As part of the End 08 Great Challenge at www.happytobeathome.net I wanted to share our decluttered spare bedroom.  I wish now that we’d taken before pictures.  It took approx 8-10 hrs of cleaning over 4 weeks to get this space in shape.  When we first started the challenge we couldn’t walk into the room without crushing something.  Now the room has a space to work on the computer, exercise on the elliptical or total gym, pick books off the shelfs, store excess costco wares, and find gifts and cards from the gift drawers.  The closets aren’t perfect (too many clothes- we really need to sort through those) but the room is super clean and liveable compared to how it started.

I want to thank the girls at happy to be home for giving us all such an inspirational challenge this month and for providing lots of support and feedback each week!!

**As a side note for those looking to reduce debt, we filled up four large boxes of stuff we no longer need in the process of decluttering and we are going to yard sale it to make some extra cash next month!!!  Goodbye student loans.