Spring Clean­ing Check­list

What time is it? It’s spring clean­ing time! You are prob­a­bly groan­ing about do­ing some clean­ing around your place. It’s time to get out of your bed and clean up some of your clut­ter. We know it can be over­whelm­ing, so here are some tips we put to­gether to help you tidy the dorm/​house.

1. Sched­ul­ing
Plan what you will clean in the over sev­eral days. If you do it in one day, it can be over­whelm­ing and stress­ful. This is sup­posed to be a time to start fresh.
2. La­bel your boxes
Be­fore you start clean­ing, la­bel your boxes. It’s a way to be more or­ga­nized and is less worry when you are ac­tu­ally clean­ing and putting things away.
3. Store win­ter clothes
You don’t need the cozy sweaters and win­ter jack­ets. Those can be packed away in stor­age boxes. When you go home to visit fam­ily, take the boxes with you. Bring in the spring clothes. It’s time for the rain boots and um­brel­las.
4. Clean your in­box
Have over 100 un­read emails? It’s time to start clean­ing out your clut­tered in­box. This is the per­fect time to sit down and get rid of the spam mes­sages or un­sub­scribe to some com­pa­nies you don’t want to re­ceive emails from any­more.
5. Sell your text­books
Are there a few text­books from years ago and you haven’t sold them yet? Now, you can put them on eBay or Ama­zon to sell. They may not go for much, but it’s time to get rid of un­wanted books and make some money.
6. Re­cy­cle
You prob­a­bly have tons of re­search pa­pers, es­says and as­sign­ments out on your desk or stuffed in a drawer. Re­cy­cle the pa­pers that aren’t use­ful or lack rel­e­vant in­for­ma­tion. Not only are you wip­ing your chem­istry class out of your life, but you are also do­ing some­thing good for the en­vi­ron­ment since you are re­cy­cling.
7. Bath­room
“I hate clean­ing the bath­room, be­cause of what ac­cu­mu­lates on the floors, be­hind the toi­lets and tub,” Katie Strub­berg, sopho­more, said. One of the worst rooms to clean is the bath­room, but it has to be done. Bet­ter to clean it now, than later when it’s even worse.
Melissa Mak­er’s bath­room tu­to­r­ial will help those who don’t know where to start clean­ing.
8. Bed­ding
Time to change the bed sheets, pil­low cases and com­forters. You might’ve for­got­ten to wash the sheets since you started school, but it’s not too late! It prob­a­bly has food crumbs on it or has been thrown on the ground. Sim­ply, throw it in the wash­ing ma­chine and your bed will feel fresh as ever!
9. Fans
“I dread to clean fans! Mostly be­cause fans have too many fan blades to clean dust off of,” Bre­anna McJunkin, fresh­man, said. It’s spring, the win­dows are opened and you have the fan go­ing. You’ve prob­a­bly for­got about dust­ing the fans. If your fans are up high on the ceil­ing, be care­ful when climb­ing the lad­der to sweep the fans.
10. Vac­uum/​mop­ping
There are crumbs, hair and foot­prints all over the floor. You’ve prob­a­bly haven’t thought about vac­u­um­ing/​mop­ping since the se­mes­ter started. Drag out your vac­uum/​map or go bor­row one, throw in some head­phones and get your room clean.

Click here to down­load and print the spring clean­ing check­list.