Spring cleaning is the annual practice of deep cleaning and purging of stale items your home. Around the country, people open their windows to let the cool spring breeze through their homes. In Florida, we don’t have a cool breeze, until fall – so we work with that. It’s dropped to 70 degrees outside, a beautiful, breezy and cool 70 degrees. I can get on board with that. I’ll take this opportunity to open the windows, air out my home and purge stale items (food, clothes, trinkets, etc.). Out with the old and in with the new!
And because I’ll use any excuse to make a list, I’ve built out a Fall Cleaning Checklist:
Closet
- Unused Items (1 Year)
- Broken Hangers
- Outgrown (Or Smelly) Shoes
- Unused Purses
- Donate Outgrown Clothing
- Ripped Umbrellas
- General Clutter
Linen Closet
- Old Sheets
- Ill-Fitted Sheets (AKA they shrunk in the dryer and don’t fit my bed)
- Torn Sheets
- Stained Towels
- Unused Items (1 Year)
- Expired Toiletries
- Ripped Blankets
- General Clutter
Laundry Room
- Clean Inside Of Washing Machines (I use hot water and blench. Then distilled white vinegar)
- Clean Inside Of Dryer
- Clean Out Dryer Hose
- Move Appliances And Mop Floors
- Clean Out Drain In Laundry Room Since
- Purge Expired Items
- Wipe Down Shelves
- Organize Shelves
- Combine Like Bottles
- Purge Broken Laundry Bins
Pantry
- Expired items (Do not donate these. Donation centers will toss expired items.)
- Stale crackers or bread
- Almost-empty boxes or bottles
- Spices and herbs which have lost their flavor (learn how to properly store herbs with our Guide to Herbs)
- Oils which have gone rancid (learn how to properly store oils with our Guide to Oils)
