One Less Mess

Projects and challenges help me focus on my objectives.  I am constantly attempting something new to help keep my natural tendency toward disorganization and accumulation from running totally amuck.   I stick with those things that work and just abandon the things that don't.  My oldest son once commented that we were trying something new "yet again" 

For 2012 I am starting a little project top help me focus on taming the organizational trouble spots in my home.   A few times a week I will tackle one area and subject it to the Organization Checklist. 

1. Analyze the problem
2. Clear and clean the area
3. Categorize and cull the stuff
4. Create Solutions
5. Organize
6. Replace, Re-home or Remove
7. Maintain

This challenge is a four day a week challenge for the year. There are a few weeks where I am planning not to do this, camping weeks, holidays and the like.  

For most weeks I want to identify and analyze two or three "messes" and fix them as well as see to the spots I have already hit.

Each spot is given one day where I spend about 30 minutes tackling it. 

The general rules for fixing the spot are :

1. It had to be a very limited space - something that can be cleared, cleaned and re-organized in 30 minuets or less.  One shelf would work, a whole closet won't.
2. If there is an area too large to tackle in one session it can be broken up over multiple days.  One dresser drawer each day, one book shelf spread over several days.
3. The solution to the problem must be inexpensive.  This is a budget project. Free is good.