Ways to Clean Up Your Home This Spring

Spring is around the corner, and spring cleaning officially begins on the 20th of March. It’s important to clean your house this spring to remove the allergens and dirt that built up over the winter, but that doesn’t mean you have to dedicate weeks to the chore. Here are some tips to help make spring cleaning faster and easier.

Start with the Hardest Room
You will start your spring cleaning efforts full of energy, but that energy will start to fade as you work. Start with the hardest room and work your way to the easiest one. Whether it’s the kitchen or another space, completing the hardest room first will give you an incredible feeling of accomplishment. That will help give you the energy you need to keep moving into the other areas.

Top Down
Reader’s Digest reminds people to work from the top down. Start by dusting the higher shelves, ceiling fans and tops of curtain rods. Work your way down to polishing the furniture, and then finish up with the floors.

Treat the Curtains
This is the best time of year to clean your curtains. Left in position year after year, curtains start to dry rot. Take fancy lined curtains and draperies to the dry cleaner. Cotton and other soft textiles can be washed in your home machine after you remove the hooks. Your curtains will last longer, and they will look beautiful when you hang them again.

Say Good-Bye
Eliminate unwanted items from your home and put extra cash in your pocket at the same time. Good Housekeeping points out that those unwanted items in your house can be sold locally through the want ads, listed online with auction sites like eBay or even put to good use by donating them to charity. If you itemize taxes, donating those items will help you reduce your tax liability next spring. Whether you sell items direct to new buyers or send them across the country, your home will feel larger and cleaner as you say good-bye to items you no longer want, use or enjoy.

Whether you start dusting off all the books on your shelves and scrubbing every carpet in the house is largely a personal decision. Once you have done some basic spring cleaning around the house, you can set a goal to deep clean a different area every week. Before you know it, your home will be clean, sparkling and ready for you to enjoy the warm summer weather.
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