Announcing NaGarCleMo!

For those of you who left spouses and family members hanging during the month of November for NaNoWriMo, December is your opportunity to make it up to them.

That's right, I'm declaring December as National Garage Cleaning Month, more affectionately known as NaGarCleMo (na-gur-CLEE-mo). Here is your chance to go through and clear out all that junk that's been collecting and getting in your way. The NaGarCleMo challenge is to spend 50 honest hours cleaning out the garage (or attic, or basement, or workroom) in the 31 days of December.

Reclaim your home from junk! Clear that space so that you can live again in your own home in peace and with a sense of new beginnings. We've all heard of spring cleaning, but can you think of a better way to start the new year than with a clean garage, empty of all the old clothes, white elephants, forgotten junk, and broken machinery you've been hiding in there?

Let's face it...if you make garage-cleaning your New Year's Resolution, it will never get done. But if you commit at least 1.6 hours every day this month to freeing up the space in your home for you, you will begin the new year with a lasting and uncontainable surge of joy, vigor and excitement. (Best of all, your worst task of the year will be already behind you.) You can spend the new year, and all the months to follow, engaged in the passions and luxuries of a refreshed life.

Probably more importantly, it will not likely take you 50 hours to complete. If you clean out the garage in less than fifty hours, good for you! Enjoy the rest of the month. If you still have work to do after fifty hours, it will be easy to celebrate your monumental achievement so far, because one look will show you what incredible progress you've made.

So join me this month in pleasing ourselves and our families. Simplify your life. Make more room for you, and less room for your junk. And as you share your Santa lists with everyone, you might want to think twice about asking for things that will end up in the garage again, and go for real luxuries...like body massages, expensive dinners, cash and jewelry (my favorite items).

So, let's go, everyone! Crank up the radio, roll up your sleeves, and get dirty this month! The new year is beckoning to us with a brand new beginning.

(I'm Judd Miller, and I approve this message -- so why do I feel like Ralph Nader on election night?)