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Week Three

  • Develop an organizational plan for the whole family. Delegate chores.
  • Call a family council meeting concerning the plan.
  • Talk to a significant family member about your organizational goals.
  • Find and display a magazine picture to represent your dream home.
  • Write out five or more dream statements about your house.
  • List your three great frustrations about the house.
  • Enlist a buddy to whom you can be accountable for your progress.
  • Write and post a family reminder in trouble areas.
  • Throw out old food from the refrigerator.
  • Survey cleaning tools in the grocery or hardware store.
  • Write a menu for the week and post it on the refrigerator.
  • Use a web browser to look up web pages about household organizing.

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We should bring things into our houses only because we planned for them and because we need them. Sometimes, though, we act impulsively (and therefore contribute to our struggle to create an organized, beautiful home!) because of these alluring four-letter words: free, sale, cute, good, and nice. Watch Those Four-Letter Words!

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