How to Create a Spring Cleaning Checklist

Cleaning can be overwhelming unless you have a plan of attack. Create your spring cleaning checklist to be certain everything gets done in one pass, and you can get outside and do some planting.

Step 1: Start on top
Start at the top of the room with your spring cleaning checklist and work down. Begin using your dust cloths on ceiling fans, window casings, and blinds.

Step 2: Wash windows
Tackle screens and windows next. Use mild detergent, such as soapy water. Get the hose ready to scrub and rinse the screens on the lawn, to limit the mess.

Step 3: Clean walls
Get started on the walls, including moldings and woodwork, by using a vacuum to remove dust first. Do the kitchen walls with a solvent-free de-greaser. Make a note to start at the bottom of walls to avoid streaks.

Tip
If you find crayon marks on windows or walls, heat the wax with a blow dryer to get them off.

Step 4: Beat cushions and rugs
Beat cushions and rugs outside before doing floors. Get into the chairs and couches with a vacuum crevice tool and tend to stains by following manufacturer directions. At that point, move couches and chairs, and clean behind.

Tip
Call a friend for help before moving furniture, to avoid hurting yourself.

Step 5: Polish furniture
Wipe wooden furniture, surfaces, moldings, and handrails with a damp folded cloth, and then polish with a cotton cloth. Where wax is used, buff the finish.

Step 6: Disinfect the kitchen
Disinfect cupboards and remove refrigerator drawers and shelves, wiping each clean. Wipe the outside of the fridge, pull it out from the wall, and vacuum the coils. Use warm, soapy water to spruce up the stove, oven and microwave.

Tip
Freshen the drains with some lemon juice while you're at it.

Step 7: Sanitize bathrooms
Sanitize the bathrooms, toilets, counters, stalls, and walls. Remember to check out-of-date medicines and throw expired drugs away.

Step 8: Finish the list
Finish the list by sweeping all the floors, mopping, and vacuuming, even under the beds. You can enjoy your nice, clean house -- or get outside and enjoy the sunshine stress free!

Did You Know?
The American Heart Association and Centers for Disease Control rate housework as moderate-intensity activity: every half an hour of working around the home will burn 100 calories.

[blahbobina]

Doesn't anybody who is in America know that there are two sides of the world and that both of them have the complete opposite seasons? Like how Australia is in spring now.

[xXLiesTheLiarsXx]

I know that in between sanitizing my toilet and spraying the dead bugs out of my window screens i like to sit back on my front porch and drink because the neighbors are far less likely to think Im a booze hound when I have a garden hose in my hands lol

[MM]

all i heard was or get outside n enjoy the sunshine.

[ontheskies]

Okay I need to know where is Spring in OCtober ?

[RavishingRedheadd]

spring cleaning lol? but its october lol how about fall cleaning?