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Spring is always a great time of the year to clean out junk, partly due to the end of the rainy season. It’s a chance to reset your indoor and outdoor environment and make your living space more comfortable. When you’re ready to clear out small or large items you no longer want, let Junk King remove them for you.
Here are spring cleaning tips to help you get started.
1. Create a Declutter Plan
The first step to effective spring cleaning is to develop a declutter plan that gives you easy access to all your belongings. Consider moving objects that block hallways and walkways to create better mobility. Your declutter plan may include getting boxes for storage or transporting junk. Try not to stress over bulky and heavy items like furniture or home appliances, because Junk King can easily remove them for you.
2. Designate a Space for Unwanted Junk
When you set aside a space for junk, it makes eventual junk removal much easier and quicker. Consider a place where our crew members have easy access to a nearby exit. For many homeowners the garage is the best place to store items temporarily. If you’re setting up for an office clean out, you might consider placing all your end-of-life equipment in a short-term storage unit until Junk King picks it up.
3. Prioritize Rooms to Clean
Spring cleaning has different meanings for dfferent people. For some people, it’s a simple project to make a home more organized. Others turn spring cleaning into an annual major event that involves removing hundreds of items. Your project may require sorting through items over several weeks. But you can save time by creating an inspection schedule and prioritizing rooms to clean one at a time.
4. Limit Your Cleaning Products
Be sure to make your spring cleaning safe. It’s possible to clean your entire home with 100 percent natural cleaning products. The main concern about conventional cleaning supplies is getting too much exposure to toxic chemicals, which are known to cause health problems. Be aware of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which are dangerous chemicals found in common household products. The American Lung Association lists products that contain VOCs such as bleaches and detergents. An all-purpose cleaner comprised of natural ingredients works fine for most of your cleaning needs.
5. Take Inventory in Your Garage
Usually, the garage is the best place to store unused items, if it’s not used for parked vehicles. It’s the closest type of space to a warehouse atmosphere in a home. If your garage ends up being just a storage unit for boxes full of junk, spring is a good time to determine how much free space you need in the future. As you take inventory of garage items, ask yourself what the chances are of using the items again. For items destined to be removed, consider staging them for a future garage sale.
6. Clean Your Refrigerator
Since the refrigerator is typically a home appliance people visit every day, cleaning it out isn’t always a top-of-mind idea. Consequently, the refrigerator often ends up being the most cluttered place in the home. It’s where produce can get buried and forgotten, only to rot. Due to the perishable nature of food, it’s a good idea to clean the refrigerator more often than just once per year. Checking for dated food should be a regular activity every week.
7. Go Through Your Closets
Closets can become extremely cluttered as just places to hide junk. If the closet doesn’t have a light, use a flashlight for better visibility and safety. It’s common for closets to become full of unused clothes or rarely used electrical equipment. Approach each closet as its own mini-project so that you aren’t overwhelmed by more junk than you initially imagined.
8. Label Boxes
An often overlooked simple solution to sorting junk is to place items in containers and label them. Once you do this simple task, it’s much easier to find specific items rather than restart the sorting process each time. Put hard-to-describe odd items in a box marked as “miscellaneous.” A thick black sharpie is useful for marking boxes with words that can be read from a distance, which further saves time. When you decide to put different items in the box, instead of crossing out the old word, stick a new adhesive label over it.
9. Inspect Vents and Air Filters
One of the most important keys to creating a healthy and comfortable home is to periodically inspect the ventilation to make sure air flows freely through the vents. Dirt, dust and debris can build up on air filters then block airflow. It’s important to change or clean these filters periodically to avoid the buildup and distribution of indoor air pollutants.
10. Clean with Baking Soda and Disinfectants
Kitchen and bathroom sinks don’t require poisonous chemicals for cleaning. Baking soda is useful for cleaning surfaces such as stainless steel and dissolving organic compounds. But baking soda alone doesn’t work as a disinfectant, since it doesn’t kill bacteria. White vinegar is an excellent cleaner and has disinfectant qualities but it won’t kill all forms of bacteria. Ideal natural disinfectants include alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, and hot water.
11. Use White Vinegar in Shower Stalls
The reason why it’s important to prevent mineral deposits from building up in your bathroom shower stalls is because they can reduce water pressure and flow. You can dissolve mineral buildups by soaking them in white vinegar filled in a container secured around the shower head (such as with a plastic bag and a rubber band).
12. Separate Summer and Winter Clothes
One way to keep clothes organized is to separate them based on seasons. In other words, keep warmer clothes on one side of the closet or dresser and lighter clothes on the other. That way it’s easier to go through off-season clothes to determine what stays and what gets sold or donated.
13. Evaluate Your Unwanted Items
Deciding what to keep and dispose can be challenging. Think of your own vision of sustainability that works for you. How much free space do you need and what are the items you can live without? While you probably want to hang on to boxes of old photos and other memorabilia, do you really need old broken lamps sitting around? Keep in mind old electrical wiring can be hazardous, as well as old TVs and computers.
14. Invite Junk King to Visit Your Home
After you’ve determined which junk should disappear from your home, invite Junk King to your home so we can plan a seamless junk removal strategy. We’ll look at the items you want removed to help us determine what size truck or trucks and number of staff members to bring. We have trucks and dumpsters large enough to handle any volume of junk you want to see gone.
Conclusion
You can get ahead toward your goals with spring cleaning and we’re here to help with the heavy lifting. Contact the experts at Junk King for answers to your questions about our junk removal services. We’re happy to take old junk off your hands as we believe in reusing, repurposing and recycling.
