It’s Time for Spring Cleaning!!
3 Tips for a Tidy Home
Whether you are getting your home ready to sell or just getting inspired to start some tidying-up, here’s some tips:
1. Define your goal! While cleaning & organizing your ENTIRE house might be your plan – often times having a goal that is so monumental and time-consuming will ultimately lead to failure. If cleaning the entire house is really what you need to do – set a realistic time frame and then break it up into much smaller chunks. By having small goals like: hall closet, kitchen cabinets, or even just that one junk drawer – you will be motivated by completing your task and be ready to tackle the next area!
2. Get ready before you start!
Whether you are cleaning your entire house, a room or just that one junk drawer – set yourself up for success. Get four containers – they can just be old boxes or even a garbage bag.
The first box is for items that still have some life in them, just not at your house! Those you can Donate to a charity.
The next is just simply Trash – broken items, expired batteries, old paperwork…you know – all that stuff!
The Put Away box helps keep you on track! We’ve all been there…you grab a comb and head to your bathroom to put it away. In the bathroom you notice that the trash is over flowing, so you take that out and grab the mail on the way – in the mail is an invitation to a baby shower and before you know it you’re online shopping for a gift! To avoid this, use a box (or a few) to separate items that need to other rooms and take them all at once.
The To Save box can be items that need to be saved long term like mementos or items that need to be dealt with, but just not today. Make sure you have a plan of where those items will be stored or when you will go through the box so you aren’t just moving the problem to another spot in your house!
3. Finish The Project – No matter how big or small the area you are working on, make sure that you are completely done! For that junk drawer, empty it all out using the four box method above. Give it a good vacuuming or dusting. What’s the best way you can keep that area tidy in the future? That could mean a drawer organizer and labels or even just a few small boxes or containers to help keep items separated. You don’t have to spend a fortune, often you can reuse old packaging or find small containers at the dollar store to help.
