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Homemaking 101 Series: Declutter, Organize & Beautify One Week at a Time

by Marci Ferrell
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Declutter, Organize & Beautify Your Home One Week at a Time

I have a confession to make – I probably have 20 books on how to organize my home.  I have read some, skimmed some and not even looked at some.  There have been bits and pieces I have gleaned from them but I can tell you the easiest way to organize your house is to get rid of the clutter.

This seems like such a simple concept but why do so many of us live in the fear of having company?  Never satisfied in our homes?  Always thinking that the next item we buy to decorate or make our lives “easier” will be just the fix we need.  Only to find out we have too much to take care of and don't need or use half of it.

We all have clutter.  Areas in our homes where items accumulate that we don't need or use.  This next series of posts in the Homemaking 101 Series today is to help us to get rid of the clutter in our homes.  My favorite reminder from Flylady is “you can't organize clutter”. Every week we will have an assignment of various areeas in our homes to declutter, organize and beautify.

Rooms and Areas We Will Tackle Together:

Kitchen – Cupboards, Counters, Sink, Under Sink, Kitchen Table, Drawers, Pantry & Kitchen Desk.

Main Bathroom – All storage areas in the bathroom, sinks, shower, tub areas and simplifying for easy cleaning.

Master Bedroom & Master Closet – Included in this one will be closet organization along with dressers, nightstands, under bed storage, books and making your bedroom a haven.

Kids Rooms – Closets, desks, beds, under beds, toys and books.  Working to make the room one your children (if age appropriate) can clean themselves.

Toy Storage – Decluttering, storing, rotating and making them easy for children to pick up after themselves.

Half-Bath or Powder Room – Tidy under sink, minimize items and set-up to keep supplies stocked and bathroom clean daily.

Family/Living Room – Declutter table tops, game storage, DVD's, CD's, magazines, books, photo albums, simplifying the space for easy cleaning.

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Laundry Room – Organizing dirty clothes area, laundry supplies, decluttering unused supplies, sorting iron/ironing board, drying racks and appliance maintenance.  Making the room a joyful spot to do laundry.

Entryway/Mud Room – Tidy your main entry where guests enter and we will organize and work through if you have a back entry where your family leaves their shoes, coats etc.  We will declutter, organize, clean and add a touch of warmth and beauty to your entryways.

Our Vehicles – As busy mama's our cars can get a bit neglected.  We will talk about important items to have in them and how to store our vehicles to be kid friendly and easy to keep clean.

Important Info:

Every day for the week (please take Sunday's off) we will set a timer for 15 minutes and spend that time decluttering, organizing and beautifying one area of our home.  This is not meant to overwhelm or add to your already busy day.  The hope is it will simplify your days by having an easier house to clean and take care of in less than a few months time.

Some rooms we will spend more than one week in.  (An example is the kitchen – there are three weeks planned to go though it together.) 

Once the clutter is removed and the room is organized, we'll work together on how to add a little order and beauty to the room.  

Deep down we all want our homes to be welcoming and to reflect beauty and warmth.

During these series of posts we'll have more additions to the Homemaking 101 Series in the areas of budgeting, taming the laundry monster, how to use a planner to be more efficient, caring for yourself, easy hospitality, meal time routines and many more.  

We will start on Monday, July 20th in the Kitchen and spend the next three weeks together decluttering, organizing and beautifying our most used space in the home.  I will work to put encouragement and small tasks up on my Facebook page to keep you motivated.

If you're joining in with us please leave a comment here or on my Facebook page.  It is a great place to share our goals and tips together so we can work together in community.  Gather your in person girlfriends and get them on board with us too.

Have any ideas on posts you would like to see in this series? Please leave a comment below.  

Visit all the posts in the Homemaking 101 Series here.

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Declutter, Organize & Beautify Your Home One Week at a Time

Related posts:

  1. Homemaking Binder Series: Detailed Cleaning Checklists for Living Room & Family Room
  2. Declutter & Organize Your Half Bathroom
  3. Homemaking 101 Series: Decluttering & Organizing Our Kitchens Part Three {Pantry & Kitchen Desk}
  4. Homemaking 101 Series: Decluttering & Organizing Our Kitchens Part Two {Refrigerator, Kitchen Table & Cupboards}


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  1. Liz says

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    Perfect timing. Count me in ❤

  2. Missy says

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    I need this.

  3. Sherry says

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    Kitchen tops and tiled walls done today. Feeling good. Cant wait to tackle next thing tomorrow – under sink and crockery cupboard….

  4. Gabriela says

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    Thank you so much! I’m starting today, too.

  5. Luanda says

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    I’m looking forward to this!

  6. Sherry says

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    Just came across this site. Really ex ited to try this. So need some organisation in my life!

  7. Susan says

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    I can hardly wait for this to start!

  8. Kaycee says

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    I am excited to try this! Needing all the help I can get as a mom of two working full time.

  9. Kristin says

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    Im in!

  10. angie says

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    looking forward to this! thank you!

  11. Robin says

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    I’m hoping to join in, too! However, I am not on facebook to receive the encouragement and small tasks. If it’s not too much ask, can you email these to us? Thanks!

    • Marci Ferrell says

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      I don’t have an easy way to do that Robin but I will work on something for my email subscribers. Pondering a way to put it in a newsletter. I’m not the most techy grandma blogger but I keep on learning ;). Thankful you’re joining us too!

  12. Sharon Rose Wilcox says

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    Please add me! Blessings!!

  13. Amy says

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    I really need this. Very timely!

  14. Lynn says

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    How will this work into a a schedule for those of us who work outside the home?

    • Marci Ferrell says

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      Lynn you only do what you have time to. We are only spending 15 minutes a day in a room so that would still be very doable working outside the home. If we have more time I’m going to encourage you to spend as much as you can as you’re decluttering and organizing. The benefit is we gain so much more free time in the long run. Try to stick with us and see how you do. Remember, there is no pressure you just do what you can manage. Something is always better than nothing ;). Blessings to you!

  15. Salina Fedrick says

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    Let’s do this thing!!! 🙂

  16. hm says

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    So looking forward to this

  17. Becky W says

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    Hoping we can make this work! 🙂 looking forward to a cleaner, more inviting home!

  18. Sal says

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    I need this. Thank you for the encouragement.

  19. Michele Nichols says

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    Following … Maybe doing ….

  20. Teresa says

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    I’d really like to de-clutter. Can you reform a pack rat?

  21. melinda says

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    Well count me in!!

  22. Lesleigh says

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    I’m in! The “planner” in me wants to know how many weeks in total this will run. Thanks for doing this series.

    • Marci Ferrell says

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      Lesleigh I don’t have a time frame yet because I keep adding more areas of our homes in my mind lol. When I get some time to sit and go through it in the next couple of weeks I’ll try to share it in one of the posts or back here to you too :). I’m a planner to so I totally get where you’re coming from ;).

      • Lesleigh says

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        Thanks Marci! I really appreciate this series!

  23. Leah says

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    I have been struggling to get rid of clutter and am sooo excited to join in!!

  24. Heather says

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    joining!!

  25. Bonnie says

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    Sounds great!

  26. kristen says

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    So excited to try this!

  27. sara kinsley says

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    Definitely need this!

  28. Angela says

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    This is wonderful! I’m all in,I need this.

  29. Suzanne says

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    Awesome. I really need this.

  30. Paula says

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    This is perfect timing! I need less clutter and more organization in my life before the craziness of the school year starts. I really like that your adding beauty to it too!

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I know we can all relate to self-pity as women, wi I know we can all relate to self-pity as women, wives, and mothers.  How many times do we focus on our needs that aren’t met?  Unfair situations or circumstances?  Self-pity is a selfish tendency that takes our eyes off Christ and puts them on ourselves.  We forget that “God works all things together for good to those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.” Are we able to give God “thanks in all things”?⁣
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Come take a listen to EP 105: Practical Steps to Overcome Self-Pity at the link in my profile (click on the link under the blue arrows and then this image).
"Your household is the most important schoolroom y "Your household is the most important schoolroom your children will ever know. And the lessons they learn don't begin and end when you crack open the family Bible. They are always watching and learning from your example—often without even realizing it. That's a tremendous responsibility and opportunity for Christian parents—one that we must make the most of, for God's glory and our children's good."⁣
 ~ John MacArthur⁣
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Come listen to EP 20: The Blessings of Loving Our Children at the link in my profile @thankfulhomemaker (click on the link under the blue arrows and then this image).
"The visible church is where you will find Christ' "The visible church is where you will find Christ's kingdom on earth, and to disregard the kingdom is to disregard its King."⁣
~ Michael Horton⁣
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Read - Building Loving Relationships In Your Church Family at the link in my bio @thankfuhomemaker (click on the link under the blue arrows and then this image).
Isaiah 48:10:Behold, I have refined you, but not a Isaiah 48:10:Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver;  I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.⁣
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Israel is being refined for the honor and glory of the Lord. I need the reminder that everything the Lord allows in my life is for my good and His glory. All that He does and allows is to further His eternal purposes. ⁣
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He continues to remove the dross from my life in the furnace of affliction, and through each trial and circumstance of my life, the hope is I'm becoming more and more molded and shaped into the image of Christ. ⁣
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Susan Huntington shared on this passage:⁣
"...if our blessed God sees that the disciple, like his Master, must be made perfect through sufferings, ought we not to welcome every means which will conduce to this blessed end? Can we desire to be babes in Christ all our days? If it is a proof of sonship to be chastised, may it not prove a special favor to be greatly chastised? ⁣
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If we were asked what the greatest good is, should we not answer that it is conformity to God? If we were asked what the best circumstances are for the Christian to be placed in, should we not answer that they are those that will, most constantly and most effectually, promote his conformity to God? Shall we then pray for afflictions? By no means. We are weak, and are crushed before the moth. We should not pray for what we do not know that we could bear. ⁣
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We should habitually pray for conformity to God, and quietly leave it to Him to determine by what means He will effect this blessed end."⁣
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-Excerpt taken from my favorite devotional - Seasons of the Heart: A Year of Devotions from One Generation of Women to Another by Donna Kelderman (link to the book is in my profile @thankfulhomemaker - click on the link under the blue arrows, and then this image).
Preaching the gospel to yourself. It's a phrase we Preaching the gospel to yourself. It's a phrase we've all heard, and we all agree with, but deep down, we're like, okay, what does that look like? Or how do I make that practical in my day-to-day life when my marriage is hard? Or the kids are out of control? Or there's an illness in my family, or I'm just stuck in a sinful pattern? Or the house is in chaos, and I don't know where to begin? ⁣
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The reality is we're always saying something to ourselves in our minds, especially in those moments of chaos or difficulty. ⁣
Is what we're speaking to ourselves centered on the truths of God's Word, or are we buying into the lies of the world? ⁣
We need to be talking to ourselves and not just listening to ourselves. But what do we need to be talking to ourselves about? ⁣
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This is what we're going to work through together in EP 69: Preaching the Gospel to Yourself - link in my bio @thankfulhomemaker (click on the link under the blue arrows and then this image).
"Your worst days are never so bad that you are bey "Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace."⁣
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Read more at God's Blessing Does Not Depend On Our Performance at the link in my bio @thankfulhomemaker (click on the link under the blue arrows and then this image).
How many times at church do you find yourself disc How many times at church do you find yourself discussing non-spiritual things? As believers, our relationships with others in the body of Christ are unlike anything non-believers will ever experience. It is such a joy when you come across another Christian that you haven't met before, and because of the common bond of Christ, it is as if you have known them forever.⁣
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I have a favorite book that gets used quite often by Donald S. Whitney called Simplify Your Spiritual Life. In the section, Simplifying our Spiritual Life with Others, he guides us to drive the conversations into the spiritual. Wouldn't we all as believers like our conversations with other believers to be directed towards things related to knowing God, Bible reading and application, theology, evangelism, and prayer, to name a few.⁣
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Mr. Whitney shares some questions that are a natural help in directing your conversations with your brothers and sisters in the faith to the spiritual.  This is a handy list to keep in your Bible, planner, or purse.⁣
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"If there is one maverick molecule in all the univ "If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God."⁣
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Thoughts to ponder on the resurrection from John M Thoughts to ponder on the resurrection from John MacArthur:⁣
The basic truth of the resurrection undergirds a number of other truths.⁣
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1. It gives evidence that the Word of God is totally true and reliable. Jesus arose precisely when and in the way He had predicted (see Mt. 12:40; 16:21; 17:9, 23).⁣
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2. The resurrection means that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, as He claimed to be, and that He has power over life and death.⁣
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3. The resurrection proves that salvation is complete, that on the cross Christ conquered sin, death, and hell and rose victorious.⁣
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4. The resurrection proves that the church has been established. Jesus had declared, “I will build My church; and the gates of Hades shall not overpower it” (Mt. 16:8)… His resurrection proved that death itself could not prevent Christ from establishing His church.⁣
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5. The resurrection proves that judgment is coming. Jesus declared that the heavenly Father “has given all judgment to the Son” (Jn. 5:22), and since the Son is now risen and alive, His judgment is certain.⁣
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6. The resurrection of Jesus Christ proves that heaven is waiting. Jesus promised, “In My house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you” (Jn. 14:2). Because Christ is alive by the resurrection, believers have the assurance that He is now preparing a heavenly dwelling for them.⁣
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~Above via John MacArthur - Matthew Commentary 24-28, Moody, 1989, p. 314-315.
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