New 2020 January Declutter Organization Calendar

Happy 2020!! It’s the start of a new year AND a new decade. I am SO excited! I had so much fun collaborating with YOU last year and I can’t wait to do it again and see YOUR de-cluttered homes!!

Clean up ONE area in Your Home Each Day

I’ve created another printable calendar with ONE place to organize in your home each day. By the end of the month we will all have a more organized, more beautiful home!

Clean Kitchens

This calendar has a day for each of the places in your home – from drawers, to pantries, to bedrooms to closets.

Share Your Spaces

Let’s share our organization wins and cheer each other along! On Instagram and Facebook, post YOUR spaces this month and use the hashtag — #TatertotsDeclutterChallenge so we can see YOUR home!

Organized Spaces

Here are a few of the spaces in our old home that got organized last year. We are SO excited to be in our new #1891AvenuesCottage. We are remodeling our new (old) home right now and I can’t wait to get everything more organized!

January Printable Declutter Calendar

Just right click on the link above and save the January Calendar to your computer, then put the calendar somewhere in your home so you can keep on track of the organization challenge. I can’t wait to see YOUR projects!!

Organize Every Space

If there is a day on the calendar that doesn’t fit to YOUR home, just substitute another space for that day. For example, we don’t have a garage at our new home. So on the garage clean out day I will substitute our laundry room for that day.

Follow Along on Instagram

Follow along with the hashtag #TatertotsDeclutterChallenge and I will also be sharing the organization of our #1891AvenuesCottage home on my @tatertotsandjello page!

Have a Beautiful Day!

xoxo

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I glitzed up a little area on a table for everyone to write down their wishes for the year. One wish had to be for themselves, and the other had to be for someone else.

Of course, the kids’ wishes were the cutest…

I’d love to gather all the wishes and put them into a photo book with our celebratory pictures. Cute, eh?

We try to make our New Year’s Eve a family affair every year, so it’s a great way to keep track of our hopes for others in the new year. Speaking of which, I hope YOU have a wonderful year ahead of you!

Want some other cute family ideas?

Wishmas Tree

Christmas Advent Jar

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Thanksgiving Garland

Thanks Chris!! I love your resolution station!! Be sure to follow Just a Girl for awesome ideas:

xoxo

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Happy 2015!! I’m introducing a new weekly series — New Year New You! Where we share healthy living tips, recipes and inspiration. I’ve been able to lose 45 pounds over the last 18 months with exercise and eating better. I would love to share getting healthy ideas with you in 2015:) #newyearnewyou #healthyliving #resolutionstatertotsandjello.com

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One of the most important things to me when I’m running is to keep motivated. For me, it’s listening to some favorite songs — and mixing in plenty of new ones!

I have been a bit obsessed with the new Taylor Swift album (haters, go away, ’cause you’re just gonna hate, hate, hate). I can’t include it in my playlist (below) but I can play the whole thing, especially “Welcome to New York,” “Blank Space,” “How You Got The Girl,” and “Wildest Dreams.”

Here’s my current favorite running playlist, conveniently included as a Spotify playlist:

Not everything has a thumpin’ beat — I like a mix.

I had some great suggestions in the comments in last week’s post, too! Some recommended the UK National Health Service’s Couch to 5K program and app.

Others recommended other couch to 5K apps – some even act as voiceovers for your favorite playlist and help you do interval training. 

(A great source for more information on interval training is Shape Magazine.) I’ll talk about interval training another time, but the idea is that you mix high-intensity effort with moderate intensity. This gives you a better workout in a shorter amount of time!

The key is to find one that works for you and gradually increases your endurance and stamina.

And I’ve published an eBay guide with some of my favorite running gear – check it out, too!

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Now, what are your favorite workout songs?

xoxo

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This is something that I really feel passionate about. As a mom of three girls, I am really hyper sensitive at how my girls’ see themselves. I have seen how harsh girls are on their appearances. And I really want my girls’ to know how important it is for women to “Fight Fat Talk,” which is making negative comments about your body or others. We are making one of our New Year’s Resolutions to “Fight Fat Talk.” It doesn’t matter if you’re the kind of person who makes New Year’s Resolutions — I invite you to join us!

I’ve learned that staying positive about myself improves my life — and studies say that a positive attitude about yourself helps you stay focused, achieve your health goals, and enjoy life. It’s taken me a long time, but I have finally learned to love my body as it is. I have learned to appreciate all of the amazing things that it does for me.

This video really touched me and it shows the importance of fighting “fat talk.” The signs in this video are actual social media posts (can you imagine finding these in a real shop?):

How can WE can #FightFatTalk??

• First, don’t join in. When a friend says something negative about themselves, don’t say something negative about yourself and join in the fat talk! Almost 2/3 of us do that (according to a study done for Special K). Instead, we can turn the conversation to something more positive.  My daughter Hannah suggested that we instead turn it around and point out her friend’s great points instead to help them feel better about themselves.
• Second, you can actively look for friends who “fat talk,” and you can reach out to counter it! The Special K site has a really cool feature where you can search Facebook and Twitter to see which of your friends “fat talk” … and then you can spread positivity instead!

Take a sec and check it out at social.fightfattalk.com!

• Finally, we can stop ourselves when we start to have these kinds of thoughts and start to say these kinds of things. As Ashton at Something Swanky said in her awesome post, “Somewhere along the way, we’ve been conditioned to think that self-deprecation and having a negative perception of ourselves is some twisted form of humility.” This kind of talk actually hurts us — even if it’s just in our heads. So we can resolve to actively avoid this kind of self-talk in the new year.

One of my daughters’ favorite actresses is Jennifer Lawrence, and she has reinforced the importance of keeping a healthy body image — and in fighting fat talk. Here’s a clip from a recent interview:

I love to see her continuing to take a stand. This type of negativity can do so much damage at any age, and especially in young girls.

Share your ideas on how WE can stop Fat Talk in 2014!

I would love to hear your thoughts!

xoxo

This post was sponsored by Special K. The opinions are all mine. See my disclosures.

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