Tired of waking each morning to a sea of toys left out after yesterday’s play?
Try a toy jail!
This simple concept helps train children to the put-away habit and brings an end to early-morning stumbles over Lego creations.
Designate a toy jail in today’s New Year Cleaning Challenge assignment.

Kids being kids, keeping a clean house is a struggle on a good day–and getting them to pitch in with household chores can rise to the level of a battle.
How do you chill the chore wars?
Today in the New Year Cleaning Challenge, we’ll consider ways to build teamwork and teach

One big obstacle to organizing children’s rooms? Too many toys!
Whether it’s fast food freebies, mushrooming collections or over-buying by doting grandparents (Guilty!), it’s easy for children’s toys to pile up well beyond their play value. How do you pull the plug on toy excess?
Try these tips to identify toy keepers,

What’s the secret to happy order in children’s rooms? You’ve got to get ’em organized!
Child-friendly storage solutions and daily maintenance routines are key to keeping children’s rooms in a state of livable, but children aren’t born with innate organizing skills.
As a parent, it’s your job to play professional organizer

Today’s the day, and we’re jumping for joy: it’s Kids’ Room Week in the New Year Cleaning Challenge.
Kids and their stuff bring special challenges to an organized home.
We’ll investigate solutions to storing children’s toys, games and clothing, tapping right-sized organizing options and kid-friendly maintenance routines to keep children’s rooms

It’s been a free-form week here at the New Year Cleaning Challenge. We’ve tackled the guest room (if we have one), and have used the week to catch up or to work on a bonus area in the household.
Today, take the last steps to clean, declutter and organize the guest

This week at the New Year Cleaning Challenge, we’ve been learning more about how to create a custom path to an organized life.
Today’s question: what’s your clutter personality?
Understanding what lies behind your need to hold onto clutter can make it easier to free yourself! Consider your unique clutter personality