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Digital News Report – Now that it is Spring it is time to get your cleaning done. This is a great time of year to declutter, organize and freshen you home. Here is a checklist of items that you can do for Spring cleaning. You don’t have to do it all in one day, and you don’t have to do all of them. It really is just a way to help keep your home in tip-top living condition.
Have a checklist for each room in the house. Tape it to the wall of each room. As the items get completed you then check them off as complete. Once they are completed you can remove the paper from the room. Each room may have different tasks. You might want to go through the clothes in the closet to donate, get rid of old broken toys, organize any special messes, add storage solutions, and other organizing tasks you may think of.
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You can have a list of tasks that may cover the whole house. You probably would want to clean the windows all at once for the whole house. You may want to shampoo your carpets on the same day. If cleaning the carpets or windows are too big to complete in one day. Divide the projects up into sections over several days. If you can get the whole family to help out you can usually get the job done much faster than if you do the cleaning all by yourself.
Each room should have the walls wiped down. Be careful with flat paint and you may just want to dust it off with a dry rag. If you have a semi-gloss or gloss paint you can use a damp cloth to clean out dirt smudges. Get a broom and wrap part of an old T-shirt rag around the bristles and use it to collect the cobwebs that have collected in the corners of the ceiling. Dust around the air vents. Switch out the furnace filters which you should try to do on a regular basis. It is also a good time to go around changing out smoke alarm batteries.
If you have wood furniture it might be a good time to polish them with a wax or other polish sprays. This can protect the finish on them from getting worn out and old looking. The extra coating can protect against spills and scratches.
Dust everything that you can. Hopefully you have been dusting as you go throughout the year. You might not dust the ceiling fan very often. So this is a good time to dust those spots you don’t usually get to dust. You should also clean out behind the refrigerator and vacuum the dust that may have built up around the motor. Also you should clean out the lint that may have collected in your dryer and in the dryer vents.
If you have vinyl flooring you might want to mop and wax the floor to give it a shine. If you have a tile flooring you might want to scrub the grout extra good and reseal the grout to keep the floors clean looking. There are special grout sealers at home improvement stores. The same grout cleaning can be done for tiles in the shower and the counter-tops.
Sofas should be cleaned. If there are stains that you can spot scrub this could save a big huge cleaning do that. If not you might have to take the cushions and clean them, then clean the remainder with a upholstery cleaning solution. This can take time so you almost want to plan it for a day by itself.
Clutter can be one of the biggest problems many people face in their living spaces. Get yourself down to less stuff so that you can enjoy the space you live in. If you have too much stuff it can become difficult to keep a tidy house. If you don’t use the stuff, you can sell it in a garage sale, or you can donate to Goodwill. The less stuff, the easy it can be to clean your home on a regular basis. If you must have stuff, consider purchasing storage solutions to hide your stuff. That way you can have your stuff but it won’t take over your home. Plus you will be able to find it and put it back, because it will have a place for it.
As you can see there is just so much to do, that it is probably unreasonable to get all these things completed in one day. In order to keep your sanity, you and your family should schedule these projects over the next several weeks so that you can get your home all spruced up again after a long winter.
By Victoria Brown