Getting your home ready for spring time can be a chore. Of course once it is done you will feel so much better about it. The key is to not get yourself overwhelmed while you are doing it. Make a list of tasks that need to get done. Break them up so that you can accomplish them in an allotted amount of time. It may take you several weeks to finish all of it.
Everyone in the home should be involved with spring cleaning. After all, everyone is a part of contributing to what is going on in that household. Allow family members to choose what tasks they will do. For example you may have someone that does like to organize shelves and closets. Someone else may like cleaning windows.
You will find that spring cleaning goes faster and smoother when people are choosing the chores that they would like instead of being assigned. When you get to the rest of the list that no one wants to tackle you can draw slips of paper for them. You an also do them as a team so that everyone does a small part of those jobs.
Spring cleaning needs to have some organization to it. Make sure you have all the items you will need for cleaning. That way you aren’t stopping to run to the store for them. You need to have enough storage containers and other items as well. Plan ahead for what you will need so it is on hand.
Have some boxes for items that can be donated. You will need trash bags as well to get rid of items that can’t be used by anyone else. Place these in central locations and make sure everyone in the household is aware of what the process is. As a rule, the owner of items gets to decide if it will stay or go.
Make spring cleaning at home fun too. For example you can have a box of items that people in the home have been missing for a while. It can be fun to get those items back again. Play music with different family members choosing what is heard for a frame of time. This can expose everyone to different types of music too that they normally wouldn’t listen to.
Cleaning while singing or dancing can make it less of a work effort. Order pizza or have ice cream in the middle of the day as a reward for everyone working so hard to complete the project. Spring cleaning doesn’t have to be something you dread. The right frame of mind and a desire to get it accomplished can go a long way.
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The author, Sam Serio, is the promoter of the Chincoteague Daffodil Festival. For more information and to pick-up the FREE e-book “Daffodil Secrets Revealed,” please visit http://www.ChincoteagueDaffodilFestival.com
