Spring is here and many of us will take on a little spring cleaning in our homes. It's always nice to tidy up, reorganize and maybe even do a little purging.
Here are a few tricks to make your spring cleaning a little easier!
1) Create Cleaning "Zones"It's easy to fall into the trap of trying to tackle everything at once. Make it a little easier for yourself by creating cleaning "zones" and schedule out your cleaning room by room or task by task.
2) Vinegar has so many uses!
Looking for an alternative to harsh cleaners that stink? Grab some vinegar! Mix a solution of half vinegar and half water in a squirt bottle and you've got yourself a powerful cleaning. You can use the mixture to clean things like the inside of your refrigerator, your microwave, stain plastic containers, countertops, toilets, showers, tile. Mix in a drop of your favorite essential oil and you've got yourself an air freshener!
3) Need more space in your fridge?
Sometime there's just not enough room in your fridge for all the cans, bottle, containers. Grab yourself a lazy susan and to make a little extra room and make it easy to grab stuff way in the back of the fridge!
4) Organize your dresser drawers
Spring cleaning is the perfect time to go through your dresser drawers to get rid of anything you haven't worn in ages. Once you've cleared out the old (don't forget to donate!), make extra room in your drawers by folding your shirts and placing them in drawers vertically to save space and so you can see what's in the drawers when you open it. Super easy!
5) The hangar trick
While we're on the subject of clearing out old clothes, there's a trick you can do to make sure you're throwing out stuff you actually don't wear. Hang all of your clothes with the end of the hanger facing towards you. When you wear something and go to hang it up again, turn the hangar the correct way. After a few weeks, months or a year, take the hangars that haven't been turned around and donate!