In your busy daily life, it is difficult to find time to run a vacuum over the floor and clean the bathroom on a regular basis. Even when you find time to do a thorough basic cleaning job, dust, dirt, and grime still builds up in places you seldom clean, such as your baseboards, blinds, and ceiling fans. With a thorough “spring” cleaning, which actually should be done two to three times a year, you can get by the rest of the year with simply a basic cleaning job while the demands of your busy life take over.
It's a Big Job.
A thorough cleaning of your house entails cleaning every nook and cranny, from vacuuming under the couch to dusting the uppermost corners of your walls, and everything in between. Ideally, you will take a few weekends, taking one or two rooms of the house per day, and really do a thorough job. Open up every drawer and cabinet. Make piles of things to throw out and donate to a charity. If things have made their way into the wrong room of the house, put them back in their place. If you find that a particular section of your house is exceptionally disorganized, spend some time organizing it in a way that fits with your family's lifestyle. Perhaps purchase a shoe rack or buy storage bins where necessary.
Clean Everything!
During a normal housecleaning, you may vacuum and dust. When you are spring cleaning, you want to clean every nook and cranny of each room, including your baseboards and windowsills. When you are cleaning out drawers, wipe them down with a cloth to clean out any dust or debris. Vacuum out the closets and wipe down the blades of the ceiling fans. After a thorough cleaning of the carpeted areas, steam clean your carpets with a rug cleaner or have them professionally cleaned to get all of the trampled in dirt and grime out of the carpets.
Complete Side Projects.
If you've been putting off small maintenance items, such as touch up paint in the kids rooms or greasing a squeaky door hinge, now is the perfect time to do it. Change that burned out light in the closet. If the kids have outgrown some of their larger toys, such as a train table or dress-up vanity, remove these items as you go. As you go through each room of your home, make a point of getting each room in perfect, tip-top shape and complete those small tasks. When these small items build up over the course of weeks and months, your list of to-do items around the house can seem daunting. But when these items are tackled room by room, they are broken down into much more manageable workloads.
You can do spring cleaning any time of year, giving you a fresh, clean house you can relax in and enjoy. In addition, a thorough spring cleaning of your house will give you the luxury of a clean house for months to come with a simple, basic cleaning job.
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