New Year’s Resolutions For Your Home

How do you begin to make New Year’s resolutions for your home? Start with this free printable that helps you clear clutter, be thrifty, get organized and schedule home projects throughout the year.

I’ll be honest my new year resolutions for myself are very simple.

• Live more clutter free by having a place for everything and everything in its place.
• Go see the things – get out of my house and explore.
• Do what God told me to do even when I feel unqualified and write more faith based posts and share more of my story.

What are your new year’s resolutions? Are they for your health, your joy, or for something else?

If it is the something else and is that something else to get a handle on your home? Your home’s clutter, the projects that you want to or need to do, or to save money? These new year’s resolutions for our homes are easy to keep with a plan!! And I have made a free printable for the whole year to help you stick to the plans.

New Year’s Resolutions For Your Home #1 Lose The Weight

Clear the Clutter in your Home

Yes, one of our resolutions will be to lose the weight but this will be the overwhelming weight of stuff. I encourage you to clean one area or room at a time to do a thorough job. Spread this out throughout the year if you need to in order to not get overwhelmed. On the printable, see below, you have a column for lose the weight. Use this area for notes for what you’re thinking of keeping, who you’re donating to, or a repurpose project.

When losing the weight in the room or area you’ve chosen make a box (or boxes) for –

• Toss – Is it beyond repair? Out of date to be safely used? An instruction manual that can be viewed online?
• Donate – It might be out of style for you but some teenager is going to be so happy they found your high waisted jeans at the thrift store! That chair you bought because you were going to learn how to recover furniture? Let someone else have that big dream if it has sat there for more than a year or two!
• Keep – Furniture, frames and decorative pieces that you can paint or alter in some way and use in your home, memories (do these need to be given to a family member or put in a keepsake album or chest?), seasonal items you use on a regular basis
• Repurpose – Can the frame be made into a tray for the coffee table, can a standing mirror be made into this, or those old spindles into these, or an old popcorn bucket into a beautiful centerpiece?

New Year’s Resolutions For Your Home #2 Keep The Good Stuff

Purpose or Plan For The Keepers

Transfer your keep list to this second column. In order to organize the area or room you are losing weight (or stuff) in you will need to know what is coming back in or staying. This will help you with planning your space! Use this to measure for storage boxes if needed. Or to rearrange furniture if a piece is coming in that you have repurposed or redid.

New Year’s Resolutions For Your Home #3 – Get Organized

Find Or Create A Place For Everything In Your Home

Being organized and staying organized just makes sense:

• It helps your home to function better -everything in its place and in a sparkly world full of cupcakes everyone knows where it is!
• Less clutter creates less stress – who can relax in the middle of piles?!
• Able to gather people in your home at the drop of a hat (but don’t drop it there – go put it where it belongs) because your house can be tidied quickly!

Now it’s time to take your keep and repurpose piles and find a place for it. On the printable in the organized column use this notes column to make notes of where everything will go.

New Year’s Resolutions For Your Home #4 – Save More

Find Ways For Your Home To Be More Budget Friendly

Make it a new year’s resolution each month to find ways to be budget friendly. In the middle of the printable is a section to brainstorm and list the ways you and your family find to be budget friendly. Shopping year round for the holidays helps make decorating budget friendly for example.

New Year’s Resolutions For Your Home #5 – Plan For Projects

Make a plan weekly, monthly, semi annually and annually

At the bottom of your printable is a place to plan for projects for each month. On the left side write in a small weekly project, a monthly project and if it is happening that month a semi annual and annual project. On the right side check off these projects as they are done! Here is a list of ideas – this is not a complete list for sure!

• January Ideas for Projects – Deep cleaning or Christmas purge and storage refresh
• February Ideas for Projects – Deep clean garage & laundry room and prepare for spring projects
• March Ideas for Projects – Clean outdoor areas & change air filters and smoke detector batteries
• April Ideas for Projects – Freshen outdoor furniture & spring planting
• May Ideas for Projects – Clean gutters, pull weeds, clean dryer vent of build up, spring planting
• June Ideas for Projects – Change air filters, check smoke detector, pull weeds
• July Ideas for Projects – Deep clean inside
• August Ideas for Projects – Replace mulch as needed, pressure wash outdoor areas
• September Ideas for Projects – Prep for fall entertaining – check tablecloths and serving dishes
• October Ideas for Projects – Clean gutters, rake leaves, decorate for fall and Halloween
  • Copper Fall Mantel
  • Pastel Fall Mantel
  • A Cute not Spooky Halloween Mantel
• November Ideas for Projects – Prepare for Thanksgiving – are chairs and tables accounted for, freshen up outdoor spaces
• December Ideas for Projects – Decorate for Christmas, deep clean before guests arrive
  • Farmhouse Christmas
  • Sage Green and Pink Christmas

Are You Ready To Set Your New Year’s Resolutions For Your Home?

Download your Home Resolution Guide today and lose the weight and clear clutter, get organized , be thrifty, and schedule projects.

Before You Fly Away To Tackle Your New Year’s Resolutions For Your Home

Pin any of the images to Pinterest so you can clear the clutter, be thrifty, get organized and schedule home projects throughout the year – hover over any picture to save the pin to your Pinterest account. So easy!