40 Bags in 40 Days

If you've already fallen off your New Year's Resolution to get organized, I've got just the idea to get you back on track!  I stumbled across the concept of the 40 bags in 40 days challenge on Pinterest, which led me to the fun and fabulous Bec over at Little Lucy Lu.  And I'm so glad it did. 

When you visit Bec at Little Lucy Lu you will be greeted by her bubbly and candid personality, along with some great ideas. So fun.  I've only just recently met Bec through blogland, but she is truly sweet and has been so helpful to me on my blogging adventure!  Make sure to check out Little Lucy Lu, especially her laundry room and craft room - good stuff!!

So on to the 40 Bags 40 Days concept.  The concept is to fill a bag every day for 40 days to purge your house (good timing with Lent coming up this week).  It will be such a relief to clear the clutter!!  I cannot wait to get started.  In fact, I got a jump start this weekend in the kids' playroom!  I was in the cleaning groove, so I had to go with it!  Ended up with a grocery bag of trash, half a bag of paper to be recycled and a huge bin of toys to be donated!  Depending on the space, I'm sure I will have bags as big as garbage bags and bags as small as  grocery bags, but a bag none-the-less.  So are you with me?  Let's get a purging!!  Here's my list of 40 bags...could change of course, but this is what I'm thinking....

1. Laundry Room
2. Cubbies
3. Half bath vanity
4. Craft/gift closet
5. Hall cleaning closet
6. Coat closet
7. Living room side of Playroom
8. Dining room side of Playroom
9. Lower craft cupboards
10. Upper craft cupboards
11. Craft drawers
12. Junk drawer by sink
13. Upper cupboard to right of sink
14. Pantry
15. Refrigerator
16. Spare room closet - that may take a week to go through and give me about 10 bags
17. Kid's bathroom closet
18. Erin's closet
19. Jake's closet
20. Kyle's closet
21. Master closet
22. Erin's shelves
23. Old DVD's
24. Master bath vanity
25. Basement shelves - don't even want to go there
26. Car
27. Purse
28. Nightstand
29. Magazine bin
30. Office - desk
31. Office - shelf 1
32. Office - shelf 2
33. Box that's been sitting in my office I think since we moved in.
34. Box 2, same thing.
35. Box my mom brought over from her house
36. The other box my mom brought over from her house
37. Hand me down bags
38. Table in the basement
39. Trunk in the family room
40. Bins in playroom

Honestly, I don't know if 40 days is enough for my house, but it's probably all I can take.  Boy, the Salvation Army is going to love me when I show up with 40 bags!