The Home Reset Challenge 2025

The Home Reset Challenge is now on YouTube!

January always brings a fresh wave of motivation and gumption. I love to ride that wave in as many areas of my life as I can so naturally it covers my home with a great splash. It’s the perfect time for a home reset where you take back control of your home after the holidays and begin putting new gifts into places so you can integrate them into your life. But finding room for the new things while the spaces are full of old things can bring on frustration - which is just the opposite of how that gift should feel.

Alas, we must find the right balance of old and new within the realms and boundaries of our homes, and so often that means decluttering our spaces. But where do we even start? Although there are many different answers to that question, I take one approach that I find helpful in my Home Reset Challenge. If you’re interested in resetting your home with real examples from a professional organizer, then check out my playlist by clicking here and use it as a springboard to start your own decluttering journey! If you have any questions or you get stuck, please reach out to me! I’d love to hear from you!

Top 5 of the Best Mother’s Day Gifts

Finding the perfect gift for the moms in our lives can be so challenging! To help you find a great Mother’s Day gift, here is a list of 5 things a lot of moms really want:

1. Really thoughtful gifts that prove you know her and listen to her with a card telling her why this made you think of her

2. Professional Organizing and/or House Cleaning Service

3. A massage or spa package like nails (by professionals)

4. Time (either time spent with loved ones or time away without feeling guilty)

5. Food (and if needed, schedule the babysitter and arrange all the plans for her so she doesn’t have to work for her own gift)

All of these gift ideas can connect to the 5 Love Languages (which if you’re not familiar with 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman I suggest giving it a read) which are very helpful in knowing for gift giving. Basically we love and receive love in 5 different categories and some categories are more preferred by a person than others. The categories are: Time, touch, service, words of affirmation, and gifts. To figure out which item on the list best fits the mom in your life, you can read the book, take the little quiz, or reflect on comments she has made or responses to gifts given in the past.

• If she asks about your opinion on what she looks like or how she is doing in her job or latest hobby, she might feel loved through hearing how you love her or what you love about her. Number 1 - a thoughtful gift and card telling her how thankful you are for her or how proud you are of her would mean a lot to her. Be specific and thorough in your words. Example: I’m so proud of how hard you work to take care of our family. You sacrifice many things in order to give to our family, and I know it isn’t easy. I love how <insert trait you love about her here> you are, and I have seen you do <give an example of her doing something you love> . You are <insert wonderful adjectives and even throw in a simile or metaphor here>.

• If she expresses frustration with her home and feels she is the only one who helps take care of the house, then she probably would feel very loved if she was gifted an act of service where her loved ones help complete a task for her. Hiring a professional organizer to makeover her space and bring order into her home could be the exact thing for her! Number 2 on the list would be a great fit for these moms and something I personally would love to help with. You of course can browse the rest of my website for more information if you want to take that route.

• If she expresses frustration with her appearance, feeling over stimulated, or often loves holding hands or hugging, then a gift that meets a physical need such as a massage or spa package would be a match! Plus giving her a hug when she gets home all relaxed would just be the icing on the cake!

• If she expresses wanting to spend time with you or just wanting to hang out, quality time sounds right up her alley. Spending focused time together is super valuable and this can be gifted by taking her somewhere she loves just the two of you or sending her off with her friends. What is important here is to make sure her needs and personality are considered and that guilt is far from the gift.

• Okay so this is just because food seems to be a great gift idea always! 😂 Sometimes I feel like food is a love language all on its own (not Gary Chapman’s opinion, just mine). Not having to cook and not having to plan can really help a stressed mom out. Depending on how you do it, you could make this one fit multiple love languages and add on to any gift!

For the mom in our lives, we ultimately want to tell them we love them and how we appreciate what they’ve done for us, but flowers and a store bought card never seem to cut it. And to be honest, even hiring a cleaning service doesn’t express the proper amount of gratitude for everything they’ve done, but it is a beautiful gesture of giving them something that helps them like they’ve helped you! Most importantly, moms love to feel cherished and thought of. We love to be known. No matter what gift idea you go with, if it shows you thought of her, I’m sure she will be grateful! The fact you’ve already read this far shows you really are trying - GOOD for you! I hope you this helps!

Happy Mother’s Day!