Start out the new year with a clean slate

If you would just take 15 minutes and clear out one hot spot, your home will begin to look better. It may not be that immaculate cleaning that we were forced to do as children by perfectionist parents, but it will feel better when you walk in the door. It is so hard to clean around clutter.

Here is another fun tool we use to get rid of our clutter. I like to call it the "27 Fling Boogie." Grab a grocery bag and run through the house and pick up 27 items to throw away. Then grab another bag or box and run through the house and gather up 27 items to give away. Here is the rule for doing this. As you are tossing ask yourself these questions. Do you make me smile? Do I have a home for you? Do I have two of you? This will help you get rid of your clutter. Then put it in the trash to throw away or in the car to give away next time you are out.

I want for you what I have; peace that came from releasing the clutter and CHAOS and establishing baby-step habits that clean my home on automatic pilot. You deserve to live in a home that blesses you!

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Marla Cilley, a k a FlyLady, is the author of Sink Reflections (Bantam Books Trade Paperback). For more help, please go to her Web site: www.FlyLady.net. © 2006