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How to Declutter Your Home {5 Daily Habits for a Clean House}!

by | Mar 6, 2012 | Domesticity, Organization

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How to Declutter Your Home {5 Daily Habits for a Clean House}!

I don’t know about you, but when my home gets cluttered and out of control, I feel personally out of sorts and out of control. The state of my home really affects my emotional well being and my productivity.

Do you find clutter affects you that way as well?

Because clutter impacts me so much, it is very helpful for me to have daily routines to keep clutter and stress at bay. I’ll admit there are hectic seasons of life where it can be particularly challenging to keep order, but interestingly the busier I am the more important it becomes to stick to daily habits.

So where do we begin to form new habits?

Here is a 30 day habit forming plan I created for myself that takes loads of stress off my shoulders when I need to form new clutter-busting habits at my home! Hopefully it will help you too.

Ready?

It is as easy as: 

How to Declutter Your Home {5 Daily Habits for a Clean House}!

1. Find four clutter hotspots in your home.

Where does most of your daily clutter land and the frustration begin?

Make a list of four problem areas in your home — the ones that REALLY drive you crazy every day. Think about manageable surfaces or identifiable areas of rooms rather than an entire room. Perhaps areas such as your kitchen or bathroom counters, a dining table, the floor around the front door,  laundry baskets or your nightstand. If you have more than four, don’t worry. You can get to those later. For now, just pick the four most visible or frustrating areas. If you have one room that is a real problem every day, perhaps pick four manageable surfaces, closets or drawers all in that one space.

2. Select one outside hotspot.

Once you identify those daily clutter hotspots inside, think about areas outside of your home that cause you stress, frustrate or embarrass you regularly as well, such as your purse, car or front porch. Choose the worst daily offender. You’ll attack the rest later.

You should now be able to identify your top 5 worst clutter hotspots! Hooray! Now you know where to focus your attention.

Don’t you feel better already knowing you have narrowed down the biggest offenders?

You can do this. I promise.

REMEMBER: Don’t worry right now about how to solve every possible clutter problem all over the house, that can be overwhelming. Stay focused and you’ll succeed!

How to Declutter Your Home {5 Daily Habits for a Clean House}!

3. Create 5 daily new habits corresponding to your 5 clutter hot spots.

Now you can begin your plan of attack for creating 5 new daily habits to overcome clutter and stress in those 5 problematic areas!

Take a look at your five previously stressful hotspots. Looking good, right? Now let’s keep ’em that way.

What simple daily habits and routines will keep those clutter hot spots from piling up again?

Grab a piece of paper and identify one daily routine for each of the five areas.
Here are some examples of habits you might adopt:

How to Declutter Your Home {5 Daily Habits for a Clean House}!

See how easy and fun this is?

Doable, right?

Remember: It takes about 30 days to form a new habit or routine.

You’ve got this!

  • 1, 2, 3 steps to begin, 5 hotspots, 5 habits and 30 days to get in the groove.
  • So many numbers today! 1, 2, 3, 5, 5 and 30.

photos: via my home and a visit to the street of dreams in 2009

How to Declutter Your Home {5 Daily Habits for a Clean House}!

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1,784 Comments

  1. Cindy kobus

    the kitchen!! oh the kitchen…..

  2. Alesha Ebeling

    The most difficult room for me is my bedroom. I end up letting that go and just closing the door. Thanks for the habits, I will try and apply them in my own life!

  3. Lynn from For Love or Funny

    My office is the most difficult room to keep clutter free; I feel so much better when it is clean and orderly.

  4. Elisabeth

    Ah–the most difficult room to keep clutter free is the kitchen! It seems like everytime someone walks through there something else lands in a spot that is not supposed to be there. (Even my two-year-old does this!!)

  5. Jennifer Gregory

    Inspiring – this is my goal for 2012. I am well on my way but can always use some inspiration! Thanks

  6. Shelley

    My mudroom! I close my eyes whenever I walk through and still break out in a cold sweat and heart palpitations. It needs SERIOUS organization!

  7. Jamie

    My home office is by far the hardest to keep uncluttered! It’s a multi-purpose room that has to handle a lot, and things tend to accumulate there constantly.

  8. gail

    My husband’s office of course! He is a paper collector from way back…

  9. Kelly B.

    We never use our dining room so it is our catch all for everything we don’t want to put away. The table is always cluttered with junk mail, hats and mittens, various tools, school papers, bags of things that need be returned. Ugh it’s a major source of anxiety for me since I am the default cleaner of the room. :-/

  10. Jojo

    I would be happy to clear two clutter spots-the kitchen counters and our bedside tables. It is obviously repetitive actions or habits, that create the problem so it becomes the issue of how to deal with the problem. Most of the kitchen counter problems have to do with daily mail and we’ve never had a good system for handling the volume of papers, many that need to be retained. Suggestions? Your featured rooms always look perfect.

  11. beth smith

    the dining room table!!! and i am as guilty as anyone else!

  12. Char

    my home office / “everything room” – With four young boys coming home from school with loads of paperwork, my office becomes the place to put things that does not have a home: art work, projects, etc. I think it is the last place I tend to clean and clear, so by the time I get around to it, I’m exhausted. Plus our house is going through a diy renovation with hard wood flooring on the entire main level and things keep shifting into my home office, but never out of it.

  13. debi

    The kitchen is the most difficult room to keep uncluttered in our home. It’s centrally located, so we pass through it constantly, and everything gets dropped on the big island counter, on its way to where it belongs.

  14. Kristen

    Our kitchen, more specifically the kitchen island. That large expanse of open (or should be open) space seems to call for clutter. No matter how often I clean it it’s cluttered again within hours sometimes even minutes! It drive me nuts!

  15. Lynn

    Our dining room table! its a room we do not use every day and its connected to the kitchen…so everything gets dumped on the table from mail to keys to juat about anything!

  16. Dianne

    Oddly enough, the most difficult room in my house to keep clean is the dining room. It’s in the middle of the house, and it becomes the laundry folding area, backpack dumping area, and playroom floor.

  17. Lori H

    The kitchen! Especially the table as we do everything there. Eating, bills, some homework, reading, arrrggh! I am going to set up some new habits that might help the problem.

  18. Marjorie Tellez

    The spare bedroom

  19. Melissa S

    The dining room – specifically the dining room table. We have a small house and the living room/dining room is just one area. The dining room table feel like a “landing pad” for everything – mail, contents of school back packs or any “stuff” that doesn’t have a home! Urgh

  20. Melissa Highlandviewpantry

    My kitchen counter is tough to keep clean. On top of food prepping it doubles for crafting and school books. I can remember my mom yellibg at us kids not to leave our backpacks in the kitchen. I get it now Mom.

  21. Jena

    Our bedroom! It becomes a dropping ground for things, and since nobody sees it but us, I have less motivation to pick it up.

  22. susan bourgeois

    The kitchen hands down! It seems to be the spot where everything collects from junk mail, bills to pay, school paper, discarded hair accesssories, etc. You name it, it gets left in the kitchen!

  23. Kate

    It’s a toss up between the computer room and the kitchen. The kitchen becomes a dumping ground, plus it’s right next to the door to the basement so I’ll pile things up that need to go downstairs. The computer room gets homework messes and my own research messes, plus clean laundry often finds its way to the daybed in there.

  24. Claudia

    Our guest bedroom/studio/office. It’s routinely piled high with everything we don’t have a place for. It’s on our to-to list for this week. We need to find some storage solutions for that space!

  25. Courtney

    Definitely my bedroom. We have our game consoles in there so my son thinks it is his personal hangout spot… It’s never organized.

  26. Shelley Harris

    It’s parts of 2 rooms – the office and the kitchen. And it’s 2 particular surfaces – the desk tops in both those rooms. I put off looking at papers till “later” and soon it becomes Mt Everest! Looking forward to trying these steps! Thanks for the giveaway!!

  27. Wynona

    In our house, the place that is hard to keep clutter free is our living room. For the reason that we have small kids in our house and they’re like everywhere, playing all around!

  28. kelly in georgia

    Oh my goodness….I didn’t even think of my purse being a “hotspot!” (but it is!) The worst place to keep clean in this house is the study (office) especially with it being tax season. yuck! Would love any gift card!

  29. Princess

    my kitchen is very difficult to keep clutter free. i am the only woman in the house – husband and two son’s – and i have to constantly clean the kitchen because they are always in there eating and making a mess. the worst time is first thing in the morning! they stay up late into the night watching tv and eating and the kithen always looks like a party was going on overnight! i need two dishwashers just in order to keep up! LOL

  30. Nancy

    My Dining Room is the hardest hit in our house! The Dining Room table is everyone’s first choice, unless I am cutting a fabric project then it’s the Buffet. Thanks Melissa for hosting this Give Away!! The post is surely worth a try!!

    Nancy

  31. Alana

    My kitchen counter… Everything seems to wind up there!

  32. Carrie

    In the past I would have said the office was my worst clutter spot, but I think the kitchen really reigns supreme these days. I have one long counter that seems to CALL to the clutter. It doesn’t matter how often I clean it off, the next time I walk through there, something else has landed. {sigh}

  33. suzi

    The most difficult room to keep organized is our office/school room.

  34. Sallie

    Like many others have said, it has to be the home office–particularly the desk. It seems I just complete a pile of papers when another one arrives. It also collects books in progress, letters that need to be mailed, reminder notes, greeting cards, to-do lists, tax information…you name it! A few lovely containers would be very helpful….

  35. Sally

    We have a very small home with a livingroom, kitchen and powder-room on the first floor — all small rooms. I literally LIVE in my kitchen, and I’m okay with that. But — it is the kitchen, it is my office, it is our family HUB, it is a craft-station, and everything seems to LAND HERE. I have to clean stuff off the kitchen table each night to serve dinner. I’m not THAT disorganized. It just seems like there aren’t enough places to put things — and yes, we are a typical family of 4 w/ TOO MANY THINGS. =/

  36. Francie

    Definitely the master bedroom. It’s the drop spot for everything and everyone. I think it’s because it’s the one room of the house that I know no one will just wander in if they come to visit. Sometimes I wonder if I’m trying to audition for a spot on Hoarders!

  37. Donna

    My biggest challenge is my 14 year old son’s room. Even though we have just cleared out tons of Legos, it still seems to collect lots of clutter that he doesn’t put away!

  38. Stephanie

    The kitchen for sure. It can be perfectly clean with gleaming countertops (getting it this way takes 20-30 minutes), then everyone converges on the countertops with their keys, coats, mail, homework, and shoes (yes shoes – my family puts shoes on my kitchen island)!

  39. Christine

    How do I get my husband and four-year old to follow suit? I keep thinking we need a bigger house. Maybe we just need less clutter.

  40. Lindsay

    Hands down, the kitchen. The counters are cluttered with mail, school work, purse, keys, phones, etc…oh, and not to mention the things that actually belong in the kitchen and just haven’t been put away.

  41. natalie

    The hardest room for me is the utility room. It has a chest freezer and a dryer and a shelving unit and it just seems to be a magnet for things that need action taken. Things that need fixed, half done projects, etc…it is a very frustrating layout and the clutter makes it stressful to do laundry or find shoes.

  42. Teresa cates

    My hot spot is my desk in the den. When I am in a hurry, everything gets plopped there.mmeven though I have file folders, files, etc. everything becomes a pile. Instead of 5 hotspots, I thing I am going to focus on this one, it’s a biggie, and it’s been a albatross around my neck for years! Thanks for this post, and the giveaway!

  43. Jeanette Simpson, ASID

    Definitely the office is my biggest challenge. Need more storage containers. The stacks seem to grow overnight!

  44. Susan

    My craft room (AKA my “stitching room”) is the most difficult room to keep clean and clutter free. Not so much clean, per se, but definitely clutter free. When I get on a “tear” with finishing a project, or trying a new technique, I rifle through my closet, storage, drawers (anywhere, really!), looking for the perfect fabric or finishing materials, and the room ends up looking like a bomb hit it.

    It’s in such a state right now, as a matter of fact!

    Thanks for giving us the opportunity for this wonderful giveaway – I’m addicted to both Target and the Container Store!

  45. Vicki I.

    Our front room is the hardest room to keep clutter free. When everyone comes home at the end of the day, they just dump their stuff on any available surface!

  46. Shana

    My kitchen is definitely the most difficult to keep uncluttered. My kitchen is visible from my front door (honestly, who designs that?) and is our cooking, eating, and hanging out spot. And not to mention the occasional lab (for science fair projects), office (for bill paying), and salon (for my boys’ haircuts)! I feel like it is my joy and nemesis at the same time:) Thank you for the opportunity…I think I need a hundred storage containers!

  47. JennyA

    My Kitchen is the area that continuously creates clutter and if my husband cooks…”Forget about it”…lol. The bathroom is a close second!

  48. Kathleen Welch

    My kitchen island is my mini office and where the laptops, cellphones, mail, school papers etc. land when we come in the house. I am sure that I clear it off several times a day. My laundry room is the other place where things end up when there is no other place for them. I feel like I am always editing and reorganizing to make sure that everything has a place. I have no problem going through the house with a bag and filling it with donations for the Goodwill…I’m pretty ruthless! If I could get the grandparents to stop buying so much for the kids that would help greatly!!!!
    Thanks for the lovely give-away!

  49. Jenny

    Our kitchen, hands down, is the hardest room in our house to keep clutter free. It is clean, but it is used ALL.day.long! We are homeschoolers with four children at home. Somedays I feel as if I never get out of there!

    And by the way, I have never commented on your site, but I love your blog! I have followed you for a couple of years and refer to your advice often.

    Thanks for the opportunity! Target and The Container Store always have something I like, want or need!

  50. Lori

    The kitchen is by far the hardest to keep picked up!

  51. Vicki

    I have the most difficult time keeping the kitchen counter (located just as you come in from the garage) clean. My husband uses it as his “pile place”. So frustrating AND hard to keep clean.

    I hate to be a nag, but it is really hard to look at that pile and not get crazy!

    I would love to win the gift cards as I know I could put them to good use for the one thousand containers I need (probably).

  52. Diane

    My bedroom, hand down. I’m always stashing things in there from other areas of the house, thinking all I have to do is close the door. I have literally had dreams about getting better organized, lol.

  53. Geri

    My office seems to be the room that gives me trouble. It is the room that everything that doens’t have a home goes to and things just add up.

  54. Heidi

    The back door by the laundry machines, shoes, hats, sweatshirts, broom, dirty laundry, and backpacks

  55. Renae

    Lately it has been the master bedroom — dumping ground for laundry and everything else. And with a newborn plus two busy boys and two exhausted parents, it just rarely gets attention.

  56. Becky

    The kitchen counter almost always has piles! I’m feeling inspired to go clean it off!

  57. Theresa

    The Kitchen

  58. Edwina

    The mud room-thank God for it but….. :)

    AWESOME giveaway-thanks for offering it!

  59. estie

    the kitchen. we cook most of our meals in our li’l apartment, and cooking always gets to be a big fiasco.

  60. Brittany

    Our bedroom is the hardest to keep clutter out of. Everyone’s stuff ends up in there & if something doesn’t have a place, it seems to end up in our room. It’s very frustrating.

  61. Sara McCutcheon

    My clutter hotspot is my bedroom! I live by myself and have people over often, but they know they are not allowed in my bedroom. haha Because of this, it gives me a license to throw clothes everywhere! If I win the gift card, I will use it find a way to declutter my closet so my clothes and shoes will fit again!

  62. sandra mosolgo

    kitchen island, back porch & bathroom-consistency is the key but I let it get out of control!

  63. Adrienne

    Definitely my dining room where my desk is…yikes!

  64. Michele Laramay

    The kitchen counters, of course.

  65. Jen

    I’ve actually figured out all the areas that are really bad. But our bedroom still seems to be a problem. My nightstand gets cluttered every night, and when we wake up I just feel like a bomb has gone off. I decided to have less stuff on the clear surfaces so our master feels more relaxing, but it just tends to be an empty place to put whatever we have in our hands. I need some help for sure with that room.

  66. Lisa Duncan

    The kitchen counter – it becomes the the place for all of the mail that needs to be opened, read thoroughly, put away, thrown away, shred, etc.!

  67. Gina

    The most difficult spot has got to be the den, with it’s giant sectional sofa and coffee table that attracts glasses, food, socks, and other yuck. After a weekend, it looks like a frat party happened in there. And it smells. I need a storage ottoman and some Glade plug-in’s to start…thanks for the great giveaway!

  68. Leanna

    The kitchen. no contest.

  69. Heather

    The most difficult area of our home to keep clean and free from clutter is definitely the kitchen! Its the first room you walk into through the back door and where everything is dropped. I would LOVE to win the giftcards!

  70. Kim walker

    My laundry room has a counter that serves as a catch all. I can clean it today and tomorrow it is crazy.

  71. Danielle D

    The dining room table is where the mail pile and anything else I carry in from my car lands until I sort through it.

  72. JoAnna

    This post was great!! Thank you!
    My most difficult area to keep organized is my closet. Because it’s small and i don’t have good systems it’s the one area i am always organizing & de-cluttering!

  73. Jennie

    Kitchen. Definitely the kitchen counter. I have two piles of “important” papers AND a file box that I started to clear up the piles in the first place! Well that didn’t work…

  74. Heather

    I have a built-in desk in my kitchen, and it’s like a dumping ground for mail, magazines, catalogs, kids’ papers, etc. I’ve made great strides in keeping it organized with magazine holders & file holders from the Container Store, but it still needs a once-weekly overhaul.

  75. Melissa

    Our little dining nook between the kitchen and the living room is definitely our clutter hotspot. With my husband and me both working full-time and being in grad school, the dining room table is more often used for papers, books, bills, and mail instead of eating. The little bench in the dining area becomes a pile of purses, jackets, lunch bags, and more books. With little storage space in our condo, a Target gift card would go a long way towards more efficient organization. :o)

  76. julie

    The family room! We use it so much and the kids leave lots of “stuff” laying around.

  77. SueAnn

    The living room!! A constant stopping place for mail, papers, magazines and the forever present DUST!!!
    What a fabulous giveaway!!
    Thanks
    Hugs
    SUeAnn

  78. Betsy

    Definitely my kitchen. We have a peninsula that seems to be a clutter magnet. It’s a place I work hard to keep clear and the 5 guys in my house work hard to fill up…constant battle!

  79. Lina

    Our Family Room because we are in a challenging “season”…our son, daughter-in-law and their two children (ages 2 and 3 months) are temporarily living with us and WOW, you can’t believe the clutter that came with them. Yes, pray for me ~smile~

  80. Sarah S

    My dining room…when we walk in the house it’s where we drop everything!

  81. Amanda S.

    I’m struggling to get organized in my whole house as I just moved into my first home just before Christmas. The one spot that seems to be an ongoing area is my sunroom as it has the main entrance door and the garage door. I’d love to win the gift cards to help set up and organize that area!

  82. Jennifer K

    The kitchen counter! We even have a mudroom right when we come in the house from the garage but it seems that there is always homework, or school papers, or the newspaper, or food, or something that is on the counter. A clean counter makes me calm. A cluttered counter makes me a wee bit agitated.

  83. Monika

    I have the hardest time keeping up with my kids’ playroom! They can trash that room so fast!

    • Sara

      That is so hard for me too! I try to get them to help clean it up and teach them to put things away as they go but I blink my eyes and it’s impassable. Frustrating!

  84. Heidi

    It’s really a toss-up between our dining room and our office. Things like newspaper and mail tend to get dumped on our dining room table and left for a few days. Then, when that table gets cleaned things make it to our office and get stuck there. It’s a vicious cycle!

  85. Sunday Burquest

    The hardest room for me to keep clean and organized is my mud room – ugh! It’s super small and doesn’t have a good “system” – 2 adults and 4 kids worth of shoes – it’s totally horrible in the winter! Love these easy ideas!!

  86. Joy Crile

    I think the hardest to keep clutter free is my office but the hardest to keep clean is the kitchen. That may not make sense but the office is usually clean, just will get cluttered on the desk top but with three boys in the house the kitchen is always in full service and it is hard to keep clean!

  87. Jennifer G

    The kitchen counter and the kitchen table is everyone’s unloading zone. We have a tiny ‘mudroom’ when you first walk in the house that could use some organization to keep the messes in there.

  88. Crystal

    Our living room is the most challenging to keep organized. More specifically, our coffee table! I swear the second I clear it off, it’s piled again with toys, mail, dirty dishes, etc. Our living room is also the “play room” for our little one, so now we have the added challenge of keeping our things organized and all the accessories for our 4 month old :)

  89. Sara

    The dining room! The only reason the kitchen counter is clean because it all gets moved to the dining room table. I truly need to figure out a way to manage all the school papers. My oldest is only in K so I have a long road ahead of me!

  90. Della

    guest room… when void of guests, it becomes the storage zone for everything that has no place…

  91. Beth

    the “study” (SMALL room off the kitchen) where we keep the computer, extra freezer and a catch all for everything. When I clean the house, every pile to deal with later ends up there. It’s so cluttered I need to use the kitchen table to do my work :(.

  92. Alicia

    Kitchen, it is the hub of the home! Backpacks, shoes, papers, everthing seems to find its way to the kitchen table and countertops. UGH!!

  93. jenn

    Wow.. Just one room? We have 4 children and I homeschool, so we are always home. It seems that every room gets cluttered and hard to keep clean. I would have to say Kitchen because we have all our homeschool stuff in there. That is where we eat 3 meals plus snacks, do all the school work, play things like playdoh, puzzles. Me and my sewing machinge i am trying to learn how to work. You name it.

  94. Andrea

    Our playroom is the hardest to keep clean! Too many toys and not enough organizational pieces to keep them contained!

  95. Heather Duren

    My living room. We ‘live’ in their and so does all of our clutter. Even though it would probably take only 10 minutes to de-clutter it, the overwhelming truth that in a day it will be cluttered again keeps me from taking advantage of my next 10 minutes to do it.

  96. Tina

    Right as you come in the front door wher it is easy drop things. So many ways to get organized. What a great giveaway!

  97. Stefanie Hartman

    This is my challenge at this time .. organizing .. controlling the clutter .. I have a big family .. what to do with shoes/backpacks/school stuff/all the papers … ahhhh .. thanks :)

  98. Kim

    Our office! Not just office things end up in there, which is the main problem. I’m hoping to change that this month, beginning with a paint job and then some reorganization.

  99. Lisa

    My Kitchen is the 1st place I come in to when I come home so all of the mail, receipts, magazines and other items usually end up on the countertops. I need to make an area where I can place everything other than the countertops – I end up not having room for anything else besides the clutter!

  100. Erika

    For me it is our kitchen! It seems like mail and other junk is always piling up in there!

  101. elizabeth tischer

    My Closet!! becuase my weight is like a yo yo, I have so much clothes and different sizes. I always keep the bigger stuff in there for a “bad day” and when I start to shrink, I get the smaller out… but it just ends up on the floor and a mess! Every day I dread going into my closet to get dressed becuase it is a mess! it needs help and I need direction on how to fix it……

  102. Shonda Hall

    Most definitely my kitchen counter. Everyone drops all items there for mom! Lol

  103. Deidre

    I have a hard time keeping my kitchen counters/table clear of clutter. It’s the catch-all place for school papers, mail, etc. I try to clear it off every night before I go to bed, though that doesn’t always happen.

  104. Brenda

    My daughters’ room. My two girls share a room with one closet and one dresser. It is difficult to keep up with the clothes, the toys, the little things that are oh so special to them. I have my fingers crossed for this!

  105. Lisa S.

    What a great giveaway!! For me, the hardest room would be the family room.
    Thanks for the ideas.

  106. Amanda

    My bedroom! It is the last place that gets tidied up.

  107. Jessi

    My kitchen counters are the most challenging area in my house to keep clean. Everything seems to pile there.

  108. Alaina

    My kitchen is the worst spot because it is where everyone walks into the house and sets their stuff on the kitchen island. The next worst offender would be my office. I really enjoyed this post and I am going to start working on some hot spots today.

  109. Caroline

    Definitely the kitchen counters! I can’t seem to find a good way to keep organized all the stuff (mail, kids’ important papers, bills, etc) that comes into the house each day.
    Also I would like to be able to have fewer objects and appliances on my counters so my kitchen would look “neater”. It really stresses me out when things are messy & cluttered but I’m no good at setting up a good organization system!

  110. Lori

    For me… definitely my kitchen. It is the dumping ground as our backdoor enters right into it. My husband and I are the biggest offenders with mail and paper.
    Would love to win!!!

  111. Kelly

    The Office! Can never keep the desk cleared off.

  112. Therese

    The kitchen counter..mail and newspapers pile up. It never stays clean for very long.

  113. Kelly

    I have a 3 year old and it is so hard to keep the house tidy sometimes. We recently started one toy at at time and that helps!
    Kelly B
    Mrskbj (@gmail.com)

  114. Mandy L.

    That would be a toss up between my kitchen and my bathroom. Neither one has enough storage space for even just the necessities.

  115. Madeline

    My bedroom! I have lots of clothes and not enough closet space, so putting clothes away is a struggle. I end up throwing them onto my armchair (the pile is now mammoth) or hanging them on my over-the-door hooks. My nightstands are always cluttered with cups, books, glasses, earrings, etc.

  116. Jessica B

    Definitely our bedroom. With three kids 5 and under, it has turned into laundry central, naptime headquarters, and dressing room for all. It only takes one day of doing laundry to un-do all progress I feel like I’d made only a day before!

  117. Michelle

    The kitchen! The mail gets piled on the microwave, the table and / or the counter. Not to mention the kids school papers!

    Close second is the spare bedroom / craft room. Everything gets stuck there because it’s not used every day!

  118. Laura

    I have been working at decluttering the house for a week now, so this came at just the right time!!! I would say the most difficult room to keep clean would be the kitchen. Our kitchen is VERY tiny, so even a little mess (and it’s rarely little, but anyway….) makes the kitchen look awful.

  119. Stacey

    You mean I have to pick just one? Well, I’m going to say our school room. It is a place of constant creativity which I love – and constant mess.

    I think it because I have not set it up to be an organized space that works for my entire family.

    Love this post Melissa! So helpful!

  120. Mimi

    Melissa, this is a great idea. Breaking these tasks into bite-sized pieces is doable for me at the end of a long and tiring day. Thanks for including my pocket book as a part of this process. It gets so full of junk by the end of the week that I can’t find anything.

  121. Dana

    My dining room table. I have a beautiful solid wood hand made farm table. The table becomes the dumping ground for schoolwork that needs to be filed and leftover books and supplies from the day’s homeschool. It becomes a place where laundry waits to be put away. It’s so beautiful when it’s bare.

  122. Nicole

    I have many hot spots for clutter in my home, but I am going to start with my kitchen. It is the one guests see right away when they come into my home.

  123. Andi T.

    The living room and our extra bedroom are hard to keep clean and un-cluttered. We just dump everything there and carry on…

  124. Laine

    Our foyer is probably the worst. Thats where we dump things when we come in, the mail, coats, shoes, things that have no home. Though my office is pretty bad too, I just see it less. Actually, I tend to scoop up stuff from the foyer and dump it there, so its sort of all part of the same problem.

  125. Cindy

    My guest bedroom. Started out pretty, but I keep stashing “stuff” there.

  126. Erin W

    Great ideas…my kitchen table quickly becomes a nightmare catchall!

  127. Amy B

    Our mudroom – its a collection spot and also main entrance for our family of six.

  128. Jessica Havens

    My kitchen counters are the worse. The kids do their homework there, all there various school papers land there as well as the mail and of course if you don’t know where it goes…stick it on the counter…mom will take care of it.

    Thank you for the give away!

  129. Becky

    My bedroom–it’s where we stash clutter from the rest of the house and since company never sees it we’re never motivated to clean it!

  130. Megan S

    Our kitchen counters are the hardest to keep clean by far, but the steps above will really help! Thanks for the giveaway!

  131. Amy B.

    The kitchen! I’ve found tackling it bit by bit throughout the day helps. :)

  132. Harmony

    The front foyer! As soon as someone walks in the house whatever is in their hands gets thrown right there on the floor.

  133. Pat

    Our kitchen is the most difficult to keep clutter free. When you enter our home it is from the garage into a long hallway with a coat closet. there is no place to put anything down so it all winds up in the kitchen since that is the first room you enter.

  134. Cathy

    Our home office/study. We have a large desk that is constantly covered with papers. I am always behind in my filing. And I always have books that need to be put away on the shelves. Overwhelming!

  135. Christi

    The most difficult room in our home to keep clean & clutter free is our homeschool room! The life constantly going on in there is worth it!

  136. Jessica

    I have to say the most cluttered part of my house that drives me nuts is the dining room table. It has long been a dumping ground for ALL things besides what should be there…plates, cups, silverware. We have to clean off the table before we sit down and eat and most of the time it’s just scoop everything up and put in on the kitchen island which is right beside the table. So, second in line would be the kitchen island. We are a family of 5 with 2 dogs and a cat, so it certainly is difficult.

  137. Sandi

    Dining room table…. Hands down. And it is chronic. Worse yet? I am single!! Sheesh!

  138. Lia

    The o’hana room! (That’s family room to those of you not from Hawaii.) I work from home and the room doubles as the playroom as well as my office. I don’t mind picking up the toys, however my one-year-old has figured out how to open the desk drawers, pull out the contents and toss them everywhere! I’ve tried all the child-proof stick em’s and even packaging tape, but he’s a clever guy and gets around it all. I don’t want to drill into the desk, and have piled furniture up around it. As a result – papers are stuffed in the drawers or stacked on top and it has become unorganized chaos!

  139. Margie

    Any flat surface, but the worst are the kitchen countertops. It’s where everything ends up.

  140. Tammy McKenzie

    Makes me a little crazy trying to decide what the worst hot spot is.
    Would have to be the main entrance that take you through the enclosed
    porch. Yikes.

  141. Julie in IN

    The kitchen since it is our entry way, cooking center, organization station and so much more!

  142. Jessica Reyes

    The hardest place for me to keep clean & organized is my bathroom. Thanks for the chance to win!

  143. Amy N

    Definitely the kitchen…a dumping ground for everyone’s junk.

  144. katie

    I stuggle with our bedroom, it ends up being where all the laundry is piled and by the time I have cleaned the rest of the house I don’t feel like tackling it! I shouldn’t save it for last but I would rather have the main living areas clean, so they always get done first.

  145. Kristi Reneau

    Hi,

    My most difficult area to keep in order and clean is my office/craft room. Without a doubt I need to take control over it and make it work for me!!

    Kristi

  146. Rachel

    Always the kitchen, it’s the hotspot for all four of us!

  147. Jennifer

    The kitchen/ family room. Where else should every family
    member dump their stuff? : )

  148. cathy z

    The kitchen, hands down

  149. Denise

    My laundry room! I’ve managed to conquer the clutter in every room in the house except for this one. It’s where I “temporarily” stash all the stuff I don’t have a home for, like random tools, broken things, and clothes that belong to other people’s kids.

  150. Chrissy

    My kitchen!! I’ve tried a million different things but cannot get a handle on the papers!

  151. Tina Baker

    Believe it our not, it is our bedroom, not that it is totally out of control, it is just so easy to dump something in there, thus, out of sight out of mine, then at the end of the night, there it all is………so…….if I win the giveaway closet organization here I come!!!!! And a welcoming good nights sleep.

  152. michelle

    Definitely the dining room table. It’s the one room we don’t use that often, and it’s often a walkthrough between the front door and the kitchen, so things tend to get dropped off there and forgotten!

  153. Susan G

    The most difficult area of our home to keep clutter-free is the kitchen.
    The countertop is a clutter magnet.

  154. {darlene}

    the kitchen!

  155. Robin

    That would be the dining room (table). Each time I clear it, somehow it gets cluttered again!

  156. Jennifer

    Our bedroom because no one really ever sees it, and it is a catch all spot from laundry to children’s toys.

  157. stephanie trask

    We have a 2yr old…she has a TON of pink toys that are consistently making their way out of her lovely pink bedroom and into the remainder of our tiny apartment- I would LOVE suggestions for organization in her bedroom; that don’t include the color pink. the end.

  158. Elle

    It is an unending challenge to keep cur kitchen table clear!

  159. Jen S.

    The most difficult place to keep clean in our house is the kitchen. Everyone seems to dump their stuff in there…

  160. Anne

    The kitchen! The table specifically! Why is it that everything migrates to the kitchen table?

  161. Nann

    Kitchen Counter…no doubt! Incoming mail, outgoing mail, magazines, bills, xoom, kindle, camera, pens, pencils, note pad, phone, purse,chargers, AND hubby drop site etc, etc, etc

  162. Melissa C.

    Ugh – I am going to have to go with my tiny kitchen. With an almost-toddler at home and no dishwasher it is always cluttered with dishes, papers (mainly recipes)and other assorted stuff my husband sets down on his way through. It is also the only room in our house that has carpet which makes it feel in need of cleaning most of the time.

  163. nancy

    sometimes i feel like it”s my whole house!! but thinking this way really defined the worst areas for me & i noticed that the rest are spawned from there! i strugged with CHAOS….Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome!! :)

  164. Joan w. Moore

    The kitchen counters are always a “hot spot”.

  165. Kris Dollerschell

    For me, it’s always our FRONT FOYER and it’s anyone’s 1st impression of our home! It’s amazing what ends up there! Shoes, backpacks, boots, hats, mittens but not to mention all the random things I find just “dropped” there! It’s literally a “drop zone!” ugh. My nightmare is when I get unexpected company that have to manuever through our pile of shoes or mess as they enter our otherwise organized and clean home!

  166. Anne Marie

    The bathroom – it is hard to control all the items used in the bathroom – tends to become a free for all room!

  167. Claudia M

    My worst cluttered spot has to be the desk in my kitchen! It seems to be a catch all for everything!!!

  168. Angie

    At my house everything ends up in the kitchen and office. The are magnets for clutter.

  169. Eileen

    I live with adult children and a grandson, very difficult to keep the kitchen table, dining room table and living room sitting areas clean, also, my boyfriend is a serious hoarder of things, the outside of my house looks like a dump and it is so embarrassing, he gets very angry when I try to get him to clean it up, not sure what to do about that, I do use your strategies on the tables and LR, I just get so tired of doing it and not having cooperation in the matter. But great article it is, I feel the same as you!

  170. Linda Thenhaus

    One specific area of our kitchen counters. It drives me crazy. I have tried all kinds of methods, but by the end of the week there never fails to be a pile of papers stacked up again.

  171. Lisa

    The counter top right next to the kitchen sink! It seems there is always some hand-wash only dish pilling up there. Grr!

  172. Kim Obert

    I struggle with the kitchen – how do I keep the mail, papers and this and that from piling up?? I don’t know where to put the “stuff”. If I put it away in another room – I forget about it and miss out on things. Help!
    Of course, if my office/craft room was organized, THAT would be the perfect place for all the papers, etc! As it is, I don’t really like to go into that room because all the counter space is piled high with (wait for it…) PAPERS!!!

  173. brandi

    The family room! So much goes on in that room. I would love to have it more organized and clutter free.

  174. Shannon

    Ugh. The kitchen counter. I keep papers that I need to tend to within the next day or so laid out in this one part of the counter, and I understand it but it makes my awesome, totally amazingly organized and tidy husband CRAZY!!!!!!!!!

  175. susie

    My most difficult room to keep clutter free is the kitchen. We have a long island and it has become my dumping ground. When the kids get home from school, we go through their backpacks and the school papers end up in a pile. When I come home, the island is the first place things are placed. Everything ends up on the island.

  176. Martha

    Kitchen – heart of the home, but like our own hearts often filled with clutter that makes us grumpy!

  177. Tara

    Our office just off the kitchen – it isn’t a room that we go into often and we all tend to dump all our extras in there until there is usually barely a pathway between the junk to our computer.

  178. Carolann

    my kitchen…the island is a clutter magnet, and we have a desk in the kitchen which has piles of paperwork which never seems to get smaller.

  179. kate

    Hands down the kitchen island. It’s where we eat, put stacks of mails and to-dos, save important papers…and there’s a huge fruit bowl in the middle of it all! Gotta get a new system going there!

  180. Jamie

    Definately the bathroom…..From germs to all the toiletry items….How do they get there and what do I do with them???????

  181. Sarah R

    The loft! It’s right outside the laundry room and our bedroom which means it is a staging area for clean (unfolded) laundry, things I need to take downstairs, things that somehow never make it to the bedroom, etc.

  182. Jennifer

    My kitchen is so hard to keep clean since it is the place everyone walks into and dumps everything. Backpacks, papers, mail and lunch boxes seem to clutter the area the most. I need all the help I can to get organized. Great giveaway!

  183. Mary

    It’s gotta be the kitchen counters! They are a magnet for junk mail, keys, pencils, pads, and just STUFF! We spend most of our time in the kitchen and so does the clutter! Those are inspiring tips, though. I’m tackling those counters tonight!

  184. Drue

    Kitchen counters- always piles of junk!!!
    I need to work on it. Great post.

  185. Amber

    Just one spot?? ;) It would have to be the kitchen island! All mail, homework, flyers and just plain junk seems to end up on it!

  186. Sally

    My bathroom! Ugh! Can’t seem to keep the counters clean for more than the day I put everything back in it’s place!

  187. Melissa

    My kitchen table is the WORST to keep cleared of clutter! I am soo going to try this tip.

    Thanks!

  188. Susan E

    It’s always my kitchen counters, conveniently located so that everything lands on them. They’re not exciting counters in and of themselves, just boring old laminate–but when it’s a clean expanse of boring counter, the whole house feels better.

  189. Catherine

    My office/art studio is the hardest to keep clutter free because that’s where I work all day. Paperwork, mail, receipts, etc. seem to pile up everytime I turn around.

  190. DebbieRN

    Unfortunately my kitchen. All the meal prep and mail on the counters,etc. I probably have too many things on the counters to begin with as well. It’s the last room in our home that we have to redo.

  191. Melissa

    The clutter hotspot that bothers me the most is my desk in the kitchen. We keep the kitchen counters clear, but things most often just get piled on the desk instead. School papers, newspapers, stuff to go to the garage or basement, random art supplies…

  192. laxsupermom

    Without a doubt, the laundry room. Our living room is a dumping ground for the kids, because it’s the first room past the foyer, but there are no doors on it, so it’s picked up frequently. The laundry room on the other hand, is usually a disaster. People tend to open the doors, fling random things in there and quickly shut the doors. Thanks for hosting this generous giveaway!

  193. Jen Borden

    Family Room…especially the computer area…papers galore!

  194. Karen

    My worst clutter spot is my office. There are so many papers, books, cds, etc that I just don’t know what to do with them all. It also seems to be the dumping ground for all the items I don’t know what else to do with them. HELP!

  195. Candy Reese

    Hardest room to keep organized for us is the walk-in master bedroom closet. Too many clothes, shoes, shopping bags etc.

  196. {shannon}

    the kitchen counter is our biggest offender. it’s just so convenient to drop stuff there!!

  197. Danielle

    With 2 little ones and a mom who likes to cook, the kitchen is the hub of our house and therefore, the hardest room to keep clean. I feel like we’re always sorting piles of mail, piles of dishes, etc. Thanks for the awesome giveaway!!

  198. Mary Joy

    The kitchen counters. I love your ideas Melissa! Getting started today!

  199. Staci

    I have to say that my dining room is the most cluttered spot in my home. Everyone comes in and lays their stuff on the table or floor and hangs jackets on the chairs.

  200. Lisa

    Home office is the worst, but master bedroom is pretty bad (weight fluctuations cause closet clutter).

  201. Tammy

    My son’s room! In particular, his desk! It fills up with books, pencils, legos. It makes me crazy!

    • Jana Hunter

      It would have to be the kitchen. Since I was 12, I started the “never ending pile” of to do’s that always end up on the kitchen counter!

  202. Mandi

    My bedroom is exploding with teetering towers of books and papers. Mail, magazine clippings, polaroids, strips of watercolor paper, receipts, clothing tags, and post-its protrude from under precariously stacked magazines, journals, catalogs, brochures, galleys, novels and comic books. To say that I must tiptoe around my room for fear of these monstrous clutter collections tumbling down is not an understatement. Can organization save the things that inspire me so I don’t have to just black bag everything??

  203. Heidi B.

    Do I really have to pick only one?! There are so many. :( I have to say that my kitchen island is the most challenging hot spot since it is a drop-all area for everyone and everything and the first place you come to up the stairs. Looking forward to my 5 daily habits. Your post has challenged me. I do work FT so I may reduce to 3 daily habits and start from there. As long as I have an attainable goal and achieve success, only up from there. Thank you.

  204. Cookie

    It’s my kitchen! I’m going to apply all 5 spots to my kitchen and morning room — 1 big open space that’s the most heart of our home. I’ve printed out your plan and will tape it to my fridge. Thanks so much for coming up with this for us. You’re a Peach!

  205. kris with a k

    Definitely my bedroom! Not only does my closet live there, but the bedroom is the place where the daily miscellaneous items (purse, etc) that don’t seem to have a real home go when company comes :)

  206. Maureen

    The room that seems to get the most clutter or where we end up “just putting” stuff is the spare room or office where we have our computer. It is the place where our bookcase is and a sofa sleeper and where our “gift” closet is located. Things just happen to get put there and sometimes forgotten about.

  207. sangeetha

    my kitchen – first room when you enter the house

  208. Sharlotte

    The kitchen is the hardest for me…always clutter!

  209. Joanne

    The kitchen is the most difficult room to keep clutter free in our house. Its where everyone gathers, the mail gets dropped. Phones and chargers, newspapers, UGH!

  210. TracyDK

    We live in a very small duplex and I have a toddler, so can I just say everywhere? *L* The worst offender probably is the coffee table or the kitchen table. It seems that no matter WHAT I do or how often I do it, they seem to be constantly covered in something.

  211. Sallie Baker

    My most difficult area is the long bar in our back den that is the first place to DUMP things when you come in the back door. My calendar ” center” is there, and while I try to keep it organized the area is always full of junk! WhY do I do that!! Hoping your new plan will help!

  212. linda (burlap+blue)

    This is a hard one! I’d say the kitchen, though. Counters and the table seem to be a magnet for clutter!

  213. Marguerite

    The kitchen of course!

  214. Kari

    For me, it’s hard to choose! But, I’d say the one room that drives me crazy is our schoolroom/craft room. Right now, it’s in the front entry room of our house, because that was the only place to put it. So, it’s the first thing people see when they walk in the door. It’s put together with mismatched bookshelves we’ve gotten free or cheap, and there are so many books and craft supplies. I try to go through it all often, but I just can’t seem to get it where it’s a pleasant room for me to be in. :) It just seems “thrown together.” I homeschooled for eight years, but my oldest girls went to school this year for the first time. I still have my youngest son at home, so we still need most of the stuff. But, the girls come home from school and drop off their backpacks. Oh, did I mention it’s also our mudroom? Our shoes and coats are all in there. It’s a sore spot for me. :)

  215. joy

    I have a hard time keeping the kitchen counter cleared! My sewing room is also a trouble spot. There are more projects piled up then I seem to have time for.

  216. jen

    the island in our kitchen-it collects everything

  217. Linda

    Our kitchen is the hardest room in our house to keep clutter free! The kids dump all of their school papers and sweatshirts all over the kitchen when they get home from school.

  218. Marjorie

    I would have to say that our kitchen is the most cluttered area in the house as is becomes homework central for two teens (eating the whole time) and my 5th grader. This introduces three back packs whose contents are routinely disgorged covering the counters and floors. Add the regular charging of electronic devices, collection of keys, tissue boxes, lunch boxes, bills, telephone, and a laptop and it is disastrous. Now make dinner :-) I love the sense of connectivity and community, but it needs to be tamed! (Don’t even mention the upstairs on going laundry saga…..)

  219. Olivia

    I will be honest. With six children (all girls!), I can not imagine my house EVER being completely “clutter free”. I try my best to maintain something that resembles less than utter chaos! My most difficult room to keep clean and clutter free is my bedroom, unfortunately. All the mess from the rest of the house gravitates to our bedroom to hide behind closed doors. My biggest dream is to be able to actually WALK again in my walk-in closet, a craft area that is ONLY for me and a clean and inspiring sanctuary for my husband and I.

  220. Julie C

    The homeschool room!

  221. Angela

    It’s our bedroom. We only have one dresser for two adults and the rest of the stuff sits in laundry baskets. It drives me nuts!

  222. Susanne

    My hotspot is the kitchen. It has alot of counter space and surface space. Which for my husband who was raised in a house that almost never had an empty surface space. of course it didn’t mean it was dirty it was just never clear of clutter. I however came from a home where everyhting had a place and it was never on the counters. Needless to say I can almost never keep the counters and kitchen table free from clutter. Sometimes it seems easier to fall into laziness than fight the everyday battle. I thought this was a never ending battle but what I am finding is that my whole family not just myself feel the effects of a this cluttered room. Which is why your post inspired me so much. I am ready to tackle and defeat with a 5 new habits and hot spots and believe me it does extend further than the kitchen. We won’t even talk about the laundry room thank you for the inspiration.

  223. Franki Parde

    The kitchen table/counter/island!!!! Why, oh, why!!! AND, BTW, I use disinfectant wipes ALL THE TIME. franki [email protected]

  224. Karen Lucas

    The absolute worst area is my husband’s office – you can hardly open the door and he is so unable to throw anything away so the entire room is filled with things he never uses so that the desk has literally not been used for a couple of years. Instead he uses the desk downstairs which is regularly covered with ‘stuff’. I know all of the clutter is difficult for him to deal with but not as difficult as it is for him to clear out the clutter. I’m not sure what plan would help since when I try to help it does not work unless he is not at home!

  225. Melanie D.

    My kitchen. I have a desk in there that is always DEEP with papers, mails, etc.

  226. Debbie McFarland

    My kitchen table seems to be a magnet for the entire family to drop the mail, the newspapers, the backpacks, the homework, a stack of books, lunchbox, anything and everything. It makes me crazy and I am so afraid we will lose important mail or papers. I have tried lots of different systems, but the table is STILL where it ends up. UGH!

  227. Kala M.

    I think the living room is our most cluttered. You walk right into when you come in the door. So mail and other items get dropped on the end table and the coffee table.

  228. Jo

    My dining room table is the worst. I personally do not place anything on it, but my husband and daughtrer leave mail, newspapers, and anything the do not know what to do with there.

  229. Bobbi

    I am a firm believer that if you ignore most things long enough, they just go away. So most things I want to ignore I put in my bedroom (this only sometimes includes my husband). A stack of papers on my bedside table…uugghh…. It never goes away….

  230. Elise

    Oh my goodness, it is definitely our kitchen. The kitchen table ALWAYS ends up as the catch all for things that don’t have another home!

  231. cynD

    I have a whole house issue. you walk in through the front door and you see the kitchen and living room. Go in to either place and you see th edinning room. an Open L shape of the three spaces. I need to get rid of stuff to make it all fit. This is our down sized home, more stuff to find another home for. It my not be in this home…

  232. Jess

    My living room! I live in an fairly small apartment, and I constantly struggle with NOT turning my living room into a collect all for anything and everything that gets used!

  233. Valerie J.

    The guest room is the major clutter magnet in our house! Maybe need to repurpose this room altogether.

  234. Casey

    My kitchen is IMPOSSIBLE! I honestly run my dishwasher three times a day and the sink is still overflowing with dishes at all times. The kitchen table is a dumping ground for all the random junk I didn’t even know we owned, and the floor is in constant need of a sweep and mop. Needless to say, this is also the space where everyone tends to congregate when they come over, so it’s the most visible mess in the house!

    • Sarah

      Haha, yes I would echo every word you said! We started only keeping one mug, bowl, and plate out for each member of the family and putting the rest away (my mom used to use coloured tupperware for each person)…that way instead of grabbing another bowl for soup you HAVE TO wash your cereal bowl from this morning! It’s a thought, it seems to help a bit!

  235. Julie

    Sad to say my toughest room to keep organized is my bedroom and it really stresses me out sometimes. I feel it should be the most important room to organize and create a sense of peace and yet because it’s a room most people don’t see it’s easy for me to stash stuff in there quickly and then it ends up staying there!

  236. Barb - The Empty Nest Mom

    My home office – definitely my home office! piles and piles of papers, magazine tear outs, bills, incoming checks, journals, sewing bits and pieces, patterns, correspondence, my camera, calendars, business cards from here and there….. You get it – clutter.

  237. JD

    Wow…I could so use this prize! My kitchen seems to be the worst area to keep clutter free. Everyone likes to “deposit” stuff on the counters.

  238. Emily Anne

    I find my kitchen pantry to be the most difficult area to keep clean and organized. It’s so frustrating to not be able to find what I’m looking for when I need it and yet it’s so easy to close the door and not do anything about it! I try my best to do a weekly pantry clean out to make sure I know what I have. It helps avoid wasting food and makes me a better meal planner. :)

  239. Pamela

    The kitchen! It is the first room you come into when you enter the house. The table gets filled, bookbags and purses get hung on the backs of chairs, and the island counter gets buried. It is not uncommon to have to clear the table to eat dinner, or even to cook dinner! I keep working at it, but my husband likes to put piles — and post it notes — on the end of the counter to remind him of things. We need to find a better system!

  240. Lauren

    The living room – jackets, mail, cups, blankets.. they all end up there!

  241. Danielle M.

    Thanks for the give-away!

    I find that my dining room is the toughest room. The table becomes a collect-all. The buffet drawers are stuffed to the gills and the buffet shelves continue to gather a vast array of things.

  242. Amy

    It used to be my kitchen counter. Then we moved to a different house and I was able to designate a room “the office.” Now it is so easy to put things on my desk and the shelves in the office! My kitchen counters have become clutter-free but don’t look in the office! :)

  243. Sharon

    My bedroom! It has a lot of light so I spend most of my time in there sewing, painting, doing DIY stuff… The problem with being crafty is that that whichever room you use seems to explode with clutter. I’ve got acrylic paints, canvases, my sewing machine, fabric, my drill and tool box, etc. all piled on one table! Add to that one big hyper dog who not only chews everything in sight, but is also a total klutz (and likes to deposit her hair everywhere) and you have one messy room!

  244. Laura

    My kitchen! We all come in through the back door, so our keys, bags, etc. get dropped on the kitchen counter along wtih all of the normal kitchen clutter!

  245. Anne

    That would be my office/guest room. It’s the go to space with all the clutter picked up from other rooms.

  246. Whitney

    I was going to say my kitchen because my counters seem to be a catchall for everything! (Plus, I HATE doing dishes!) BUT, I think I’ll have to say my bathroom. I leave stuff out on the counter all the time…not to mention I shed like crazy!! My long dark hair ends up everywhere. I know it’s gross but it’s so hard to keep up with…I hate it!

  247. Sarah

    Definitely the bathroom. It’s organized-ish but very small and I really don’t even notice til I come home at the end of the day (because my husband and I are flying out the door in such a hurry!)that you can’t even see the counter (literally!) and the bathmat is on the floor with the hair dryer…its one of my goals for this year!!

  248. AlexisAnne

    I also find that my dining room table is the first place to collect junk and the last place to actually eat dinner!

  249. Paula

    I would have to say my kitchen. It seems to be the place where coats, bags and books pile up.

  250. Beth Hughes

    Definitely my bedroom! I tend to use it to keep the ‘other’ rooms clutter free, then find myself every couple of weeks losing my mind over things piling up in there. And the irony is I know how important having an uncluttered bedroom is to getting restful sleep and being stressfree in general – definitely my number one inside hotspot!

  251. Tatum

    Entryway. It all gets dropped by the door.

  252. Sarah

    Dining room table – it’s right in the path between our kitchen and our bedroom and living room, so it seems it’s the collecting ground for anything and everything!

  253. Lyn

    the kitchen!!! Hands down!!

  254. Sharmin

    My kitchen seems like a magnet for clutter – especially papers!!! Thanks for the cool giveaway. :)

  255. Julie

    My kitchen counters are the biggest clutter magnets in my home! I don’t have an office area anywhere in the house so everything ends us piled in there. UGH!

  256. Bonnie Jean Fulcher

    The most difficult room in my house to keep clean is my kitchen. First, of course, there are the dishes… then the pantry… the fridge… the counters… and instead of a table because our house is so small I have a work table with my computer on it in my kitchen and shelves and filing cabinets !!! We eat in the dining room adjacent to the kitchen. So, the counters and sink are always full of dishes drying or waiting to be washed… or they have food on them thawing or something I am in the middle of baking or cooking… and the fridge and pantry closet always need “weeding out”… and the computer area is the dumping ground for all school papers… the mail… anything that needs to be typed or filed… what a huge mess !!! Help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  257. Jessica

    Our dining room table has become a drop spot for everything – jackets, drying laundry, dog toys, etc.

  258. Laura

    My biggest spots are the kitchen island, my office (the whole space – desk, floor, chair!!) My laundry closet shelf (the area over the washer and dryer that is supposed to be for folding clothes!) and My bedroom. Spring cleaning has started – maybe they will be vanquished this year!

  259. Flower Patch Farmgirl

    It used to be our island, but now that we’re in a rental, it’s the (very tiny)kitchen counter. I’m forever dripping sauce or squeezing lemon juice onto the junk mail/important mail/homework/grocery lists that collect there!

  260. Amanda J

    That would be my bathroom- drawers to be specific. My 1 year old finds all sorts of perfect bottles and tubes that fit perfectly into his little hands. He methodically whips them out as fast as he can. ;-) Love that little man.

  261. Sara Fitch

    Our office for sure…it’s where we dump everything that doesn’t have a place so we can keep the rest of our home clutter free and clean.

  262. jennifer

    The hardest room to keep clean in my house is the living room. The table seems “catch” every random thing that exists!

  263. Jennifer DeMaio

    thanks for the inspiration! I love the focus steps you provided. Makes it so much easier when a overwhelming task is broken down into small steps. ONe big area of clutter is our shoe bench. Nice size storage for shoes, though instead of IN the shoe bench, they are all on the floor IN FRONT of the bench. The other BIG clutter spot is my kitchen table. Everything ends up there. My sweet family does not seem to understand that the little cleaning fairy does not stop at our house. Sure wish she did!!

  264. AJ

    I must say it’s the kitchen counter – There is this one special corner that’s always stacked and crammed with stuff that doesn’t belong. Drives me crazy! AJ@queenofmynest

  265. Michelle

    The kitchen! The heart of my home–and the heart of my frustration. (Most horizontal surfaces are in danger of clutter in my house. I keep waging the battle.)

  266. Emily

    It’s so hard to keep my kitchen telephone area clutter free. It fills with mail, homework, and items that need to go upstairs. It’s a daily battle!

  267. kathy from ct

    office – junkyard of the house!

  268. Teresa K

    Ohhh, pick one area that is most cluttered and needs attention daily?? My kitchen island! I dump my mail, recipets, newspaper, all kinds of junk.
    Starting today…I will try to keep it clear and clean! Looks so nice when it is cleared off! Thanks for motivation!

  269. Janesa

    The worst place for clutter in our house is the counter between the kitchen and the living room. The mail automatically gets stacked there along with keys,change,receipts, and anything else related to emptying your pockets. I’ve tried organized baskets but they were quickly ignored. I must prevail and try something new.

  270. Jessalyn

    The most difficult room in our house to keep clean and clutter free is the master bedroom. There’s nothing master like about this room. It’s become the toy and laundry dumping ground. I definitely need to get this under control.

  271. Hanna

    Our Kids room is by far the hardest to keep clean/organized. I have buckets set up, but still toys and stuffed animals are always on the floor.

  272. Sara

    The Kitchen!! It’s in the middle of everything and always becomes a dumping ground.

  273. Lisa

    My worst room to keep organized is my bedroom! I tend to just throw stuff in there from other rooms before people come and than don’t look at it again until I need something!

  274. Bridget

    Back hall. Dropping zone for jackets, backpacks, shoes and whatever else comes through the door. Never stays tidy for long.

  275. Suzan

    The desk in my office is the dumping ground for papers, mail, books and anything else that doesn’t seem to have a home.

  276. Jennifer from WI

    The office. It is mostly used by my husband, so I don’t want to move things around/throw things out without him being there. I think it needs files/totes etc so that at least same goes with same. It depresses me every time I look into it though. Sometimes we have to use it for guests and then I move into panic mode and end up throwing everything into a box and hiding it in the closet :-) Not the solution, I know!

  277. Lindsay

    I would say my kitchen is by far the hardest place to keep clean. It’s a constant battle for sure!!!

  278. Stephanie

    Our bedroom is awful–it is a collecting spot for all the clutter, folded clothes, and other junk that we move in there “temporarily” to make the rest of the house more presentable. :-)

  279. Kim Bolzenthal

    Thanks for all the tips. I intend to start using them. As far as what room is the messiest? My kitchen! Everyone uses the back door, so everything gets dropped on the kitchen counters or even the stove top. It’s not that big a kitchen!

  280. Jennifer

    The dining room. The table is everyone’s dumping ground!

  281. Becky T.

    The kitchen! Between junk mail on the counter, clean dishes that need to be put up, and the kitchen table currently serving as a gift wrap station for spring baby showers and birthday parties, it’s a wonder I ever cook!

  282. Amanda

    Mudroom/entryway – I’ve got hooks, cubbies, shelves but it’s no use! Stuff accumulates and breeds…..how’d I end up with 3 soccer balls?!?!

  283. Terry

    It would be my desk area in the kitchen. Clutter drives me crazy too and adds to my overall stress. I’ve learned I can live with dust better than I can live with clutter. The best decluttering tip I ever heard is to go around your house with a basket picking up all of the clutter. Voila! The house will look so much better, and you can put away the things in the basket at your convenience. With 5 children, this has been a sanity saver.

  284. Sarah

    The dining room table! Everything ends up there mail, clothes, shoes (under the table) anything I have in my hand as I walk by gets set there.

  285. Aimee C.

    The kitchen counter’s and closet for sure, major family dumping ground!

  286. Blythe M.

    My car is a HUGE junk magnet. Whenever we don’t know what to do with something, we stuff it in the glove compartment/door pocket/trunk…it drives me crazy, and I get embarrassed whenever we give people rides, or when the bag-boy at the grocery store carries out the groceries!

  287. Patti

    My master bedroom closet would have to be the hardest room to keep to organized.

  288. Ashley

    Our kitchen desk is always covered in a pile of papers.

  289. Natalie

    kitchen!!! We just move messes from one counter to the next and it never seems to get put away! DRIVES me NUTS!!! BUT, today… you’ve inspired me!!! Day 1 of 30 begins!!! Hoping to create good habits!

  290. Kathy

    Our kitchen is the family dumping ground! A cleared surface does not stand a chance for more than 24-hrs or the next school day… which ever comes first :)

  291. Karen

    Definitely the kitchen. I get tired of nagging everyone to put their dishes into the dishwasher. I swear if you put 2 plates and a cup in the sink, they will multiply like rabbits!

  292. Diane

    My ” office ” ( spare bedroom ). It has become the “dumping ground” for any and everything that has no home! I don’t even know where to begin!!! It was supposed to be my little sanctuary, for creative projects, but is a jumbled mess. I have to close the door when we have company! So embarassing :/

  293. Jenn

    My husbands home office is the hardest room to keep clean.

  294. ellen klassen

    Our desk in the den. Keys, purses , mail . Dumping ground for stuff.

  295. Jenni

    the bar is the kitchen/dining area is most certainly our clutter spot. its close to the front door and its where all mail, keys, newspaper, and other random junk are put. sometimes i have a hard time cleaning it because i dont even know where some of that stuff goes!

  296. Heather

    The most difficult room in the house is definitely our office/gaming room. My husband creates piles of papers and doesn’t sort them. My side is tidy, his a mess. Started an “in box” for him, now it’s 2 feet high.

  297. Cindy M.

    First of all thanks so much for the tips! They will come in handy this spring when we start our spring cleaning!!
    The most difficult room to organize and keep clean is the living room! We spend most of the day in the living room and we have laminate flooring so I have to sweep at least once a day, sometimes 3 or more because the kids ALWAYS make a mess and there are ALWAYS toys everywhere!

  298. Diane

    My ” office ” ( spare bedroom ). It has become the “dumping ground” for any and everything that has no home! I don’t even know where to begin!!! It was supposed to be my little sanctuary, for creative projects, but is a jumbled mess. I have to close the door when we have company.

  299. jessica

    My kitchen!!! It is the biggest dumping ground for my husband! He walks in and just drops everything. To the point where remodeling to add a mudroom with doors so I can through all his crapola in there and shut it! :)

  300. Dede

    My kitchen… ugh. Laptops, ipads, headphones, paperwork. Don’t even talk about my kiddos and all their cutesie cups and plates, toys, tricycles. Yep.

  301. jen

    Definitely my laundry room! I have two teenage girls who never seem to remember that they have laundry in the washer and/or dryer, which then gets wrinkled and they have to wash over again (vicious cycle). Not to mention the hundreds of pairs of unmatched socks. I’m forever griping at them about this room. I am inspired by your blog, you have such great ideas. Thank you!

  302. Denise

    For sure my dining room!!!!! It’s the center of our home and a pathway to get to every other part of our home…..

  303. Kaethe

    I’m going to go with the den: everybody uses that door and dumps stuff in there.

  304. Margie

    Our office! Everthing seems to land there.

  305. Randi

    Daughter’s playroom!! I’m pretty good about picking up small messes before they make big ones but that is one room I try to stay clear of ;) and she hasn’t formed the habit of picking up when she’s done playing. Still working on that one!
    My 30th bday is March 22, what a great gift winning this giveaway could be :)

  306. Lisa

    My desk….everything gets piled there, with the best of intentions!

  307. Stephanie Hanes

    The living room is ALWAYS the hardest to keep clean because, as a stay at home mom, it is where we spend most of our days and, with two toddlers, there is ALWAYS a mess to clean up.

  308. Gina

    The kitchen! We wind up with so many piles and lists in there, it’s crazy!

  309. Cherie

    The playroom!

  310. Jennifer Restine

    The kitchen counter is so hard to keep clean!!! It becomes a dumping ground for bags, school work, bills, broken toys, and a million other things. Would love a organized spot by the garage to put up bags, shoes, etc. Love your blog!

  311. Nancy L.

    The laundry room – it’s the entrance. My tiny sewing table is the dumping ground for all things, I-don’t-want-to-put-this-away-right-now. It’s extreme narrow size doesn’t help either.

  312. Beth

    It’s my kitchen! It seems that we always congregate in the kitchen…and always leave it a mess!

  313. Megan LaFollett

    My living room. It’s where we live — “we” mostly being me, a preschooler, a toddler and a new baby. So it feels out of control most of the day.

  314. Anita H.

    The kitchen!

  315. Janie Slater

    The kitchen table and floor is our catch-all when we come in the door. It’s always the room that is the first to be cleaned and de-cluttered when tackling the household cleanup.

  316. Julie

    Our kitchen is the clutter hotspot. Thank you for the great & practical tips. :)

  317. Mandy S.

    My living room. We have a separate playroom upstairs that I thought would be amazing when we bought our house, but my 4 year old just drags the toys downstairs to the living room. Every day it’s like a Lego bomb exploded in there!

  318. Karen

    Torn between the kitchen and my sewing room! At least I can close the door to the sewing room whereas you walk into the kitchen when you enter my home!

  319. Destiny

    I would say my office! I need some major help in there! We call it the tornado room. Take it as you will:0) Thanks so much IR, Target and Container Store!

  320. Emilie

    Our office area…its the first area seen when someone comes in the backdoor.I could really use some ideas.

  321. Annie

    The office area, which is in my living room. The desk collects random things way too fast!

  322. Patti H.

    My home office! It is a disaster! I am a “pile it” type person and the piles have taken over. Thank you for this wonderful giveaway! My office could sure use it!

  323. Rebekah Gunnels

    My bedroom!!! It’s always the last room to be cleaned because it’s so overwhelming. I always have clothes and shoes everywhere and I HATE hanging them up!

  324. Paula W.

    In our house, easy, the dining room table. Right now: newspapers, homework, American Girl catalog, cookbook and weekly meal planner, daughter’s latest art school project, parachute from a party favor, daily calendar of activities, laptop and a ginormous cup of coffee! Beginning step 1. . .NOW!

  325. paula rae

    Kitchen Table. :/

  326. Tina B.

    The computer nook.. Mail, books, magazines, odd pieces of paper, pens.. It all piles up and it does so quickly!!

  327. jennifer

    My bedroom because I offer child care in my home and my room turns into the queue for everything. It’s like a big closet. I would love to have a nice space for myself. It’s terrible!!

  328. Kathy

    Entryway – its a dumping ground!!!! Where I am working today!!!

  329. Alisa Beavers

    Kitchen Counter! It makes me crazy how much gets dropped there in a day!

  330. Sarah

    Oh, my word. Target + The Container Store = heaven. My kitchen counters are a catchall for everyone in the family. I feel like I spend more time cleaning clutter there than I do cooking!

  331. Lindsay

    My bedroom, we spend the least amount of time in our room and yet it’s become a dumping ground. I want it to feel more like a sanctuary and less like a locker room!

  332. Susan Hill

    The corners of our kitchen counters. For some reason they seem to attract…stuff. lol!

  333. Alisa Beavers

    Kitchen Counter! The most random things end up there!

  334. Angie

    The kitchen counters-UGH!

  335. Leigh Ann N

    The kitchen counter (closest to the mudroom) and the first two steps in the staircase (kids’ clutter to return to their rooms). HELP!

  336. ileana

    Our kitchen table and island! Ugh! It’s where we do almost everything and where everything gets dumped off. Homework, mail, dirty dishes from snacks, etc. We really need to work on it. Thanks for the reminder, and for the chance to win!

  337. Christine Cantu

    My kitchen counter! Mail, bills and other stuff piles up there. Definitely the trouble spot in my home.

  338. Heeather S

    Definitely our playroom!

  339. NanaDoll

    Definitely my kitchen counters: that is where recycling gets dumped instead of in the bin, or the junk someone needs to take to the basement, or the mail, or groceries someone doesn’t bother to put away, or or or…it drives me nuts! And I think I am the only one it bothers!

  340. nova c.

    right as you step into our apt. shoes are put there cause we don’t wear any inside and backpacks, etc. also end up there. trying to figure out what to do since we can’t mess up the walls by making any large holes in them…

  341. Jessie C.

    Living room. It’s impossible to keep it clutter free.

  342. LaToi

    And the winner is the Kitchen…My kitchen space issue, has now turned into a clutter issue, everything is butsting at the seams…dishes, tufferware, cleaning products, pantry items, there’s mail and key and rugs…It’s a true clutter magnet, because cook the food and they will come!

  343. emily

    always the kitchen/dining nook. Between the bar, the table, and the spare pantry, there are always piles to declutter.

  344. Amy

    The most difficult home in the room for me to keep clean is…THE KITCHEN. My toddler and 10-year-old, God love them, seem to get more food on the floor than in their mouths!

  345. Emily Hood

    My kitchen is the family dumping ground for daily papers,pocket clutter,keys & water glasses galore( for some reason my kids cant use the same glass for the entire day, errrr!) I like the idea to start with just 4 areas…seems completly “do-able”! Thank you for a clutter free week ahead!

  346. Delayna Guenther

    I have a buffet in the dining room that gets covered with all the kid’s school papers, markers, mail, seed packets, etc etc etc. It drives me crazy and Im not sure what do do about it.

  347. Marnet McCann

    My craft room ! Im usually working on more than one project and tend to let things get stacked up around me…and before you know it I’ve got a cluttered mess ! Of course I know where everything is, but it sure doesnt look pretty !

  348. Megan

    My computer room. I still have boxes filled with crap sitting on the floor that have been there since I moved in . . . a year ago. I just can’t (or won’t) find the time to find all that stuff a home since I don’t spend a lot of time in the room.

  349. Amanda Anderson

    Our office! It turns into a catch all room for everything. Plus the desk we have doesn’t have any workspace so paperwork ends up on the floor and sometimes doesn’t even fit in the filing cabinet!

  350. Melissa B.

    A better question for me is which space doesn’t stay cluttered? :) Seriously, our bedrooms are pretty bad, and so is our patio/shed.

  351. Wendy Y.

    Embarrassingly enough my master bedroom…there is little storage and it is just easier to pile things up instead of finding a solution to the madness of it all.

  352. Cindy L

    Our dining room is the most difficult. It’s right inside the door from our garage, and since my husband owns a small business, it has become a work space for him. The table and sideboard are both covered with papers that he needs to keep track of. Since he’s an “out of sight, out of mind” person who also won’t write anything down because he can’t keep track of notes, I struggle with helping him find ways to organize the stuff. If I put something in a filing system, it’s like I’ve thrown it away. Biggest problem – the dining room is open to the living room (L-shape), so no matter how tidy I keep the living room, it looks like the entire house is a mess. Second biggest problem – no other available room in the house to use as his work space.

    Help!

  353. d

    The kitchen island is the worst to clear the clutter from-almost impossible. Its right in the path of everyone when they come home and everything gets dumped or forgotten there and it drives me crazy.

  354. Vanessa

    Definitely the kitchen!

  355. Fiona

    The most difficult room to keep clean is definitely the living room. Between my son’s toys and random clothes that get thrown around, it’s a nightmare!

  356. Carol

    My kitchen island is a mess regularly – my kitchen is original 1925 (drainboard sink/shallow cupboards/etc) and NO DISHWASHER – so I have to pile everything on my island until I do the dishes it is a mess…it is also the place I put my mail to sort and magazines and newspapers that I read while having a cup of tea. I love it when it is cleaned up and I am certainly frazzled when it is discombobulated.

  357. April

    The bar in my kitchen is our catch-all and drives me crazy! This is a fantastic giveaway!

  358. Sara T

    It’s a toss up between my bathroom and the kitchen! I think the Kitchen will win, though!!

  359. Julie

    Our bedroom for sure! We don’t have a lot of closet space (or any space for that matter) so the floor becomes a catch-all for clothes, shoes, laundry, dog toys, etc…

  360. Diane

    I’m doing better than this than ever before. I think it helps to move to a new home and begin new habits. BUT, why is it that the breakfast table always seems to be the place that collects whoknowswhats? I’ve got to figure out the ‘why’ so we can break the habit.

    Thanks for the opportunity. And for all the fabulous tips!!!

  361. shaka

    Definitely our homeschool nook. There are so many papers and so many art supplies and books, I can’t seem to get it together there!

  362. Lindsey

    My closet. Most hated chore, putting laundry away. So it always piles up in clean stacks until I can’t take it anymore. One day I will break this habit.

  363. Tara

    Our bedroom! Its the room no one sees so it tends to be a free for all.

  364. Sharon

    The kitchen! Everything seems to land on the kitchen counter or the kitchen table!

  365. Heather Carraway

    The kitchen table!! It collects mail and old papers, the chairs collect coats and belts. I love this post…I am going to make a conscious effort to keep the kitchen table clutter at bay :)

  366. Casey

    My bedroom! It’s the dumping ground for everything. Papers, magazines, clothes, shoes, you name it and it’s in there! No wonder I feel tired in the morning, just waking up to all that is overwhelming.

  367. Elizabeth

    How did you konw my purse was such a mess? ;)

  368. Lucie Hale

    My most cluttered room is my home office. I work outside of the home,so when I come home, last thing I want is to spend more time at another office, so my mail and magazines and lots of receipts get tossed into many piles in my office and I definitely do not have enough proper storage for all that stuff.

  369. Vickie Waltrip

    I would have to say my kitchen since everything lands on my island and stays there until I figure out what to do with it all.

  370. Linda Klinger

    Perhaps the best idea on the list is the one regarding cleaning out my purse! I have found that to be totally liberating, and the little post-it notes with lists and ideas actually get filed or done!

  371. Pam B

    Master bedroom takea the hit every time! Laundry/utility takes a close second.

  372. Elizabeth

    My kitchen counter needs this! And, my bedroom…I’m the worst about hanging up clothes.

  373. Tammi D

    My worst place is my kitchen, particularly the top of my microwave!

  374. Heidi

    My bedroom is the dumping ground. I keep up pretty well in the other rooms, but it’s so easy to just close the bedroom door and ignore the piles.

  375. Melanie

    My open floor plan makes it very difficult to keep my kitchen clean, since my kitchen is basically IN the living room! Wouldn’t it be nice if new home builders would design all of us the perfect “sitcom” kitchen…you know the one that has the swinging door, but is open to the living room with a “window” if you so choose to look at your family!?! BUT with that said, I would have to say my mudroom is THE WORST CULPRIT. Its disgusting. nothing else to say about that. Thanks!

  376. Kim

    My bedroom is definitely hoarder central. But my dining room table is a close second.

  377. Jeanine Kuhn

    Out bathroom is the most challenging to keep clutter -free.

  378. Patty Hicks

    I love the tips! And the timing is perfect for me as I am working to get our home back in order before the busy spring/summer season. My challenge is paper…I hate paper and it seems to hate me. (lol) But the bigger challenge is my husband’s fix-it projects that have taken over our dining room. He’s one of those that fixes anything and everything…a gift that has gotten out of control a little and I am hoping be able to help him get organized so the prize would really go a long way in helping me do that.

  379. Nancy Mehrpad

    The Dining room. I have a huge Dining room table when you first walk in the door and everything tends to end up there. Mail accumulates, things brought in from outside. It all starts out so innocently and becomes a monster that you want to ignore in no time!

  380. Melissa

    My Living Room/Kitchen since I live in an apartment they are pretty much connected and its almot impossible to keep it organized or decluttered. And considering I have a limited cabinet space in the kitchen most things get put in a corner of the living till we can find room.

  381. Kerry

    Desk in the kitchen is everyone’s dumping ground, especially mine!

  382. Jen Husz

    Definitely my basement…it seems everytime I clear clutter from the main floor (which is often, b/c clutter drives me crazy), I dump it down there until I can deal with it. Then I go on a basement purging binge, but a month later there is more clutter down there. I still don’t know where it all comes from, b/c I’m so careful about not bringing stuff into the house! Maybe it has something to do with the 3 small children…

  383. Mary Ruth

    Clutter is attracted to my desk. I’m trying to “go paperless” and organize the rest. Wow!! What a chore.

  384. Nicole Warren

    My home is my haven, and yes I totally agree! Helpful article, constant battle getting organized and the gift cards would help so much! I already know exactly what I’d want to do with them, thanks for the opportunity!

  385. Dianna

    it is definitely my bedroom. Because without a spare room or basement I tend to pile things up there when I don’t know where else to put it.

  386. Andrea cotter

    Master bedroom. Easy to blow off since no one ever sees it but us!

  387. Cynthia

    The kitchen, without a doubt! That breakfast bar is a constant battle.

  388. Lori Taube

    Our master bedroom is definitely the most cluttered! We run a home-based business so our room doubles as an office, and since “no one ever sees our room anyway” it’s always the last on my cleaning priority list..

  389. Gabrielle Martin

    Our bedroom is the hardest to keep decluttered. It is where I do laundry and because it is out of sight, I frequently use it as a dumping ground when I frantically clean before company comes.

  390. Kathleen K

    The kitchen–it isn’t that big and we all use the space all day/every day!

  391. missy june

    My most difficult room is the children’s bathroom … I have three who share a small space and the counter gets filled with tooth brushes and hair brushes and tooth paste splotches. The mirror gets sprayed, the tub has multiple toys. It’s a bit chaotic!

  392. tiffany sexton

    My master bedroom is the worst! Everything that doesn’t have a place ends up in there.

  393. kara

    counters cleaned off in kitchen & dishes done in the evening.
    kara

  394. Brenda

    The kids’ play room! But, it is well used. :)

  395. Susan

    OH boy, the kitchen for sure! It is the dumping ground for the entire family – they don’t understand that it is my office and that I need some order!! It is a constant battle.

  396. Jae

    Hmm..that’s a good question. I think it’s a tie between the laundry room and kitchen!

  397. Stacee T.

    Our bonus room! This ~500sf room serves as my office for my graphic design and photography business, portrait studio for said business, media room, home school room, library, guest room, play room, laundry room and also is home to my husband and kids’ computers as well. 3/23 is my husband’s birthday and what a gift it would be if I could tell him I won this amazing giveaway!! <3

  398. Ginny J

    Without a doubt the kitchen! It seems like everything gets dumped on the island.

  399. Elizabeth

    We enter our home from the back door through the kitchen. Therefore, the kitchen table and counters(which you run into first) are almost always covered with mail, bags, groceries, and random STUFF that we don’t know what to do with. I could really use a better system! The Container Store and Target are my “happy place” and I would love to win a shopping spree!

  400. Katherine

    The Kitchen is the worst spot for me!

  401. Beth Groce

    It has to be the kitchen – specifically the island.

  402. Becky

    My kitchen counter tops are the worst. They collect everything. Very depressing.

  403. Kelbi

    My bedside table !! YIKES! My BF and I love to eat snacks in bed and watch tv that plus all the remotes, laptops and chargers leaves my nightstand a disaster I carry cans and food to the kitchen daily and hide electronics only to have them all reappear hours later ….. Is there such thing as a hida-table?? Cause I would for sure invest in that !

  404. Melody

    Definitely the kitchen counters… I end up cleaning those every day.

  405. Deb

    Our bonus room is impossible to keep clean. It’s a multi-purpose room used as my kids playroom/TV room and our home school space. It’s a fabulous spot, it just needs a plan and some organization.

  406. Rachel Langston

    Our worst area is either the kitchen or right outside the back door. Those seem to be the places where everything (backpacks, sports equipment, etc. gets dumped on the way in or out the door. Amazingly enough, my husband is the one who CONSISTENTLY takes his stuff straight to our room when he gets home!

  407. Patty Coleman

    Definitely my kitchen counter and table. If I put one thing there it just grows until everyone puts stuff there.

  408. AmyLynn

    Our home office. Every book, scrap of paper, mail, etc. that needs to be dealt with “later” gets piled in there. Seems it’s always a disastrous mess of cords, files, and “to be done” items. It’s overwhelming. Ugh!

  409. fiona

    My Kitchen, everyone is our family enters our home through the kitchen. So, we have shoes, purses, backpacks, snow pants, mittens, hats, keys, school books, grocery bags, coats, mail and anything else that has no real place …

  410. Lisa

    The kitchen bar area, it’s a catch all for everything! Also the black glass under the grates on my gas cook top is so hard to keep looking clean & shiny, I am constantly cleaning it.
    Great giveaway!

  411. Kara

    My bedroom because things that don’t have a spot in the rest of my home end up there.

  412. Meghann

    The master bedroom! If guests come over I stuff things in there and then leave it.

  413. Meg D.

    For us, our master bedroom proves to be the dumping ground for all of our clutter. It tends to collect all of the projects, items to go to the attic, problems that need fixing, and paperwork (since our computer is on our bedroom).

  414. Kim Cowden

    My kitchen….It seems that as soon as I clean it someone decides to make a snack. Ugh. =)

  415. allmandcclark4prez

    The kitchen. 3/5 of my hotspots were in the kitchen. The island, the desk, and the kitchen table. We have 4 boys, and everynight at dinner one of them has to move a pile to the floor to set their place. I often eat next to a stack of JUNK.

  416. Lisa

    Our kitchen. Clean? Not a problem. Clutter free? Problem! First room in the house as you enter so it is the dumping ground for keys, mail, papers and anything that needs to be set down. We also end up with piles of homeschool books and supplies, laptop and papers. {sigh} There has to be a solution! :)

  417. Kristi

    Kitchen counter hands down. Everyone just piles all their stuff on it all the time. Thanks for the giveaway!

  418. Bonnie Martin

    the kitchen…not enough counter space and things get “dropped” as we enter the house and then don’t get taken to where they belong

  419. Fairfield House

    The room that is hardest to keep clutter free is currently the dining room. It presently serves as a wrapping station, craft room and office. In fact, we use it for everything BUT eating in and it drives me crazy. :/

    Your Friend,
    Deborah

  420. Brooke

    My bedroom for sure! If seems like I’m always doing laundry and it never makes it back into the drawers and instead in piles on the floor.

  421. Michelle

    The most difficult room for me is the kitchen. It’s everyone’s drop off point and I have to work hard to keep the clutter out. School books, car keys, mail, work stuff all try to gain an entrance into the hub of our home.

  422. Amy

    My kitchen! With 6 children, we get a daily pile up of homework papers, after school snacks and breakfast dishes! I clean my kitchen several times a day in order to keep it tidy. And there is rarely a day where I don’t do two loads of dishes. I remarked this morning to my husband, after a particularly busy day yesterday, how quickly the house gets messy if I’m not on top of it every second. *sigh* But I’m pretty sure the Container Store could provide a few solutions for organizing some of the hot spots in my kitchen, heh?

    • Katherine Marshall

      The Kitchen countertops are the worst clutter spot for this house!

  423. Mehgan R

    I have a heck of a time keeping our kitchen/eat-in dining area un-cluttered. The table always ends up full of receipts, mail, purses, coats, and other junk because it’s the first large surface available when we walk in the garage door. There is a separate 3-foot counter by the refrigerator that is the designated “office space”, it also ends up cluttered with more receipts, paperwork to do or remember, etc. Every week or so I go through and clean it up but somehow over the week it just gets cluttered up again!

  424. Christina Bailey

    The kitchen! No matter what I do….cant keep it clean. There is always a spill, dirty plates, and just mess after mess!

  425. Adria

    The play room in our home is a constant battle for me. I desperately need some better organization for the endless amounts of toys, crafts, books, and dress-up clothes!

  426. Denise

    Definitely my kitchen!

  427. Jessica

    The hardest room to keep clutter free for me is my dining room. It’s one of the first rooms you see when you enter my home, and it’s where school papers, my purse, groceries, etc. get dumped when walking in.

    This is a wonderful giveaway! Thanks!!

  428. Amy Elder

    There are so many choices. Currently,however, it is our office because it is being used by my husband for his job search, 3 teenagers for their homework and as storage for my homeschooling stuff. Ughh! And did I mention that it is open and visible to all who walk in? Pretty sure we should just put a door on it and call it good.

  429. Lisbeth

    Great post! I made my husband read this because I am always telling him that I need ORDER in our household! We run our business from our home, so my house is my office-when work requires a 10-12 hour day from me, the order in the house gives me a sense of control over my domain. Other stuff we cant control, but the hotspots we can!

  430. Lindsay

    My office. It has become the dumping ground for anything without a home. It’s out of sight, which is a blessing and a curse. We recently got married, so that room is even more out of control than normal, with wedding gifts, and an influx of my husband’s things. Eeek!

  431. Dawn Gahan

    You’d think as a single mom with a daughter away at college, I’d be living clutter-free and clean 24/7. Not. I have a small area on my kitchen countertop that collects things needing to find their home, everything from “what needs to go out into the garage” to “heading to the craft room,” to “please file me.” I’m forever getting things to where they need to be and creating a new pile at the same time.

    Thanks so much for the giveaway!

  432. Stephanie

    The garage entry into our basement – it’s been on my “mission list” to create a mud area there for a while now I am just struggling on the look I want. But without it, coats, backpacks, briefcases, shopping bags and shoes all tend to pile near the door and on the table in the center of the area. It is the first thing I see when I get home and instantly unsettles me! I have to be careful to clear it out so the chaos doesn’t creep throughout the house, but it would be great to have solutions there that would keep the inevitable dumping under control!

  433. Courtney

    Definitely the ledge/bar area of the kitchen! It’s not exactly the counter top so everyone somehow feels like its more ok to dump there. It’s out of control with mail, school papers, toys, nail clippers, medicine, coasters,etc! You name it and it’s probably on there!

  434. Lissa

    My kitchen seems to be the worst. Too many papers from school and too much junk mail!

  435. Gail Kieffer

    I find my kitchen the most cluttered. The kids book bags, coats, shoes, mail, electronics, toys, magazines, school papers, and more papers all seem to find a landing spot in the kitchen. I’m convinced that papers are asexual and multiply all on their own when no one is looking! I’ve created several organizational items to help over the years (ooks for the kids coats, cubbies in the coat closet for their shoes, baskets on the stairs for each kid to collect all those lego peices and other items that don’t find their way home and a basket on the counter for mail). I’m off to a good start. Now it’s time to put the steps into action.
    Thanks for the reminder that it’s never to late to get organized and I accept your 30 day challange.
    God Bless
    Gail

  436. Rachel

    My home office!

  437. Amy

    Our dining room. I work from home and our dining room table is my desk during the day. Unfortunately, the papers usually stay there, pushed to the edge of the table, or moved to our other clutter hot spot: the built in buffet in our dining room. Thanks for the opportunity to enter and win some help organizing these spaces!

  438. Sinae Kim

    Probably my closet.. I try on a bunch of clothes in the morning, and then pile them up on a chair (since I always seem to be running late..) and then when I come home from work, I tell myself I’m too tired to clean it up. By the end of the week, I find a mountain of clothes in my closet and feel overwhelmed and stressed-out(!). I couldn’t agree with you more about making these little things a habit and not letting it get out of control.

    I can do this!!! :)

  439. Meg

    My craft room is a hot mess 900% off the time! Just when I make a little headway in organizing it, my husband finds something else that needs to live there, a have a project that needs to be completed quick or whatever. That room needs help!

  440. Joy K

    It’s a pretty common problem, but I am going to chime in here with my Kitchen, specifically my peninsula countertop. It’s like a magnet for everything that does not belong in the kitchen. I am excited to implement your ideas and make them work!

  441. Cindy Riley

    It used to be the kitchen counter when the children were small..now the children have grown, but are in transition and all their ‘extra’ stuff gets left behind. So I will have to say that their old bedrooms are the most cluttered spots. My husband and I have been working on them-containers,labels and the attic are our best friend right now. This giveaway would certainly be a lifesaver!!

  442. Lorraine

    The Kitchen!

  443. Joell

    As with a lot of the other women’s comments…kitchen, kitchen, kitchen! I love the fact that it’s a great space for my family to be together, but it is impossible to keep it all neat and tidy like I would love to see it!

  444. Dana

    The kitchen, mainly because it’s the “drop-off point” right when we get home. All the mail, bags, random take-home items end up on the kitchen table or floor. I would really love to reclaim my kitchen table as an actual place to eat!

  445. Nicole

    Our kitchen, for sure. We usually use the rear entrance into the kitchen for our main entryway, so everything gets dropped there before being put anywhere else. Mail, kids school papers, bags of athletics uniforms on the way to the wash, the dogs leashes, etc. I really need to find a way to organize the mass of school papers that comes into our home!

  446. Shauna Crandall

    The kitchen… for sure. Its the main gathering place for my family. Between meals, dishes, homework, and mail, I find it tough to stay on top of it all. We bough our house 2 years ago and the kitchen had been updated and is gorgeous. That’s my motivation. It cleans up real nice!

  447. BarbaraNJ

    With no garage or mudroom, the kitchen becomes the drop zone.

  448. Joanne Hodgson

    IT IS MY KITCHEN OFFICE AREA. IT IS LARGE, GRANITE COUNTERS,WONDERFUL WINDOWS AND IT IS ALWAYS PILED HIGH WITH PAPERS, CHILDREN’S PAPERS, BILLS,THINGS TO GET TO, BEAUTIFUL PRINT OUTS, IDEAS, BOOKS, MAGAZINE ARTICLES AND RECIPE IDEAS, ETC. I AM OFTEN OVERWHELMED. I NEED TO REVIEW MY HABITS, DEVELOP SYSTEMS THAT WORK, AND SIMPLIFY MY PAPER LIFE. HELP!

  449. Naomi Wetterstrom

    The dining room. Its the first room that everyone walks into when we enter the house. So everything gets dumped there, whether on the table or the floor. It’s also being used as my husband’s music studio right now, so there are guitars, speakers and all other kinds of music equipment around the room.

  450. Raquel

    Laundry room and paper.

  451. Wendi

    I am excited about this post because 1) I have clutter hotspots and 2) we just moved so I am still trying to figure out how to organize certain areas. I get overwhelmed by the amount of things and how to organize them

    I definitely want to win the prize!

    My worst hotspot is our kitchen counter. The mail and recycling gets cluttered up easily and it’s annoying

  452. Pamela

    My kitchen island just invites all kinds of clutter. My whole family tends to use it as a dump spot for anything they don’t know what to do with!

  453. Donna McBroom-Theriot

    My office is the hardest place. Paper seems to come in faster than I can throw it out. It is kind of a drop off point for me for my purse, the mail, etc. I run our business from my home office as well as write. I could really use some of the organizing products from The Container Store or Target to help with this. Thanks for a wonderful give away!

  454. Michelle

    My side of the bedroom closet = disaster!

  455. mary timmers

    Thanks for the great post! My worst area is the kitchen, especially coutertops. The kitchen is a walk through path to the rest of the house. It’s also a “dump everything” place too! Time to get busy!

  456. Teresa

    The hardest “room” to keep clean is my huge dining room table. It’s the largest flat surface in the house and is definitely a clutter magnet.

  457. Rachel

    Our office is such a disaster. Papers are everywhere and sometimes we’re lazy and don’t even bother to open the mail. Oops.

  458. Adrienne

    The kitchen table…The dining room table…The coffee table…all flat surfaces in our house seem to be “hot spots” for all of the junk we accumulate in our busy lives! I will definitely use your post as my boost to clean something up today! :)

  459. Carol Ann

    My pantry! Constant pain in my backside.

  460. Heather Brandt

    The kitchen is the most difficult for us. We are there (or in adjoining living room) all day and there are so many dishes to wash and papers to file and toys every where :(

  461. Jessica P.

    Our dining room table is always full of junk. Good thing we have a coffee table to eat at!

  462. M J Wilson

    The master bedroom is the dump place for everything that doesn’t have a “home”, especially when company is expected! :(

  463. Beth

    The messiest spot and hardest to keep clean is the kitchen table. It’s basically the “drop off my stuff spot” when walking in through the garage.

  464. Megan K

    The dining room & dining room table are the hardest to keep clutter-free. We end up plopping everything down right on that table, and we spend lots of time there!

  465. shelly

    My children’s room or the kitchen! I’m always fighting to keep their clothes organized or my kitchen counters/table cleared. Sometimes it feels absolutely endless!! Ahhh . . . giftcards to these stores would be perfect therapy at the moment. :)

  466. KATHYSUE

    My bedroom, it is the last room down a very long hallway and it is easy to leave it to the last or not at all. Actually it is my closet in my room, Thrown in shut the door!! out of sight out of mind. Inside my home I keep everything pretty tidy at all times, I am like you, can not stand stuff all around me, but in the hidden areas, like the garage and closets, I am a mess!! Great giveaway!! Kathysue

  467. Kara

    Our kitchen is the toughest room to keep clutter free. Our back door opens to the kitchen which means shoes, coats, and bags land on the breakfast nook. Mail and paperwork stay on the table too. And I swear my husband is allergic to doing the dishes! I would love to find some methods to keep this room clutter free. Thank you for the great column!

  468. Michelle

    Definitely the kitchen, our most used room in the house!

  469. Kristi Rose

    Definitely the kitchen! My drawers are full of useless items that take up space and I can never keep the counter tops free of junk, i.e. schoolwork, mail, endless piles of papers, etc. Help!

  470. Heidi

    The bedroom – tucked away from the eyes of visitors, it’s easy to let our mess and dirty clothes pile up in there.

  471. KATHYSUE

    Ooops I don’t think I can enter, my son works for The Container store, but I don’t have any relatives at Target!! KS

  472. Jodi

    My kitchen island is impossible to keep uncluttered. Everything lands there including backpacks, mail, homework, stray tools or toys. It’s a constant battle.

  473. Shannon L

    Our “laundry stop”…The little room in between our garage and the kitchen that holds our washer, dryer, and everything we need to leave the house. A CONSTANT mess!!!

  474. Kristin F.

    The bedroom, where we have our desk. It always seems to accumulate papers and mail faster than I can keep up.

  475. Carrie Wachowiak

    My Kitchen island for sure!

  476. Linda Stoll

    the kitchen counter …

    currently in residence:

    1. electronic picture frame

    2. four books to go to the post office

    3. a vintage crock filled with kitchen utensils on an old round cutting board

    4. a tin filled with pencils, pens, nail files, highlighters, arts & crafts made by grandchildren

    5. husband’s glasses

    6. today’s mail

    7. my cell phone

    8. a brand new book

    8. basket of cough drops

    9. lip balm

    10. vintage bread box filled with photos, receipts, recipies, and a tissue box

    I know that I just need to Take 15 to get things in shape. But … I’m too busy blogging!

    http://creeksideministries.blogspot.com/2011/12/take-15.html

  477. Kirsten

    Our living room is the clutter magnet in our house. The front door is located there and everyone in the family gathers there, so it collects a lot of stuff!

  478. Dayle

    So my husband and I are newlyweds and new homeowners, and our habits are awful considering there are still boxes everywhere from our move. Our worst though is probably the desk in our family room/office. EVERYTHING gets piled there, mail, junk, important papers, all mixed together. I figure 90% of the time that sucker is covered and very obviously unorganized!

  479. Lisa Frank

    It appears I’m not alone in saying this…my kitchen counters! I’m lucky to have quite a bit of counter space, but it always seems to end up housing piles of recipes/papers, bowls of produce, and all the random items that are “in transition” to their actual home. It seems I’m always on the lookout for a new system to keep it clear and organized.

  480. Rory W

    I think for me it’s the kitchen. Stuff just tends to pile up and I never want to do anything about it. Thanks for the chance to win!

  481. Andrea Solano

    Definitely the kitchen counters! No matter how hard I work on keeping it clean and clutter free (I’m a bit OCD), my husband will find the way to leave something…whether it’s food, groceries, or dishes!
    Thanks for the giveaway…Awesome post!

  482. Anne

    The kitchen!! Especially the counters….everyone dumps papers there.

  483. Melissa

    The kitchen!
    Art projects, the paper-trail of life and of course food!

  484. Cassandra Hess

    My livingroom/diningroom/office…it’s all the same room. When I have company, I have to figure out where to stash the office so we can sit at the table and not look at my piles of work while seated in the sitting area. I may win a prize for most items (of use)squeezed into smallest space. I like the clean slate idea though, and permission to bag it until it can be dealt with. xo

  485. nikki

    Easy…my kitchen. The counters are a holding station for everything that walks through the door. Love your tips!

  486. Julie Gonsalves

    the MOST cluttered? such a hard question! I think the most cluttered/frustrating spot in my house is the kitchen desk. It’s a dumping ground for 6 people and all of our junk/treasures/bills/art projects, etc.

  487. Sarah

    Surprisingly the most difficult space to keep clean is our master bathroom! The whole house will look amazing and our bathroom is like this mini disaster zone!

    I think it has to do with the fact that no one else will come in to use it except us and that it’s easy to just shut the door and ignore it…

    Gotta work on that!

  488. KO

    the kitchen counter- it becomes the catch all for mail, kids papers home, just about everything….

  489. Cindy aka Sealion

    The room that is the most difficult for me to keep clean and clutter free is my kitchen.

  490. Jennifer

    My Kitchen is the hardest place to keep clean!!! Everyone hangs out in the kitchen and/or is the place to put everything…it is not only a family gathering space, a place for the “cook”, but also holds our mail center and the pet food and dishes….so many messes!! Counters are cluttered with papers, mail, water bottles, magazines…need I say more? haha.

  491. Andrea

    Oooh… my apartment is tiny and only three bedroom, but the room we seem to have the biggest problem with is the family room- where we spend most of our time. It’s just little things, but I start to notice shoes, sweatshirts, magazines, books, and blankets slowly collecting in weird places a few days after I’ve de-cluttered. We’re looking to buy a house soon- that gift certificate sure would be great!! Love the 30 day habit-forming idea!

  492. Sheila Smith

    The kitchen countertops have become the drop zone for the entire family. We have a small house and the kitchen is where we all come together. It’s a total clutter zone!

  493. D'Ann S.

    The only place worse than my kitchen counters is my DINING ROOM! That big empty table just attracts clutter like a magnet! It’s such a nice, flat place to put something on and closer to the back door (our main entrance) than any of the rooms those things are supposed to live in. The chairbacks make perfect places to ‘hang’ a jacket or sweatshirt; no need to go BACK to the coatrack at the back door, or ALL THE WAY to the bedroom closet. Mail just naturally accumulates there. Laundry likes to make an unscheduled visit, either on the way to or on the way from the laundry room. Unfinished projects take up residence for weeks at a time.

    Funny. The dining room is never used for dining!

  494. Rene

    Without a doubt….my laundry room! Ironing, washing, folding, ugh!

  495. Rhonda Kay

    Kitchen. Although there is a lot of clutter in the TV room aka Mamaw’s rathole.

  496. Stephanie Adams

    The most cluttered area in our home is our bedroom. We spend so much time in the common living spaces. We like to keep those areas clutter free, but if something doesn’t have a spot it always ends up in our room. The door can be closed and there is non the wiser about the mess. I love to be in there when it is clean, so I can’t wait to use these tips!

  497. Melissa

    Definitely my Dinning room table! It is right by the front door and everything gets dropped on the end of the table or the two chairs closest to the door. Drives me crazy! Thanks for doing this giveaway! Awesome!!

  498. Betsy

    The laundry room! With a family of 9 it is impossible to keep it from piling up laundry and a bit of everything else!

  499. Terri

    The living room! Magazines, homework, shoes, socks, books the clutter never ends!

  500. Sarah

    My study, because it’s the only place I can keep paper away from my paper-eating cat, but he meows incessantly when I’m in there without him so I tend to stash stuff there and not spend much time dealing with it.

  501. Kathy

    That’s an easy one! Our den is the most cluttered room in the home. It’s where crayons, papers, coloring books, markers, books, video games, random toys, clothing that gets thrown around, etc finds its home. It’s a nightly routine to unclutter the area just so it can go right back to junky the next day!

  502. Staci

    My office area! It is located right when you walk in the door. I put everything there when I don’t know what to do with it and is the spot where personal and professional papers are supposed to go. I also put all of my craft and decorating projects there to finish later. What a mess, wish I had a door to close!

  503. Jennifer

    The kitchen is the biggest clutter hotspot in my house! It’s right off the front entrance so the kitchen table is a dumping ground for coats and school stuff. Mail gets piled onto the kitchen island and dirty dishes pile up in the sink. I don’t have enough food storage so there’s always something sitting out on the counter – extra bags of chips or snacks. It’s by far the biggest mess and causes the most stress!

  504. Sarah S.

    The kitchen is easily the most difficult room to keep clean in our home. The counter tops double as art tables and homework/mail drop zones. Plus any cooking that supposed to be going on in there. It gets crazy fast!

  505. Gladys

    I would have to say, my bedroom. Since it’s the room people don’t get to see, i end up leaving clothes,makeup and other items laying around. Also our closet is very small and not organized at all so it makes it diffcult to find other items which add to the “clothes everywhere” issue when getting dressed.

  506. Lindsay

    I am a pretty organized person, but it never fails that our kitchen area is the most disasterous area in our house. It only seems to stay clean for about 5 mins then things start piling up on the counters. It doesn’t help that it’s the main entry and exit points to our garage and outdoors.

  507. Chrissy

    Without a doubt our worst clutter-spot is our kitchen table … but then when we sit down for dinner we pil it all up and move it over to a buffet table nearby. The end result is that 90% of the time there is junk in both places! Drives me batty! Two spots identified, three more to go!

  508. Allison C.

    My kitchen island is the worst!!!! Papers there everyday, no place to prepare food….ugh.

    I am so going to do this challenge, spring break PROJECT!!!!

  509. Jessica

    Most definitely my kitchen! I get the counters all cleaned off, and then have to start all over again! Booo. :( Would love to win!

  510. Nicole

    I have a peek through (I guess I’m not sure what it’s REALLY called?) window from my kitchen into the living room. The counter on that thing is ALWAYS a hot mess. Mail, keys, scarves, purses, etc…it’s really the dumping ground for anything and everything. Yikes! Thanks for the great tips. Here’s hoping I can do this! :)

  511. Liz

    Our office…between the desk piled with papers, my husbands dresser piled with stuff, and the window seat that gets laundry dumped on it all the time, this room makes me crazy!

  512. Roshni

    the master bedroom! It seems to be a dumping ground while the sitting room and other visible areas remain fairly pristine!

  513. Kerie Albano

    We just moved and my clutter spots are appearing already! Biggest spot is on the kitchen counter by the computer area…kids school papers, mail etc. I am trying to make a goal of clearing it out every night, now I just have to get organized on where to put everything and not lose track of where I put it!

  514. Bethany

    Sigh, my family room thwarts me. Also my kitchen. They both need some better storage for just a few small items.

  515. Nicki

    Dare I say it? Kitchen counter! Yep, me too!

  516. Kenna

    My kitchen table – we eat at the countertop every night, so now the table is a dump spot for the kids and their stuff. I am almost tempted to take the kitchen table out for this exact reason.

  517. Sarah Moore

    I am an organized person and I thrive when my home is clean and clutter free but for some reason my 2 boys (3 1/2 & 2) are less than organized. Clutter inevitably piles up around here! Bring on the spring cleaning!

  518. Jenny Lindner

    The Living/Family Room!!! It is the one room where my family all loves to hang out together in and because of that it gathers all sorts of stuff like; toys, clothes when we change the kids for bed, shoes, books and dishes when we eat around the coffee table. Fun times, but oh the messes!

  519. Brenda

    Great post!

    We tend to have little hot spots all over the house, but by far the one that fills up the quickest is the kitchen peninsula. Not really an island, but it separates the DR and kitchen and it’s always the first surface we all dump on. :(

  520. Erika

    Definitely my kitchen! I have a bar-height peninsula counter and it gets covered in papers the kids bring home from school, bills, kids’ half-finished art projects, magic markers, small plastic toys, elastic hair bands, books, magazines, the newspaper, napkins, half-finished snacks, coins, friendship bracelets, coupons, scotch tape, and I could go on all day. Even the bar stools gather junk! Whenever I have company coming, de-cluttering this area is a top priority. My husband sometimes de-clutters the kitchen bar area on the weekend, but by Monday afternoon it gets cluttered again! I desperately want to stop the kitchen clutter!!!!

  521. michele m fry

    Great ideas, thanks for sharing!! I would have to say my dinning room table and buffet, it seems to collect all things from mail to toys….have to unclutter it daily!!! Hoping to win a gift card!!!
    Michele

  522. dawn

    i’d have to say my kitchen island and desk-it’s just way too easy to plop stuff down on them

  523. Marcie

    The kitchen counter is the worst! Everything from mail, recycling, clean dishes (that no one likes to put away), crumbs, food, empty plastic bags, receipts, lunch boxes, etc. It’s the first room as you enter the house, so everyone is guilty of dumping stuff on the counters.

  524. Annie

    oh mylanta! MY OFFICE!! it never seems to be straightened up and it has become a pit of despair. {me melodramatic much?} :) winning this would go a long way to making headway in this place. thanks for the opportunity to fix it all!

  525. Teresea

    The most difficult room to keep clean and clutter free would be my kitchen. Everything coming and going lands in this room and seems to take up residence. I make it a point to leave the sink empty every night, but there is a lot of clutter that has accumulated that isn’t kitchen related.

  526. Tara

    Our basement/office — the top of the desk is constantly a mess. It totally drives me crazy!

  527. Margie Pousardien

    Margie
    My clutter is the kitchen counter/bar area, it’s a hang out for the family to drop off their stuff!!!!! I feel overwhelmed when the counter is stacked and it’s not food.:)

  528. teresa

    My desk computer area- seems it is the dumping ground for everything….at least twice a week I have to dig out. {it wouldn’t be so bad if it was just my space but I share with my Husband =)
    Great tips
    Thanks

  529. Robin Walston

    The bar that separates my kitchen from my living/dining area is always a disaster. It gives me a headache daily.

  530. Arianne

    It would definitely have to be our garage. We have a 3-car garage and currently only space to put 1 car in it! Tisk tisk!

  531. Becky W.

    Definitely the kitchen counter! Everything gets dumped and left there. Help! :)

  532. Jaimie

    My mud room and laundry room are my hot spots. They drive me crazy! They are always full of shoes, coats, school papers and clothes that need to be folded.

  533. Stephanie Walker

    My Garage! We just moved into a new house. Between storage containers, piles to go to good-will,boxes that we still need to go through, and my husband being too lazy to put things back where they belong, this is the room in my house that I am currently most frustrated with. I think I am going to really take a good stab at this room as soon as the weather warms up. :D

  534. Dreda

    Kitchen. I don’t keep up with it.

  535. Erin Mixon

    We moved recently and so I have new clutter areas that are driving me crazy! Right now, my worst area is my laundry room. We come in the house there and shoes, backpacks, and lunch boxes are dropped. I put a short book shelf in there, but it is filled and overflowing with shoes. Not to mention the dog crate, food, and leash are in there, as well as our recycling bin. Ugh! it’s so much clutter and stresses me out first thing walking into my home. I would love to win the gift cards so I can get it organized. {crossing my fingers} :)

  536. mo

    My daughters room. I get her to clean it but she hates it of course.

  537. pamela

    I am not what you would call a “keeper.” I have a small home, with four kids and two dogs, so there is no room in my life for clutter. For some reason though the area between my kitchen and family room, specifically the counter area, seems to ALWAYS be riddled with clutter. I guess there will always be the one “catch-all” spot, as my mom called it. But I’ll never stop trying to keep it clean!

  538. Laura

    There is one corner of our kitchen that is ALWAYS a mess. It’s right by the door where we come in and tends to be the place where everyone just drops what they are holding. Everything from socks and shoes, to hair bows, to sippy cups, the mail, books, little toys, keys…you name it, it all ends up there! I can clean it three times a day and it would still be cluttered!

  539. Charlotte

    My kitchen is definitely the most difficult room in the house to keep clean and clutter-free. Thanks for the opportunity to get some help with straightening it up.

  540. Libby

    My kitchen is a clutter magnet. I think it’s because we come into the house through the kitchen (dumpling zone) and the kitchen table generally has more clutter on it in a day than food. Thanks for the helpful ideas!

  541. Shellise Rogers

    Although I’ve only just begun to really organize myself and my home, especially as a student I still find that my office area is ALWAYS the most cluttered. No matter how many times I seem to clean it and put things into a place, I always end up having another pile of clutter on my desk and around my desk daily.

  542. Elisha

    The master bedroom, seem like it’s a dumping ground for us.

  543. Rachael Davis

    My kitchen counters! I have a wonderfully large kitchen, but then there are so many surfaces that pile up daily.

  544. sarah

    kitchen counters. our non-existent garage means we park nearest our kitchen door. we come in, bags go on the counters instead of into the remaining parts of the house where they belong. i have visions of a bench & coat hook behind the kitchen door for these things, but as of yet haven’t gotten to it w/ my 2 under 2.5.

  545. Beth

    At our house it’s the master bedroom…easiest place to dump stuff and close the door whenever someone is coming over! Plus it’s not visible all day long so you tend to “forget” about the mess.

  546. Stephanie

    My kitchen is by far the most difficult room to keep clutter free. It’s tiny and dosen’t offer alot of storage.

  547. Ashley

    Our kitchen and back porch – so hard with all our diy stuff, cooking, papers, etc etc etc!

  548. Laura

    When my house isn’t cluttered it feels peaceful. My problem area is my kitchen desk, everything seems to get dumped there. And the items are usually important so it takes time and thought to place them where they should be. And that is easily put off, especially when I know that behind the doors and drawers of the desk lies space that has gotten filled and needs to be cleaned out too!

  549. A

    Our basement rec room – it’s where we have a TV, table and is the walk-through to the laundry room. It’s always cluttered!

  550. Brooklyn

    The place that seems to be the hardest for me to keep clutter free and clean is our master bath. I can scrub it until it shines and a couple of crazy hectic morning days later it looks so messy…(again!) sigh. I would love some nice basket organization for our built in shelves that currently display everything! I want to love my bathroom, but it just makes me want to abandon it =}

  551. Kristal

    toss up between my bedroom and the dining room

  552. Billie Jean

    The Kitchen is the one full of clutter in my house. Especially since we homeschool and spend most of our day in the kitchen. My counters are a never-ending battle!

  553. Colleen in Dallas

    My home office. I’m a pretty organized person, but everything seems to end up on my desktop.

  554. Cheri

    Kitchen island, for sure.

  555. Rose

    My main problem is the main living area, which includes the living room (TOYS!) and the dining room table and some other surfaces that keep getting cluttered with random papers, toys that shouldn’t be on the floor, medicine, charge cords, library books, Netflix videos, snacks, you name it. Drives me batty.

  556. Michelle

    HOnestly it is the kitchen counter! It seems we all walk in the door straight to the kitchen and dump everything on the small counter by the fridge! I need to find a way to organize all the misc small stuff!! Love your blog!

  557. Bev G

    Our constantly cluttered area is kitchen/dining table. It is central to everything and things stop there (and never get put away). We end up eating on one end….nice.

  558. Lorna

    The living/dining room is the most cluttered.

  559. Amber J.

    Mine would be the kitchen. It’s the place where everything from school gets dumped. I’m ready to tackle it!

  560. Kim

    definitely my desk area!

  561. Stephanie C.

    It’s our family room, kitchen area – it’s all one big space and where we are all the time. We have twins due in April and a 2.5 year old….and it’s always so hard to keep neat and organized. Between toys, mail, day-day-tasks, etc. I can’t imagine what it will turn into when the babies come!! I have to get it in order now and use your great tips to try to find a new way to do things – so it can be habit! Thanks for the chance!

  562. Courtney Mac

    Definitely the kitchen..the bar especially seems to attract mail, toys, you name it!!

    Thanks so much for the giveaway!

  563. Jennifer

    Our playroom which also functions as the office and “catch all” room. Drives me nuts!!! I have really been wanting to organize and clean it out.

  564. Liza

    We have an open dining room between the front door and kitchen that is my unofficial home office, mailroom, homework center, coat closet and sometimes, a place to eat!

  565. Gwen

    Our bedroom. It’s where all the laundry piles up, where all my decor mishaps go, and where my husband keeps his work duffel bags!

  566. Robin

    My teen age girls’ bathroom os so hard to clean…. They use so much product on their hair and it gets caked on the bath tub. Shaving cream, soap scum… It is a huge mess!!!! Clorox clean up helps a lot but it is a tough job to stay beautiful!!!! I love my girls but, what a mess!! : ))

  567. Fran

    I don’t know which is worse, the laundry room or our family room desk. Both of these are catchalls, obviously for different types of things. The laundry catches all laundry/cleaning supplies type of things and the desk catches all daily mail, papers to be sorted and filed, receipts, etc. It can be quite overwhelming.

  568. Karen

    Hi Melissa,
    Our kitchen counter, the end where the bar stools are. It catches mail, things we’re trying to remember, etc. I really need a basket or something to catch all of the stuff!
    karen

  569. Jenny R.

    My Art Room! It is impossible to keep organized because it isn’t 100% finished. It had 7 layers of wallpaper on it, so I’m slowly getting closer to finishing the room. I have so many creative things and nowhere to put them, so naturally it becomes very cluttered very fast. Plus, it currently is being used as a laundry room as well, so add dirty clothes to the mix and it’s a recipe for disaster. Right now I can’t do creative things because it stresses me out to go in there! I desperately need a method of organization to help turn my Art Room back to my favorite room in the house.

  570. Lesley

    Probably the kitchen island–it’s such a focal point in our kitchen that I always want to look pretty and tidy, but it tends to collect homework papers, half-filled glasses, and backpacks. Right now it even has a package of toilet paper on it that I need to take to the bathroom!

  571. Lorri

    The kitchen is my nemesis! Both the island and the table are sore spots.

  572. Ashley

    Our kitchen island is our clutter hot spot. It is located right when we walk in the garage door, so it collects purses, keys, mail, shopping bags, important papers, dog leash, etc etc etc. I try SO hard to keep that area clean, but it always seems to get away from me.

  573. Cathy

    I have so many areas, but the worst are ones shared with my hubby. The office is the worst.

  574. laurie

    I would say the basement – since nobody (other than my husband and myself) go down there it tends to be the catchall for EVERYTHING. Even the cats don’t like going down there.

  575. Megan

    The most difficult room in our house to keep clean is the kitchen. It seems like that is where everyone throws their things. The most difficult room outside the house is the garage. If I hate seeing it in the kitchen, I put it in the garage. My husband LOVES this. :)

  576. Ranelle

    My kitchen!! The counters are a dumping ground for everything.

  577. Sara Taylor

    It’s the kitchen countertop. Never clean for long!

  578. Jolleen

    My kitchen by far is the most difficult to keep clutter free. Specifically one area of counter top that becomes the dumping ground for all new items brought into the house. Usually the big stuff gets put away fairly quickly, but the little stuff and mail/papers end up stacked. It drives me bananas becasue it is the first are you see as you enter the house via the garage, so I never come home to a clean counter – which makes me grumpt and automatically puts me into clean-up mode. I think I could relax at home a lot more if I could nip that one problem area. Major roadblock to fixing this is the husband though. UGH!

  579. Deborah

    The most difficult room for me to keep clean is my counter by the pone in the kitchen. Seeems like everything lands there, mail, keys, lunch bags tools. Everyone feels this is the drop off point.

  580. Kelly Palmer

    The most difficult room in our house to keep clean is the laundry room. We are renovating our 1939 craftsman style home and all of the materials seem to end up there until used for the many ongoing projects. The most difficult outside would be our garage. We are doing the house projects first before we tackle redoing the garage hence the mess in our laundry room :)

  581. Peggy Dlugos

    I would have to say it is the kitchen.

  582. Kathy Mensalvas

    My husband works out of the home…he has an office and a little portable office…..but his computer, files and PENS end up all over the house. I continue to pick up everything and put it back in his office…on a bad day the pens actually go airborne.

  583. Marty

    Oddly enough, my guest room is my biggest challenge right now. I have a grandbaby, and keep all his “equipment” there when he isn’t visiting….portacrib, high chair, baby gates, playpen, basket of toys, etc. How can such a little person need so many BIG items??? :-)

    Outside the house….our garage, though we have installed kitchen cabinets and a great maple worktop. BUT, my husband is a tool “junkie”, not small tools, but drill presses, etc. We need an annex to house them all! Now if only he would use them on a fantastic home improvement project!!! :-)

  584. Dar

    Oh it’s most surely my master bedroom closet! I have a “sickness’ with shoes…and clothes also, and it shows. I’m in serious need of some storage as my shoes, clothes and accessories are piled atop each other and all over the place. I also currently use those cheapo plastic hangers, you know the one’s you can buy for about $3 for 20! They leave the most hideous wrinkles in my clothes. Oh and I am still using some of those lovely wire hangers also. It’s just a serious mess, so much so that I am the only person allowed in the room in fear someone could seriously injure themself with all the mess and lack of organization/storage! Pitiful :(

    • Dar

      forgot my website…

  585. Debra

    The mudroom inside the house and the garage outside the house.

  586. melissa giese

    I would have to say my closet. It looks like a Store my husband says.I call it my decorating ideas closet

  587. Carrie Nelson

    This is a tough question– I seem to fight clutter everywhere– but I am going to say my diningroom b/c it is the first horz surface in my house, and I dump my things there— so therefore I have a difficult time with that room– the other rooms are cluttered b/c of the other family members– AWESOME BLOG!!!

  588. Theresa

    The most difficult room for me to keep clutter-free is the family room. My whole family gathers there to read, watch TV and hang out. Books and CDs and DVDs piles up. Clothes and shoes get left on the floor. Toys get left all over. It always feels like just as I get it nice and neat, someone is going in there with a bowl of popcorn to watch a movie! And you know those kernels end up in the couch cushions!

  589. Karen

    The kitchen! It stays clean and clutter-free all day until 3:30 – after school! Homework piles, snacks, dinner making, dishes, etc.

  590. Lindsay Puckett

    The most difficult room for me to keep clean is my own bedroom. When people come over, i quickly hide all my clutter back there, and there it stays forever!

  591. The Chatty Housewife

    The most difficult is the spare room. I shove everything into the closet in there and it’s such a mess!

  592. Angel

    The hardest room to keep clean is the kitchen. Everything ends up on the island and the table. As fast as I clear it, something ends up on it. I’m going to do the 30 day habits to help me keep these hotspots clean and clutter free. The hardest room outside is the garage. Like another poster, anything that doesn’t have a home in the house ends up out there much to my husbands dismay.

  593. Sandi W

    My Kitchen/Dining Room/Living Room/Homeschool Room is the hardest to keep clean, mainly because there is so much in one 17’x20′ space. I can’t wait to build my ‘big’ house.

  594. Sandra

    Closets…they are the secret messy spots in my house.I guess you could say- I have skeletons in my closets- lol

  595. Marchelle

    Ugh,… most difficult room to keep clean and clutter-free? Sadly, in our home it’s the room inhabited the least: the master suite. Yes, though I am a stay-at-home-seemingly-never-busy-mom, with three toddlers under three there is rarely moment enough to organize anything in there and no one really ever sees it. I generally say “Good-bye” to the mess in the early morning after a 2-second shower and dress routine, and finally get the opportunity to reunite come bedtime when I’m in a zombie-like state. Who’s gonna clean at that time?! It’s a constant inner-battle to keep up with the space that should be my favorite.

  596. Barbara

    Our bedroom is the most difficult room to keep clean. When guests are coming over, all the clutter from the kitchen and family room get thrown into the bedroom where we can close the door. Don’t even get me started on the garage!!!

    • Susan

      My kitchen!!

  597. Amanda Kurz

    The hardest room to keep clean is my 6 yr old daughters room. She is a collector and artist and keeps everything because it’s “speshul” to her! We could really use the gift cards for more organization tools like baskets and whatnot!

  598. Joanne

    the most difficult room is the kitchen – always dirty dishes and the counters are the catch all for everything – and if its dinner time its like food prep mess central

  599. Beth

    The kitchen is the clutter center of our house. Keys, purse, wallets, dishes, cookbooks, the cats meds, everything is sucked into the kitchen vortex.

  600. Heather

    Hands down my bedroom! It’s my secret place to hide the clean laundry, and misc stuff that I don’t have time to clean. I’d love to have that my retreat room at the end of the day :)

  601. Stefanie Foltz

    The most difficult room in my home to keep clean and free of clutter is the office/play room.

  602. Barbara

    Oh my, where to start??? The clutter spot that bothers me the most would be the kitchen counters and table. If it lands there, it stays there. Got to break that habit (now, how do I deal with the hubs’ habit?)

  603. Heather

    Hands down our bedroom! It’s where I hide all the unfolded laundry and misc stuff. I’d love to have it be my clean retreat at the end of the day!

  604. Gail Hunter

    The biggest issue in my home is the laundry room, because we enter and exit through it. There’s no space for coat hooks, but that doesn’t seem to matter! Everything gets dropped on top of the ironing board.

  605. Katie G

    The most difficult clutter spot in the house is the spare bedroom. Out of sight, out of mind. This really goes x1000 for the basement, but I try not to think about the basement problems ever. :)

  606. Carrie

    At first I was going to say my kitchen island. We drop keys, mail, chapstick, etc, etc, etc there. Also, the sink is in the island so there is almost always a dirty cup sitting there as well.

    But, then I realized that the master bedroom is worse! I leave unfolded laundry in baskets, rarely make the bed, let’s stacks of “I’m not sure what to do with this stuff” stuff pile up on the dressers. This is my biggest problem area because NO ONE but us ever goes in there. But it isn’t a calm and restful place to be in it’s messy state. I didn’t even realize it bothered me so much until I started writing this comment. I think it’s time for a change!

  607. Pat Bowers

    The spot in my house that receives and retains the most clutter is the dining-area table in my kitchen. EVERYTHING that comes into the house passes by that table, and if it isn’t walking, being worn, or isn’t refrigerated “stuff” it gets deposited on that table. And becomes out-dated there. And lost there. Alas.

  608. Katherine

    Definitely the kitchen, specifically the kitchen table…this is where the mail, jackets, shoes, randoms are always thrown upon entering the house. It is a never-ending battle keeping it clear so we can actually eat on it occasionally :)

  609. Jessica T

    I say the dining room is the most difficult to keep clutter free. It’s just too easy to put those random kids papers, junk mail, other random stuff on that big empty table!

  610. Meg

    Currently, my mudroom. All the muddy/snowy shoes tracking through. Not to mention that is the area with the most used of our several litter boxes. CANNOT seem to keep this area clean!

  611. Tracy

    The hardest room to keep clutter free is our kitchen. Papers, backbacks etc. make it a daily stuggle.

  612. Amy Bostwick

    It would be our kitchen. We do everything in there….eat, homework, mail, games. Anyone’s coming over I hide junk in the laundry room! Ugh!

  613. Tehmina Siddiqui

    Talking of identifying one spot that appears cluttered in the house is the washroom – the sight is just so unb:earable and to make matters worst if I had to share hubby dears car – I ask for God’s mercy,literally have to pick up things from the seat to sit!

  614. Marisa

    Definitely my kitchen.. it’s the first room everyone goes to… mail, bookbags, sneakers, etc. all get piled up. It always needs pickup!

  615. Margaret

    Ours is now the attic. We just decluttered the whole house to sell it and hid EVERYTHING in the attic!

  616. Debra Schramm

    Kitchen – first room we come into and first room we drop everything in!

  617. Rachel

    The hardest room to keep clutter free is our computer/craft room. It’s a bedroom but it ends up being a catch all space for us so it really truly hasn’t been clutter free since we moved here and well, that’s been awhile. I really want to get things under control but sometimes I just don’t know how. I’m going to try to delutter 3 spaces today, your post has given me the inspiration!

  618. Kristine G.

    It is definitely the kitchen. Our counters are never bare & rarely is our dining room table.

  619. Michelle D

    The living room! It’s full o toys, backpacks, libary books, and school papers.
    Love your post it’s given me some good ideas.

  620. Doreen

    My kitchen, definitely my counters!

  621. Dee

    Definitely, our cozy little den is in dire need of an organizational overhaul. Mail, packages to return, books, art supplies, Legos, random chachkies, pens, magazines we keep meaning to read but never get to, small tools, boxes of photographs as well as photos without frames, mystery keys and screws, the digital camera & accessories, and other junk clutter the space terribly. We also use several shelves for our DVD collection, not to mention the Wii & games, router and modem are located in this room and there are black wires galore marring the clean white walls. Ultimately, we have sacrificed this room to keep our great room/kitchen area visitor-ready!

    The room has the potential to be gorgeous, with a wall of built-in shelving, lovely hardwood floor and fantastic natural light, but this project just keeps getting put on the back burner! What makes it easier to delay is that the mess can be concealed from company by simply closing the door that is located to the right of our foyer.

    I need baskets, containers, additional shelves, dividers and lots of other little accessories. Just one quiet weekend and $500 in gift cards can help to give this room the appearance it deserves. :-)

  622. Ashleigh

    By far the most difficult room in our house to keep clean is the living room, because that’s where we spend all of our time! My husband and I work from home, and our twin boys play there, but they’re only 8 months, not old enough to learn to put their own things away! I will definitely be focusing our organizing efforts there!

  623. Amy C

    It’s a toss up between the living room and the kitchen. Actually, we have an open concept floor plan so the kitchen is open to the living room. Perhaps that’s why it’s difficult to define where the clutter begins and ends.

  624. Roeshel

    The kitchen is the hardest room to keep clean. I love clean, cleared off counters and no clutter but my husband does the cooking and loves everything within easy reach (he doesn’t see messes like I do either).

  625. Mandy

    The most difficult room to keep clean and cluttered free is my bedroom! I spend the least amount of time in that room which means that is where I dump everything! Especially when company is coming over and I do not have time to clean and organize the entire house. I dump clean clothes out of the dryer, random mail I need to go through, anything that does not yet have a place…everything and then I simply hide it by closing the door!

  626. Whitney R

    The kitchen counters hands down. Between kiddos & all of their school work to be signed & various activity flyers, mail etc. the clutter goes on & on!

  627. Kim c

    Our master bedroom is so hard to keep organized. When I clean the rest of the house I tend to “hide” any items I don’t want to deal with in our bedroom. I am trying to do better because I do want a restful, beautiful room for my husband and I.

  628. Christine

    Honestly, I TRY to keep the kitchen clean. I pick up the things that shouldn’t be there, wipe everything down, and put away what’s meant to stay in the kitchen. Now, if I could just train the rest of my family to do the same… ;-)

  629. Stephanie

    Definitely the kitchen table and kitchen counters. I guess I’m not the only one. ;)

  630. Teresa

    My craft room/office is the one.
    There are almost enough places to put things, but not quite.
    When I am actually crafting, I don’t want to put everything away, or else I lose motivation to keep working. It’s hard to strike a balance that makes me happy.

  631. Leslie

    My kitchen island. Everyone just dumps their stuff on it and I’m stuck trying to get it to the appropriate spot. It’s basically the “drop zone”

  632. Joanie

    My hardest room is our office! Target and Container store, here I come! Thanks, Clorox! XXOO

  633. Heather Spencer

    The kitchen is awful, the kids and my husband use it as a landing spot for everything.

  634. J Knudsen

    My kitchen is always needing de-cluttered. It seems as soon as I put things away, the kids are in there doing something to mess it back up.

  635. megan

    The family room is forever a mess!!!!! We live in that room and it shows…all day long!!!!

  636. Ashley

    My master bedroom is by far the messiest. Since moving into our house (nearly 2 years ago) it seems to be the place where I put stuff when I don’t know where else to put it. Plus is is laundry central, and at the end of the day the laundry on the bed that was meant to be folded gets moved to the floor for another day. But the part that bothers me the most in our home is our computer desk. It’s central to our kitchen, dining, and living rooms and is our command station of sorts. It’s a double computer desk, 10′ long with lots of room for homework, bills, and whatnot to pile up. I see this a lot more often and it drives me nuts. But let’s be honest, with a giveaway this big, I could afford to remedy both areas! Thanks for the chance Melissa and Clorox!

  637. Hildie

    The laundry room. Because it has a door it’s the place where we always put things during a “stash and dash”. And then there are the 3000 unmatched socks . . . .

  638. Terrilea

    I am an empty nester and I put things in my
    adult children’s old rooms so I can clutter
    them up and they don’t look so empty:)

  639. Maria & Cameron who loves Jack!

    My living room/family room is the hardest to keep uncluttered because that is the designated play area for our youngest and, boy oh boy, does he have lots of toys!! All are well-loved and well-played-with, but we do need to do some trouble shooting to keep this area under control! It affects how every one feels and sets other problems in motion. We have tried a few different things but most have not panned out for not having the discipline to keep up!! Still working on it and hope to get it reigned in before he’s 18 yrs. old!! I do hope we don’t have to wait ’til then!!

  640. Becky G

    Kitchen! My kitchen counters are always cluttered with mail and other random thing!

  641. Stacy

    Definitely my kitchen, most of our time is spent in the kitchen so most everything lands up there and there are plenty of surfaces to set stuff on.

  642. Barbara (WA)

    Most definitely the office/TV room/library. Papers breed like rabbits in there and it tends to be the catch-all space. I often clean the whole house but end at the door of that room when I am worn out!

  643. Melissa Hoffman

    The kitchen island! It is the keeper of all clutter! It seems there is always a pile of papers, dishes, and other randoms that get placed there. It would be awesome if the only thing on it was a bowl full of fruit. I’ll get working on it! :)

  644. Mary

    Definately the kitchen!

  645. Katy Hardin

    My kitchen…my countertops are always cluttered because my husband comes in and dumps the mail, his pockets, his receipts, etc. and then the kids dump their stuff on top of this until there is a huge mess. It’s amazing that when my kitchen is clean, my whole house feels cleaner.

  646. Rosa Miller

    Probably my office/craft room…its a sort of catch all for ‘I’ll deal with it later’ stuff!

  647. Christine

    The desk in our office is the place that most papers and other stuff seems to end up.

  648. KatieBee

    Our laundry room is the worst offender…it triples as a craft room and out of season clothing storage, so it can easily become a compete dumping ground for everyone in the family. And since it’s far away from the living and entertaining areas, it seems to “catch” everything that was not put away everywhere else…seriously, no laundry gets folded in there simply because there is no longer room :(

  649. Jaclyn McCord

    The living room! We have a tendency to drop everything when we walk in there!

  650. Karina

    My bedroom is the most difficult room to keep clean.

  651. Kim R

    The office! Between my school work and mail/receipts…I can see it all organized, but I never have the time to get it DONE!!

  652. Christine

    Our biggest clutter hotspot is without a doubt our kitchen counter peninsula. All of the mail, kids lunch boxes, kids art from school, dishes waiting to be washed or to go into the dishwasher find their way there. It is my constant battle!

  653. Alexandra

    I’d say my kids rooms, but that’s their responsibility… so for me it would be the coffee table in the living room. It gets messy so fast!

  654. Diana

    My laundryroom.

  655. Angela

    My kitchen table is definitely a hot spot. It’s the spot where we all walk to when we come in the door and everything seems to land there. Makes me crazy when I have dinner ready and the table is a clutered mess and then it all just gets transferred somewere else!

    • Lisa

      I totally hear you! We usually have half the table to use as eating space, due to clutter on the other half. :(

  656. Books n' Cooks

    My dining room is the most difficult to keep clean and clutter-free. It gets the overflow from the day (the mail, purses and coats) as well as overflow from the kitchen (dishes that need to be put on a shelf that I can’t reach).

  657. Krissy

    The kitchen counter where we drop all our stuff when we walk into the house! I’m constantly cleaning it!!

  658. Bonita

    My living room is where toys seem to always be on the floor. The couch is loaded w/ laundry to fold or put away.

  659. Joy

    Definitely my kitchen countertops…seems my family thinks this is the dumping spot for all their toys, coats, backpacks, dirty dishes, etc. It’s bad enough that I have to cook, but having to clean up a mess before even getting started puts me in a bad mood and makes me want to order pizza.

  660. Lisa

    For me it’s not so much a whole room, but one section of our kitchen counter is always the drop spot for my husband’s keys, sunglasses, coffee mug, phone charger etc. Drives me nuts!

  661. Jenny Burbank

    Definitely our bedroom! Everything gets thrown in there (laundry, papers, etc.) if company comes over. More specifically, and one of my hotspots, my nightstand! I can’t even open the drawer! I easily identified our hotspots, just the thought of them stressses me out!! I’m going to try to tackle one every evening after the baby is down and then maintain! Thanks for the great post!

  662. nasima nusrat

    my home office is the most chellenging area ,with all those junk mail,bills ,magazines,photos,kids projects etc.etc.etc!

  663. Courtney M

    The kitchen counters win that area, hands down. It is the central area in our home & our dropping zone. Any given day you can find: dishes, papers, tools, random Hotwheels, etc.

  664. Sherry

    I’m working on ideas to help manage the kitchen counters because they seem to be the worst. Our family of 5 seems to come up with a mountain of junk every single day!

  665. April

    Definitely the kitchen! We’re working with a very miniscule budget, and a long timeline as a result, to install a kitchen (the kitchen was completely empty and needed lots of DIY TLC). Basically, the kitchen is suboptimal to begin with. Add in the fact that “stuff” just seems to naturally gravitate and build up in this area… well, it can be downright unbearable at times.

  666. Christy B.

    The kitchen piles up. There’s also the “drop zone” jut inside the garage on the washer and dryer.

  667. Gina F

    Our bedroom. It is the storage area in our apartment and everything that is clutter collects there, too. Thanks for the contest.

  668. Juli

    Kitchen–the island and breakfast bar just beg for clutter and seem impossible to keep free of stuff that gets thrown there.

  669. Tina Johnson

    The one spot I am looking forward to tackling is the top of my stairs. I have a “landing” spot for all of the things that need to be taken around the upstairs. I am planning on cleaning it up every night before I got to be for the 5 minute round up. I am looking forward to having this stop being such an eye sore when I walk up and down the stairs.

  670. Barb S.

    The dining room, because it is also our school room.

  671. deanna middleton

    It is an extra bedroom that I use to ‘hide’ everything. So it is a catastrophe :)

  672. Lisa writes...

    My kitchen! Every horizontal surface covered and cluttered, particularly my center island!!

  673. Nikia

    Our family just moved into a new home and we never had a formal dining table before. Over the last few weeks I can see why!!!!! That table is the catch all clutter all dining area of doom. This post could not have come at a better time because now I can put these easy steps into practice and they should be a that much easier to make a habit! Thanks “inspired Room”, for saving the day!

  674. anahi

    my table gets all the clutter.. hubby brings in the mail and it will keep piling up until its tipping over [ahhhh]. Another spot will have to be my craft closet {i even told hubby dont open the door its messy i will clean it tomorrow.}

  675. Lisa

    My kitchen. I clear off the counters and less than a week later, they are covered again.

  676. Susan

    My hot spot is the one full bathroom in my house! We are a family of five with 3 teenage sons (Lord help me) and the bathroom vanity and tub are always spots that need my attention multiple times a day! All three boys shaving is really putting me over the edge! Who knew there were so many bath products geared toward men these days, they seem to like to try them all and leave the bottles, tubes, etc. all over the place! If they had their own bathroom it wouldn’t be a problem but it’s our family and guest bath, HELP!

  677. Nancy

    Definately my bedroom…My whole bedroom needs help including the closets! If I could get it organized I’d be one happy girl!

  678. Meg Cortijo

    I’d say it’s my kitchen & family room. All sorts of things just seem to magically land on countertops, the couch, the table and the ottoman. Then,said things, seem to magically multiply overnight! Lol! What a fantastic giveaway! I am crossing my fingers :)

  679. Laura

    kitchen! The counter is the dumping place for everything.

  680. Melanie Boyer

    I have a lot of areas that really are “clutter catchers”; but I’d have to say that our kitchen counters are THE WORST. I use clear jars for decorative use (pasta, rice, beans); other items I’ve acquired via direct sales home decor company. I’m hoping to rectify this before my DH returns from Afghanistan in May…EEEK! Really doesn’t give me a lot of time!

  681. Gailanne

    My laundry room is my biggest clutter zone, thanks for the tips and
    the chance to win…stay blessed!

  682. Kelly aka Sew Lambitious LLC

    The first of many difficult rooms is my laundry room. I am purging the closets in my bedroom and after laundering I am sorting everything into totes to be recycled into sewing projects or to donate.

    My teen son refuses to use the hampers provided, knocks things behind the dryer and throws dirty clothes and wet towels on clean items. Cats get in there and leave hair on what I am working on or knock things over.

    I plan to build out cabinetry in several areas of the large combination bath and laundry room. Containers would be wonderful to keep items dust-free and easy to pull from cabinets!

    Thank you for the entry!
    Kelly on FB
    Sew Lambitious on FB
    Kelly on Pinterest

  683. Sara

    The kitchen, for sure. It just gets so much use and I don’t have a good system for keeping the counters clear. Thank you for the tips.

  684. Sheila Shapley

    It seems my dining table is the catch all for both my husband and me. We tend to drop everything on the table plus my husband does his morning devotions and study there.

  685. Annette Hummel

    I’ve been trying to avoid stashing my piles of paper work on my desk. Sadly, the kitchen counters now collect everything from the preschool pictures made of macaroni, to the weeks worth of junk mail (mixed in with the legitamite mail). House and mail keys get lost in all the paper work. Things get lost, thrown away or damaged because it sits in the middle of the meal prep space. It’s one of the worst ‘hot spots’ in my house and I have to curb it- Now!

  686. BRITTANY REICHMUTH

    I can not seem to keep our dinning table clutter free! We use it to organize the mail, bills,etc. So, we got an office, and that didn’t get organized either. So I gave away our huge-space-sucking office desk and the table is cluttered again! …Hummm maybe it has something to do with my husband being a CPA (accountant) and wanting to keep every receipt! I got to admit, I love his dedication to certain things. lol

  687. Erin Spain

    The hardest room to keep uncluttered at my house is definitely the kitchen! It is the most central room in the house and the counter top somehow becomes a “catch-all” for everyone’s stuff.

    Great post and awesome giveaway!

    -Erin
    DIYOntheCheap.com

  688. Aimee

    We have built in shelving in our living room and not the cool kind with doors that can close away clutter. This translates to where the keys go, where the mail goes, where anything that doesn’t have a home goes. My declutter plan is to yank them out!

  689. Rebecca

    That has to be my office. It’s an endless paper trail! Not mention my husband has things from 20+years ago that he keeps for posterity!

  690. Janice J

    I would have to say my office/computer room/craft room. So much going on in this room that it gets cluttered very easily.

  691. Susan Crider

    Definitely our kitchen table! My husband comes home from work and then sits down at the kitchen table and clutters it with so many papers and work things! Drives me crazy! I will definitely use these tips and hopefully in 30 days they will have become my new habits!!!!!!

  692. Carole

    Our dining room is drowning in clutter on some days! It’s the hub of the house and is always filled with stacks of mail, kids’ backpacks and shoes, and laptop cases. Not to mention the piles of school papers that seem to multiply despite our best efforts at staying on top of them! The area is such an embarrassment that we shove all the dropped items into a nearby cabinet or a bedroom if visitors stop by, and then tend to lose things in the process. Certainly not a relaxing and welcoming atmosphere for eating… the room’s actual purpose!

  693. Judy

    my daughters’ rooms….no matter how much stuff we clear out of there it seems to multiply over night like Gremlins.

  694. Cathy Littleton

    My hair bow making area! I know where everything is despite the total dis-organization. Would love to be able “see” what I have:)
    Cathy

  695. elin

    That would be the bathroom counter. There never seems to be enough time to go in there and get ready in the first place – not to mention putting the stuff away after! Phew – I need some new storage and some new habits too :-)

  696. Rhonda

    Definitely our family office. When someone in the family is unsure where to store something, they dump it in the office. I think it has to do with the abundance of horizontal surfaces – which are supposed to be work areas – not dumping grounds!

  697. Lisa

    Definitely the kitchen! I love my big island but it is a magnet for anything and everything.

  698. shandra

    My dining room table is the biggest junk collector. Makes a mess of both the kitchen and the family room in an open concept house.

  699. Jodi

    The hardest place to keep clean in our house is the living room. Everything just seems to get dumped there.

  700. Joan Adolf

    The worst room in my house to keep uncluttered is my laundry room. Its right off the kitchen so any time I have things sitting in my kitchen that shouldn’t be it gets stuck in there. Then every once in awhile I have to take time to stop and put all that stuff away. It seems never ending.

  701. Sarah Svoboda

    My kitchen is the worst! Everyone uses it as the family “dumping ground”!

  702. Sarah Ortiz

    Our dining room, which doubles as my office and my son’s play area. There are just too many surfaces asking for piles. =p

  703. Sue Wolcott

    My magnet spot for clutter is the counter by our telephone in the kitchen…mail, school papers etc. With three children in three different schools, some days it feels as though the pile takes on a life of it’s own!!

  704. Deena Moore

    My kitchen has 3 hotspots. The counters around the sink, the very long table, and the buffet.

  705. Lori

    My bedroom is the hardest to keep clean. It seems that I am so busy trying (and mostly failing) to keep the other parts of the house clutter free, my room is neglected. It’s not horrible…well….not SO horrible…but it needs help.

  706. Allison H.

    I’d say the hardest room to keep clean in our house is the office. Everything gets dumped there and there’s no real storage solution. I’d love to win the giftcards so I could get some better organization and storage in our office!

  707. Becca

    The counter on our kitchen island is our worst spot, and the most frustrating for me, because it is the first thing we see when we walk in th door, and because we have a very small kitchen and that is the only usable space for preparing food. I feel like I am constantly having to clear it off of things that aren’t even kitchen related. Thanks for the do-able tips!

  708. Sylvie

    The office is the hardest room to keep clean in our house. For some reason it’s the dumping ground for all my husband’s stuff and the piles keep getting bigger and bigger!

  709. Lawrita

    The hotspur in my home is the counter and island in the kitchen. Everyone wants to set everything down as soon as they walk in the door.

  710. Sara

    Our office – specifically our desks (husband’s and mine) are difficult to keep cleared and organized. Lots of papers!!

  711. jlund151

    It has to be the dining room. Our entry way is just too small (think five people with a zillion shoes, coats, hats, sports gear, etc. etc.) and it spills into the dining room. The hutch and the table are prime clutter zones – items to be returned to friends, things for an upcoming event, the laptop, kid projects, you name it. We are redoing the office so my desk and my daughters desk are temporarily in there as well and usually look like a bomb explosion went off. Unfortunately it is the first room you see when you walk in and that makes me crazy :-)

  712. Rebecca

    I guess the hardest room to keep clutter-free would be my own bedroom. I guess it’s because most of the day it’s out of sight – out of mind.

  713. Lisa Severson

    Definitely my kitchen counter. Newspapers, bills, school work, wrappers, you name it. I try to clean it every night, but others not so much!

  714. Heather

    My kitchen is the most difficult room to keep clean. For months I didn’t even have access to my table because there was just so much stuff on it. I try my best to keep the clutter to a minimum, but it just seems to creep up every time I leave the room!

  715. ruth

    def my laundry room!

  716. Jackie

    My mudroom catches everything from shoes, dirty laundry and book bags.

  717. Angela Maddox

    I find the kitchen to be the are that I have the most hot spots in and decluttering in there is so difficult. There is a junk counter and the spot above the microwave, the area to the side of the fridge and on top of the fridge. Yikes, it is so frustrating!

  718. Amy

    Definitely my bedroom!

  719. Kay Taylor

    The most difficult room for me to keep clean has to be the kitchen. I LURVE a clean kitchen with a sparkling sink and counters free from clutter BUT since we eat 3 times (or more) a day, get a drink, prepare food, feed the dog, eat the m & m’s in the container on the island (oops! did I admit that out loud??)there’s no way it stays picked up EVERY day! Also, I often bring my mail straight in the kitchen to open and discard junk, but then it stays there! Container Store and Target are my very FAVES for organizational bobbles!

  720. Lisa C.

    The kitchen counter.

  721. Rhoda

    Oh, sign me up! Right now, my bedroom gets to cluttered, cause I don’t have enough room to spread out. All my paper clutter gets to be too much at times & I can’t wait to get it more organized and have more space!

  722. Debbie

    My bathroom and my craft closet are major problems!

  723. Kate R

    Our “Home Office, if you could call it that…it’s just a desk in the corner of our living room, but I have what my husband calls “the Kate pile”

  724. Kara

    Our extra bedroom is a big time hot spot for clutter! My husband is in the Army and all of his extra gear is shoved into the extra room for storage and it’s a mess!!

  725. Christa

    The spare “boy room”. No one inhabits this room, but it houses my husbands extra clothes, school work, and random stuff. My husband is a piler. So we frequently have piles stacked around the room!

  726. Emily

    Definitely the kitchen… everything always gets deposited there!

  727. Kimberly W.

    That would be my dinning/school area!!!! We homeschool but don’t have a particular area dedicated for school work since we have very limited space. Everything tends to be done at our table and all the papers, books, and miscellaneous stuff has taken over.

  728. Stacy

    The hardest room in keep clutter free in my home is the kitchen–everyone seems to drop everything when they walk in the door, and it stays there. Drives me crazy!

  729. Jennie

    my whole house is a mess. i moved 2 years ago and haven’t found a place for everything yet. most table tops are cluttered. my good friends have seen this and love me anyway but it does prevent me from inviting others to my home.

  730. Asa-Marie Kincaide

    My living room! It always has been! Thanks for all of the great tips!!!!

  731. Jamie C

    I love target and the container store and really really need to get my house organized!!

  732. Wendy J

    That would definitely have to be the kitchen. We are in there soooo much. Three meals a day, plus somebody drops/sets things down every time they walk thru. Precious little hand prints…everywhere! It practically swallows me up a times.

  733. Kassy

    My kitchen table is my clutter hot spot.

  734. LindaSonia

    My dining room table! Things just seem to always always pile up there.

  735. karen piehl

    the bedroom is the hardest to keep clutter free. we don’t have enough storage space and the hamper looks untidy

  736. Morgan

    I’m going to go with my 4 year old ‘crafty’ daughter’s room. My sweet DD loves to collect and make things, no matter how hard I try to teach her where to put things and how to organize, it just seems there are little piles of ‘art’ everywhere :)

  737. Tegan C

    My kitchen and bedroom are hotspots. My one kitchen counter is the spot for all clutter like mail & papers from school. I can never keep this spot clutter free. The other spot is my bedroom I guess it’s just the dump all room for everything that doesn’t have a place.

  738. Becky Coroa

    Definately my garage! When the kids grow out of clothes, toys, books, etc, it gets bagged up and out to the garage in hopes to donate, give away, or yard sale!

  739. Traci

    Definitely my family room. When we walk in from the garage it is like we explode and bits and pieces of everything fall everywhere.

  740. Debbie

    The first thing you see when you walk in the house-my kitchen island. Everything gets dumped there and I have to shuffle the piles to cook. UGH!!

  741. Kady

    My kitchen is the most difficult place to keep clean in my house.

  742. Liz

    Our clutter spot is the desk area in our kitchen. Mail, kids papers, etc. collect constantly. It’s annoying because I spend so much time in the kitchen and am always feeling cluttered even though most of our house is under control.

  743. sarah graham

    it has to be the kitchen countertops- they seem to be a catch all for papers, teacher nots, projects, and my magazines.

  744. Michelle

    Just one? Okay… the kitchen counter/bar. Paperwork & misc items seem to stay there forever. Thanks for the giveaway!

  745. Kim G

    The kitchen!! I cannot seem to keep up with the endless dishes, piled-up junk mail, overfull recycling bin, rotting leftovers in the fridge . . . ugh!

  746. Sarah

    The kitchen is the worst. There never seems to be a good spot for anything and that is where the family dumps everything from the table when getting ready to set the table. Just thinking about it makes me cringe.

  747. Shauna Valentine

    The most difficult room in my house to keep clutter free is my walk in closet. It has become a place to store my craft stuff, gifts, memory books, clothes to take to dry cleaners/special care items, etc. I want my closet back! :)

  748. KittyMac

    The absolute worst is the bench in the front room/my office. It’s where everybody drops our ‘stuff’ when we come in the house. Somedays it looks like an explosion at a mini-mall: shoes, sneakers, books, handbags, gloves everywhere (hey, what’s that extension cord doing there?)!

  749. Coastal Femme

    My office is a real hot spot.It gets so cluttered with mail, coupons,crafts etc. I’m always sorting and trying to put things away.

  750. Sharon

    Um…All of them! They each have their own hotspot.

  751. Tamara Teaney

    Our most difficult clutter area is the dining room table. It seems like when someone doesn’t know where to put something it ends up there. Also all the mail and slips of paper accumulate there. It is annoying!

  752. Lori

    My kitchen is the hardest are to de-clutter. I don’t have a pantry so I struggle daily creating working area, a place for everything and some kind of storage for normal supplies. I haven’t mastered it yet, but I am working on it and I love the 30 days to new habits article.

  753. Beth

    I have two spots that are so difficult for me. The dining room table and the exercise/craft room. I have a computer in the dining room and the table seems to become an extension of the corner “office” and in the mad rush to clean up every extra item gets dumped in the craft room (which is really my son’s old room).

    It’s very frustrating running around trying to “put all the fires out” whenever there is a mess!!

  754. Dana Metz

    My bedroom is the worst and I hate that! I am really good at cleaning up what people see from the front door, but all the clutter ends up in my room instead. Thanks for the tips!

  755. Stacey

    My kitchen, you know that counter where EVERYTHING gets dumped. It frustrates me to no end and eventually I stack it all up and then deposit it on my desk…where it inevitably sits some more.

  756. Shannon

    Definitely my kitchen counter. Everything just explodes there.

  757. sara

    my kitchen always seems to have piles and papers and clutter! it drives me crazy!!!

  758. Heather

    The worst spot in my house is my bedroom. It is next to the laundry room, so all the clean clothes for the family (of 6) end up in my room, in baskets to be folded…and it never seems to get done!! I have recently inherited all my dad’s books, they are in boxes stacked in my room too. Add in the dog cage, extra blankets, plus all my work stuff (for lack of better place to put it), and its a disaster waiting to happen!! :(

  759. Amy

    My living room!! Yikes!!

  760. Shannon F

    Sadly, the worst spot for me to keep clean is my dressers in the bedroom. They are a graveyard for loose change, old receipts, and pocket lint. And while there are other hotspots in the house, the “public” spaces definitely get tidied more often than my personal space. I swear it’s an out of sight, out of mind issue. Well, until the end of the day when I walk in there and cringe. lol

  761. Alicia

    My Kitchen for sure

  762. Nancy Wiebel

    My biggest clutter area is the master bath. This is where I get ready each morning and I am solely responsible for the mess that’s created! Hair appliances, make up, you name it. I have too much “stuff”!

    Nancy

  763. Kim

    My hotspot is my kitchen table. For some reason, I pile mail, papers from work, and newspaper ads there.

  764. shome

    my dining room is SO difficult to keep clear! it’s the central room in the house, & EVERYTHING imaginable ends up on the table. or on the floor. or on the buffet. basically, wherever is the least convenient, & the most in my way.

  765. Donna

    The Kitchen table, it collects everything all the time :(

  766. Kami

    goodness me, my apartment is 560 square feet so if i don’t keep on top of it, it can get out of control pretty fast. the worst spot though, is my desk. it services as a sofa table, dining table, and office. it can get pretty hairy. any assistance would be AWESOME!

  767. Jennifer Ervig

    The office…it’s the den of doom!

  768. tammy

    Laundry Room Floor …entry is from the Garage and everyone’s shoes end up in a pile there.

  769. Camille Richmond

    My kitchen by far is. It is the room we all gather in the most to do our life activities of eating, snacking, homeworking, projects, reading mail, the place where the kids come right after school to tell me about their day and set down what ever school supplies and jackets they have with them at the time. Miscellaneous items always end up on the counters with the undone dishes when someone doesn’t complete their dish day.

  770. Aili

    The peninsula of the kitchen counter, by far! Sometimes,if we run out of room on IT, the kitchen table that runs parallel to it seems to work just fine.
    I have to “review” the stacks at the end of every night and purge the junk!

  771. Kim

    The kitchen. Without a doubt.

  772. Kirstin

    I don’t know if it’s because I can close the door and hide it or if I just need to take better care of myself but my closet in our room is always the clutter catcher. I can label, organize, and beautify every other space but my closet is always overflowing. Wasted many new years resolutions on this problem!

  773. Jeannett

    Its my master bedroom. I fold laundry there and craft in there too. It can be so easy to shut the door and walk away!

  774. Holly L

    My kitchen table. Clutters itself, I think.

  775. Ivetsi jaquez

    I live in a small apartment, with a livingroom-diningroom-kitchen (yes! all together)it is very difficult to have a “Declutter anything”! LOL. 2 children, 3 adults and only two bedrooms. But i tried. The dining table is the one that hold all our clutter(s) we try to clean it as many times a day as posible.

  776. Shannon Jones

    Definitely my kitchen. That’s where everyone drops anything they don’t want to take the time to put up. And even when the dishwasher is empty and ready to receive dirty dishes, people just pile their dishes on the counter.

  777. Renee B.

    My clutter hot spots are the table near the entrance way to the house and the living room.

    Thank you for the giveaway.

  778. Trish

    The one spot that is DEFINITELY the hardest to keep clean and clutter free is the kitchen counter bar space. It is open space that becomes a dumping ground for mail, preschool art projects, and misc. items that need a home. It can all pile up too fast!

  779. Lorri

    Mine is the kitchen counter. It sucks up all the junk mail, important mail, artwork, receipts…it gets really ugly!

  780. Hope R.

    My dining room! Our main entrance is in the dining room and EVERYTHING gets thrown on the floor, table or the bar. Drives me crazy!

  781. Paula

    My#1 hotspot is my kitchen island. Whenever any members of my family enter the house,they seem to dump things right on my island. From keys to school books and papers,it all lands there. My #2 hotspot is my desk. As a school teacher my work is never done and it is all over my desk. My 3rd hotspot is my 16 year old daughters room. My solution there is to just shut the door!

  782. Marie

    It’s my computer room! I really use this as my dumping zone!

  783. beth

    My kitchen counters for sure! It is where everyone comes in and drops stuff on the counter. Unfortunately, I am the most guilty! When I come in, it seems there are 40,000 things to do so I let the counter just pile up. Thanks for the chance to win!

  784. Krista

    Kitchen counter….even if I am on top of it everyday it seems to magically fill up with paper, hair ties and pens.

  785. Carla H.

    Our kitchen is the most difficult room to keep clutter free.

  786. Michele Barker

    I would have to say my coffee table and my couch by the door. They walk in and throw it there and it stays.

  787. Amy Fontenot

    My kitchen is right my our garage door, so everything gets dropped off in there. We have a shoe bin pile, a mail pile, and a dish pile! :)

  788. Shantelle

    Definitely the kitchen bar. It is where we all convene at the beginning and the end of the day…everything gravitates towards this spot. Everything.

  789. Rosalinda Bradley

    THE most difficult spot to keep tidy is the kitchen. In a family of eight (soon to be nine), there is a CONSTANT business in the kitchen – cooking, eating, dropping off mail on the counter, school projects…well, you get the idea. The easiest solution would be to put my family in a box so they couldn’t make messes, but where’s the fun in that? We’re improving daily in personal responsibility and tidying up at the end of the day, but there is still “stuff” that needs a home: outgrown clothes, papers to file, items to donate. Please help me become less of a cluttered crazy and more of a contained crazy!

  790. Heather

    I’d have to say our master bedroom. All the laundry from our 6 kiddos ends up piled high (along with mine and the hubby’s)and I take all the laundry there to fold…since it’s so much closer to the bedrooms than the laundry room.

  791. Whitney Abuzeid

    My kitchen!! The bar is a catch all for mail and random papers — the counters are a catch all for unwashed dishes and cups! It’s pretty much never ending … :) What an AWESOME giveaway!

  792. Niki cavagnino

    My clutter hot spot is the dining room and my bedroom where the crafting seems to just build up!

  793. Melissa Snow

    My office! It also doubles as the toy room, so it’s almost impossible to keep clean for very long.

  794. Sarah

    My mudroom is the hardest to keep clean- coming in out of the snow and mud – everything gets peeled off and left to dry in some manner or another.

  795. Krista Fifield

    The most cluttered area in our house is a tie between my bedroom closet and the laundryroom “toy closet” neither space is usable because of the enourmous amount of clutter!

  796. Ashley

    My bedroom and bathroom are the hardest areas in the our home to keep clean!

  797. Tammy

    My desk is the most cluttered, it seems to happen so fast! Thanks for the awesome giveaway!

  798. jacquie h

    for me i have to say my scrapbook room

  799. Shara

    My biggest clutter hotspot is the master bedroom. It’s where things go that I don’t always know what to do with go to die. It’s definitely not the relaxing retreat it should be!

  800. Linda

    The kitchen counters is the most tenacious clutter hotspot. It is a dumping ground for mail, bills, envelopes, tools, unfinished snacks, cough drops. I think I’ve tried to implement 3 different systems to deal with the clutter but it is slipping again. Too tired after work and dinner clean up to deal with clutter and to do maintenance.

  801. Kristin

    My kitchen island is the hardest thing to keep clutter free. Everything always lands there!

  802. Laurie

    hands down my office/craft room is the hardest room for me to keep clean and uncluttered it seems to be the family dumping room :(

  803. Margaret

    So the most cluttered room by far is my den which my husband and I share as our office. It is usually always in a state of disaster, most of which is due to my husbands side job. ugh!

  804. Ericka

    Definitely the kitchen. It’s where the purse, mail, diaper bag, etc get dumped every night when we get home.

  805. Jennifer

    My entire house needs some decluttering, particularly the basement and the kitchen!

  806. Christina

    I love your blog!!! If I had to choose ONE hotspot, it would be the kitchen. Homework, mail, magazines, art work, toys, laundry…you name it! UGh, drives me bonkers! I would LOVE to win some money to put toward organizing!! Keeping my fingers crossed. Thanks! :)

  807. scouty

    Kitchen counter and island!

  808. LaShelle

    My kitchen seems to be my nemesis when it comes to cleaning! The counters and table are used as mail, coupon, and “extras” collectors. It is the first room you enter when coming in the back door (which is our typical entrance). All the things brought in form the car fill any kind of clear space I may have made as well. And the floor is ALWAYS dirty. I have 2 little people eating at my house and so unless I can keep up by sweeping 3-4 times a day there is always something on the floor. I would LOVE to have more storage solutions in the kitchen or surrounding areas so that I can spend more time cleaning up after my little people instead of trying to sort through clutter.

  809. MITZI

    Our clutter hot spot would have to be the laundry/mudroom area. I can’t stand having them together!

  810. Gretta

    The Kitchen is the hardest because everyone comes in the kitchen door and it becomes a “drop-off” point for all their stuff they are too lazy to carry to their rooms or simply go put up!

    bamagv at aol dot com

  811. missys

    my kitchen table is the hardest to keep clean!!

  812. Carmen

    We live in an apartment right now and we have sort of a bar area. It is full of clutter. It’s very annoying! Stuff is just piled all over it.

  813. Kelli

    I am continually re-organizing my laundry room/closet. In a small home there is so much that is stored in there, that it is a natural magnet for clutter.

  814. Karissa

    My bedroom gets cluttered the quickest. Thanks for the giveaway!

  815. Kendall Welsh

    The worst place for me, because I have tried to improve those hot spots already, is my stairs! I have moved everything to my stairs to be “taken up the next time I go up”. The stairs are FULL of this “taken up” stuff.

  816. Catherine R.

    I have to say the most clutter spot is my bedroom. I have a small one that can not fit a dresser, a bed, a small table and a tv in there. I have to either switch rooms, or get better organized because the space between the bed and the small table is micro!

  817. Donna Hausler

    My kitchen counter is definitely the worst hot spot. We enter our home through our kitchen door, so EVERYTHING lands on those counters. And then it sits there. For a long time. I need new habits!

  818. Leah Rixmann

    By far and away, the hardest room to keep clean is my 6 year old’s room (shared with 4 year old). He is incredibly creative and messy. No matter how many toys I cull or bins I give him, it is not enough.

  819. AGross

    Every horizontal space in our house. Help!!! :-\

  820. Christy

    Our kitchen cabinet by the door and the bar where the kids eat and do homeword are the most troublesome. Would LOVE to win!

    • Christy

      Oops! I meant “homework”.

  821. Bonny

    My clutter hotspots are the kitchen counters and the bar area! I can’t wait to get the clutter OUT!! Great post! Thanks!!

  822. JODI BRADSHAW

    Our dining room because its where we come in through the house and we dump everything on our dining room table. my coupons are always there and kinda hard to sit down and eat as a family

  823. Carla

    We have a bar between the kitchen and living room and there is always clutter on it! Mostly my crafting supplies! Oops! :)

  824. Maryann

    My bedroom is by far the hardest spot to keep clean. If there is nowhere else to put something, it ends up piled in a corner.

  825. sharon

    wow, just one?!? i’d have to say our living room (which includes kitchen table to the side) right now .. we’re in a trailer so there isn’t much room & there’s not much organization .. since this is where we gather it’s the worst .. i’d love to be able to buy organizational items at target or the container store .. thx for the giveaway!!!

  826. Amy Biernat

    My kitchen island is the most cluttered area in the house. It is right by the garage door where everyone walks in and it attracts everyone’s “stuff”. I am excited to start this 30 day challenge/habit forming routine. Excited!

  827. Dena

    My kitchen counters and kitchen table! We don’t even eat in the kitchen anymore:( The Kitchen counters are the dump spot for everyone. Great easy tips!

  828. Karen

    I would have to say it’s my kitchen. Everyone drops everything on the island or by the phone when they come home. It feels like a losing battle.

  829. Michelle

    The kitchen is the biggest challenge in our home. With teenagers, there is always someone in there making a new mess.

  830. Karen

    My kitchen. I tend to overbuy things and do not have the cabinet space. It’s my favorite room but also the hardest to keep organized.

  831. nikki

    The current problem area in our home is the master bedroom. I have been working to get everything else clutter free and moving smoothly , but the laundry just seems to pile up in our room. We don’t have a laundry room, so our room is the laundry dumping ground.

  832. michaela

    By far the hardest room to keep clean is the kitchen! It is homework, snack, meals, gathering central in our home!

  833. Chequita Burgess

    At this very moment our entire house including the garage is a HOT SPOT, because we just moved into a brand new house! In our old house the big hot spot was the kitchen counter with paperwork. Ready to try a new system & ready for more organization!!!

  834. Rachel G

    The hardest room for me is my living room, it’s where everything happens.

  835. Theresa Gedo

    My kitchen counter and island is a magnet for clutter! Everything seems to get dumped there!

  836. Courtney

    Definitely my daughter’s room…somehow, everything seems to end up stockpiled on her dresser.

  837. Ann

    my kitchen island counter!!! it is the major dumping spot!!

  838. Annie~SavorThisMoment

    It’s a toss-up between my bedroom, which is the dumping ground for everything that doesn’t have a home as well as my craft and scrapbooking supplies, and one counter in the kitchen where papers get tossed.

    Great post!

  839. Tara

    the desk

  840. Teri

    Definitely my kitchen table! We don’t have a mudroom or a place to store all of our coats and bags. With 4 boys it often looks like a bomb went off in my kitchen!

  841. Shirley

    The kitchen counter is where things get dumped.

  842. Jessica C.

    Definitly my office. Everything gets dumped on my desk, I barely ever see the actual surface!

  843. Stacie Czech

    Definitely the kitchen! No matter what systems I set up… the counters, table, and island are always cluttered with papers, pens, dishes, homework! You name it!!! It’s a never ending mecca of mess! Thanks for the opportunity to win!

  844. Debbie

    The office is our worst. Everyone in the family uses it, for homework, or coloring, or work. And the kids are always receiving crayons and art/craft supplies as gifts and it piles up everywhere. There really isn’t a good organization system in place, so nothing ever gets put away.

  845. kate

    Kitchen, no doubt. Most used, most messed. Somehow, no matter what it’s where the mail gets dumped and spread out, backpacks are dropped, and shoes discarded not to mention the myriad of odd dishes family members just can’t seem to get into the dishwasher. Fortunately, when I call for a cleanup, they’re on it – just wish it would stay orderly!

  846. Summer

    My kitchen is the hardest. So much piles up on the kitchen counters and the kitchen table is the worst! I really need to work on these areas!

  847. Sherri M

    Definitely my biggest hotspot is the bar in my kitchen that is right there when you walk in the door. It is a constant battle to keep it cleared off!

  848. Maria I.

    Ugh!… The dining room table! I clean it off everyday and it somehow manages to amount insane amounts of “stuff” daily. Drives me nuts!

  849. Lacie rowell

    My washer gets piled up constantly with stuff that needs to be taken out to the garage! Ugh! I also have a counter in my kitchen that constantly has piles of junk on it!!!!

  850. Jennie Wheeler

    Kitchen! Between dishes, mail, backpacks, and toys, it is impossible to go very long uncluttered.

  851. Janet

    The hardest room for me is the kitchen…especially the countertops. Too many people using the space. As soon as it’s clean, something (or someone) messes it up. Good plan for creating a habit. I’ll give it a try. Great giveaway. Thanks.

  852. Sylvia

    My worst hot spot is my bonus room. Everything that has no other place lands there, and it is very much in need of an organizational overhaul! Thank you for the chance to win the Target and The Container Store gift cards! The Container Store is my favorite store.

  853. Kheushla

    Definitely would be the kitchen. The counter is normally where I leave the mail and my purse. I’m trying to keep it clean, but it’s a struggle.

  854. Ruth

    100% my kitchen counters – this is where all of the mail and “clutter” gets dumped.

  855. Alyssa Moody

    Great article!! Very helpful ~ for me it’s my makeup table and on top of my microwave near our door!! Too much clutter and odds & ends gather there for sure! Thanks for the helpful tips and photos!!

  856. Amanda

    My bedroom. Because I spend the least amount of time there. By time I go in my bedroom I am ready to sleep, not clean!

  857. Lindsey

    For us its our computer desks – they get out of hand so quickly! These tips are great, I am really inspired!

  858. Megan's Cookin'

    deffinity the kitchen. It’s such a small little area and it’s right by the back door that everyone comes through. They usually just throw their stuff on the kitchen counter. :(

  859. Alyssa G

    DeFinitely the bedroom. My husband and I are the only ones who go in there, so it’s hard to motivate myself to de-clutter!

  860. Cindy H

    The laundry room…clothes stacked everywhere. Not real organized.

  861. Valerie white

    For sure the counter in my kitchen where all the mail,school papers arrive…yuk.
    Valerie

  862. andrea

    the bedroom! i have piles of stuff everywhere.

  863. Deonne

    Great ideas! Kitchen counter, office desk, purse, bathroom counter! Cleaned out my purse today,so will “clean slate” the others one per day for the reat of the week! Then on to new habits for each!

  864. Carrie S.

    My kitchen is my most cluttered room. When we walk in the door after each busy day, that’s where most things are deposited- mail, school papers, receipts, lunch bags, etc. It creates clutter each day that builds throughout the week. I wish I had a better system for sorting it all.

  865. Clorinda

    Mine is my kitchen counter – but i do manage to go through it daily.

  866. Robyn johnson

    My KITCHEN!! My husband thinks the counter I designated as a baking area is his office. No matter how much I nag he keeps dumping his “stuff”, i.e. his phone.keys,receipts etc.

  867. Heidi Hatch

    My kitchen counter! My office is in the basement and so I don’t use it. That means all the kids homework, papers to be signed etc end up in a pile. The mail, “to do lists” ads and coupons wind up there too. No matter how much we try to purge, there is always a new stack to dig through.

  868. bren

    My night stand….piles of books and different projects in various states of complete…

  869. Susan

    It’s my fireplace hearth right near the back door! I come in, throw down my work bag and purse, empty receipts from my purse and throw them on to the hearth, leave magazines and old mail there, my winter scarf drapes over the fireplace screen like a limp noodle. Yup, it’s too convenient a spot to let things hang out there for awhile cluttering away…

  870. Angie

    the most difficult cluttery room in my apartment is my craft room/office. not for lack of trying, it just is always in a state of disarray. i have labeled boxes, shelves, rubbermaid drawer sets, and it never stays tidy! that’s mostly cause i’m always pulling stuff out of drawers though C: the closet in there is the worst offender though, i try not to open those doors!! when time and money allow, it will become priority #1 to get that organized for good!

  871. missy

    My clutter “hotspot” room is the living room. It’s where we all come through the door and drop everything. Even our cat drops his toys and walks away. I need help!! lol

  872. Sarah

    My living room is the most difficult room to keep clutter free. I walk in and drop my work and junk mail on the coffee table. I know that I am going to have to change my routine!

  873. Anna Johnson

    Our worst room here is the kitchen, because our main entryway is in the corner of it. Despite having a closet right inside the door, I’m always picking up shoes and sweeping up a dirty mess. I would love to be able to get a handle on it!! One of these days…

  874. Stephanie

    I have a small bookshelf in the entry way that gets cluttered up. And the whole area becomes a dumping ground for shoes, jackets on the floor, mail, books, etc. UGH! I’d love to win the gift cards to get some more organization help!

  875. Elle

    The master bedroom is the hardest to keep clutter free.

  876. Julie F.

    Oh goodness…for me, it’s EVERYWHERE! I try to organize one room and dis-organize the others. I need HELP! My study/office looks like a disaster area or toxic waste dump~and I can’t see the wood on the desk! I am embarrassed and I hate it looking like that, but I get so frustrated when I try to fix it. I’m not a hoarder yet…but heaven help me ~ I’m headed that way!! I sure could use some help….I think if I could get it straight..maybe I could keep it that way ~ :)

  877. Janet

    My kitchen island is my most cluttered area. Mail, newspapers, heck even my cat joins the mess! (bad cat)

  878. Sharon Compton

    My kitchen! Everyone seems to dump their stuff on my counters and it drives me crazy:) I would love to get a giift card!

  879. Karen M.

    My kitchen is the room that accumulates clutter. I try to keep up with it as much as possible though.

  880. Deanna r

    I find the hardest room to keep clean is our master bedroom! I know I want this space to be tranquil, but it always seems to be the place for everything that doesn’t have a home. Including any toy that was being fought over during the day or previous days!!

  881. Hollie

    Great response! I would say my bedroom. It’s the catch all for things I don’t know what else to do with! And by the time I go to bed I don’t want to deal with any of it!

  882. Ashley Spencer

    My bedroom, on top of the dressers to be exact. We keep putting things up high where the babe can’t reach so the dressers happen to be perfect for piling things up on.

  883. Mama Mimi

    Oh my word…this is GREAT!! I will do this…when I get over this gnarly cold. My kitchen peninsula is by far the worst…but I have many more!! Thanks for the tips…and the giveaway opportunity!

  884. Angie

    My clutter is mail, school papers, etc. Seems to gather in kitchen and my living room. It is a constant battle to keep up with it all!

  885. Gwen Laucis

    Junk mail keeps me in a tissy. Can’t wait to get started.

  886. Sandra Walls

    The kitchen. Everything gets dumped there!

  887. nancye6

    My kitchen… counters and table… appear to be the magnet for whatever needs to be put down. I am constantly putting away whatever it is.

  888. Kioenii

    My living room. Which is of course the first room ANYONE who enters my house sees. The bottom of the stair is literally the first thing you can see when you open my door and the everyday dump zone. Then there is the couch where I sort my laundry cause my laundry room is just big enough for the washer and dryer. Then my sons table is off to the side that always is cluttered with soda cans, plates, and other random dishes as well sometimes mail. Which brings us to the computer desk which catches everything else. So all my 4 hotspots are in one room. I have started on organizing and decluttering. I put a book shelf at the bottom of the stairs which will have baskets (one for mail, one for take with you in the morning ((such as go back rentals)) and for the dog leash and such) as well as hooks to hang our keys and my purse.) And now have some great advice on how to tackle the other 4 inside areas. I look forward to more tips and ideas to make my house (and there for my life) less cluttered and much more enjoyable.

    Kieonii

  889. chandra

    Our worst clutter is the dining room table! It is a catch all and we never even get to eat there as a family except maybe once a year for Thanksgiving..boo! Would love to use it for family time!!!

  890. gayle

    The toughest spot is my desk. I don’t have much room, so papers land there until I finally reach the point where I cannot find anything. Only then do I stop and file or toss papers.

  891. Melanie

    My breakfast room — this is where all the mail gets piled up :( I would LOVE to de-clutter this room FOR GOOD! :)

  892. Kristi

    The desk area in the kitchen is a major clutter-catcher in our house. It’s so difficult for us to keep it clear of papers, etc.

  893. Sherri F.

    The kitchen without a doubt! The family uses it as a catch all and it’s really the only area that I constantly have to remove clutter and clean like crazy!

  894. Martie

    The dining room! We don’t use it too often now that kids are grown so we put everything there “temporarily”.

  895. Kim Barrett

    Our kitchen is the dumping ground for everything, it’s the drop zone for everything, I guess because it is our main gathering area. I love to organize and purge however time is my big issue. Love your tips. and your giveaway

  896. Bev P

    The kitchen. Seems that a mess ensues even when we’ve just had leftovers for dinner! If I had just a little ambition after dinner…

  897. Brandy Mullins

    I hate clutter and do a decent job containing it, except in my bedroom!! Not in there much and no one sees it, so its easy to neglect!! My dresser gets piled high with stuff and you will usually find a basket or two of clean laundry on the floor!!

  898. Kim

    The kitchen.. I need it to be clean before bed, before I cook, after I cook, before I bake, after I bake and after every single snack and meal and things just keep piling up!

  899. Linda G

    Gosh, every room is hard around here. The kitchen is probably the worst offender, in a respect, since we all use it multiple times a day. The master bedroom is a close second, but it’s not at “dirty” since there’s no food up there. We’re nibbling away at our clutter (have been for years, actually) and hope to be in better shape by the end of the year. I took 7 boxes and 1 bag of stuff to the thrift store yesterday and there’s still so much to do! Nibble away at it and eventually there won’t be any left. No need to try to tackle it all in a day. As with weight loss, the extra pounds didn’t go on in a day, and they won’t come off that way. Little by little.

  900. Christy

    The laundry room. It’s the entry point in our house and seems to be a landing spot for everything…shoes, mail, kids toys, clothes, food, etc. I hope to have a place for all the clutter someday.

  901. Ben

    the dining room…it’s where the mail piles up

  902. Bertha R.

    My kitchen and kitchen island, my girls school books end up on the island, plates on counters,etc. mail, just everything ends up in my kitchen.

  903. Eva

    Our living room… with a newborn we spend the most time here–playing, eating, sleeping, pooping!

  904. Kara H

    The kids playroom! I have to pick up toys and books constantly or else it looks like a tornado went through that room. I am a “neat freak” and the playroom is a major stressor. It could really use some help in the storage category!!

  905. Lisa C

    The dining room and mostly the dining room table. It becomes a catchall for mail, books, jackets, etc.

  906. Connie Thornton

    GRRR where do i start ? Well, first off is my counter, everything from mail and anything anyone brings in the door gets put on the counter . It seems to some, stairs were made to put everything you dont want to take upstairs ! Then of course the bathroom , why is it im the only one that picks up my dirty towels and clothes ? Let’s dont leave out my washroom that he seems to think is his garage to keep his tools, or anything else that belongs in the garage . This article was very helpful , maybe i can get things in order by following this advice .

  907. Rachell

    My kitchen counter! I have a big counter so it tends to collect everything.

  908. Melissa

    My kitchen counters are my biggest challenge!

  909. Dana

    My Kitchen Counters are the worst!

  910. jane

    My son’s bathroom definitely.

  911. Claudia B

    I have a kitchen table and a bar that are right inside the backdoor that everyone enters thru. Both of these are magnets for clutter. This is the spot I struggle with the most in my home.

  912. Pamela Palmer

    I just I would have to say my island in my kitchen catches all the paper and mail that comes in the house. Also, make scrapbook studio is a disaster that I don’t even scrapbook right now because it is to over whelming for me. I just keep my scrapbook studio door closed:( Thanks for giving me the chance to enter.

  913. Joyce

    My kitchen table. It’s where everything lands – mail, newspapers, notes, etc. Thanks for great giveaway!

  914. Jessica W.

    My most cluttered area would be at the end of my kitchen counter where I leave my purse and mail… which attracts all of my husband’s junk!

  915. Jennifer

    Definitely my kitchen. I have a corner that catches everything… And 2 junk drawers turned “storage for important papers” alongside the junk.

  916. Sheila

    The nursery / playroom. Hard to keep the clutter in control there!

  917. Amanda J.

    The laundry room! It is always the catch all space.

  918. Glee Rice

    My most cluttered room is the kitchen. Especially the kitchen table–it’s the first room we come to when we enter the house so the table is the catch-all. My husband like to eat on TV trays in the den at the end of a long day, so the table clutter stays until I just can’t take it anymore!!

  919. Andrea

    My kitchen island, it gets filled up with bits and bobs from all over the house.

  920. Alicia

    The kitchen area near the garage entrance is such a trouble spot! It drives me crazy.

  921. Shanna Oakley

    My kitchen island counter! I clean it and before I know it, it’s cluttered again. Its definitely the gathering place for junk in our home!

  922. Jo K

    The dining room, my husband uses it as an office.

  923. Nancy

    My livingroom.We have quite a small house and some days, with all the people and stuff that congregates there, it can be really clutter ridden!

  924. Laura Smith

    Right now it seems to be the dining room. With our current room arrangement it is a pass through room and the first place with clear surfaces to set things down. If there isn’t an assigned place for something, it seems to get left here on the on table or sideboard.

  925. Mandy Elliott

    My most cluttered room is definitely the kitchen! We live in a townhouse and the kitchen is really tiny. We don’t have a lot of storage so food and cooking utensils end up on the counters taking up what little space we do have! Its crazy!

  926. Laura Wilkerson

    Our dining room lots of times becomes clutter central!

  927. julie

    My kitchen is the hardest room to keep clean- especially with 3 kids who want to learn to cook!!

  928. Tana G

    The kitchen! I home cook everything and I just can’t seem to keep up!

  929. Candace H

    Our bedroom… easiest room to “hide” the clutter so visitors won’t see… must put it #1 on my list, with kitchen counter a close second!

  930. kate brittain

    Definitely the kitchen!!! It gets used the most :)

  931. Susan

    We have a lot of construction going on in our house and those areas are always getting out of control. My hotspots are our coffee table, kitchen counter and the chair beside my bed, I always seem to toss my clothes there.

  932. Mariah

    The dining table just slays me. It’s such a large, empty expanse, it seems only right to set one thing down here and a stack of things there… arrgh!

  933. Candice Ranney

    My bedroom. It is a struggle to keep things picked up.

  934. Lisa P

    My laundry is the dump. I never have trouble with the actual clothing. But the stuff!!! The clutter from the kitchen counter thrown in a bag, the items on their way OUT of the house, the stuff coming IN the house, stuff that kids left behind, due library books…it captures it all and lets go of very little! Help!

  935. Leslie Anne McCoy

    My dining room. We don’t use it often, so mail, papers, and other clutter gets piled up on any flat surface! If the table is full, the chair seats are fair game, as is the buffet and the bar.

  936. Christy Sattler

    Our Kitchen truly is the heart of our home and the biggest area of clutter. Will enjoy it for it’s purpose of gathering and nurturing, not pushing aside clutter to do that.
    Thanks for the challenge and helpful tips.

  937. Crystal D

    Honestly, my master bedroom is the most difficult room to keep neat and organized. The kids like to hang out in there when I am getting ready in the morning and somehow all of their things get left in my room or end up in there by the time they come in in the evening to say goodnight. Don;t even get me started on being an only child who has to share a room with a grown man! LOL

  938. June Jones

    My kitchen counters are dumping grounds for everyone!! I’m constantly reminding people to put things away. I hardly have room to cook.

  939. Andrine Coleman

    Our bedroom is the hardest room to keep clean with piles of dirty clothes and piles of clean washed clothes in every area of the room.

  940. Julie

    My kitchen is definitely the worst offender — the island and next to the sinnk specifically. Every paper, toy and thingamajig lands on the island and everyone just piles dishes to the side of the sink — ugh!

  941. Heather

    Kitchen! It catches Everything!

  942. lauren parker

    We really “live” in the kitchen and as a result the clutter builds by the end of the day. Instead of relaxing at night I end up spending way too much time moving clutter from one area to another!

  943. Bekki

    My school room/office. It has tons of stuff that we need, plus paper that piles, and we are in a rather small room for 5 people all day long!

  944. Denise Wolff

    The entry way porch. It’s where everything gets dumped.

  945. Robin

    The mudroom/laundry room.

  946. Tracy

    Our dresser. It becomes the dropping spot for everything in our pockets at the end of the day… then I have to look at it (and PRETEND like it’s not there) as I’m falling asleep.

  947. Holly

    I’m not sure if my previous comment is on here or not … the page kept saying resend and server reset so if it is I apologize not trying to cheat! :)

    Definitely our kitchen — first room you enter from our parking area, things tend to get dropped on the island, laundry area is in the kitchen as well ….

  948. tami

    the kitchen. the counters always seem to be collecting something.

  949. Jennifer R

    The kitchen, for sure! I am always fighting clutter, piles, crumbs, you name it!

  950. susie c.

    ooh – do i have to name only one room? :) our living and dining rooms are open to each other, and i have the hardest time keeping the spaces clutter free. i’m a full-time artist, and i work in both rooms, so they’re always full of works-in-progress, art supplies, etc…always!

  951. Cara Shirley

    My bathrooms! Once I’m done getting ready I’m usually rushing out the door. I rarely ever have the time to actually put everything in there away!!

  952. Kara Beachum

    My kitchen always becomes the storage room for any “extras” and I keep up with it daily and still I get unorganized drawers! I need trays I guess!

  953. Jessie

    Ugh, my kitchen “corner” where all the mail goes to be sorted (or just wait weeks/months to be sorted).

  954. Pam Dier

    My biggest challenge would be my kitchen counter by my back door!

  955. Misty

    The Kitchen. From Measuring spoons to bowl, spices to the refrigerator nothing ever finds it way back to it’s home. Cooking, cleaning, storing, using, every day all day. The kitchen is where time is spent!

  956. mary

    That room would be the bathroom I think. We are so busy and it is room only hubby and I see so it tends to get neglected.

  957. debi CA)

    my craft room! i started cleaning it out in january, and am still at it…(partly because of interruptions…holidays that i have to make things for!) i get going on crafts and it looks like a tornado hit it! and…if i need to clear things out of the other rooms, in they go to the craft room until i can get to them…which is never…i’m trying to organize my crafts so items are easily accessible…but i have so much stuff to purge…i did get rid of a lot of magazines i’d been holding on to, but there is still sooo much more to do! i’m going to try your steps above…should help items not belong to crafts to stay out of the room! and maybe will help me with the thing i do have in there! thanks for the tips! hope i win! God bless you and your willingness to share!

  958. Keri Fornino

    Definitely my kitchen. Somehow all of the mail, toys and random stuff seems to collect on my counters. It’s maddening!

  959. LemonySarah

    The family room is so frustrating! My two kids play video games and snack there, my husband drops his stuff there, plus we have two big dogs. It’s right off the kitchen, so the clutter spills over the breakfast bar and onto the counters. GAAA!

  960. Pam Dier

    The most difficult area to keep uncluttered would be my kitchen cabinet by the back door!

  961. Gail

    My kitchen counter and my master bathroom are the worst offenders. Everyone in he house dumps things in these places!

  962. Casey Marchman

    How I have grown to love trying to organize my home! With three children from ages 9 to 12 there are always areas to work on! My dream would be to have a professional organizer come in, :) but have decided I will have to continue seeking great ideas on my own! What a wonderful gift and blessing it would be to win!!

  963. Heidi

    Most definitely the kitchen counter.

  964. Annie

    The line of rooms that moves from my front door to the back door (and includes the entry hall, computer nook, and laundry room) where everyone comes in and dumps everything. It’s *always* a mess. Ugh.

  965. Angel

    The bedroom- clothes and accessories easily pile up..

  966. Dawn

    It’s a tie – my office and my craft area…I simply can’t figure out how to organize places with so much ‘stuff’ Drives me crazy :/

  967. cori

    The worst room in my house to keep clean is my bedroom. Too many clothes and my toddler loves dragging random stuff in there to play with.

  968. Kelly Ramsey

    Oh goodness….that would be my kitchen!!! Everyone uses it and everyone forgets what exactly they bring in there. It is also the first room past the back door.

  969. Brenda

    My worst clutter area is the desk in the dining/kitchen area. Whenever anyone comes home everything gets dropped there. Papers, keys, wallets, bags, mail, whatever…. You name it, it’s probably there.

  970. jsharpe

    My sunroom/craft room — my (grown)children call it my “crap” room !! :( It is the entry to my home from the garage so it’s the first space I see when I come into the house — overwhelming and depressing !! Although I;ve recently had it painted and decorated in a black/white theme — it;s still the drop off place for anyone coming or going in/out of the backyard and garage. HALP me HALP me !!!

  971. Elizabeth

    My bedroom is the hardest to keep cleaning. I end up putting all the other “stuff” I don’t know what to do with in our room to sort later. And we have a big, brown leather chair that seems to collect laundry!

  972. Graziela

    Our living room is always a mess with our 2 year old’s toys and games from our 8 year old. It also doesn’t help that our computer is in the living room, the desk is alwayas cluttered with mail and school work. We don’t have a closet in the living room either so a lot of times the kids throw their things on the love seat. Thank you for the tips as well as for the opportunity to win.

  973. Dusti

    The kitchen is the hardest area for me to keep clutter free. It is the most-used room and therefore the natural dumping ground for us.

  974. Melissa Ann

    With toddler twins and an infant: all of the rooms! But the worst offenders are places that the twins can’t reach: counters, top of ‘fridge, tops of dressers. They’re all a mess!

  975. Karen Mary

    My sewing room. Always a project I’m about to dig into, a project in progress, and a pile of wishful thinking!

  976. Katy B.

    Several rooms (four kids tend to do that), but mostly it’s my kitchen clutter that bothers me.

  977. the gypsy magpie

    Definitely the desk in the kitchen… everything seems to end up there. I try to rationalize that I’ll get everything organized TOMORROW but it just doesn’t happen often enough. I guess that is my number 1 hot spot!!!

  978. Darci

    Most definitley would be my kitchen, the table and one of the counters, clutter, drives me crazy and I am probably one of the worst ones with it. Need to figure out how to stop just dumping soon as I walk in the door:(

    Darci

  979. Amanda

    my kitchen table is the place where everyone’s day ends up.

  980. Treshia

    The island in the kitchen and the dining room table.

  981. Michelle L.

    Well I would say the whole house because it’s so small just a few things out of place makes it look very cluttered. But if I were to choose just 1 room it would be the living room. The front door is there so things tend to get dumped there when we walk in the door. :)

  982. Jill Omeara

    The kitchen is the most challenging room to keep clutter free. The kitchen is used every day multiple times by every member of the family.

  983. Amanda

    In designing our house I insisted on a huge walk in pantry. Trouble is that is where everything goes. When it’s dinner time, clutter goes straight to the pantry. I’ve got lego sets, all the kids craft stuff, my craft stuff, all my paint stuff plus all the food stuff!! I cleaned it last week…now it looks exactly the same as before.

  984. Allyson Pecilunas

    I would say our Master Bathroom it definitely gets cluttered very quickly and no one ever sees it so I tend to neglect it.

  985. Julie Bradley

    My biggest problem area is the kitchen counter when we walk in through the garage. Always an issue.

  986. Karen Montes

    Definitely the kithchen counter, mail dumping ground. I’ve tried mail baskets, recycling b4 it comes in, numerous options. None seem to stick.

  987. craftytammie

    hmm. with four kids seven and under, it’s very room. but if i have to pick just one, it’s the kitchen counter. it’s a dumping ground for everything i want out of toddler’s reach, school papers, mail, junk and more. i think there are even dirty socks laying on it right now.

  988. Elizabeth G.

    My kitchen counter is always cluttered.

  989. MarySue

    The most difficult room in our house to keep clean and free of clutter is definitely the laundry room that doubles (triples?) as a mudroom and pantry overflow. With nine kids and a dog, and the woods and creek beckoning them all, it can be so frustrating trying to manage all the laundry in that small space with all the boots, and gear, and dirt, and treasures from the outdoors that end up in it. It’s one room for which I have not yet taken the time to sort out the most efficient way to use the space. Wow! Now that I write this, it seems clear that the time has come! :-)

  990. miranda

    the room in my house is our spare bedroom. hardley ever is it used for company so it becomes a catch all… kind of out of sight out of mind technique… until I actually need to use the space for it’s purpose then it becomes a weekend overhaul!!

  991. Jen

    The island in the kitchen. It seems little boy projects, sippy cups and magazines are always piled up there with a few crumbs scattered around for good measure.

  992. theresa

    The worst place for me is my office/ craft room. Something is always happening in there.

  993. Marilyn

    My laundry room! It is really a combination laundry/mud room, with the door to the garage on one wall, a powder room door on another, and the door to the family room on a third. Everyone who comes in drops shoes/backpacks/dirty laundry/EVERYTHING on the floor, the top of the washer and dryer, and the sorting bin. And the plastic covered pails with dog food are in there. I want it organized and clean!

  994. Amy

    My biggest challenge would be my family room/playroom. That bad boy is IMPOSSIBLE to keep picked up! My kids have entirely too much stuff!

  995. Traci Major

    my most challenging area is the laundry room. It is a catch all for everything seasonal, or transitional. I have just about given up!

  996. Heather Spooner

    My laundry room is the messiest and most cluttered room in my house. It has become a kind of catch all room for everything non laundry related. I would love to use the money to organize it better. Thanks!

  997. Jaimie

    Definitely the living room. When we come in, we set nearly everything down in there on the coffee table or end tables or couch, and often at the end of the day we’re just too tired to put everything back where it belongs. Add to that the fact we’re 90% through of a fireplace reno that has lasted two months longer than it should have, so there’s caulk and sanding wedges and paint hanging out in there too.

  998. Joan Dougan

    The play area/craft room…thank goodness it is downstairs, out of site! I like the idea of leaving crafts out while working on them a little bit, once in awhile, but it looks soooo bad! Need better organization/ storage containers or something!

  999. Natasha

    Most definitely my kitchen. Great giveaway.

  1000. patricia

    my bedroom, its the throw everything in there in that mad dash moment.

  1001. Glaphre

    The room that is difficult to keep free of clutter is my kitchen. I have a. small kitchen and not much counter space or cupboard space. I need to keep several things on my counter because I don’t have room in my cupboards to store them. So it seems my kitchen counter and my kitchen table are always cluttered.

  1002. Kathy

    Definitely the kitchen counter! Coupons, mail, outgoing mail, etc. Too much clutter!

  1003. Jessi

    We have a counter-top separating the kitchen from the living room and it’s always littered with stuff! Luckily, we have places for the mail, keys, remotes etc. that usually end up there so it’s easy to put everything away quickly.

  1004. Kim

    Kitchen counter – because of all the newspapers, mail, and school papers that end up stagnating there.

  1005. Julie Ruger

    The most challenging room to keep clean and clutter free is our kitchen…we come into the house most often through the kitchen and that is where everything seems to be dropped…especially our counters and table. Yikes is how I usually feel when I see it start to pile up:-))

  1006. Glenda Alexander

    My kitchen, everyone walks in and sets whatever is in their hands on the island.

  1007. Laura

    The den off the kitchen! It is the dump everything room. Book bags, coats shoes dirty laundry in piles waiting to be done also the laundry baskets with the clean laundry. Oh and the treadmill is in there with cloths hanging on there ties an what ever the kids can find to hang on there.

  1008. Rhondi

    Where I have the most trouble keeping organized is my office space at home. I always have piles of papers all over the place and I don’t have enough storage there.

  1009. Aubrey

    Ugh! Which room is the most difficult to keep clean and clutter free? {insert any random room, and you’ve hit the nail on the head!} Boy do I need to take note of the advice you’ve given here! That’s the hard part right, um, following through. I’ve been working on doing things with intent, so I think this shall be my next project, regardless of whether I win the moolah or not, that would just be a major bonus!

  1010. Kelly

    My worst spot is my office. I am single and live in a condo. I have two living spaces – the living room (couch, fireplace, TV – where people sit when they come over) and my office (old, sagging couch, old TV, closet w/ supplies for my business.) I decided to keep my living room clutter free because it looks so nice, and I can be proud of that. The problem is that everything now lands on all the surfaces in my office, where I spend most of my time, working from home. I suppose this is the room I should start with to build my clutter-free life!

  1011. Mary Heidelberger

    Mary

    My kitchen counter seems to be the catchall in my house. Love the giveaway!!!

  1012. Helen

    Without a doubt, it’s definitely the kitchen :)

  1013. sarah

    hmmm….the most difficult room to keep clutter free is actually little guy’s room. he tends to pull things from everywhere and they all land in there. at the end of most nights, we are taking things to the bathroom and kitchen and bins around the house!

  1014. Heidi Davis

    I have no place to put my purse, so I keep it in the kitchen by the back door; unfortunately, it’s also where we drop the mail, the mittens, the grocery lists, the reusable grocery bags, you name it! So that is the hardest place to declutter in my house!

  1015. Milica

    Definitely my bedroom! It is the landing place for every homeless doodad and unfinished laundry. It is making me crazy!

  1016. marishannon

    This post was very helpful and makes me feel like maybe i can finally conquer the clutter! My most challenging area is my laundry room.

  1017. Tammy

    The hardest spot, it’s hard to name one, to keep clutter free is the kitchen island.

  1018. Jalal

    Ugghhhgg. It would be the room I laughingly call the “studio”, I am currently unable to walk through it because it is also called the “dumping room” I would post a picture but I won’t because it would probably end up on pinterest under the “hoarders”

  1019. Latrice

    I would say the kitchen because it receives the most traffic and it is a dump-off area for shoes, mail, my keys, my purse, everything!

  1020. Robin

    The kitchen,for me. It can be both the heart and the headache of the home at times. Thanks for the de-cluttering tips and the wise step by step encouragement!

  1021. Theresa Sea

    The front hall/entryway. We have a small table for mail to go on, but mail also gets set on the setee (which has shoes all under and around it!), on the shelf in the coat closet, or moved somehow into the kitchen. I feel like my entryway is always a mess!

  1022. Mandy

    definitely kitchen – mail and papers pile up on counters etc :/

  1023. Barbara

    The kitchen table, aka everything table. Everything piles up, I definitely need new habits before I drive myself nuts.

  1024. Christine N.

    The dining room – it’s the center of the house!

  1025. Becca

    For me it would be a three way tie between the kitchen the dining and the living room. As these are the only three rooms in the house besides the two bedrooms the get used a lot for so many different things and it seems there is always clutter. I love this method though … Think it something I’m going to try.

  1026. Pam G

    Mine is my kitchen and bar counter everyone just drops their things there at the end of the day!

  1027. Alli

    The peninsula in our kitchen. It is a serious catchall for mail, school notes, receipts, keys, sunglasses, and everything else that comes into the house.

  1028. Cheryl M

    Great Room and Kitchen. Everything gets dropped on a counter top or any available space and seems to stay there until I clean it up.

  1029. Soly

    my bedroom is the hardest to keep clutter free….everything goes there!

  1030. Kate

    The kitchen for sure…especially our desk area which becomes a hot-mess of paper daily!

  1031. Lanna

    My bedroom is the most difficult to keep clean.

  1032. Jessie Prince

    The Kitchen is the hardest to keep clutter free and clean. It is so difficult because that is where we hang out for the most part. It is the center of our home and its always cluttered!!

  1033. Amanda OSullivan

    The kitchen with out a doubt!

  1034. Jeannette

    The most difficult place to keep clutter away in my house is the computer desk. It tends to collect mail, receipts, loose change, and even dishes (ew!).

    This list is a great way to start organizing!

  1035. jennie

    My kitchen! Between mail, recycleables, dishes, and of course, toys that always make their way in. It’s a never ending process! And just a mess in general!

  1036. Melissa

    The living room. Need to help the kids make a habit of taking all of their things out every night.

  1037. Cassi Rose

    My room! I don’t usually have a messy room, but we don’t have a laundry room in our house, so all of the dirty laundry gets tossed in my room. GRR!

  1038. chandra young

    Hands down: the kitchen. I’m looking forward to trying this 5 habit thing. So far, nothing I’ve tried has kept the counters and table clear for more than a day.

  1039. stacy

    Kitchen, kitchen, kitchen!! I was so excited by the huge peninsula when we moved in, but its a clutter magnet. I can’t keep it clean for even 10 minutes. I could really use some help

  1040. Goldengirls59

    Definitely the kitchen family room combo because one flows into the other. I thought it would be easier to keep clean once the kids were older but my mistake! Now it’s like cleaning after 4 toddlers! Help! Thanks for the chance to dig out of the clutter!

  1041. Kitti Lightfoot

    My bedroom. Stacks of whatever are on both dressers and the closet floor is full of whatever spills over from there. Let’s not even talk about what is crammed under the bed!! That’s one room we close off to any visitors. So, if other areas in the house start to get cluttered, and we expect company, we put the clutter in the bedroom and it rarely comes out.

  1042. Julie

    The kitchen island is the area that seems to be the most impossible to keep clutter-free. It’s the spot where everyone drops their stuff when they walk in the door; despite my “systems” for proper item placement. It’s a never-ending battle that seems to be common among many who have commented here. Is it wrong for me to be a little relieved I’m not the only one?! :)

  1043. Angela Lower

    We just moved from a home that was over 3000 sf into a 1400 sf apartment… so I am swamped. I am trying to get rid of stuff an organize but it is almost impossible without letting go of ‘stuff’

    That said, right now my bathroom counter is the most cluttered spot in the house.

  1044. laurie

    I will call it my office. But actually it is just the desk that sits between the living room and the dining room. It is where all my clutter is placed until I can find a home for it. I think I need more baskets.

  1045. Lori

    The hardest room/area to keep clutter-free for me is the dining room especially the dining table. I have a small house and the dining room is a pretty central area of our home. I also work from home at the table and homeschool at the table. I’m always trying to clear an area for us to actually eat at the table. It’s always been a struggle.

  1046. Sarah

    Definitely the kitchen! everything seems to land on the kitchen counter and no matter how many times you clear it, it always find its way back! Kids! ;)

  1047. kara owen

    The office because one of the only reasons to go in there is to do file papers and organize, it’s hard to not procrastinate in the face of that.

  1048. Amy Betters-Midtvedt

    Not even sure where to begin! I would have to go with the playroom, because so many thing from other rooms end up in there. And the kids CANNOT seem to part with a single piece of paper or happy meal toy, much less an actual fun toy. I would LOVE to win this giveaway and find some solutions!!

  1049. Kristy

    The kitchen counters! Everybody walks in after work and school and dumps all their stuff on the counters. Drives me crazy and I feel like I’m always cleaning them off!

  1050. nicole w

    probably my office/art studio and then our master bedroom….always washing laundry, never getting it put away…then more piles up! oh, and then there’s the kitchen…. ok maybe my whole house! :)

  1051. Charity

    Our kitchen table is impossible to keep clean! Between piles of mail, snacks and school binders it literally functions as extra storage space.

  1052. karen

    We have gotten better with the hotspots over time. We have five kids, so we absolutely cannot let things go. I have to tackle things daily. The one room that I have improved on, but I still have a lot of work on is the laundry room. I no longer have piles of undone laundry, but I’m still not good at getting it put away quickly.

  1053. Ashley

    The most difficult area to keep clutter free is our bathroom! Clothes just seem to pile up so quickly!!

  1054. Lillian

    Our living room seems to attract items from other rooms like toys, mail, laundry and shoes.

  1055. aura B.

    Well… there are a few! But I would have to say the hotspot that frustrates me most is the garage. So much potential that is so underused!

  1056. Sarah Nutter

    The most difficult place to keep clean is my desk. It’s a little nook. And it begs for clutter…and clutter begs for it…and I allow them to be together. And I know it’s an unhealthy relationship, but I don’t stop it.

    Thanks for the fun giveaway. :)

  1057. Donna Bettencourt

    The bathrooms make me drag my feet, I just dread them for some reason,when I get in them I do grab some Clorox! I love Target & The Container Store!

    Donna

  1058. Kristen

    It’s a tie between my “office” (formal dining room that we never eat in) and my walk-in closet. Hmmm, there were a lot of “my’s” in that sentence…

  1059. Emily

    Oh…definitely the guest room. Thanks for hosting the giveaway!

  1060. steff

    definitely the family room! everything gets “dropped off” there.

  1061. Angela

    It’s a toss up between my kitchen and my laundry room. In both cases it’s because I’m bad at staying on top of things and dirty dishes and dirty clothes both pile up so fast! They are definately 2 of my hotspots! Can’t wait to try this 30 day plan!!

  1062. Des

    My clutter room is the breakfast nook. It’s our office space and it has a small table that has become a catch all. I wonder if we start to use that table and give it a purpose, if it will be easier to keep neat??

  1063. Krista

    I have to say my kitchen counters, and my dining room table. Both seem like magnets for dumping stuff. I work on keeping them clear, but they get cluttered so quickly!

  1064. Alysa Cozart

    The study is my most unorganized room. I am in desperate need Of a better desk and bookshelves. Things keep piling up.

  1065. Ruthy

    My entire home??? No but really the dining room table and ledge :-/

  1066. Teresa S

    With out a doubt, I have the hardest time in my kitchen! My laundry closet opens into my kitchen so I am always fighting with the laundry baskets!

  1067. Emily Sterling

    Not really a room – but our telephone table located between the kitchen and the front entry way. It is mid-way in our house and manages to attract bills, receipts, dish returns for friends/family, kids socks (yes socks) and other sundry clothing and hair items belonging to my children.

  1068. Christa Q

    The shoe rack, which turns into a pile of shoes!

  1069. Marilyn

    My office is the “room” that is the most difficult for me to keep clean and clutter-free.

  1070. cassie

    The mudroom – everything gets piled in there that doesn’t have a place anywhere else…ugh.

  1071. Sherena

    Definitely the k

  1072. Jennifer in VA

    Our bedroom, my nightstand and the sitting room area – that’s where my craft room is and our laundry sorting and the donation piles and old photos and things for future scrapbooks, etc, etc, etc.

  1073. Hollie

    The kitchen counters for certain! Our computer is on one counter, so papers pile up quickly.

  1074. Jaime

    Our den/office is the hardest to keep clutter-free! The worst part is that it doesn’t even have a door, so guests can always look into our catch-all mess of a room when they come over. Our filing “cabinet” is so small that when bills, statements, etc. come in the mail, we end up piling them on top of it or on the desk rather than fighting to squish them into their appropriate folders in the filing bin. My husband owns 4 guitars (acoustic, electric x2, bass) and an electric piano, so our tiny den is also a music room/storage for his instruments. I TRY to have a craft table in there for DIY projects, but it’s covered in craft supplies and my attempted coupon-organization. The rest of the apartment looks amazing… but the den is a clutter-fest for sure!

  1075. Sherena

    Definitely the kitchen!!

  1076. Dawn

    Definitely our office/den/craft room/music room…egads. I wish it would just clean itself.

  1077. Kim Venable

    My garage. We clean it, but a day later the stuff starts stacking up again. And I have to look at it every time we leave the house or return home.

  1078. Kim

    kitchen!!

  1079. Maureen C

    My bedroom! I seem to focus on it last when I’m cleaning up!

  1080. Deborah S

    The center of activity in my house is the dining room, more specifically the dining room table. I just cannot keep it clutter free (and I am also one of the most frequent offenders!)

  1081. Laura Stewart

    definitely the kitchen, the counter is always piled up!

  1082. Kim a

    Oh, hands down, it’s my kitchen. No matter how many times a day I clean it, it is always piled High with stuff!

  1083. Meredith W.

    My kitchen is a room I clean half a dozen times a day and still find it a wreck. My husband works from home. I’m a stay at home mom to two little boys, 3 and 1. This room gets used all the time. A lot of dishes and crumbs accumulate (I seriously sweep about three times a day)…not to mention the typical paper pile-up that often happens in a kitchen.

  1084. Jenny Brown

    My worst hotspot is the carport–where my husband leaves a constant mess! I am OCD at keeping the house in order, but I can’t do anything about his stuff ’cause he gets mad if I do. I’d love a solution to this!

  1085. Jessica

    My bedroom is always a train wreck! I always straighten up the high traffic rooms that company can see (kitchen, living room, etc) but leave my room for last. Then I’m sick of cleaning so I just stop. I swear, sometimes my bedroom reminds me of my college days! My husband doesn’t find it nearly as amusing as I do!

  1086. fawn strunk

    By far the kitchen is my biggest challenge. Their is 5 people in and out at all times and i have a storage issue. We live in a bi levela and I cannot figure out the placement for these rooms at all.. uggghh kitchen…

  1087. Linda V

    My worst hotspot is the kitchen counters. All of them. Thanks for the giveaway~

  1088. Kelly Stevenson

    Dining room. That’s the first place where the kids’ papers, homework, junk mail is dumped. In addition to my current craft project. drives my hubs crazy!!!

  1089. Iryna

    Can’t choose just one. I think the hardest ones are the kitchen and the master bedroom. Here are the reasons (my excuses!). Everyone congregates in the kitchen, even our dog. When we come home from work, we head to the kitchen, the mail accumulates on the kitchen table, and I have a thing for spices, so there are lots of little jars and tubes everywhere. The bedroom gets cluttered because after we get out of bed in the morning, we don’t go back in there. And by the time we are back in the bedroom, we are to tired to straighten up.

  1090. Amanda Frenkel

    We have beautiful kitchen counters… IF you could see them. Seems we have lots of time to drop things off, and little time to put them away. (Or I choose to go to bed instead of clearing the counters for the third time that day…)

  1091. Rachel A.

    Definitely the kitchen!

  1092. Amy

    I can not keep my kitchen bar clutter free to save my life!

  1093. Liza

    The kitchen and most specifically one end of my island that catches all our junk when we enter the house from the garage! If I could just tame that problem area my kitchen I think I would probably fall in love with my kitchen all over again!

  1094. mary

    The kitchen for sure,everything ends up on the table.

  1095. Sheri

    I have to say my kitchen counters, and my dining room table.

  1096. Cheryl

    Definitely my office. Lots of paper clutter, magazines, files (don’t even look at my filing cabinet!)

  1097. Leah Kinghorn

    The toy room drives me crazy! I would love to really make over that room.

  1098. jerikay

    definitely my office desk. it is a catch all space for mail, paperwork, etc…

  1099. Sarah M.

    MY KITCHEN!!! It seems to get cluttered soooo quickly. The bar/counter is a catchall for so many things (purse, toys, mail…etc).

  1100. Teresa

    The kitchen island is impossible to keep clutter free.

  1101. Sarah

    The worst spot in my house is the kitchen island!! I can’t keep it organized. It seems that everyone that comes through the door drops everything there.

  1102. Devon

    My bedroom; we live in military housing with almost no storage space. Everything that doesnt have a home winds up on my desk, spilling over to the dresser and then onto the floor. Not much fun to wake up to every morning.

  1103. lisa

    our kitchen, fo sho! can’t keep the mail and paperwork off the counter longer than a day. plus, my kids use it as a dumping ground for their toys, hair bands, water bottles, etc. drives me crazy.

  1104. Sue F.

    Our spare room … we don’t go in there often enough to remember that we keep piling stuff in there, and when we do, we just put it off because it’s such a big job. We could use some organization stuff in there to keep it clean!

  1105. Jan Quinn

    The kitchen…first room with a place to set stuff so that’s where stuff gets set! UGH!!!

  1106. Trisha

    Kitchen counter! It has a mind of its own.

  1107. Leanne

    Oh MAN!! my bedroom! there are receipts everywhere! the computer lives in there and the desk is a joke…but not a funny one. help!

  1108. Kelli H.

    Our kitchen is the hub of all of our activity. It is the first place all of the mail, newspapers, homework,phones,etc. land when everyone comes home.We rarely see the countertop on our island ; part of the problem may be that we just moved and still need to figure out a place for everything!

  1109. Betsy

    I would say the island in the kitchen. It is a catch all for everyone to dump their stuff.

  1110. JessicaCRB

    Kitchen! Between the counter, the table, the fact that its right inside the back door and that I have this nasty habit of leaving dishes in the sink it doesn’t have a change…I feel like my first few places to tackle are all in the kitchen!

  1111. Kerry

    Since my daughter went to college, I have been using her room as an office. Unfortunately, everything gets thrown in there until “I get around to it.”

  1112. Louise in NE OK

    Kitchen cabinet!!!! Oh my!

  1113. Pamela

    My kitchen – every time I turn around there is stuff on my countertops!

  1114. wendy

    my dining room specifically the dining table, its the catch all..everything gets set there, never room to actually eat at it.

  1115. ToVah

    Ours would have to be our bedroom. I would love our bedroom to not be the room where all the clutter is thrown, but it is so easy to shove it in there and close the door.

  1116. Phyllis Swiney

    Definitely my kitchen. The counter especially:( Spend so much time every Saturday clearing it each week.

  1117. Lynn B

    Hmmm…this is a toss up between my kitchen and my scrapbook room, both get used so much that they attract mounds of paper like magnets!

  1118. SueDee

    Kitchen counters.

  1119. Angelika Rauth

    Unfortunately, with my situation right now it’s my bedroom. It’s where all my stuff is (living with parents), I don’t have control over the rest of the house and how messy it is, so I only focus on my bedroom. About once a weekend I go through my room and do a major clean sweep! It always needs help, though!

  1120. Megan

    I would say all around the front door. Backpacks, shoes, jackets. You name it it’s probably laying right where it is the first thing you see when you walk in. From there it streams into my kitchen and living room. I’m so excited to finally tackle these clutter spots! Thanks for your awesome ideas and even encouragement!!

  1121. Leah Tyrrell

    My number one hot spot is my kitchen. I have a family of snackers and their dishes pile up all over the counters and in the sink starting immediately after I clean things up. I also have one small corner countertop where everyone puts their paperwork, receipts, wallets, keys, etc., even though I have designated other spots for these items. Our medicines are nearly organized in baskets in the cabinet over this section of countertop, but Aleve, aspirin, prescriptions, and so forth also wind up sitting on this countertop. I work daily to clean this area up, but it’s a struggle. At the least I lift everything up and wipe off the counter with Clorox wipes. I have given up on retraining my family.

  1122. Kristen

    The dining room table! It’s close to the door leading to the garage and the front door. My family eats there, my daughter constantly snacks there. My purse, the newspaper, our mail and the occasional baby doll all end up right there on the table!
    Oh, and where do I work on new crafty projects? yes… right at my clutter hot-spot!!

  1123. Shantel Schow

    Kitchen counters, and kitchen floors.

  1124. April Martin

    My bedroom bathroom is the worst. It seems like I spend so much time getting everyone else ready in the morning that I just breeze thru my bathroom like a tornado to pull myself together. Then after a 16 hour shift I am too tired to cleanup when I get home :(

  1125. Heather Hughes

    Kitchen Counters. I cleaned them TODAY and they’re already cluttered up again :(

  1126. valerie

    Kitchen!! Aside from the normal kitchen clutter/mess, the counter collects EVERYTHING!

  1127. Jeri Duncan

    If the garage counted, I would say that is the most difficult to keep clean and clutter free, it seems to be a landing zone, but inside is my home office usually. I am very organized, but I seem to just always have a lot going on and things everywhere. Its a work in progress!

  1128. Mareen

    Oh my desk!!

  1129. Marie Alkire

    My craft room is the hardest for me to keep clean. Then there is the office, my husband has stuff everywhere and speaking of stuff everywhere there is the bonus room which he likes to think of as the “sports room”. Actually he has boxes of stuff everywhere, this man is a pack rat. So do I need to keep up on the hot spots, well in a word YES!!!

  1130. Rachel F.

    My clutter place is in my kitchen as well. Things just seem to pile up and I hate piles.

  1131. Susan

    Keeping my kitchen counter cleared off is a constant challenge.

  1132. Marie Alley

    The kitchen counter! We have a huge open living area and that’s the closest surface (besides the floor).

  1133. Elaine

    The bedroom…a contributing factor is that darn bedroom door, which makes it so easy to stick stuff in there and out of the way. Every time I do it, I chastise myself. But, there I keep doing it again.

  1134. Amparo Hubbard

    My kitchen counters and dining table are the worst.

  1135. April

    The guest room. I’m terrible about dumping stuff in there and not getting back to it for weeks.

  1136. Kirby lehman

    My daughters play room drives me crazy! Its so hard for me to find the storage for all of her stuff while still looking good enough to have in plain sight!

  1137. Faith

    Hmmm.. I have so many, kitchen table, entry way, desk, bathroom counter. I think it would have to be the desk.

  1138. Judy H

    Our master bedroom. Our guest room where we were storing extra items has recently been turned into a bedroom for 2 little girls we are fostering. All of the extra items from that bedroom are now being “stored” in our master bedroom. It’s driving me a bit crazy with seeing all the clutter.

  1139. Paula

    My craft room/office….I am constantly cleaning and organizing, but it always seems to be a disaster!

  1140. Not Just A Mommy!

    The hardest room is our garage, no matter how I try to keep it organized, it becomes a “I’ll get to it later” for storage, kids’ toys and outside gear is thrown in without getting put back correctly.

  1141. Susan

    The desk area in my kitchen is so hard to keep clean and organized. Everything is dropped there!

  1142. Kari - the Sweetest Memory

    My kitchen counter. I can never keep all the school work, mail, coupons, and everything else off of them! I need a new system!

  1143. barb in va

    kitchen table, cause we home school and all our books/projects end up there!

  1144. Jennifer

    The kitchen. Everything happens there!

  1145. Annie

    No matter what I seem to do, the refrigerator always seems to end up a mess. With different people shifting things around constantly, there is such a lack of order in there!

  1146. Kristy B.

    My master bedroom for sure! When I tidy up the other “clutter spots” in a hurry, or when company’s coming, it’s just too easy to toss it all in there and close the door! :)

  1147. Marce

    Kitchen, a lot going on it that room. Main hub of the house, which means dumping ground too.

  1148. Glenda Childers

    My kitchen, especially the counters is the hardest spot to keep clean. And my husband gets grouchy if it isn’t clean when he wakes up in the morning. :-)

    Fondly,
    Glenda

  1149. Yvonne

    The bedroom. With the door closed, nobody else sees it. Oh, the shame!

  1150. Tracey S

    It is my home office. Everything gets dumped in there…the mail, my purse, receipts, bills, magazines, it doesn’t take but a few days and it is out of control.

  1151. Anusha

    Kitchen!!!! In a rented apartment with the kitchen so small and there is so much that needs to go into those cabinets, some of the stuff just ends up being on the counter because of the lack of space. Wish I could declutter and organize the kitchen in a better way.

  1152. Cheri M.

    Where do I start? I have so many “hot spots”! The worst one is my office area. My computer is there. Most of the papers I deal with will some day be in there. My book shelves and books are there. And it is a place where I put things that don’t have a permanent home yet. Ugh. I really need a lot of help!

  1153. Courtney

    My desk is always covered with papers and books, as well as my nightstand. I put everything on my nightstand and it’s so small so just a few things make it look cluttered.

  1154. Brandi

    Our bedroom! My husband runs our business from there, all our homeschool materials are in there plus craft supplies and all the laundry passes through there.

  1155. Shaunta' May

    My mud room for sure! It houses the laundry and all laundry supplies, a craft closet…which should be called the craft room since all the stuff is spilling out onto the floor. It also holds all my linens and most importantly, the one bathroom we have is through the mud room. WOW! All the possibilities! :)

  1156. SheriB

    The kitchen, definitely! Especially the “planning desk.” Does anyone ever do any “planning” on this thing?

  1157. Darla H.

    One counter in our kitchen is a disaster zone! All our clutter ends up there and it is so overwhelming! Adult stuff, kid stuff, dog stuff–it’s all there and everyone who visits gets to a big eyeful! It stresses me just describing it!

  1158. Heather S.

    My kitchen table. We live around the kitchen table. It’s the central spot of my living area and I work there too. It collects the mail for me, homework papers, books, random works of art in progress oh, and various dishes from any given meal of the day. Either I need help getting organized or a fairy godmother to clean up after us! Ok, a little bit of both would be excellent! =)

  1159. Laurie Stanley

    Kitchen! We have a very large family and something’s always cooking.

  1160. Casey C

    My kitchen counters and planning desk in kitchen are the worst! Kids papers, homework, mail, etc, etc, etc!!

  1161. Camille

    The kitchen, especially counters!

  1162. Julie

    Our bedroom is the hardest to keep clean. Every time we clean the whole house, our bedroom receives all of the stuff from the other rooms that we don’t know what to do with… which is very counter-productive for the bedroom.

  1163. Kat

    Kitchen counter. I blame my hubby! He tosses things there and forgets about them.

  1164. Luz

    The family room is hard to keep clutter free. So much time spent here, and add a toddler in the mix and there are toys everywhere!

  1165. Carma C.

    The kitchen island counter! All the mail is dropped here!

  1166. Margaret

    The bedroom. It’s the catch all!

  1167. Melody J

    Oh my goodness. Probably the kitchen…but I have other hotspots too!

  1168. Carol Dyer

    The kitchen is my toughest spot to keep clutter free. I call the counter my crap magnet because it attracts crap all the time!

  1169. Tammy M.

    My kitchen counter, boy it attracts clutter !!!! It’s also an eating area so everytime we have dinner there it is a nightmare to clean, cook and serve dinner :(

  1170. Kristine

    Clutter is my worst enemy! It hides out just about everywhere–My computer hutch, my mud room, bedroom corners, I even have a room that is simply the clutter room where I am allowed to have it, but it has a way of multiplying through the house!

  1171. Mary

    DESK has a life of it’s own

  1172. Amy D

    My computer area for sure. That is where all the books, papers and to do items pile up.

  1173. Cindi

    Our dining room! Whenever a family member has something that
    doesn’t go anywhere else, the dining room table is where that
    object/objects ends up…Then, when the table is full, the stuff
    starts to go around the perimeter of the dining room!
    Many thanks, Cindi

  1174. Liz

    It would have to be my kitchen counter first, and following my husband’s clutter second. Sorry, honey, but we don’t need to keep every envelope.

  1175. megan

    My guest room is my latest catch all, cluter all the time room! Also, my dining room table is always stacked high with the mail, purses, shopping bags…..anything and everything that I toss on it!

  1176. Patty

    Definitely my kitchen. If I didn’t use it, it might stay clean. But …

  1177. Catherine S.

    My living room-it’s the first room I walk into when I get home and that’s inevitably where I place mail, shopping bags, etc.

  1178. Jackie Scott

    My bedroom! I always scoop up the clutter from all of the other rooms and bring it to my room to “deal with it.” Ha! : )

  1179. Lisa Schrock

    Our home office for sure! All the papers and other things that don’t seem to have a home of their own always land on the desk. Then since it has no real home it just stays there until I finally figure out a place for it or until I get tired of looking at it and just throw it away. I would love to get organizing tools from Target and The Container Store to get my home office under control!! Thank you, Lisa

  1180. Lola Fields

    I would have to say my kitchen table. That is where everything goes when come in the house and I can’t seem to stop this form happening!

  1181. Amee Dowkes

    My kitchen hands down! More specifically the kitchen counter! It seems to be our paper clutter hotspot! Unfortunately, once that fills up the next stop is the kitchen table! Can’t wait to get started decluttering, thanks for the inspiration!

  1182. Summer

    Oh boy…kitchen. It’s a constant battle that lately my fiance is fighting mostly alone. I kinda gave up. But, I came here to learn some tips to fight back! Cheesy, but true. Thanx!

  1183. Angela

    The kitchen, for sure!

  1184. silva

    Does the pantry count as a room? My pantry is the size of a coat closet and is always a disaster!! If pantry doesn’t count – my dining room. We moved to a smaller house and the dining room has become eating room, office, homework spot and playroom. Yikes!! Way to much stuff and it is EVERYWHERE!

  1185. Mott Smith

    It would be our guest room/office/catch-all room. Everything I want to remove from various parts of the house end up in here. I am so in need of some organizing containers and help in this room. It is so embarrassing for someone to go into that room to me!

  1186. Linda H.

    Hands down, it’s my kitchen! Would love to win!

    Thank you.

    Linda H.

  1187. Jan P.

    Although just about any horizontal surface in our home can become a clutter magnet in the blink of an eye, the room that is the greatest challenge to keep clean and clutter free is the kitchen. In addition to the kitchen table and the counters that line one side of the room, we have a ten foot island running through the middle of the kitchen. A lot of horizontal space to set all manner of clutter.

  1188. Katrina M.

    The worst places for me are the kitchen (because I spend so much time in there, and everyone comes and dumps their stuff), and our bedroom (for the exact opposite reason – I feel like I am hardly ever in there, so it is not on my mind as much.)

  1189. Irene

    The hardest room to keep clutter free and clean is our kitchen. It is where everything lands when we come in the door at night

  1190. Kathy

    The office! There’s paper everywhere and can’t seem to find it’s own space for it.

  1191. April was in CT now CA

    Definitely the kitchen! It’s a constant job to keep it clutter free and clean, but I enjoy being there so that helps!

  1192. Kirsten

    My kitchen counters! One side is full of dishes, the other (the island) is cluttered with kids papers. Thank you for this post!

  1193. Tiffany

    Oh to choose only one major clutter catching offender! Our laundry room is always a disaster zone! It is located right next to our back door and kitchen. Everything that the kids drag in from school and karate always overflows into the laundry room, more like a laundry hallway! In addition, in an effort to keep the kitchen free of clutter everything that doesn’t have a happy organized home ends up in the laundry room along with clean laundry, dirty laundry, items that belong in the garage such as tools and paint, items that belong in the car, sports equipment, and so on. I love organizing spaces, but this room really challenges me! Thanks, Tiffany

  1194. Becky

    My kids rooms. We clean them then a few minutes later they are playing and and it is a mess. At least they are having fun making memories!

  1195. Nadia

    My kitchen counter! :(

  1196. Laura

    The kitchen entry area is the worst! We don’t have a mudroom so this is the spot where everyone comes in and dumps their stuff. I have a few things to help contain the stuff, but it still seems to gather things to go out or things coming in and it almost never looks nice. Almost always cluttered. I’d love to have a real storage system that would work!

  1197. Z

    My living room hands down. Having an open space means having clutter visible from 3 other rooms!

  1198. meg

    The kitchen for sure! From the “clutter counter” with all the paperwork, mail, etc to the kitchen table where the kids come home and dump their stuff and hang out snacking, doing homework, and playing. Oh yeah, and the dishes….

  1199. Becca

    Surprisingly, it’s my walk in closet. The rest of the home I stay on top of things, But when it comes to that closet, I just dump it there.
    Thanks for the chance to win!
    xo Becca

  1200. Raven

    Our family room seems to attract the most clutter. We live in a split level home, with the family room down at the bottom, a sink hole for energy and the collective junk. Laundry piles spill over from the laundry room adjacent to it, our craft supplies never seem to have enough storage spots, and my work desk always seems to be overflowing with supplies, paperwork, and software boxes other family members throw onto it because they haven’t a clue where to put it.

    It’s been an on-going struggle the last six years to make it a working space, and just when I think I’ve finally conquered it, someone leaves laundry bins in front of the craft shelves, causing the crafts to pile up on the side table, preventing us from finding the things we need in the stationary drawers, and sewing bins pile up beneath that.

    I’m willing to utilize better storage bins, colorful labels, and make the room cheerier, if it will prompt more care in putting things away. I know we’ll figure it out eventually, but right now it’s really frustrating.

  1201. Janelle

    Our master bedroom. It should be our restful retreat but instead it’s the catch all for everything I need to get around to doing. It’s also the least decorated space in our home, due to all the clutter. I’m just never proud of that space… Hoping to change my habits and create a really great and comfortable and cute room for my husband and I!!

  1202. niki

    my bedroom… it’s too easy to shut the door so no one can see!

  1203. Janel

    Kitchen counters for sure!

  1204. Lesley

    Got to be the back door area, first surface I meet is the kitchen table … Help !

  1205. Elaine

    I have two heavy hot spots, my kitchen and dinning room. Since I homeschool, things pile up quickly in the dinning room as there is no where else to go! Of course what kitchen isn’t a hot spot? I’ve got just about every kitchen gadget on my counter and most of the time I’m not using them, I could certainly clean it up better than it is now.

  1206. Karen

    Absolutely the kitchen, especially the kitchen table seems to be a catch all.

  1207. kerri

    my bedroom! it’s small and cramped with too much furniture as it is, and still not enough room for everything! aghhh!

  1208. Lori Merlo

    We have 2….one boiling spot….one luke warm spot. My hubby’s home office was at the boiling point, but each day he does a “little” bit of tossing. Slow and steady. Our finished basement, which once upon time had toddlers playing, now has all the “stuff” those children have brought back home~~that can’t fit into there after college apartments!! I feel a garage sale coming on this spring.

  1209. Tiffany Bush

    My car is a nightmare of a hotspot. I like to blame the kids, but I can be guilty, too. Clothes, snacks, and who knows what else end up in there since we seem to live in the car.

  1210. Tracey

    The kitchen. Oh kitchen counters how I love thee and how I flood thee with endless papers, food, small appliances and the like. Hot spots in the kitchen are stealing my cooking joy!

  1211. Linda st. Laurent

    Our study is a catch all nightmare. Thanks for the inspiration.

  1212. Melody Gipperich

    for sure it is my kitchen counters!!! I can’t seem to control the clutter of daily mail and newspapers. I use my island to pay bills and have a constant pile going. I love Clorox wipes and the Container Store!!!!

  1213. Lillian

    The family room and kitchen are all one vista. But I can’t seem to get one clean and tidy without the other getting messed up! The amount of paper and “stuff” coming into the house seems to end up here.

  1214. Brenda

    I would say my entry to my home is the most cluttered area. With three kids and one on the way very soon, I have shoes, coats, gloves, hats, school bags strewn everywhere. The design of the entry is very poor with a set of stairs leading immediately to our second floor landing, so not a lot of space either. I need to find a way to organize it better!

  1215. Maria Inks

    I would say my bedroom is the hardest to keep organized and uncluttered. We don’t have an office, so our room doubles as a place to keep paperwork, bills, school papers, and everything else important that a family collects over time. It’s gotten so bad that I’ve resorted to using giant gift bags to hold things until I can figure something out. It’s awful!

  1216. Shannon

    Our dinning room is in between the living room and the kitchen in our little ranch…everything gets placed on the dinning room table and then when it’s time to eat, we move it all over to the buffet!

  1217. Beth

    Yes, you hit the nail on the head. Kitchen counters and kitchen table are my hotspots. They are in the exact middle of the house, and right in the pathway of everyone! I also have a “folding table/counter” in my laundry room which I cannot use for folding! LOL It is full of STUFF :-) I’m now vowing to clean that off once/week, and the kitchen daily. Only a couple of minutes!! Great post today, I needed that.

  1218. Diane

    The most cluttered room in my house has to be my older daughter’s bedroom! She has places, drawers and extra room to put all of her “stuff” in, but it never seems to make it in those places!!

  1219. Brenda Rachels

    The Kitchen, why does everybody want to lay everything on the table?

  1220. joanne

    the kitchen is the bane of my existence!!!
    too much paper, too many piles, too little counter space….AAAAAHHH!
    need.help.now.

  1221. Corinne R

    Our garage is in desperate need of organization – we panic whenever the garage door is left open for any length of time for fear of what people might think! Fortunately, we live in a rural area, but just the same – it would be a dream come true to finally be able to park at least one car in our two car garage! thanks for hosting the contest!!

  1222. Julie

    My kitchen! The counters are a catch-all for paperwork, toys, food, and even my husband’s tools!

  1223. Diann

    The family room. It is a dumping ground when you walk in the house, a piano practice room, tv viewing room, and computer room all in one. We have big plans for a whole wall makeover that will include bookshelves, a flat screen tv, and computer table but that is months away.

  1224. Kelly Hardin

    The entryway into my house is most frustrating! This is where all of the papers end up in piles, keys get lost under the clutter! It is now getting more frustrating because my 18month old triplets can grab “stuff” from the table now!

  1225. Nancy mangham

    by Far my kitchen island. one time that bigger is not better!

  1226. Debra

    How about my whole house!! HA. I just have so many places in my small house that seem to get cluttered. Would love a gift certificate to help out.

  1227. Becky

    Oh, where to start? I guess I’d have to say the “office”, which is really a play, school, office, piano practice, craft, laundry folding, and guest room! Phew! No wonder I have such a hard time keeping it organized! I would LOVE to make it a functional office and learning room for the family, complete with beautiful and practical storage containers and systems. I tend to keep things more organized when the room itself is decorated nicely and I have pretty storage. Someday… maybe soon! Fingers crossed! :-)

  1228. Mary Frederick

    My front hallway. Everyone comes in and dumps their stuff, hats, coats, and whatever else they may have. You can never tell if we are moving in or out. The front hallway looks terrible all of the time. We have a coat tree and sometimes my family uses it.The front hall needs help!

  1229. traceyj

    I have a good friend who REALLY needs this info!

  1230. Maribeth

    Our kitchen – The table is always covered with school papers and mail that needs to be looked at, and there’s very little counter space, so a couple of things laying out where they shouldn’t be makes the whole room feel cluttered!

  1231. Jodi Kurtz

    My kitchen. The most used entrance to the house is in the kitchen so everything gets dumped onto the kitchen table and the floor around it. With 3 school age boys, it can get out of control fast! This area is also where they do their homework so not only do we have the coats, backpacks, and shoes scattered about but also the gazillion papers they seem to bring home every day. I would love to set up a small workstation for them somewhere close by so we could set the table for dinner without having to do a mass clearing to find it. :)

  1232. Melissa

    Our Dining room is the hardest to keep organized. Not only do we eat there it doubles as our school room and craft area. So there are always piles of paper, craft supplies or books.

  1233. MichelleH

    For us, it’s the family room…which also is the gaming room, toy room, homework spot, kid hang out disaster area. Three kids = lots of stuff.

  1234. Robyn Crussel

    My Kitchen counters. Mail, paperwork, kids toys, husbands keys/wallet, dishes clean and dirty. I don’t know how to keep it clear.

  1235. Brenda

    My Dining Room is the major trouble zone (we won’t even get started on my craft room — since it’s in the furthermost corner of the house and you don’t walk through there by accident). The Dining Room is the first room you see when you enter our home. The table is always piled high with last holiday’s decos, next holiday’s decos, various projects in various stages of completion, and things that no one feels like putting away. I would LOVE to win this contest (they are 2 of my favorite stores). So thank you for the opportunity!

  1236. barbara miller

    My kitchen is the hardest to keep clean- probably because it is the most used room. It is our point of entry from the garage/laundry room (we never use the front door, haha) so book bags, shoes, lunch bags, get dropped, homework is done on the kitchen table, crafts are done there, too, since I’m the one who cooks and need to supervise.

  1237. Deci Worland

    The most difficult room to keep clean in our house is the craft/workshop area. It needs some serious organization.

  1238. jennybc

    without a doubt, the kitchen desk! it makes me crazy. it is the drop site as awe come in the back door. clutter makes me nuts!

  1239. Maria

    Thank you so much for these wonderful hints! I found your site a few years ago on blogger and have been “reintroduced” via Pinterest!
    I have already started to “reprogram” myself in order to keep my new counter top clean! I like the idea of making this more permanent by repeating the behavior 30x’s. This is most likely true for so many things in life!
    Thank you again for the tips and for the giveaway!
    God bless you always,
    Maria

  1240. Amy

    Right now it’s a toss up between the kitchen and the living room. Everyone congregates in the living room and since we’re redoing the kitchen right now there are tons of tools and materials in there.

  1241. rachel jernas

    Our kitchen/office area is so hard to keep organized. I suppose some of it is that I am lazy! ;)

  1242. Mary

    The kitchen counters and sideboard and the floor by the front door are all apparent dumping grounds in my house. I’ve been working pretty hard to get organized so it’s getting better but stuff gravitates to those places!

  1243. Janine LR

    My most cluttered spot is definitely the kitchen counter. I have a small kitchen and the counter sometimes gets so cluttered with receipts, recipes, tools, loose change, ribbons, paper clips that I can barely cook a meal in there. I need help!

  1244. Judy

    Definitely our kitchen. Big bar sticking out right when you enter the front door, back door, or basements steps. It collects EVERYTHING!

    Judy :)

  1245. Chris Conover

    It is the basement. I really believe that the ghost of Christmas past lives down there !!

  1246. Kim

    My kitchen cabinets and office area tend to be the most cluttered areas of my home.

  1247. Robin

    My office! I’m an editor, so I have tons of papers, files, books, and magazines stacked everywhere. They become “furniture” after a while — such a bad habit!

  1248. Debbie Brown

    my kitchen is my challenge everyday! Keeping dishes and the kitchen snack bar clean is so much work! It catches everyone’s stuff!!

  1249. Melissa Hartwell

    Our front room/family room/ We don’t really have a front entrance space to really remove shoes and coats. We have a tiny house and you really just step into our front room from the outside. I have tried for years to organize it and keep it decluttered but it continues to be a challenge. Great contest :)

  1250. Sally Gee

    Mine is in the area of the front door. It is always cluttered with shoes, and things that need to go out the door.

  1251. paige

    My kitchen seems to be the piling place for everyone. Even if I have all the counters cleaned off, the kids come home, dump their backpacks and homework, then I start dinner and there’s all that mess, etc.

  1252. Kathy Frank

    Our music/computer room is the worst right now. We don’t have a dining table or chairs and this is the room where we camp out. My husband has just built a guitar and so there are materials and tools and scraps everywhere besides our paperwork, music and computer equipment. And on top of that, we eat there. We need HELP!

  1253. Renee

    The kitchen is the hardest room to keep clean! One corner of the counter always has a big pile of papers and the kids love to leave their drinking glasses in another corner.

  1254. kellie

    the kitchen. it’s where we pile everything when we come home from the day. the piles add up until sunday when I finally get around to organizing it.

  1255. Sarah Marie

    Definitely my kitchen counters. Our kitchen is also our entryway(!), and I might have a small problem keeping up with the dishes, with 2 boys under 2! :)

  1256. Destiny

    My living room is our clutter hotspot! Stuff piles up on the ottoman and the chair is the resting place for my purse & bags.

  1257. Denise McCarther

    My kitchen! Only because it is the main point of entry got us and we have coats, hats, mittens, backpacks, boots, shoes, dog leash, snow salt….it is never ending!

  1258. Laura

    My worst clutter spot is my kitchen counter. It seems to be a magnet for stuff. It never stays clean longer than a few days. I am working hard to keep it clear, but it is hard. You can see it from the main area of my house, so it makes me feel like the whole house is messy when it is filled up with stuff!

  1259. haley

    My kitchen. It’s the first place we go to/gather when we walk in the door, so is a dumping ground for mail, bills, bits and scraps of paper and lists we don’t want to throw away, etc.

  1260. Lisa

    Sadly, my kitchen and dining room are both hard for me. We live in a townhouse, so there isn’t a lot of entry space. So, our kitchen counters and dining room table become the dumping ground for everything. I’m working on fixing that some – finding the cause and making a space for things that works better for me.

  1261. Tina

    Our kitchen for sure. Our table and counters are covered with mail that needs to be sorted, our coats, my purses, groceries, the list goes on!

  1262. pkzcass

    I think it’s my dining room. I put everything on the table because we eat at the kitchen table, and the DR only gets cleaned when we’re having company.

  1263. Alissa

    My kitchen is the hardest to keep clutter free. From mail on the counters to dishes in the sink!

  1264. Cici

    My kitchen is by far the hardest room to keep clean! It is very small and has limited counter space. Things often end up stacked in chair #6 (we only use 5). It is so super frustrating! Thanks for some great tips and a great giveaway!

  1265. Rebecca Rogers

    I think the most cluttered room in my house….probably the kitchen. We don’t have a ton of counter space and they ALWAYS has stuffed piled on them!

  1266. Sandy

    What a wonderful plan! I just identified my hotspots and now it’s time to get to work. :)

  1267. Gail P Smith

    My office–ugh! And I’m pretty good about putting all the clutter from elsewhere into baskets, but now it’s time to put away all the stuff in the baskets–double ugh!

  1268. Amy Mason

    Well that is a hard question as I feel like my whole house is a clutter mess! I have yet to conquer but your suggestions sure are a great place to start! It is a toss-up between my kitchen and our bedroom where I often hide things when company comes over.

  1269. fabulous finds studio

    My bedroom is the hardest room to keep organized because my closet is so small! I need to organizers and perhaps a clothes rack in the room for my best clothes (a la Rachel Ashwell :)
    Have a fabulous day!
    Julie

  1270. Kris

    Definitely my problem is the kitchen. I feel so serene on the days when I wake up to a clean kitchen, but somehow I rarely find the energy to tidy it up the night before. This might be a great strategy for me!

  1271. glenda

    I have to say it is my dining room. As you come up the stairs from the front door, every thing is dropped. This includes all of the mail and kids stuff on the end of the dining room table. My blood preasure always rises as soon as I see the mess! Going to try to get a new habit of keeping it clear.

  1272. Shary

    My kitchen counters are the hardest to keep clean. Everything comes in there.

  1273. Amy Hoffman

    My Kitchen table is always collecting clutter. Homework, mail, meals, craft projects!!!! It’s too much for one little table. :)

  1274. Holly F.

    By far, the kids’ rooms. Especially since they are now old enough to do it themselves. They don’t want ME getting into their stuff and cleaning in their rooms, but they don’t want to do it themselves either.

  1275. Dana

    Our bedroom is the most cluttered space in the house. We’re going to be changing this up there soon – so the Container Store and Target gift cards would be perfect.

    We need bookshelves. We need to make a place for out of season clothes. We need a place for clean linens – hopefully not in the bedroom. And, it would be great to have bedside lamps that had either smaller footprints or even scones to completely free up the table space.

    Fingers-crossed.

  1276. Lori

    The most difficult room for me to keep clean is our study (office) ! My husband LOVES Post-it notes and they are always ALL OVER THE DESK!! Plus it collects the junk mail and things we print out but never file away!

  1277. Jeannine

    Oh most definitely my kitchen! It’s an open floor plan so when we lay everything down in there you see it from EVERYWHERE in the house!! So I guess that makes all my main rooms cluttered… :(

  1278. Antinette

    Actually, it’s the dining room, everyone dumps backpacks, bills, homework, keys, shopping bags on the table and I’m constantly having to clean it off for meals, etc. It’s funny, because one of my daughter’s chores is to clear the table and “use the wipes” aka Clorox wipes to clean the table….

  1279. Lori L.

    My dining room table is the hardest to keep clean. My son and husband put everything there.

  1280. Diana

    Our worst collection spot is our kitchen island! I make the kids clean it up daily but usually that involves them moving everything to all four corners of the island or scooping it into the drawers. It drives me crazy!

  1281. Fiona's Mosaic

    I would say my kitchen. I have ONE spot in there that seems to breed papers. I have actually committed to every day right after dinner, I take care of everything in that spot. It has been working well, and it inspires me to tidy up that rest of the kitchen then. I’m not always the one cooking, and I clean as I go, but since others don’t…..it often needs help right after dinner.

    I also have been doing your suggestion of emptying the DW right when I get up and that has helped SOOOOOO much.

    Good article Melissa!!!

    Hugs!

  1282. Stephanie

    Master bedroom! I clean all other areas for company but I just shut our door! Office is close second!

  1283. Ellen

    The most difficult to keep uncluttered is the kitchen which opens directly from the garage…of course, all mail, groceries, bags etc. end up right there by the door!!!!! I intend to use this plan to overcome that 30 year old problem!!!!!

  1284. Cindy

    Definitely the kitchen counters.

  1285. sheila

    our dining room table, its a dumping ground for my husband. I have to clear a space before every meal. Ugh

  1286. MaryBeth

    The entire kitchen. Sink,counters and floor.

  1287. VickyL

    By Far my kitchen….and the kitchen island is just a daily dumping station..hate it! I would love to win this awesome & PRACTICAL giveaway. Thanks!

  1288. Daneilia

    The most difficult room to keep clean and clutter free is my daughter’s room. She’s a toddler so I try to keep that in mind when I’m complaining about all those toys ;)

  1289. Candice Lee

    The hardest room in my house to keep organized is definitely my family room. It’s an odd shape and functions as an office, craft area, play room, reading nook and movie center. I have the hardest time keeping it under control.

  1290. Nancy

    The kitchen. Oh, my.

  1291. Stacey

    The most difficult room/space to keep clean and clutter free is my office. My desk is a catch-all! It drives me CRAZY!

  1292. Dawn

    The kitchen is our spot. The counter and baker’s rack. Thanks for the giveaway :)

  1293. Ashley H.

    My living room is the most difficult room to keep clean.

  1294. Kerry Leuty

    My kitchen. I use part of it for my sewing/embroidery business. Along with all of my supplies, the daily “stuff” ends up in little piles on my counters. I love to organize, but haven’t found a good solution yet.

  1295. Nicole W

    Any horziontal space in our house QUICKLY becomes a Hot Spot. The worse Hot Spot though has to be our dining room & the dining room table.

  1296. Cara H

    Definitely the dining room. It seems to be the dumping ground for everything when we come in.

  1297. Amanda Barnett

    my most difficult room to keep clutter free is the laundry room. but my most horrid spot is the CAR!!!!

  1298. Lucy

    Kitchen counters and table!

  1299. Anne Bethea

    I like this. It is doable and makes me feel so much better about my little home. I have already picked my sites. Onward…!

  1300. Sarah M.

    Definitely my kitchen. We live in the kitchen/dining room so it’s a constant struggle to keep neat.

  1301. Meredith

    Our dining room table houses most of our clutter.

  1302. Stefani

    What great suggestions! Mine is the the kitchen island & laundry room counter.

  1303. annette

    The most difficult room to keep clutter free is the Dining Room which doubles as my art/DIY studio. And truthfully- I am the worst. But I can change…. one habit at a time. THANKS for the Post! I needed a wake up call..

  1304. Carrie

    Our laundry room/mudroom is the hardest to keep clean and organized. It is a small space trying to do a BIG job. It’s hard to keep on top of the laundry chore when I’m tripping over shoes and winter hats, and the top of the washing machine is home to random school papers and the multiple tiny treasures of curious 5- and 9-year-olds.

  1305. Tracey

    Definitely my kitchen..it’s very small, our primary entry, our only dining space and the white tiles are always dirty! Our laundry closet is also in the kitchen which sometimes adds to the chaos! Seems like the dumping ground for everything. :-]

  1306. Sally

    My kitchen is the hardest to keep clean and clutter free. Between family members who seem to have an aversion to putting dirty dishes in the dishwasher to everyone using the kitchen cabinets for a catchall for everything from mail to backpacks, it’s always a mess!!! Thanks for the opportunity to win this great giveaway!!!

  1307. Raye Marie

    My bathroom! Thanks for the fun.

  1308. Megan W

    The kitchen island! We have some storage solutions in place, but the island is still the dumping ground for mail, coats, dirty dishes and random knick-knacks.

  1309. Jill

    Our office is definitely the most cluttered space in our house! The garage door is in our office, so everyone comes and goes through the office, dropping mail, coats, keys, shoes, and other random things!

  1310. Jennifer S.

    My dining room is the hardest one to keep clean and clutter free. We eat, homeschool, pay bills, and enjoy board games and puzzles in this room. I am excited about this challenge because the dining table is top clutter hotspot.

  1311. Carla V.

    my child’s bedroom is the worst. everytime i declutter it my child manages to find something else to put in the same areas i declutter.

  1312. Sonya B

    My kitchen is the hardest to keep counters from clutter. Actually it is the bar, my entire family (me included) seem to dump all of our daily stuff on the bar. I have tried several different types of containers to keep our stuff and it just overflows. I need all the help I can get changing this habit.

  1313. Mandy Smith

    I would say the hardest room to keep clean is the bonus room! It is our catch all room and there is always toys, mom’s projects, etc. in there. I would like to have better organization in there to help with it. More bookshelves or storage organization! ;)

  1314. Shannon

    I would say it would be my bedroom. I have small closets and so my chair tends to be my catch-all. I try and clean it daily but it seems to creep back in overnight.

  1315. Rebekah

    My dining room is our catchall!!!

  1316. Laura

    By Far it’s our kitchen! Such a mess all the time!

  1317. Mary

    “The Basket” on my kitchen counter where I collect random broken toys, notes from my kids, mismatched Barbie shoes and other chokeables AND our back porch. YIKES!

  1318. Melissa

    The kitchen!!! I feel like I clean it a hundred times a day but there is always stuff out!

  1319. Katie

    Definitely the kitchen! It’s our “landing zone” when we come in the house and the counters get cluttered with DIY stuff, toys, gloves, mail, etc. etc. It drives me nuts!

  1320. Kim Heuer

    the kitchen! I try to go to bed with the counters completely cleared, but that’s about the only time of day they are clutter free!

  1321. Lisa

    My office is my hotspot. I am terrible at keeping up with mail/filing.

  1322. Ruth

    My bedroom is the worst offender because we don’t spend a ton of time there do its not on the list to daily declutter! Yet it affects how we feel each morning and evening

  1323. Karen

    Our multi-purpose room is a terrible hotspot. That room has to function as my exercise area, my sewing/craft area, our spare bedroom, and my husband’s dressing area (because that’s where his closet is). Anyway, that’s where everything goes when I want the other parts of our house clean and clutter-free. It gets to the point, though, when I want that room to be nice again, too…that’s where I’m at right now. Thank you for the giveaway.

  1324. Tara M.

    The bathroom! We have very little storage in there, so products just get piled up wherever there is some free space.

  1325. Patty Walters

    My nightstand is clutter central for me. I keep piling things there that I intend to get to when I have time. I normally have drinks and snacks piled up there and all the together makes for some messy and sticky accidents to clean up.

  1326. DD

    I’d have to say it’s a tie the sunroom and the kitchen. We all use both of those rooms so much. The kids, dog and I love the sun filled sunroom and try to spend a lot of time there. We have a lot of art/craft supplies. Anyway I’ve been wanting to make our shabbiest room in the house, sunroom, a nicely decorated place this spring and would love to win. Thanks!

  1327. Michelle

    I find my spare bedroom the hardest to keep clean. It is my catch-all room & my art supplies, laundry & husband’s shoes always end up in there. Great giveaway! Fingers crossed!

  1328. Monica Dupuis

    For sure my kitchen! Between all the paperwork my kids bring home and trying to prepare meals, it is a constant state of mess!

  1329. Erin J

    My dining room and table are alway piled high with something because it is the point of entry into our house from the back garage. It’s just an easy drop zone when coming in.

  1330. Deena Loveland

    We have a half-wall between the kitchen and family room with a ledge on top. No matter what I try, it becomes the catchall for things that are ‘in limbo’ – papers needing action, things that need to be put back in their proper places, things needing to be repaired… and once someone puts an item on the ledge, it seems to create a tractor-beam for similar items. Constant visual chaos.

  1331. Katie Gaultney

    Since closets probably don’t count :), I would say our living room is the hardest area to keep clean! We spend 90% of our waking time in there. Coupons pile up on the built-in desk, bags, shoes, etc. make their home on the corner armchair, and baby toys amass by the big French door where I set my seven-month-old down to play. I help keep in manageable by putting all the baby toys away at the end of every day. Then at least I don’t feel like I live in a day care! ;)

  1332. Michelle

    My garage which is mudroom, storage shed, tool central, and bulk food storage. No cars live in there, of course. It is how I enter and leave my house every time, and it drives me crazy EVERY TIME. The worst part is that it has been cleaned up before, but becomes a hot mess in five minutes. Every time. Sigh. This post gives me hope, though!

  1333. Shannon A

    Our home office/desk area is always the most difficult to keep clean and de-cluttered. So much stuff just gets dumped there. I’m actually getting ready to tackle it, and start a system now. These gift cards would REALLY help! :)

  1334. Andrea Cseh

    Hands down, the kitchen. Everything passes through our kitchen….homework, guests, meals, mail, bags, keys, phones and piles collect. We pass through the kitchen when entering our house through the garage & to get from bedrooms to the family room. It’s like a clutter magnet!

  1335. Dianne Tolar

    The most difficult is the office. It is where I am working now.

  1336. Romie

    Lately its my bedroom because I put things that don’t have a home yet there. My thinking is it will motivate me to find a home for these things, but they are just piling up.

  1337. Gwen

    I must say my laundry room has become a storage room so yes, definitively the laundry room and then the kitchen island just after school.

  1338. Lisa

    my kitchen!

  1339. Missy

    My storage room! Where do I start?

  1340. Angela L

    Our dining/eating room is the most difficult to de-clutter because it’s the first room we walk into from the door. It’s where mail (lots of junk mail and ads!), bikes (nowhere else we can store them right now), re-usable grocery bags to take back to the car, leashes for the dogs, water bottles, and empty boxes to take to the recycling bin gets all piled in. It’s also where we have our two nice fish tanks, dining table, nice diningware, wine rack, and most importantly, where we’d like to eat on most days. But for reals…we mostly eat in the living room now. :)

  1341. kathleen

    my bedroom is always a mess it seems like everything lands there.

  1342. Shakara

    It’s a toss up between our living room and bedroom, which are the most and least used areas in the home. Drives me crazy at times!

  1343. amy

    The kitchen is the worst. Hubby can’t seem to walk past a clear surface without putting something down on it. If there’s a space, he’ll fill it up!
    It’s just there “for now”-drives me crazy!

  1344. Leigh Marx

    My kitchen and the kitchen table! Really it is all the surface space in the room that I have to fight to keep clean daily.

  1345. Leigh Marx

    My kitchen… it is a dail struggle to keep all surface space clean.

  1346. ElaineDavis

    the kitchen! thanks for the opportunity : )

  1347. Sandy Woolard

    Absolutely my kitchen. Small and not much counter space. Kitchen table gets covered with clutter. The small den seems to collect the over flow from the kitchen. Need to get organized!

  1348. teresa mcdowell johnson

    my kitcchen — everything ends up there — mail, family mebers stuff the counter is becomes the drop off point.

  1349. Melanie A.

    My girls’ room! They’re only 3 and 5, but maybe I’m already entering the stage where I just have to close the door and ignore it…

  1350. Maria

    My dining room table is always cluttered with mail and kids homework!!!

  1351. Susan

    I always joke that we must have an allergy against clean flat surfaces in our house. It only takes minutes to clutter up a clean flat surface.

  1352. Krista

    The desk in our kitchen is the hotspot at our house..we walk right by it as we make our way through the house and just drop mail, keys, etc…Thanks!

  1353. Kristi

    my bedroom…I share with my sister and having two young adult girls in a tiny bedroom makes clutter a battle no matter how hard we try! There are always piles being moved around!

  1354. Eiley Ehle

    Hands down, my laundry room! It’s the catch all place.

  1355. Faith

    My kitchen is the top clutter site in my home. Too much mail, magazines, coupons, bills, odds and ends…the list goes on. Thanks for hosting the giveaway and for the encouragement to get organized.

  1356. Bonnie

    Ah, that is easy to answer! Mu dinning room. Right off the kitchen. Don’t need to use it often, table gets piled sky high with ‘I will get to it later’ stuff!

  1357. Jennifer

    My kitchen! I turn my back to the counters, and I swear the clutter multiplies. Thanks so much for the helpful tips!

  1358. Whitney

    Living room: we’re always getting out all the books and toys at once, and um…not putting them back. It’s a happy sort of clutter.

  1359. Laurel

    The living room of our tiny apartment is so hard to keep clean! It functions as our baby’s playroom, the sitting area, office for my husband, workspace for me (we’re both students too), library for our collection of books, and entertainment area. It is unusual to find this room in anything but a shambles.

  1360. Cassity

    My office… I have no hidden storage.

  1361. Betty

    My desk in our bedroom is often cluttered.

  1362. jennifer

    The studio… Hands down the clutteriest cluttered room in the house… Lots of projects in process and piles and piles! Love that room despite it all…

  1363. yvonne

    the Kitchen! My BF is quite messy in the kitchen and it can be a challenge to keep clean with cats and dishes. He’s a great cook though :-)

  1364. Ruby

    Difinately the kitchen! We are retired, so we really have no excuse! Even though it’s just the two of us, it’s amazing how quickly the kitchen looks “cluttered”!

  1365. Ruby

    Excuse me…let’s make that “definitely”! It still doesn’t look right, but I looked it up!

  1366. Jenny

    The kitchen is the hardest to keep clean. We’re in there constantly and it’s a drop spot for mail and other odds and ends.

  1367. Ren

    …the kitchen, definitely.

  1368. Jessica McMasters

    It is a toss up between our bathroom and kitchen! Both have really bad storage space and it just seems to look cluttered even after organizing! I am a neat freak and feel so crazy when the house is messy or something is out of place so we stay on top of things most of the time. Like I mentioned though some spaces in our house just stay looking cluttered and disorganized after organizing them just because of how the house was built :( Thankfully we rent and have HUGE plans for our own house LOTS OF STORAGE SPACE :)

    • Jessica McMasters

      Also my husband is a Chef and makes the BIGGEST messes every time He cooks which is often…I have to stay out of the kitchen or it drives me nuts picking up after him every second :)

  1369. Meghan

    My living room is the hardest to keep clutter free.

  1370. Victoria

    Our kitchen is the hardest room to keep clean and clutter free. Other than when my husband cooks and splatters sauce on the cabinets, my cooking magazines end up in one of two baskets that are in need of replacing. Several of our cabinets are overflowing with pot covers that fall out every time I reach for one and the other is packed with appliances that we use only a few times a year. And even though we have a dedicated office, it seems all the mail ends up on the peninsula area in the kitchen before it is sorted and put in the office. Would love some kitchen cabinet organization!

  1371. Barbara

    The office! Too much paper to deal with.

  1372. Sarah O.

    Our kitchen is the hardest room in our home to keep clean, because its the room where everyone gathers and where all our “stuff” gets put; bills, homework papers, snacks, and everything else seems to gather right on our counters.

  1373. Andrea Wood

    The kitchen — definitely the kitchen– is the hardest clutter spot. Mail, kids’ school papers and homework, computers, legos. You name it, it all ends up in that room eventually. Would LOVE some organization from Container Store and Target!

  1374. Jennifer

    For my family its probably a toss up between the Kitchen and the Family Room. The Kitchen seems to ‘catch’ all of the stuff when we enter the house (through the backdoor). I am guilty of the “I’ll get to it later” mentality and then I forget and the next time I’m in the kitchen I look around and think “This is a mess”. I have a BEAUTIFUL kitchen (previous owners did a GREAT remodel) and this article motivates me to help keep my kitchen better organized. Thanks for the tips and motivation!

  1375. Molly

    My kitchen is the hardest room to keep clutter free! We have a weird nook in our kitchen that is not part of the regular work area. That little nook seems to pile up with textbooks, mail, receipts, ANYTHING that really should not be there! When it is clean it makes the kitchen look and FEEL SO much better!

  1376. Melissa

    Oddly, I find the kitchen is the hardest to keep clean and clutter free! I don’t even spend much time in there, other than cooking and doing dishes, but somehow all of the mess and clutter ends up on the table. Also, I don’t have a dish washer, so all of the dishes from the day pile up on the counter (and there are PLENTY) until I handwash them at night.

  1377. kelly m

    It’s gotta be the living room and the bedroom closets! We have such a small place that everything starts going vertical, then it gets “hidden” in closets…seems like we are always stepping over or through clutter…

  1378. Lora W.

    The kitchen is a constant battle because it is always in use. One side counter has turned in the catch-all for things without a home. My kitchen counters look a wreck unless I know someone is coming over.

  1379. Michele

    Oh the kitchen. There’s always dishes! Even with a dishwasher. Ugh I hate dishes. I can clean them all up and I always find one more. The counters are easy to put everything from mail to more dishes and grocery items that need to go somewhere else. Drives me crazy. ;)

  1380. Jennifer

    It is definitely the kitchen. So much going on there!

  1381. Jessica

    Definitely my kitchen table. We enter the house thru the kitchen so everything gets dumped there!

  1382. Tricia

    Our kitchen counter is the biggest clutter offender. It can be clean one minute and when I turn around, the piles appear again. The laundry room is next,dumping ground for all. Each dresser in my home holds that important item that might be used ‘someday’. Help me declutter!

  1383. tracy

    My dining room. The table is a dumping ground for my husband & my daughters school work. they both seem to just put there stuff there when they walk in the door. drives me crazy!!!

  1384. Peg

    Like many of the other responders, it is my kitchen that is so hard to keep clutter-free. It is a constant battle. So amazing how items just walk in there and plop down! ;)

  1385. Beverly Nobrega

    I would totally say that it is a tie between the mudroom and kitchen. Both have the amazing ability to be tidy and clean and after the first child passes through, vwala!, messy! Like a tornado came through. Thanks!

    Beverly

  1386. Ginnie

    Our master bedroom is the throw-all, catch-all room in the house and the last place people see so it’s never the top priority! It makes me crazy!!

  1387. Krissy

    The kitchen! The counters are full of papers from the kids’ schools, science fair projects, to do lists, little toys that need to be put away….I love your suggestions today, though!

  1388. Sarah

    The laundry room. It’s the drop spot for anything coming in our going out of the house.

  1389. Zach

    The office, not enough storage for papers and office supplies

  1390. Megan

    The kitchen, most definitely! Counters and table are the drop spot for everything: jackets, purse, mail, toys…you get the idea. It’s a daily struggle to keep this room clean and de-cluttered. Thanks for the tips!

  1391. Nancy

    The kitchen countertop!

    When we redid the kitchen, I made sure to include drawers for the kids’ papers, for keys and wallets, and even one just for pens, pencils and markers.

    Yet, whenever anyone (else!) comes home, they just drop their stuff on the countertop. My darling husband puts his wallet and keys right next to the drawer!

    So “a place for everything” is just the first step. Getting the family members to use them is another.

  1392. Cindie

    My laundry/Utility room seems to be the catch all room for everything. I have been 2 yrs trying different things to de-clutter it, but the clutter always wins out. I could really use some help.

  1393. Meredith

    My living room! We live in this room and it often becomes my 15 month old daughters playroom! We seem to have a collections or shoes, toys, hair bows, books and stuffed animals! I clean it every night after she goes to bed, only to find it lovingly lived in again, the next evening!

  1394. Carly

    My kitchen is always filled with clutter!

  1395. Ashley

    My bedroom- between clothes changes, rushing through the morning to get ready- it always becomes a mess!

  1396. Deena

    My kitchen table & counters. Clutter seems to appear moments after I have cleared the area! Very frustrating and the effort feels pointless.

  1397. Casey W.

    My kitchen is by far the most cluttered. Particularly the kitchen island which is the first surface that collects everything when we walk in the back door. Thanks for the declutter suggestions + giveaway!

  1398. Janelle

    The entry way into our home. It is the spot where all three children shed everything (coats, shoes, backpacks, sports and dance gear)as they return from school. It is where the mail gets dropped,papers from school–the important and unimportant mingle with no boundaries.

  1399. Melissa

    Really, clutter takes over my entire house, but the worst room is the laundry room. It is the dumping ground for the whole family as we all enter and exit from this room. It’s also where I keep a psuedo-desk, pay bills and do laundry.

  1400. Kathy

    For me the worst room is the kitchen. The table is the landing spot for the newspaper, the mail, papers from the kids backpacks, stuff from my tote bag, winter hats, mittens and other stuff that has no other home. I only have one section of cabinets and no closets or pantry so everything else is in open sight in bookshelves and boxes. There are cookbooks everywhere and recipes printed from the internet. There is no place to put stuff – where do people put stuff anyway?

  1401. Krissy Rouse Higgins

    The LIVING ROOM! The kids love to bring their toys, shoes, coats, books, backpacks, you name it and leave it in the living room! Our house is actually big enough now where the kids can enjoy playing in their own rooms & my living room can be a KID TOY FREE ZONE, but yet they can’t get it thru their heads, lol.

  1402. Leilanie

    I would have to say my kitchen….because it is the catch all place for everything and it is a small one with minimal cupboards etc….so any vertical space gets taken over by kids school papers, extra dishes, etc. That is why this declutter article or any declutter article catches my attention in hopes of a magical formula to cure all of these headaches.LOL

  1403. Cathy

    The dining room table is my chronically cluttered hot spot. My husband dumps all his stuff on this one kitchen counter. Just cannot seem to keep these two areas free of clutter. And, yes, like you clutter does affect my emotional state…

  1404. Koryn Franson

    The office! There are so many cool containers out there to organize everything, but I have yet to go buy any!

  1405. Lisa

    The entryway (not really a room) gets cluttered most often (if I’m not really vigilant)! There’s always something that’s coming in, needing to go out, can’t be forgotten when I leave the house next, etc…. And shoes! What to do with shoes when there’s no mudroom?

  1406. Amy

    I would have to say every stinkin’ room!!

  1407. Danielle Ferguson

    The most difficult to clean is our master bathroom, because of the moisture in our house there is constantly mildew on the walls, ceiling and window sills. You can smell the mildew, no matter what we clean with etc. the mildew always comes back. The most difficult room to keep clutter free is our living room, we have an 8 year old and a 2 year old, boy they are messy. Especially our 2 year old, she plays in the living room all day and no matter if you pick up toys or not, 2 minutes later the living room is covered in toys again.

  1408. Lindsey Grace

    My side of the bed!! It isn’t visible from the bedroom door so it’s where all the junk goes- especially when we are about to have company over!!

  1409. elz

    The hardest room to keep clean & clutter free is the kitchen. We’re constantly in there; there are art projects on the table (and under the table), school forms, mail, keys, groceries, etc. AUGH.

  1410. Julie

    the kitchen is the room that is the hardest to keep clutter-free. we live in there, and come in and out there, so i feel like i am constantly cleaning up, but never get all the clutter cleared away. the worst spot in the house is my desk, though!

  1411. Suzi

    My living room. With a small house, everything is visible right when you walk in the door and into the living room, and unfortunately, that’s were everything gets dumped as well.

  1412. Mackenzie

    It is a toss-up between the kitchen counter (paper clutter) and the living room (toys, paper, etc…) They both drive me bonkers! Both rooms are becoming a catch-all for everything.

  1413. GinaE

    I was initially going to say the kitchen counter. But, after I thought about it, hands down it is the spare bedroom. I can keep it ready for guest for weeks and weeks. Then I do a project of “some sort” and there is always something that gets moved and ends up living in that room. Oh, and then I usually get a call saying someone is coming to visit!! Many thanks for a chance to win this great give away. If I organized some other rooms in the house more, I wouldn’t have to stash things in the guest room.

  1414. Roberta Wayne

    The dining room, because it has the largest flat surface in the house (besides the floor!)

  1415. Mary

    I think my most troublesome areas are the hidden spots. My bedroom and laundry room. It’s just to easy to walk away and close the door.

  1416. Valeris

    The most troublesome areas are the closets. I know things are there but it would be nice to open a door without something falling out.

  1417. Jodi

    I struggle daily with the KITCHEN! After cleaning and sanitizing the kitchen, I’m inspired to cook or bake something… and then I’m right back where I started re-cleaning and re-sanitizine!

  1418. Gloria

    The kitchen is definitely the hardest room to keep clutter-free. It seems to be the landing area for mail, shopping, laundry, and half-completed projects!

  1419. Mary Beth Hunt

    My kitchen island is the catchall for EVERYONE and EVERYTHING.

  1420. Danielle

    Currently it is my bedroom that is the most difficult. The room is small, the closet is not big enough, and I have to let the laundry build up until I have enough for the laundromat. We are moving in 2 months, so this problem will be easier to handle (bigger closets and my own washer and dryer!).

  1421. Gale

    The bedroom is the hardest to keep clean!

  1422. Stephanie

    The dining room is, by far, the most cluttered room in our home. My husband works at home, usually in the dining room. That’s also where the mail ends up, a coupon or two, and on occasion we even eat in there. We need to do better.

  1423. Jeannine B.

    The worst area in my house is the breakfast bar/island that is smack dab in the middle of my kitchen/dining area. It is a magnet for clutter!

  1424. Katherine

    My desk in the kitchen is the biggest clutter magnet. Everyone comes in and puts their papers, toys, books, mail, etc. on this desk.

  1425. Rachel Koustik

    I would have to say the living room. With twin 9 month old boys that is where they spend most of the time when they aren’t cruising the house. Everything just hangs there all day. I am working on letting it just happen for the moment and enjoy that they have been blessed with toys for this season. :-)

  1426. savanna

    the worst room in my house is the computer room/toy room and the laundry room. i dislike cleaning both places because i know that the minute i turn around satisfied that it is clean, it is turned upside down once again.

  1427. Sharon

    The Great Room! It’s a Great Mess!

  1428. Lesly

    Id say my family room. it just gets cluttered with toys!

  1429. Kathryn

    They are ALL hard! With four kids in three years (two sets of twins), if I turn around for a second, it feels (and looks) like the house explodes. With my oldest set now 5 years, I know they grow so fast and I won’t always have 4 mini tornadoes, but wow – keeping a clean house feels nearly impossible these days.

  1430. Jennifer

    My bedroom. No one really goes in there except me so its easy to just pile things by the bed and say I’ll get to it later.

  1431. Andrea Duckworth

    Definitely the kitchen counters

  1432. Laura B Jenkins

    Definitely the floor by the front door…the mail drops faster than I can get around to sorting it all out..ugh! Thank you for these great decluttering habits!!

  1433. lala

    my living room…its where everyone in my house gathers the most and also has the computer which draws everyone and their papers! but its the toys all over my house that bothers me the most!

  1434. Stella Um

    MY BEDROOM OF COURSE!! >.< I can't seem to get rid or organize piles of clothes that accumulate daily…

  1435. Min

    The foyer! There is always stuff going in and out of the house and they all get put there. I wish I had more space in that area so I can better organize the items that need to be there and even hide them…

  1436. Kristin F

    My kitchen! Ugh! Unless you count the floor as its own room. Between toys, newspapers, shoes, I feel crazy!

  1437. Kirstie

    My office!!! Paper is my nemesis.

  1438. Holly

    The kitchen!!! Particularly a portion of counter that seems to be where everyone gathers and stuff gets dumped!

  1439. Liz

    my office and desk – I keep trying to keep them clean, but the paper keeps piling up.

  1440. Naomi

    My bedroom is the hardest room to de-clutter. My closet is unorganized, I don’t have enough drawer space, so I have laundry baskets full of clean clothes and piles on the floor. Ugh.

  1441. Kate

    While I do have rooms that get cluttered, I find that the most cluttered spot in our home is my husband’s dresser. He puts everything up there and throws nothing away!

  1442. Nicole

    My kitchen/home office combination. We live in a very tiny home. The paper monster has been living here too long – I will do battle with him today!

  1443. Donna

    The kitchen counter is the dumping ground at my house. There’s always a pile of papers there.

  1444. Arras Heiress

    Because it is used every day, all day long, the hardest room to keep decluttered and clean is my kitchen! I so want to just have a hired ‘kitchen cleaner’! If it were a bigger kitchen, it would just be bigger clutter!

  1445. Brandy E.

    I always thought the messiest room was my son’s but lately I have been reconsidering. The kitchen seems to not only get the most use but it attracts the most clutter. Add in a whole lot of single-use gadgets and it’s a recipe for disaster.

  1446. Jennifer B

    My kitchen is the worst! I have legos, nuts/bolts, hats, everything seems to accumulate on the counter tops! But that’s what happens with a house full of boys!

  1447. Ashley

    I have the hardest time with my kitchen. We enter the house through our kitchen and it is the place where everything gets dropped.

  1448. monica

    My bedroom is the hardest room to keep clean and organized because I save it for last! And I never seem to know what to do with all the things I put in there! monk5 at charter dot net

  1449. Vicky

    The kitchen! We have your paper pile, your backpack pile, the homework pile, not to mention the dish and cooking messes.

  1450. Stephanie

    That is a toss up between kitchen and living room, the kitchen catches everything. So when I clean up the kitchen it all gets moved to my desk in the living room…where it sits and sits, until I get irritated and dump everything into a box….

  1451. Cheri J

    The kitchen! If it were only used as intended, no problem on the cleanup. Since it’s constantly repurposed for crafts, schoolwork, small business work, big–outside house–business work, home office bill paying and such, coupon clipping, newspaper reading, laundry folding, etc., etc., this room we call “kitchen” really needs a new name.

  1452. Jessica

    Toss up between the kitchen and our bedroom. WE are still renting, and you enter the apartment through the kitchen, so that’s where everything ends up. And in the bedroom, there’s just stuff everywhere because we don’t have a ton of storage space!

  1453. Kelli G

    The computer desk is definitely the hardest to keep clutter free. It’s the landing zone for EVERYTHING.

  1454. Guerrina

    I think my biggest clutter trouble spots are my computer desk and my nightstand! Now you’ve got me thinking how to better organize both!

  1455. Teresa C

    Our entryway, which includes our desk, shoe rack and a bench where the kids toss their backpacks, coats, etc. Makes me crazeeee!

  1456. samsmom

    Family room for sure. It’s filled with trucks, papers, crayons, papers pencils, papers, puzzles, papers…and a hodgepodge of furniture. It is the smallest common room in the house and the most used! It is also the path in & out of the backyard, so lots of gravel and dirt on the rug.

  1457. Alison

    My home office/work space! It’s a clutter magnet and it makes me loco!

  1458. Susan Kubal

    My office – there is always papers lying around that I have printed and not put away or into a binder. Magazines all over with recipes I want to scan. And I am trying to scan all of my pictures into the computer to download to a disc for each of my children for Christmas 1012.

  1459. Terri

    The hardest area to keep clean is my kitchen island and it drives me crazy! You just helped me think of a new system. Thank you!

  1460. Shannon Smith

    My kitchen!!! The 3 WORST clutter areas are ALL TOGETHER in this room- breakfast table, phone desk and kitchen cabinets. Thank you for your help with ideas and ways to hopefully allow me to fully de-clutter, organize and keep my house organized for good.

  1461. Janet

    My bedroom is the most cluttered. I remodeled the guest room and everything without a home landed on my bedroom floor.

  1462. wendy clark

    The hardest room to clean and declutter is definitely our kitchen–between the lunch boxes, mail and the school paperworkto sort through plus the grime from cooking and caring for pets it gets cluttered quickly and can be grimy in no time flat.

  1463. Kristina F

    Definitely the kitchen! There is so much traffic through there, the counters catch everything.

  1464. Jill B.

    Would have to weigh in on my DESK!!! Piles of paper and other odds & ends seem to magnetize there despite my best intentions. I feel so much better when it’s clear.

  1465. Sheri

    My living room. We have a home business and EVERYTHING seems to collect here. The moment you step in the front door, all you see is clutter. I can’t stand it but there is no other space in the rest of the house for projects.

  1466. Kathryn

    I find the kitchen the worst, with my office second place. I only have myself to blame for the office, however.

  1467. Lori

    There are a few places that qualify for this question but I would have to say the upper counter in our kitchen. This is where mail, school papers, receipts, papers, and Lord knows what else goes to annoy me on a daily basis. When it starts to fall off, I pull it all down, sort through it and only put back the essential stuff. Why I leave “seed” clutter is beyond me, but I do. Before I know it, it has blossomed again! grrr.

  1468. Kathy

    the kitchen

  1469. Jacquelyn Oswald

    The island in the kitchen!!! When we built the house we should have made the master bath and bedroom a little smaller and the laundry room/mud room bigger. That was what I wanted so all the “junk” would be there. It’s hard with my health(I have fibromyalgia and Lupus) to stay on top of it sometimes.
    Plus the garage entry!! drives me wild!!!!

  1470. Becky

    The common room connected to our bedroom. It is the school room, work out room and where our closet and dresser’s are. It also has the desk for our youngest daughter to do her school and the family computer. Homeschooling four kids out of this it gets a little messy.

  1471. Lisa

    The one area that I would love to have a better handle on is my couch. I seem to throw everything on it, including mail. I wish I could blame my 4 year old, but as I look at the couch right now all the junk is mine.

  1472. Nancy

    My desk in my kitchen is always cluttered with papers, coupons, mail etc!
    It is my worst hot spot of my entire home. Thanks for your great tips! I’m going to make a real effort to clean off my desk top and try to keep it that way!

  1473. Bethany

    Hands down the kitchen. Our front door opens right into the kitchen and it is so visible but so easy to get cluttered or have dishes in the sink.

  1474. Chelsea

    The kitchen counter near the door is my toughest area to keep de-cluttered, and a close second is our office desk! Thanks for these helpful tips! I hope to form a habit myself of keeping on top of things.

  1475. Kathy

    Kitchen counter!!! The landing runway of our home. With an open floor plan and large kitchen, this can be the panic zone for me when the doorbell rings! Help!

  1476. Ann Marie

    The most difficult spot to keep clean in my house is the master bedroom closet. I thought since it is a walk in closer it would be easy to keep clean but instead it just has way too much stuff in it!

  1477. Veronica simmons

    The master bathroom A little bottle here, a lipstick tube there, before you know it, messiness takes over. I’ve recently moved and my bathroom is much much smaller and the clutter more evident. I’m working on trying to at least have it picked up and put away before bed. Your article is right on track for me. Thank you for the encouragement. :)

  1478. Trinity

    The kitchen and laundry room are tied! Btwn paper coming in and laundry piling up from three kids I just cant seem to keep them organized.

  1479. Carolyn

    It’s my close and dressing area. Nobody else sees it, so it’s the easiest to let pile up! ;(

  1480. Stacey Amenta

    I absolutly love this. I battle myself everyday by looking at the entire room instead or spots great idea. I always overwhelm myself and just end up feeling like ADD…… Thank you so much….

  1481. Carolyn

    * closet, not “close” . . .

  1482. Lindsay

    I have never been able to tame the kitchen clutter!

  1483. Tiffany

    I probably fight my kitchen the most. We have a back entry door that we all really use. Only problem is that stuff gets dropped as it comes in and then my not-so-big kitchen feels overwhelmingly claustrophobic!

  1484. Bettsi

    Oh boy, would I love to win those gift cards! My most difficult area is the living/dining area in my apartment. It is our only living area and with two teenage boys on the xbox, computer and doing school work at the dining table (not to mention the snacking!), I feel like it’s a constant battle to keep this room nice. Of course, the boys don’t even see a problem!

  1485. Jennie

    My clutter battlefront is the kitchen. The heart of our home is also the dumping ground of our home ; ) Dishes don’t scare me… It’s the papers and mail and broken toys that do!

  1486. Sarah VM

    The kitchen is my hardest place to keep clean and free of clutter. We use our kitchen door as the main entry to the house. Everything gets dropped on the counter and table most of the time.

  1487. Kellie

    The most difficult room to keep clean and clutter free is our Family Room, which is the first entry point from the house off of the garage. It is my “Inspiration Robber!”. Whenever I look at it (which is constantly, due to it’s location) the clutter of…
    ***backpacks, school papers (from our two young children), toys, knick-knack junk, my purse, my work papers, magazines (which i have a magazine hoarding issue – trying to transition to online mags and Pinterest), bags for going out with the kiddos (library bag, pool bag, playground bag), movies, Nintendo DS games, kids artwork, computer printer, desk, family pictures, kid’s stuffed animals***
    … strangles me and I always feel I need to get this organized before I move onto a new project of creating something I would enjoy and appreciate (hasn’t happened yet!). :(

  1488. Susan

    Without a doubt it’s the kitchen counter by the door. I just seem to drop everything right there when I walk in.

  1489. Courtney

    It’s a tie – our entryway and coat closet. It’s a never ending battle that I can never seem to win. Tons of shoes, bags, lunch boxes, scarves, doggy bags, doggy towels – you name it. Both areas are a catch all!

  1490. Monica

    My mudroom. It drives me crazy! I need a system.

  1491. Whitney

    the dining room table where my kids do their homework

  1492. Anne Marie

    For me, it’s my mudroom/laundry room. No matter if it’s coming home from town or my 3 little ones going out to play several times a day, eveything gets set down in there. Not to mention the laundry for a family of five. I think some organization would make a world of difference in maintainig our grand central station of arrivals and departures!

  1493. Bernadette

    Man without a douubt it is my bedroom closet, with a close second to my desk in the office. Both just become really easy dumping grounds that really just don’t stay organized because I don’t have the right tools, I suppose. Or the right brain for it (smile).

    Bernadette
    http://www.b3hd.blogspot.com

  1494. Katie

    Definitely my son’s room. We have toys with lots of little pieces that end up everywhere.

  1495. Alathia

    I actually have 2 spaces that are hard for me to keep clean and clutter free. First, is the dinner table, it’s just inside the front door and is the “drop spot” for whatever I may have carried into the house. The second place, is my sewing/craft room! There are so many small little tools and the dust/fibers from the fabric is horrible.

  1496. Wehaf

    My bedroom is definitely the hardest room to keep clean; anything that doesn’t have a real home goes in there, so it’s always overfull and messy.

  1497. Tabitha

    The kitchen, by far! Aside from the obvious dirty dishes that never end, the kitchen counter tops seems to be where every odd thing ends up!

  1498. delloraine

    My 18 hour kitchen is the hardest room to keep cleaned up. One large dog and six people making their own breakfast and lunch daily at different times and preparing 7 dinners a week contribute to the chaos. Computer work and homework on the kitchen table means school books and cook books with a movie or two thrown in. I could use some organizers from your gift card stores.

  1499. Amy Johns

    Our kitchen table is our biggest clutter spot – homework, the kids’ papers from school, dinner, my work stuff, mail, it all ends up there!

  1500. Jerri C.

    The most difficult room to keep clean is my bathroom. Even though everyone has their own bathroom, my girls always seem to end up in mine doing their hair and make-up, etc. and creating a mess.

  1501. Mark G.

    The most difficult room to keep clean in my house is the kitchen. We try to eat home cooked meals a lot which causes a dish pile up. We can never seen to keep it clean!!!

  1502. Kathy Kisner

    Three kids, three grandkids, twin granddaughters on the way and two granddogs…it seems like I have more clutter coming and going in my house than ever! My living room which is really just that a “living” room and is always cluttered since we all spend so much time in it!

  1503. Sherri

    Definitely the kitchen, counters especially! The paper that lands there drives me crazy.

  1504. Karen

    I would have to say our dining room table is seldom clutter-free. We don’t eat there unless we have guests and I do projects there so it is tough to keep it cleaned off and photo-ready.

  1505. Kathy

    The dining room table is the worst spot in our home – it is a great flat surface that can have a multitude of projects on it at one time. We usuallly eat at that table so that does cause a problem.

  1506. Sarah

    The very end of my kitchen counter is where all the clutter ends up sitting. I clear it off and 5 minutes later it’s covered with stuff again. Love, love, love your blog!

  1507. Aimee

    Yep, definitely the kitchen! The counters are always a mess…especially the “bar” area, which is piled with papers.

  1508. Trisha

    My dining room table is always cluttered because we set everything down there when we come through the door.

  1509. edna murga

    My hot spot for clutter is my kitchen…i have everything on those counters…Thanks for the chance to win love your website…e*

  1510. Hollie Nunn

    My bedroom is the most difficult room to keep clutter free and clean. Because its easier to shut the door and no one else will see it. I shove things in the closet, have folded clothes on my bed and paper piles.

  1511. Myrtle

    We have a large island dividing our kitchen and den that is constantly covered in random paper. Gah!

    I like your plan, and am going to start today!

  1512. Val

    Kitchen and family room! – it’s the first rooms everyone goes to, and where everything gets dumped!

  1513. jessica w.

    our most difficult room is our living area… it has out dining area, living area, and our office in one large room. So, that means everything mixes and some things are so hard to always get put away etc! Thanks for the chance to win!

  1514. jennifer

    Helpful hints! Our space is the small table right at the front door.

  1515. MsC

    Closet – I live in a tiny old house that offers little in the way of storage so my closet has turned into a catch-all for stuff that doesn’t fit in other rooms. I honestly don’t even know what’s in there anymore!

  1516. Karen

    The Kitchen. Keys. School
    Papers. Mail. Food. Wrappers. I can’t stop the madness! I really wish I could implement these habits in my life!

  1517. Sue K

    My craft room is definitely the worst clutter hotspot in my house (notice, worst – there are others!) It seems that everything that doesn’t have a home goes in there to be “put away”. Basically, I just need to divest myself of some of my stuff, but I always think I’ll find someplace to use it again (and often do!) Guess I need more shelves in my basement, and a better system for seasonal storage. Great ideas, and will definitely put them to use!

  1518. millie schultz

    Thank you for the information I need help Love target and love container store

  1519. Tina Jane

    Thanks for the tips. I can use all the help I can get! Truefully my whole home needs a good clutter-busting. Today is a good time to start.

  1520. Kristi Covey

    The most challenging room to keep clutter-free is definitely our school/craft/sewing/dining room. Because it’s a jack-of-all-trades room, it requires spaces for so many things. We have a dining table, 3 desks, 2 bookshelves, a craft cabinet for mostly kids stuff, and a filing cabinet( ok so this room is a home office too). I have 4 kids, including an almost 2 yr old that loves to get into things as well as “help” me by bringing me everything she picks up! The biggest challenge for us is keeping things put away and finding the right home for things, especially odd-ball stuff! I am very organizationally-challenged, but I love an organized room once everything has a home. I’ve been working on decluttering and purging this room in the past week and hopefully it will receive a makeover in the spring as my reward! Thanks Melissa for your blog. There are many times that I’ve felt down about the challenges of keeping house (and making it a home)along with so many demands, mostly mothering, which I love. Your words and pretty pics have picked me up and encouraged me in those lonely moments. Keep up the good work and thanks for being a blessing! Sorry for the lengthy post!

  1521. amy b.

    The living room – 3 boys under the age of 4 LIVE in there!

  1522. Sandra Rassi

    Kitchen. Hands down. I started out married life a bit of a clutter freak, DH got a bit irritated at how quickly papers disappeared. Somehow, 4 kids and life as a homeschooling mom has made the kitchen counter a clutter hotspot for every piece of paper that comes through the door. Sunday School papers, candidate flyers (I WILL figure out who all those people are before I have to vote on them), adds that I want to remember, coupons that I want to remember to use, etc, etc. I’ve tried using an accordion file, but I still get overwhelmed.

  1523. Kristy W

    The Kitchen!!! I have a small kitchen with limited counter space. So hard to keep clean and organized!

  1524. Selma

    My 2 older boys room… eeks! No matter how hard I try to help them keep it organized and tidy, they seem to mess it up. And they collect everything!!! I’ve got rocks, boxes, nets that used to carry oranges, legos, books, magazines, and more.
    2nd to that room, would be the family room. It needs a good old fashioned cleaning out and organizational maniac to attack it. There ya go!

  1525. Rose

    Worst spot is our bedroom and closet. Clothes laying around, and clutter everywhere but on the bed! Second worse spot is kitchen…

  1526. Karen Lindsey

    The most difficult is the office to keep clean.

  1527. Myrnie

    Hands down, the school room!

  1528. Charlotte

    My bedroom..blah

  1529. Jane

    My worst problem is my kitchen counter. It is a very large, double layered counter and whatever comes in the house goes directly on that counter. That is going to be my first target.

  1530. Rebekah

    The kitchen counter! On a given day it is home to lunch boxes, school reports, socks, coats, water color paints, magazines and paint chips.

  1531. Lori R.

    My hardest room to keep clutter free is our bedroom. My hubbie is a pack rat! The rest of the house is easy now that we are empty nesters.

  1532. Kim R

    My kitchen is the worst spot – and its because I enjoy creating “masterpieces” every night, but that ends up in plenty of bowls and pots strewn about. I need to get better at “one-pot” meals.

  1533. Meredith

    For us, I feel like the bedroom becomes the place that we shovel stuff when people are on their way over, so it’s usually the hardest spot to keep clean!

  1534. Amy A.

    The dining area…specifically the dining table. Everything lands there!

  1535. Kendra Ko

    My office, everything gets put in my office. It is the a huge clutter spot at the moment.

  1536. Andrea Sweitzer

    The kitchen is my most challenging area to clean. I’ve just never found doing the dishes very enjoyable.

  1537. Lisa L

    Since I’ve gone back to school (I was laid off so I’m starting a new career…) I’ve been keeping all my books and school papers on my kitchen table. It’s always been a rest stop for mail, now it’s more of a long term lease.

  1538. Jennie

    The kitchen! It’s the way into the rest of the house for the family, so the corner by the door gets filled with junk out of pockets. It’s the room I’m ALWAYS in,so that is where the kids come visit me, and subsequently leave their toys.

  1539. Carmen G

    The kitchen and office area in the kitchen is the most difficult to keep clutter free – so many school papers, bills, and just other stuff end up in piles in that room!

  1540. Elle Alexander

    Oh boy..I feel like I am adding to my clutter hotspot just thinking about it. The consistent clutter zone is my kitchen/dining area. Our after work/school schedule is so tight that I have to hit the ground running as soon as I enter the house. I usually walk in through the garage to the kitchen put down my purse/kids backpacks/school papers/lunch bags/etc. on the table and immediately get to dinner without even changing out of my work clothes. And before we can eat, I have to clear the madness from the table. After dinner, I do my best to clear the clutter before starting baths & bedtime routine and the next day we start it all over again & add to what was not cleared the day before. What a nutty cycle!

  1541. Kim

    Hands down my kitchen, especially the island. It is 4 ft. x 10 ft. and it has plenty of space for everyone’s everything! It is a daily job to make sure everything gets where it needs to go…….off the island! Thanks for the great post!

  1542. Kristen

    My husband’s office! Papers and receipts galore…

  1543. punkinmama

    I can not keep the kitchen neat & clean! Piles of mail, homework, school art projects, etc. accumulate in the blink of an eye! ARGH!

  1544. Erika

    My bedroom!! Right now we (family of 4) live in an 1100 square foot home. EVERYTHING gets stuck in our bedroom, which also serves as our makeshift office/craft space. We are building our new house right now, and I cant wait to get more space and get organized!!

  1545. Larissa

    Our dining table shares space with the living room, and without a proper entry room, we tend to set things down on the table as we make our way into the house. No matter how often I clear it, it becomes the dumping ground 5 minutes later!

  1546. Kat

    The top landing gets so cluttered! It’s where everything from my crafts and photo projects winds up

  1547. Paula J

    The bar top of my kitchen countertop is a Clutter Magnet! It’s where the mail lands… & whatever happens to be in my hubby’s hands at the moment. I.can.not.keep.it.cleared. ugh!

    Sometimes I have to scoop up a stack of “whatever” & just hide it in a closet or another room. Hate that!! A lot!

    sigh…

  1548. June

    My kitchen island drives me NUTS! Thanks for the plan-I’m going to try it!

  1549. Vanessa DeVary

    The laundry room! It catches all the school work brought home, the odds and ends (junk drawer turned into junk counter!), and of course the dirty clothes! Every surface collects ‘stuff’, but also lint, laundry soap residue, etc… I even have a never-ending collection of lost and found on the tops of my front loaders?!

  1550. Jennifer

    That is so hard to answer! Narrowing it down to one room is next to impossible for me, if I think about my husband’s clutter, it would definitely be our bedroom. But since I am not allowed to think about (or touch) his hoarde (sigh), I will go with the dining room. My kids are crafty little angels/monsters and cannot stand to have the table clear of clutter for 2 seconds.

  1551. Leslie Stokes

    It’s a tie between our bedroom and the home office. My nightstand holds magazines, color samples, journal, books, lotions, pictures, earrings, and electronics. On the floor are my shoes, more magazines, and more books. As my Momma would say “It looks like a rat’s nest.” Our home office is also very cluttered. I have too many office supplies, and must confess I am an office supply addict, color coordinated of course. Thanks for this post; I’m definitely going to put the suggestions to work.

  1552. Joy

    Unfortunately, its my home office. My work office is always well-organized and tidy but my home office has become the depository for everything that I don’t have time to put away now and promise to take of later. By the end of the week its stacked with mail, unread newspapers, magazines, mending, items to return, etc. etc. Its easy to close the door so its a challenge to take time to dig in and organize. It always feels and looks wonderful when I take an hour or two to put everything in its place.

  1553. Vickie

    A section of my kitchen counter where ‘stuff’ seems to accumulate and grow into piles!

  1554. Mel

    The Entryway… UGH!

  1555. Hollie

    My bedroom is a clutter magnet! When I come home, it’s the first place I go. I travel a lot so when I come home from a long trip I have a habit of throwing everything all over the place because I’m so tired. Plus my bedroom is one of the smaller rooms in the house so things get messy easily…

  1556. Crissy

    My entryway is the most difficult area in the house to keep clean because it’s really a kind of ‘dumping ground’ when everyone comes inside. It’s so embarrassing when people come to the door!

  1557. Tara

    My desk drives me crazy! Everything tends to accumulate there.

  1558. Amanda Strayer

    My kitchen counters. My husband loves to put papers all over them. It. drives. me. crazy.

  1559. carol fu

    my study room. i live by myself and go to school full time so i never have time to clean. my books, notes and bags are everywhere!

  1560. MDG

    The living room, more specifically the coffee table in the living room.

  1561. Barb

    My kitchen counter is piling up with mail, newspapers, etc. No matter how hard I try not to do it, it happens! Spare bedroom tends to get stuff stashed in it as well. Thanks for the ideas- going to give it a try!

  1562. eileen marie

    Our home office! (Which we *hope* someday soon to turn into a nursery!) It is our drop spot for everything, and it is currently housing my husband’s various hobbies, & five years worth of my accumulated teaching papers! I know this is NOT something that can be tackled in this 30 day challenge, but I think I am going to at least start w/ 1 bin of paper clutter! Thank you for the challenge and tips AND for the awesome giveaway!

  1563. Kim

    My hotspot is my bedroom and my living room. That is where my major headache comes from. So this article help me eliminate and choose the main area to declutter. Such a helpful stress buster article. Thanks!

  1564. Alison

    Our desk is the most cluttered place. Stray papers find themselves floating around our desktop for weeks! I am going to work on keeping it clutter-free. At least for 30 days; hopefully the plan will stick. :)

  1565. Dilaina Imandieva

    I would say the kitchen and the dining table! Even if I try my best with vase of flowers os cakestand it builds up to office/play surface in hours.
    I will try you system! Thank you!

  1566. Michael Hamblen

    the kitchen table everyone comes through the door and leaves all there

  1567. Brooke

    The most DIFFICULT room to keep clean and clutter free is my bedroom !
    It’s the first place I go to straight after work to drop all of my stuff. It is SO disorganized and I don’t even know Where to begin to start to clean and organize. The corner of my bed or chair, majority of the time acts as my clutter hangout, it’s where my wallet goes, keys, papers, etc. Then it takes FOREVER to find anything because it’s at the corner of my bed, or chair in my room and I get so frustrated.

  1568. Heather Walker

    My Laundry Room…where does it start? Where does it end?? Everything gets dumped in there…shoes, toys, clothes, papers, books.. you name it, and it’s in my laundry room.

  1569. Michelle heidtman

    Love the ideas!

  1570. erica

    what a toss up between my bedroom and kitchen… i’d say bedroom!

  1571. kia

    The kitchen. We use it all the time and congregate in there a lot.

  1572. Shauna

    Definitely my kitchen. I live in a tiny wartime home (700 sq ft) and the kitchen table is at the center of it all. It acts a a desk, sewing table, dressing table, kitchen island, and lastly a dining table. It gets to be a catch all, and by the end of the week we are literally pushing things aside to find a place to eat. Thank you for the giveaway!

  1573. Liz

    Definitely the entryway! Everything gets dumped there when we get home.

  1574. Kris Pare

    Definitely the kitchen which is the entryway from the garage and where all the shoes and mail, etc gets dumped. Oh and that’s not including all my 4yr old’s toys and papers, art work!

  1575. birdsandsoap

    Iwould say my girls’ room. They are little and their tiny clothes and toys seem to triple overnight.

  1576. Crystal Potts

    My bedroom is. It seems like anything that “doesn’t have a spot” finds it’s way there….completely drives me crazy!

  1577. Brittney Sinquefield

    My entry way, no matter what I do all of the coats, purses and random junk from nowhere in particular congregates on a daily basis within 5 ft of the front door. Worst spot ever!

  1578. Teressa

    The kitchen…it is the workhorse room in our home. From meals to homework, it is the room where we spend time doing the everyday things of life which gets messy around our house.

  1579. kristin

    The dining room, specially the table. It’s where paper goes to die!

  1580. Lenora Everett

    My office area which is in the living room. I get overwhelmed with paper!

  1581. Shannell

    I have always had clutter in my home. I am buying my first home and looking to form good habits to keep it clean and clutter free. I think starting fresh will make it easier since I will be developing new routines for everything I do, cleaning and decluttering will be added in!

  1582. Jaime

    Our bedroom gets wrecked because our 4 girls love hanging out with us. I secretly dont mind though. We usually have to shut the door. I need to start your routine. Thanks

  1583. Ami

    The girls’ playroom and bedroom. They never stay straightened for more than 5 minutes at a time!

  1584. Amanda

    My clutter room is our mudroom/entry way from the garage. It just seems to be a spot that gets all kinds of things left behind. It is also our laundry room, so I want it to look at little organized! :)

  1585. Margi

    Our kitchen, particularly the center island. With teenagers, 2 working parents, an adult single parent daughter with a one year old, the kitchen becomes the center hub of non-stop activity and the dump center as we come in from the garage. Thanks for ideas.

  1586. Karen

    Our bedroom (the children’s rooms, too). When we don’t know where to put something, it goes in our bedroom. Not a good idea, I know, but when we’re in a hurry or companies coming, in it goes and often lives there a long time.

  1587. CHRISTY

    The kitchen is always a mess. The kids dump all their stuff around the island and the recycling takes over the counter because I don’t have a spot to keep it. Thanks for all the useful tips ~ it’s time for the whole family to get more organized!

  1588. Janet Sprinkle

    I have Clorox wipes in all four bathrooms and use them often throughout the house; how convenient to thoroughly clean an area!

  1589. Lana Leigh B.

    The boys (3!) bathroom. They leave their dirty clothes, towels, and the things they take out of their pockets in there. I’m after them everyday to pick up and put up! Implementing your strategy is a great idea…just have to get some boy cooperation!

  1590. jess erin

    We just moved in to our new house 2 months ago but I can already tell our problem area is the living room/entryway. It’s a magnet for clutter!

  1591. Mary

    I needed more space so when the kids left home I got rid of the old couch
    that collected what seemed like everything and never replaced it. I would sit down when tired after work and tended not to get up. I appreciate all the info and it does help. I had a stack of tips I tore out of magazines which were on the sofa and never really read them. Am more organized now.

  1592. Kim Chadwell

    The hardest room for me to keep clean is our master bedroom. Everything seems to get dumped in there, making it feel more like a closet instead of the retreat I would like for it to be. The runner up room would be my daughters’ bathroom!

  1593. Renate' Holloway

    My dining room where all of my antique booth junk is kept. Help!!!!!

  1594. Ina

    Our living room/family room is the hardest to keep organized, since it doubles as a play space for my 3-year old. We do most of our living in this area, so things just pile up with no clear home. I get it organized one day, then the next day things are piling up again. Yikes!

  1595. Kris Matuszewski

    Our bedroom closet is the worst to keep organized. You’d think it would be the easiest. But it seems to be the catch-all place, where stuff gets thrown & the door is closed so it’s out-of-sight. So not good………

  1596. Kelly Cosgrave

    I would say my toughest room is the Master Bedroom. It is my dumping spot! Second place would be my office! But little by little I’m making steps to get it all organized! I was not born an organizer!

  1597. Tina Jane Gebert

    Hi, I enjoy your blog. Thanks for the chance to win! My whole house is in need of clutter busting, I am a saver of much TOO much! This warm weather is inspiring me to clean house. I have 2 boxes packed for GOODWILL SO FAR. I already feel lighter and as a bonus my home feels bigger,more spacious. Thanks for the tips.

  1598. Delia

    The entryway is always the dumping ground when everyone walks through the door. I have tried different ways to organize but havent found the right way yet.

  1599. Sue M.

    I would have to say our side entry which is also our laundry room and pantry area…it’s a multi-task room where things that are to go outside end up on the countertop as well, oh did I also mention my husband insists keeping some handy tools here as well? I at least have them hidden in a drawer. :-)

  1600. Joni

    Great ideas for staying clutter free! My kitchen is definitely the most difficult to keep clean and clutter free. Not only are we in there cooking, baking, eating what feels like all day, it’s where we all come and go all day long so everything gets dumped on the counters. :)

  1601. April Stephens

    twitter@lovedbyabba
    I have always been disorganized. I live in a small apartment and have lots of papers and books around me! I can’t afford an organizer. I’ve been treated for ADD for years but it hasn’t helped.

    thanks for all the great pictures. It’s easier for me to understand if I can see it.
    April

  1602. Susan

    Our kitchen counter seems to be the catch all. Also my back door entry catches all the shoes and backpacks.

  1603. Erin

    It would have to be my home office. Papers everywhere.

  1604. Jennifer

    The kitchen! Between cooking, snacking, and doing the laundry (yes, our laundry machine is in the kitchen), it’s never tidy. The floors always seem to be accumulating dirt and the counter spaces are rarely clear.

  1605. Lauren

    The kitchen is the most difficult to keep clean and decluttered. It is where I spend most of my day and it makes me nuts that it becomes the family’s dumping ground as they come through the house. Mail, trash, shoes, bags, toys, you name it and it finds its way to the kitchen. Not to mention all the dishes and cooking stuff that pile up. It is enough to make a gal go nuts! :)

  1606. Nicole Balogh

    The toughest room for me to keep clutter-free would have to be the my kids’ room. Until we move into a bigger home, my 4-year-old and 2-year-old share a room. There is not a lot of space to store their clothes and toys with 2 beds in the room. It is definitely a challenge trying to keep it organized!

  1607. Pat Youngblood

    Am wanting to downsize but need to organize things in order to be able to differentiate between keep and give aways.

  1608. Southern Gal

    My laundry room (which is where everyone enters my home) and kitchen. (Our computer/office station is there, too, so it’s a triple whammy!) One progresses into the other and it’s so hard to keep on top of it. Thanks for the chance to win.

  1609. Lisa

    My dining room is right off of the front door, and the table seems to be the dumping ground for everything, no matter where the stuff SHOULD go. It’s stressful to walk in and see all that clutter first thing.

  1610. Judie K.

    There is this one spot on my kitchen counter that becomes a dumping ground for paperwork – from junk mail to the newspaper, it’s a constant, daily battle that I just. can’t. win.

  1611. Joan McDonagh

    since we moved in with our daughter and her family from 2000sq ft home to 700 sq ft basement apartment I am challenged in each room. I certainly appreciate your ideas and the gift card would be an amazing help.
    Thanks,
    Joan

  1612. Elise

    The hardest room in my house to keep clean and clutter free is our storage closet. It doesn’t seem to matter how many time I go through it and organize it and get rid of stuff, it always ends up overflowing again in no time!

  1613. Darlene R.

    Since we all use laptops in my house now, my home office has become a drop spot for everything. Bags of outgrown clothes, unused toys, vacuum, excess furniture to the point you have to climb over things to use the printer. I need motivation to purge and declutter.

  1614. Margaret Diez

    I find that the kitchen/eat-in area seems to collect clutter because that’s where everyone converges for eating, homework and hanging out.

  1615. Jennifer

    Oh the clutter! With homeschooling three children it seems my house is always full of toys and papers, books and shoes. The most difficult room to keep clutter free is the kitchen. That is where we homeschool. It is the first room we come into from outside. The shoes pile up. The papers pile up. The books. The odds and ends! Thanks for the great tips. I know where I need to begin. :)

  1616. Susan

    Our kitchen island – it is the dumping ground for everyone – but me!!!

  1617. Patti

    Our master bedroom is the most cluttered room in our home. Everything seems to get dumped in there, especially laundry. It is not a sanctuary for me…the clutter stresses me out!

  1618. Jennifer

    We generally enter the house through the garage, which opens up to a lower level living room with a wet bar. There is no foywer or entry at all, you are just “in the room” when you walk through the garage. The first piece of counter is the bar. Its somewhat small, and the space behind it is kind of tight. So we rarely actually use the bar for anything except dropping mail, coupons, purses, to-do lists, tools for projects, etc. So the bar/countertop/dumping ground is the hardest place to keep clutter free. I “pick up” that area at least 1 time every 2 days.

  1619. Kris M.

    My family room! With 5 kids and a dog, it’s where we live. It also houses the table where we eat and an island for all the papers! Good thing I have 5 “helpers” to keep it declutteredM

  1620. Ginny

    Definitely the kitchen and really it’s the kitchen. Love that it is large but that also means there is more room to accumulate clutter from paper to stuff that takes forever to find its rightful home.

  1621. Ginny

    Oops meant to say kitchen island. iPhone typing is not my forte.

  1622. crystal s.

    The hardest to keep clean is the kitchen and dining room table. It seems like everything is dumped on the counters or table.

  1623. Amanda

    The kitchen is definitely the hardest. It’s where everyone comes in and drops their stuff from the day.

  1624. Jodi

    Sadly, our master bedroom is the hardest for me. It’s become the easiest place to put stuff that I don’t know what to do with otherwise. I think it’s because it’s the room I spend the least amount of time in everyday, once I’m ready for the day, I don’t go back in there until bedtime. I’m in the kitchen and family room a lot so it’s easier for me to see the clutter in there and deal with it, I already have down some of the routines you mentioned. Thank you so much for the opportunity! It would be wonderful to win!

  1625. Kristine

    We have a huge clutter problem, but the worst is the basement family room. I don’t go down there much, my hubby, who doesn’t see messes/clutter/doesn’t care, works down there, and my kids spend time down there when I’m away for a weekend working. It gets out of control FAST, and I hate trying to get it back in order!

  1626. Margaret Ann

    We have a laundry room/back entrance room/office that is difficult to keep clutter free. It takes a once a week clean out to keep it neat.

    Thanks!

  1627. Wendi

    Ugh! It is definitely my kitchen. It is where life centers around. We eat three meals a day there plus snacks. We dump things there as soon as we walk in the door. It is where the kids find me and bring me things, it is where I make calls, menu plan, pay bills, lesson plan….. It is where we do life.

  1628. Kris W

    Our home office is the space which is most difficult to keep clutter free. We are in a small two-bedroom apartment, so our office is at one end of the living room near the entry door. We work from our home and need lots of file cabinets and bookshelves to keep papers and books easily accessible. This is a temporary living situation (less than a year) so I haven’t invested much time into getting a workable solution. In addition, we have a low budget so I am making do with a variety of storage finds from garage sales and thrift shops. We look forward to moving into a house in about a month where we will have a room dedicated to office, but we don’t want to take the same bad cluttering habits and unsuitable storage system with us into our new home.

  1629. MarLaney

    For us it’s the shoes at the front door. I’ve tried adding shelves, baskets and that didn’t work… need another solution.

  1630. Corinne Kurzmann

    The hardest room for me to keep clutter free is our living room..Seems that every day the homework, coupons, newspapers and life bits stop there and never go away!
    Corinne

  1631. Pamela

    I would have to say our kitchen island is honestly the most jam packed area of our house! It’s constantly filled with whatever we were carrying in our arms and dumped on there, or mail, or recipes, or left overs from my crafts. It’s a constant disaster and with an open floor plan the island is essentially right in the middle of our home. Not the prettiest :(

    Pamela

  1632. Yvonne Wall

    The kitchen, we use it at least 3 times a day, we come into it from the garage and the kids do all of their homework and snacks and crafts at the table.

  1633. Carolyn Wiebe

    The guest room is the WORST spot in the house. It collects anything from paperwork waiting to be done to thrift store pile up to random recycling. I recently cleaned it out and made it pretty and promised myself I’d never turn it into a sty again…we’ll see.

  1634. Sarah krempin

    Linen closet!! We don’t have a lot of storage in our bathroom so our closet is packed! I’ve tried to organize with baskets but the baskets end up becoming just as cluttered!

  1635. kathryn

    the kitchen – its the command center of the house and we spend so much time in there!

  1636. ginger erp

    My toughest room to clean is my bathroom. I have a 14 year old son. He’s gross:/

  1637. Karen

    The worst room is my laundry room and pantry. I actually avoid the room because it sends me into a panic. I’m working on it, but I have a long way to go.

  1638. Mollypnut

    One self-applied rule that helps me control clutter is: if I go into a cluttered room, I don’t leave without taking something with me to put back into its proper storage place.

  1639. Lyndsey Coya

    The hardest room to keep clean is our bedroom! If we have last minute guests or leave our 7 month old chocolate lab out- we pile everything in our room so that the living/dining area actually look clean!

  1640. Debbie Provost

    The hardest room in our home to keep clean is my kitchen. When we sold our home, I went from a walk in pantry, to just cabinets above the sink and stove. Trying to keep it organized and clutter free is a losing battle. I’ve been investigating turntables and those little standing shelves. And I don’t even want to get into the pots and pans, which used to hang on a pegboad in my pantry. They are now a jumble in a small cabinet near the stove. For some reason, mail and coupons end up piled on the small counter between next to the refrigerator. Just a handy drop spot for everyone I guess. But I don’t give up…I keep trying to organize and fix things!

  1641. Lisa O.

    My kitchen counter is the WORST spot…It is the first place that everyone drops all of their STUFF, and they never seem to pick the stuff back up and put it where it belongs. When I do get it all cleaned off, it seems like I have to nag them all not to clutter it back up…I hate being a naggy mom/wife (well, most of the time)!

  1642. Ashley

    My kitchen! It is the first area you come to in my apartment and the counters seem to be a magnet for anything I have in my hands!! I need to get a few baskets to help control the clutter!

  1643. Vicki

    The stairs in my entry way seem to catch whatever is in my hand when I come in the door! Mail stacking up seems to be the main problem. I finally did put a decorative hook up for my keys so I can find them, but the mail seems to be the main problem of clutter in my house!

  1644. Kati B

    The most difficult room for me to keep claen and organized right now is the kitchen. Our island is a catch all for clotter.. mail, snacks and lots more. And the next most challenging is my childrens room. They share and storage is minimal.

  1645. Vanessa

    it is the bedroom for us. My husband still has to learn to put his clothes in the dirty clothes hamper, it doesn’t matter whether he be 2 ft away from the hamper while he is changing or he is all the way across the house. Being that I have a rocker by the fireplace in the bedroom [for looks] close to his bed side, it ends up being his dirty clothes hang out and I am having to pick up after him before bed and in the morning after he leaves for work.

    I wish he would learn. Seriously! The dirty clothes hamper is in his bathroom, right where he changes clothes!!! LOL

  1646. Sherry Baird

    My counter top, I have in home daycare, so everything I need and don’t need to work with the children consume my counter top, I have no organizational skills or the extra money to go out and get what I need to make it nice and organized, Hopefully if I win I will be on my way of making it better, if not I will work on the tips you so graciously provided. Thanks a million. Makes me want to get to work on it right now.

  1647. Bonnie Ailshie

    my laundry room, it’s the dumping grounds for everyone in the house and it’s too small for all of it’s needs. can’t see the desk anymore!! ugh

  1648. Tania

    the hardest room to keep clean in our house is the dining room. all our stuff is cluttered on the dining room table.
    tania
    [email protected]

  1649. Lisa H.

    My household #1 clutter spot is our kitchen table. We stack mail, receipts and coupons there, thinking we’ll get to it soon. ‘Soon’ usually takes us about 3 weeks. bleh. I get really tired of walking in the house and seeing that. We really need to create some new habits!

  1650. Heather

    My kitchen! We have a 700 sq foot home with 2 dogs, my husband and I, and my 11-year-old daughter. EVERYTHING ends up in the kitchen. First off, we have no counter space. So, the stove is where the mail, sunglasses, wallets, and keys end up (even though we have a key rack next to the door). Groceries, lunchboxes, paperwork, etc., end up on the kitchen table. This interrupts my routine because I am always clearing off the stove and table so I can cook and we have a place to eat. Problem is the “junk” has no place to go so we end up moving piles around to new locations. HELP! :D

  1651. Kayla

    The living room!!! It is a dumping ground of all my grad school books, junk mail, random shoes, and dirty dishes!

  1652. Manda

    For some reason, our kitchen sees the worst of the clutter and it drives me crazy because you can see that room from the front door! I’ve hung things and tried to intercept the mail and random things that make it’s way in there, but it still looks WAY too cluttered.
    What’s the secret?

    • Manda

      *its

  1653. luly

    Master bedroom is hardest to keep decluttered. I live in small apartment and everything seems to go there until I can get stuff where its supposed to be. Why, oh, why is it so hard to complete that task???

  1654. Brittny Cosentino

    I would think in my whole house, the hardest room, is my daughters play room. I have little bins color coordinated with different toys and coloring books, etc. Since my 4 year old is still learning how to read, she does get confused sometimes. I changed the labels to have a little book beside the word “Books” so she can see the picture and learn the word at the same time. It has helped a lot. Its even harder to organize her dress up clothes. She has every princess dress with matching shoes, and literally changes her mind every 5 minutes on what to wear. So thats usually a big mess, but its worth the hundreds of princess dress up pictures I have. Wouldn’t change it for the world :)

  1655. Barbara

    My son’s room and the kitchen junk drawer. If all else fails throw it in there seems to be our routine.

  1656. Michelle Clark

    Cluttered space = cluttered mind. Honestly they are all equally bad. I will say my kitchen is the worst because there is always so much happening there. Kids’ school papers get dumped on the counter, the command center/charging station is cluttered and covered with mail or things that need attention (permission slips, field trip money, to do lists, coupons, etc.). Not to mention the dishes, food prep, cleanup, stuff sitting on counters because there is no room in the pantry, etc., etc. It is extremely disheartening and overwhelming at times. I am going to try your method and hope routine decluttering becomes a habit! Thanks for the chance to win!

  1657. Cara

    Two of my daughters share a room (they are 8 & 5) and I swear, I clean that room at least twice a day. It’s so cluttered and awful:(

  1658. Norell

    My laundry/craft room is impossible to keep organized. I opened the door and everything explodes in my face!!!

  1659. Jen

    Our kitchen is clutter central! Our limited counter space holds the toaster, spice rack, knife set and coffee maker. No big deal, right? Except somehow it’s also become a gathering space for all of our mail and various files – which are piled sky high. Not to mention my husband’s aversion to emptying the dishwasher, which means it doesn’t take long for dirty dishes to start gathering. Then there’s the kitchen table, the adopted home of our car seat, random clothing items, various purchases, etc., etc. Ridiculous!

  1660. Erin

    Our living room/dining room/playroom! It’s where we spend all of our time, and I feel like there aren’t enough bins and shelves in the world to keep everything in it’s place! :-/

  1661. Lynn J

    Master bedroom. We are using it as an office right now and mail, receipts and he like accumulate.

  1662. Heather

    Definitely the hardest room in the house to keep clean would be the kitchen! Its the first room you walk into from the back door (our main entrance) and the place where everything gets dumped.

  1663. Carol Hobbs

    That would have to be my very own desk. Clutter magnet like none other. Perhaps I should just go work on that right now.

  1664. Rebecca

    I think the hardest room in the house for me to keep clean is the master bedroom. By the time I make it there in the evenings, all I want to do is toss whatever is in my hand on a flat surface and if those are full, then the floor works. I am going to use these tips and try to get a start on the decluttering this weekend!

  1665. Suzan

    The office/craft room is our biggest hotspot. Need to get back in the habit of picking up as we go!

  1666. Sharon

    Great post! My kitchen is the big catchall place, followed closely by the office because the clutter from the kitchen gets shuffled into the office. Let’s not even talk about my purse and my car.

  1667. Laura

    My tough spot is our kitchen…we have six kids and there is almost always someone in the kitchen fixing a snack, meal, or baking goodies. It is the heart of our home where people clutter up the counters and table with their stuff.

  1668. christy

    For me and my family it’s the “great”room. Just off our small kitchen is a recttangle shaped room that is used as a dinning, entertaining, tv, reading and board game room.

  1669. Miki

    unfortunately, the master bedroom. It’s the last room I focus on so stuff just gets dumb that “I’ll deal with later”. Later hardly ever comes.

  1670. Sarah

    My Family Room. It’s always a disaster area!

  1671. Jessica F

    The kitchen, for sure

  1672. Margaret

    By far, my bedroom. For some reason I just can’t seem to get my dirty clothes into my dirty clothes hamper. I know my mom taught me better than that!

  1673. Beverly

    An easy question!!!… Most definitely our office/schoolroom is the hardest to keep clutter-free or even tidy!… So many papers, books, computer/iPod cords/accessories and PILES… I routinely feel like the walls are closing in here… (Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!)

  1674. Lydia

    Our creative room is the one that is most difficult to keep clean/clutter-free, because my husband and I work on many projects in there.

  1675. Kat Bolin

    Our master– our dressers primarily! Everything gets dropped there to take care of when we have time. Time comes to head to bed (the master) and we are too tired to deal with it… Then it begins and repeats the next day!
    Love you!!!

  1676. Cherie Tresser

    My kitchen table is the worse spot! We homeschool, so it is always piled high with papers, school books, and whatever everyone drops off as they enter the house.

  1677. Leigh Smith

    The kitchen counters are certainly my downfall!!!

  1678. Crystal H

    Definitely our home office! When life gets busy it’s easy to let the paper pile up. It also becomes the unofficial landing space for all the whatnots and gadgets that don’t belong anywhere else in the house.

  1679. Judy

    My loft/office. I think junk and clutter breeds in there.

  1680. Barbara

    My kitchen, especially the kitchen table. Everything seems to pile up on it and then we can’t all sit down and eat together.

  1681. Michelle Burns

    Our kitchen gets so congested! A little daily pick up helps so much. I feel better if I take 10 min at night to clean it up and wake up to a nice looking kitchen :)

  1682. LeAnna B

    For me, my tough spot would be the kitchen, and the kitchen counter! I would love to win this to help with some much needed organization!

  1683. Shannon H

    I’d say our worst room is the living room which looks like a toy store exploded. My husband would say our entryway, which is a catch-all for things with no home. And our master bedroom needs major help too! I’d love to win, thanks!

  1684. Kami Buchanan

    my daughter’s room is destroyed everyday. It’s the first thing I see as I walk out of my room and it causes me instant anxiety. My home office is where all the clutter goes as I de-clutter other rooms. It is in need of a total makeover and 20 garbage bags!

  1685. Colleen

    The family room. It’s where all the boys bring their toys, where we watch tv, where the computer is. I often look at it at the end of the day and feel as if a tornado hit.

  1686. Kami Buchanan

    Great giveaway! my daughter’s room is destroyed everyday. It’s the first thing I see as I walk out of my room and it causes me instant anxiety. My home office is where all the clutter goes as I de-clutter other rooms. It is in need of a total makeover and 20 garbage bags!

  1687. Courtney

    The hardest area in my house to keep clean and clutter free is the kitchen. It is the drop spot for mail, toys, work bags, school bags, and anything else that might enter our home. That doesn’t even take into account dishes and food prep…

  1688. bre dale

    The most difficult room in the house for me to keep straight is the dining room. It’s open to the kitchen and the living room and everyone sees it. It is where we drop all of our stuff and stays piled up there for months!

    @BresBaubles

  1689. Lisa

    The kitchen. It’s where the family meets for food, fun, fellowship . . . and forgetting to leave it cleaner than they found it. Some of the best memories have been made there!

  1690. Michelle

    I would totally use it for my home office aka junk room. It seems thats where everything ends up…

  1691. Kathryn

    Hard decision between two (very messy) rooms, but I’ll go with the kitchen, because it drives me the craziest! I can clean that room for HOURS and it still not be clean, or it gets messy again within 5 minutes. I think i need to do some reason praying on what I need to do for that room :)
    As a side note I love Clorox wipes – I converted over to them about a year ago for bathroom cleaning – it makes it SO easy – I clean the girls’ bathroom in 5 minutes while I watch them have a bath – so quick and I know it is clean :) LOVE them.

  1692. Andrea Wood

    Our office/craft area is the hardest to manage. It is right off the back door and things get dumped there every day. Lots of garbage bags needed in there.

  1693. Maria M

    I have a spot on my kitchen counter when you walk in that every piece of paper ends up. No matter how many times I pick them up, more keeps being added. UGH!

  1694. Candi

    My worst clutter hot spot is the kitchen. Between meals and snacks, it is also where homework gets done and my kiddos seem to leave their shoes. :)

  1695. Becky

    The hardest spot to keep clean in my house is the kitchen! Baby toys, mail, dishes, random items all seem to just appear! The kitchen has to be picked up a few times a day to stay somewhat clean.

  1696. Judy B

    The kitchen counters are the biggest challenge to keep tidy. Everything seems to land there from A to Z. We are moving back in to a freshly remodeled kitchen, and the challenge is organizing efficiently this time…downsizing really. Only two of us and we still have clutter! I need containers and Target to help me get organized. Thank you for this helpful post!

  1697. Andrea

    With 2 adults and 6 kids, our biggest clutter hotspot is our entryway! Lots of shoes, bags, and jackets! I would love to win!

  1698. Courtney Taylor

    My most difficult area to keep clutter free isn’t a whole room, but the raised ledge on the counter between the kitchen and living room. Everything from both rooms gets dumped there!

  1699. abby lones

    Definately the kitchen! Everyone tends to spend the most time in there & bring their “stuff” =)

  1700. Madelene Leaphart

    The closet in my bedroom is the hardest for me to keep clean and clutter free. I’m always in a hurry in the morning to get dressed so whatever I don’t end up wearing gets thrown back in the closet (often on the floor) and when I get home from work I often kick my shoes off and let them fall wherever inside the closet (usually on TOP of the clothes I didn’t wear that morning!)

  1701. Shirley

    The kitchen! It seems like the counter is where everyone drops whatever they have in their hand and there it lays until someone, me, decides she has had enough and cleans it all up.

  1702. Lee

    Definitely the entry way table in our mud room. My boys and husband tend to use that as a dumping ground for everything: book bags, keys, phones, papers, etc.

  1703. Chris Riffe

    Hard to choose between our kitchen, living room and office. In the end I think the kitchen is the hardest to keep clean. It always collects all the bills, bags, and anything that we drop when we come into the house. Plus the toys my son drags in to play with when I’m cooking.

  1704. Nicole

    The dining room! Everything we don’t have a place for seems to end up there.

  1705. Amy

    The mudroom, it’s a catch all for everthing that gets brought into the house. It’s too easy to just put things down and forget about them. Then there is the mud!!!

  1706. Sue

    The kitchen is almost impossible to keep clutter free since it is where all the mail and household papers accumulate. I am going to try the new daily habits :)

  1707. Laureen V

    The playroom/family room. It’s a huge room, but functions as many things; music room, tv room, office and guest room. I’ve got to come up with a better plan for that space!

  1708. Victoria

    Thats an easy one for me. THE MASTER BEDROOM!!! I am sooo ashamed!! This is my catch however. Because my husband and I opted to buy more land than house (if you know what I mean) I had to sacrifice BIG TIME on a laundry room. My laundry is in a closet in my bedroom along with the other storage closets. It was fine before the three children, but now I feel like I sleep in the utility room. I will be honest, its not romantic at all!!! I know any room can be made adorable, but so far I have let myself (and my husband) down on my promise to have a beautiful organized master.

  1709. Jennifer R.

    Absolutely! The kitchen bar catches everything as well as our lockers built in in the mud room!

  1710. Denise

    The hardest spot to keep uncluttered is my husband’s office. He is a pastor and his office is in our home. There are lots of books for study, mailings, articles, and notes to remind him of this or that…It’s a small room, so any clutter or piles make the room even smaller. I’m an organizer, but if I move anything he won’t find it! He is in need of tools to organize his materials himself. Thanks for the chance to win this great giveaway!

  1711. Mary Beth Hunt

    My office. I’m a PILEr not a FILEr, so I gots piles!!!

  1712. Tammi

    It’s such a toss up between several areas, but I would have to go with our bedroom. Between clean clothes and my husbands hiking stuff it is a mess!

  1713. Jennifer Ross

    This is definitely a toss up between the kitchen and our master bedroom. Our house is tiny, so every little piece of mail or laundry makes a difference. Thanks for this post. I want to learn to declutter and relax!

  1714. Priscilla

    Shamefully, it’s the master bedroom. I move baskets of laundry in there to work on, and then don’t. I also carry the stacks of catalogs and magazines in there to look at/read, and the stacks grown faster than my reading. And my closet (we have two) should be condemned.

  1715. Robin

    Kitchen, ugh. Despite the fact that we have a mudroom and good-sized foyer, my family tends to bring everything into the kitchen.

  1716. Toni

    Kitchen counter!

  1717. Sharon Goemaere

    In our 658 square foot apartment nearly anywhere could be a potential place for clutter to be a problem!Been really trying to make a conscious effort to keep that from happening though by picking up daily as needed!~Sharon Goemaere

  1718. Olga

    My basement, I think the reason is because it’s not finished!

  1719. Penelope

    The kitchen and bar area are just clutter magnets! Between mail, papers from school, and just general stuff it gets piled up fast!

  1720. Crys

    Um. SO cluttered here. Starting a new furniture painting business venture and my house has seriously gone by the wayside. Sigh. Might be just the thing I need to kick start my spring cleaning.

  1721. Whitney Sanderson

    The hardest room in our home to keep clean is the dining room/kitchen. The two rooms are attached and combined into one and it is also the first room you walk into when you enter the house. Therefore, not only do we get the typical kitchen mess with dishes, food, etc., we also seem to always have a pile of junk mail, keys, coats, shoes, etc. I actually use Clorox wipes almost daily to help out with the mess and it really gets off grease and grime well!

  1722. Cathy Terrill

    The Dining Room – we have a small house and not a lot of counter space. Everybody walks right in the front door and dumps everything on the dining room table. My husband even puts his clothes out for work the next day on it – drives me crazy!!!

  1723. Gretchen

    Our bonus room because it acts as my office (total desk clutter), the school room, and a play room. Time to get a handle on it and ORGANIZE!

  1724. brandy

    My daughters’ room! Oh, it’s my nemesis!

  1725. Emily

    There’s a telephone nook in our kitchen where my “pile” of paperwork resides. It grows every day after school, after the mail comes, when packages arrive…you get the picture!

  1726. Dina Marie

    The most difficult room to clean and to organize is the home office! My 7 years old son and I definitely use this office daily. So, it is difficult to keep it organized.

  1727. Valeri

    What a great article! The clutter spot coming to mind is the counter near the entry. Keys, mail, receipts, electronics always seem to pile right there. Can’t wait to be more conscious of thus area and practice what I’ve just read.

  1728. Candice Ranney

    Our bedroom is always a mess.

  1729. Shan

    That’s easy…my kitchen! Everyone wants to just dump stuff there and it drives me crazy! Plus family members don’t like to put dishes back where they go. Boy, usually when there are this many people competing for a chance to win something I don’t bother, but I thought I would take a chance because I would love this so much! Thanks for offering the giveaway. Hugs, Melissa! :D

  1730. Linda

    My problem child, is my living room. This is where I let my hair down, so to speak,it is a mess of magazines, crafts and layers of dust. I can’t believe I just fussed up!

  1731. Cathy with a C

    It’s a toss-up between the kitchen and the bathroom. Everything gets piled on in the kitchen including all the mail for the day. The only reason I listed the bathroom is because my husband spits toothpaste on the mirror and globs of it in the sink EVERY DAY!! If it wasn’t for Clorox wipes, it would be so much harder to clean up.

  1732. holly

    toss up between kid’s playroom and kitchen counter, but kitchen counter would have to win because it is the center of our home and always visible. (at least the playroom is upstairs!) it is so easy for the big center island/countertop to become a catchall for everything.

  1733. Liz

    Oh hands DOWN…my office! I have so many things, and have been trying to get it organized!
    I would LOVE to win…thanks for the opportunity!

  1734. Jackie

    It is the kitchen! No surprise there…it is where the family hangs out and because our back entry door leads into it, things are dropped right there on the kitchen counters….thanks for the chance to win…boy could I use the help!

  1735. Pamela

    Definitely the kitchen counter. It seems like everything that anyone doesn’t know what to do with ends up here. School papers, hair ties, dishes that need to be washed, put away, or returned to the owner. Not to mention empty soda cans, recylables…. It’s a real problem in my house!

  1736. Jennifer Jeffers

    The Kitchen! Everything accumulates on the counters… from keys to school papers, books, purses, etc. etc…

  1737. wishinfortexas

    My husband’s study is definitely the hardest room to keep clutter-free, partly because it’s small. And, he’s always working on a writing project or grading papers – stacks upon stacks. But, he’s my favorite clutterer! :)

  1738. Alicia Ladd

    The master bedroom is the most difficult at our home. My husband empties his pockets on the dresser; I tend to pile up my work clothes on a chair. By the end of the week, I can’t take it any longer! Our bedroom really needs a makeover and I think if I jumped in and did some painting, organization, etc. that I would have a strong desire to keep it more organized.

  1739. Nichole

    My master bedroom. It seems like everyone thinks if something doesn’t have a home, it goes there.

  1740. Patricia M. Ham-Ying

    It is a toss up of two rooms. The Mudroom and the kitchen. What doesn’t get dumped in the mudroom on the way in, Gets dumped in the kitchen. I am always picking up the messes in both rooms. I hate clutter!

  1741. Tracy

    Definitely my kitchen, but the mudroom is a close second. Then again, the master and laundry room are right up there.

  1742. cindy b.

    my home office – it has typical home office stuff, plus all of my scrapbook stuff and it also becomes a dumping ground for stuff we don’t know where to put. oh, and don’t forget all of the kids’ papers and art. and books. oh my!

  1743. Brenda

    Our Family Room in the Basement ~ outta site, outta mind!

  1744. Arlene Selser

    The kitchen is the hardest room in the house to keep clean and the kitchen table is my clutter zone since everyone finds it most convenient to drop their contents there when arriving home. (even me)

  1745. Amber K

    I would say, my husband’s office. I tend to become a bit of a “catch-all” room for our odds, ends, clean/folded laundry that is waiting to be put away. Hoping to get containers to organize paper piles/boxes….and more. :o)

  1746. Beverly Childs

    The kitchen counter. Everyone walks by it as they enter the house and the automatically put their purse, keys, glasses, mail there. everything goes there!

  1747. Beverly Childs

    The kitchen counter. Everyone walks by it as they enter the house and the automatically put their purse, keys, glasses, mail there. everything goes there!

  1748. Carolyn Henry

    The family room. It’s where the family gathers everyday! In this room we always have my son Legos around, my hubby’s school work & bills, as well as something of my daughter’s that she’s taken off or set down. If this room doesn’t get daily attention, it quickly gets cluttered.

  1749. Loren

    The kitchen and the kitchen table. Papers pile up, kids’ stuff, etc.

  1750. Michelle

    The bedroom! I stuff all the “stuff” in there when company is coming. It doesn’t always get cleaned out, so it piles up until I get frustrated and tackle it.

  1751. Yvonne

    It’s a tossup between the kitchen and my bedroom. I don’t have a place for everything!

  1752. Donna Christianson

    My 1939 Kitchen is the biggest clutter zone in my cottage home. It needs a make-over! Thanks for sharing your organizational tips.

  1753. Nita

    The kitchen Island counter is my clutter catch all! With 3 adult children living back at home all the mail gets piled there and I don’t feel like it can be thrown until they’ve seen it. I bought a little letter/pen/file box to sit right there and labeled files thinking it would help but now thats a cluttered mess too! I told everyone I am about to get my label maker out and put their names on a glass so they just have one for the day and my counter isn’t clutter with dirty glasses!

  1754. kathi spino

    My entry way is a total clutter zone. Shoes coats rain gear pocketbooks etc…Lots of stuff with 2 generations living in one house…Would love to organize this part of my house ….I think I can…I think I can.Yes I will!!

  1755. Pam Clarke

    I love hearing how other families cope with clutter. Any helpful hints are always worth trying with my family. I really love all your ideas. Anything that can make chores around the house quicker and simplified, will give us all time with those who are most important to us.

  1756. Jenny Brown

    Anywhere my husband dumps stuff! Living room, kitchen counter, dining room table, everywhere! I am an extremely organized person by nature, but he makes a mess everywhere! I can’t stand it! I need tips to keep a PERSON organized, not just PLACES! (I really do love the guy, though! ;) )

  1757. stacy h

    our bedroom! mostly because i hide stuff in there that needs dealt with and my hubs is awful about picking up his stuff =)

  1758. Maureen Sebek

    I live in an extremely small (600 sq ft.) apartment! I find the bedroom is the most cluttered because everything that doesn’t fit in the living room, dining room area is dumped in the bedroom “to be sorted out later!) Of course, “later” never comes! Any help with this would be hugely appreciated!!

    Love your blog!

    Maureen Sebek

  1759. Luanna Luke

    My clutter spot is my back entryway. We enter our home from the garagevin to this room. There is an adjacent half bath, a laundry room, and a large walk-in closet. This is kind of the dumping room from dirt and sand to shoes, boots, and jackets! I am constantly using my chlorox wipes to clean the door, the floor, and the door knobs. I would love to have a wonderfully organized closet and Laundry room. So often we have friends stop over and they seem to come in that back entry door. It is a little embarrassing to have shoes all over and jackets laying on the bench. Would lve to get it de-cluttered and keep it that way!!! Love all of your fabulous ideas!!!

  1760. shelly

    Probably a toss up between my kitchen and kid’s room. Looking forward to trying some of these tips. Thanks for the chance to win!

  1761. Kathy

    my bedroom is my main clutter spot! That’s where everything is put for me to get to later when I declutter other areas. Then things happen and it piles up!

  1762. beth

    my kitchen counters are always cluttered, and clutter keeps me from cleaning like i would like to

  1763. Anna marie

    Doesn’t it seem the smallest spaces collect the most clutter? Toss between my kitchen table or closets. Thanks for the awesome tips and a chance for those 2 fab give aways!

  1764. Sandra Jordan

    I need to conquer the small rain forest worth of trees in the form of paper that enters this house daily.

  1765. Abbie

    My kitchen counter tops!! Thanks for such a helpful post and great giveaway! As a young mom I need all the help I can get.

  1766. LeAnn

    This has been a busy year for my family so I’ve got a few hotspots of clutter. I think the one that bothers me the most is my dining room table where all the mail, etc gets dumped. I’m going to pick up a stand up file this weekend and that’ll be a start in the right direction.

  1767. Jaynie

    For me, my room is the “hidden” room that gets everything dumped to hide. For my kids, our back door entry is hard to keep picked up…school bags, instruments, gym bags. They are in the process of helping to plan, create and build a wall of organization that will help them to keep the entrance in their game room picked up.

  1768. Kelly

    My back door entry. I have two teenage boys and they want to throw hings down immediately. Friends always come through that door and I immediately get cringe before they even really enter my house.

  1769. Lori O.

    kind of a toss up between the kitchen (counters especially) and our master bedroom – where stuff goes to hide. I am working on both of them but it is a challenge for sure!

  1770. claire

    Our Bedroom is our biggest clutter spot. As with other commenters, our bedroom becomes the catch-all/hiding place when there’s seemingly no other area to place the items.

  1771. Patty

    Dining room table. Aargh! Smack-dab in the middle of an open floor plan. Convenient resting place for papers and clean laundry. Family makes “just for fun” bets on whether it will be cleared off in time for whatever holiday dinner is next on the calendar.

  1772. Kathy

    The kitchen! The kitchen table is my biggest hotspot – and the area I would most like to keep stuff away from!

  1773. Stephanie Trubic

    The livingroom. It’s the first room when you enter the house. We kick off our shoes and put down whatever is in our hands (often times they’ll remain there indefinitely for lack of a better place). Random stuff just gravitates there.

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