The time is coming for us to shake out the dust in our houses and expel the stale air from our bedrooms. There’s nothing better than having your home feeling fresh and clean, ready to start the spring and summer seasons.
Yet even with determination to start the process, it’s essential to have a strategy to go into spring cleaning so it’s as smooth of a process as possible.
With a plan in place, you will be able to get a lot more done in a shorter amount of time unlike going in without a plan and just doing whatever comes to mind. Not only that but with the right strategy you can make your kitchen work even more efficiently than before.
1 - Clear Out Each Space Individually
Tackling one cabinet at a time and one shelf at a time will save you from overwhelming yourself as you deep clean your kitchen and help keep things more organized in the long run.
When you get everything out, this is the best time to sort out your inventory into keep piles, throw-away piles, and give-away piles. In smaller doses, you can be way more productive than if you tried to empty and sort out all your cabinets simultaneously.
Plus, this is a better way to measure your progress and how much you got done versus how much is left to do.
2 - Make It a Goal to Get Rid of at Least a Fifth of What You Own
Speaking of sorting piles, it’s good to have a goal in your sorting to free up more space in your kitchen, so the key to that is setting a specific number on things you want to give away or throw out. This will help you keep on track and make you think seriously about what you will actually use.
A good rule of thumb is if you haven’t used something in three months, it’s safe to say that you won’t be really using it at all. Give it away, put it for sale, or dump it.
Either way, you’ll now have more space to organize your items the way you want them.
3 - Degrease Your Cabinets and Appliances
This is something we don’t really think about but with kitchens being used daily if not multiple times a day, that leads to a buildup of residue on not only our cabinetry but also our large appliances.
This is your chance to get a good degreaser that’s safe for the finish of your cabinets and appliances and with a little elbow grease, they will look better than before and maybe even a few shades lighter.
It’s sometimes hard to believe just how much gunk sticks to our cabinets until it is scrubbed off.
4 - Clean Off Your Shelves
Like anything else in our lives, the places in our cabinets collect dust without us really thinking about it, and by no means does that make anyone a messy person. It’s just the natural progression of things.
Since you have most of your things off of the shelves, this is a great time to get them all cleaned up with a damp rag or another cleaning supply you like. Having a clean surface to put your things back on is going to make it look fresh and orderly.
5 - Organize By Most Used Items
Kitchen cabinets are already designated spots for pots, pans, seasonings, and other kitchen utensils. However, when we add more serving dishes, spatulas, and other cooking things, it tends to get a little unruly.
This is your chance to organize your things, whether that’s adding organizers to keep things in place like pots and pans, their lids, and other utensils; or simply changing where things will be stored that helps the flow when using your kitchen.
These steps don’t take any money to do (unless you buy cabinet organizers) or extra effort from what you’re already planning to get done, but it makes it more efficient.
Not only that but you can apply these steps anywhere in the house and not just keep it to kitchen organization.
Taking the time to concentrate on specific areas at a time helps keep you on track without having to overwhelm yourself. Soon it will become secondhand nature.
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