Home Spring Cleaning Tips
Springtime brings back the sunshine and everything comes back to life.
The birds start chirping again. Your spirit is light, but what's that? Dirt and cobwebs in the corners?
If your house is untidy and unkempt, it cannot be a source of inspiration for you to work with enthusiasm during spring.
It follows that if you are to welcome the spring, your house has to be clean. That is why it is called spring-cleaning. In every civilization of the world, there is a time that is ordained for cleaning the house and this is just before the lazy days of summer begin.
The following tips can be useful to you when you do your spring-cleaning.
Before You Start:
There are a few things to consider so that the cleaning will be finished quickly as possible.
- Wear your comfortable old clothing that you won't mind if it gets stained dirty.
- Check your cleaning supplies. Don't wait until you' are ready to clean and find that you don't have any oven cleaner.
- Assemble your supplies and put them in a bucket to take with you when you clean. Items such as cleaning rags, all purpose cleaner, glass cleaner, cleaning rags, feather duster, disinfectant, and furniture polish.
- Get rid of the junk. Hold a garage sale. De-clutter your house and garage to turn trash into cash.
- Pick a weekend and start your spring cleaning. Many hands make light work. Reward the team with dinner at a pizza parlor.
- Make a list: Make a list of all things you would like to replace, fix or give to charity, and prepare a budget if necessary.
- Take one room at a time: It does not matter how many rooms you have in your house, you cannot do your house in a single day even if you have only two rooms.
- Open the doors let the fresh air in: open all the doors, let the fresh air in, start some music and start working in the room.
Checklist:
- Start cleaning with top down approach: Start cleaning from the top. Chandeliers, ceiling fans are hardest to clean, tackle them first.
- Wash draperies: Wash the draperies after you have cleaned the room. If you have Venetian blinds, clean those with wet cloth after you have dusted the room and vacuumed the carpet.
- Sort the useful and useless: In each room, sort the items you wish to keep and take away everything you do not wish to keep. Open all the drawers and cupboards, and take out all the material that you have not used for a long time and you are not likely to use, and separately store it for garage sale or charity.
- Do not throw away all papers in a room at a time: Collect all the papers that you have in each room and organize them in two groups. One you wish to keep and other you wish to throw away.
- When in doubt, throw it out: Do not keep useless things. Unless you take a detached look at each item, you will not be able to decide.
- Recycle it permanently: If you are, a firm believer in keeping things for use “just in case” you might collect many items that you will not need.
Try to make spring-cleaning fun. If you can involve your family members, it will be just like the outing you are planning during the summer. Well, maybe not, but you can try!
