-clutter one room, one load of 24. Organize your recipes. Get a notebook and clear plas-
laundry, put away clean laundry. tic sleeves.
Monday = Vacuum and dust. 25. Create a master grocery shopping list. Do some meal
Tuesday = Clean bathrooms. planning.
Wednesday = D eep clean kitchen including microwave, 26. Clean the basement if you have one.
stove, cabinets, coffee maker, silverware 27. Clean the garage if you have one.
tray, mop floors. 28. Clean the attic if you have one.
Thursday = Vacuum and mop. 29. Update your address book and contact information
Friday/Saturday = Work on something from this list. including email.
Sunday = Do as you wish! Day of play! 30. Update your passwords list.
2. Food cabinet or pantry closet 31. Organize your home office. If you don’t have an entire
3. Spices room to call your office, get a filing cabinet or tote to
4. Fridge/freezer organize and keep everything together.
5. Coffee, tea 32. Deep clean the bathroom again.
6. Miscellaneous foods 33. Organize your make-up. Throw out what you don’t use.
7. Cups/mugs/travel cups/water bottles 34. Clean the linen closet.
8. Stemware/glasses 35. Organize your jewelry and accessories.
9. Appliances, big and small: clean or replace. 36. Organize your shoes. Toss ones you’re not wearing any
10. Deep clean your floors. Try a steam cleaner if you hav- longer. Buy a shoe rack!
en’t already. Fix broken floor tiles and grout. 37. Clean your vehicle inside and out.
11. Clean the washing machine. Either change the dryer 38. Clean your entry way / mud room.
exhaust tube or at least clean out the lint. 39. Deep clean the living /family rooms.
12. Deep clean the bathrooms. Caulk as needed. Repair 40. Deep clean the dining room.
any links. Replace shower curtains. 41. Organize your entertainment items for get-togethers.
13. Get ready for a garage sale. 42. Organize your photo collection. Print out those digital
14. Wash the windows. Wash or dry clean curtains. Or buy photos! Frame your favorites. Frame photos for gifts!
new curtains and blinds. 43. Organize your craft stuff.
15. Organize the kitchen again. 44. Organize your books.
16. Clean/dust ceiling fans, light fixtures, vents, etc. 45. Go through your emergency preparedness kits includ-
17. Deep clean living and dining rooms. Launder linens, ing fire extinguisher, first aid kit, smoke/CO2 alarms,
pillows, shams, or replace! Clean and vacuum, includ- important phone numbers.
ing furniture. Time for a new recliner? Need a new 46. Organize purses / beach bags.
dining table? How about a buffet to display your favor- 47. Organize gift wrapping stuff.
ite pieces of china, pottery and glassware? 48. Prepare a home inventory.
18. Deep clean the bathroom again. 49. Go through stuff for your pets. If you don’t have a
19. F ocus on your bedroom(s). Clean out under the beds, pet, consider rescuing a pet from a shelter. Make a
side tables and dressers. Rotate the mattress. Buy a foam donation to a shelter with old blankets and towels.
bed topper! Buy new bedspreads! Add a bedside rug. 50. Create a family calendar for the next year. Give as gifts!
20. Clean under all the sinks in your house. 51. Organize cleaning supply closet/cabinet.
21. Tackle kitchen cabinets and drawers. Get some orga- 52. Fix something broken that’s been sitting around tak-
nizing tools. ing up space but not being used.
— Courtesy of LivingWithDana.com
