Essential Spring Cleaning Tips for 2024 (Checklist Included)

As the winter frosts melt away, the springtime brings an uplifting sense of renewal. Without the pressure of "New Year's resolutions," it's also the perfect time to rejuvenate our living spaces and reorganize ourselves and our lives to meet life's demands and personal goals.

Let’s explore the definitive list of spring cleaning ideas and tips for 2024. We've included your essential spring cleaning checklist at the end, but first, we'll dive into some innovative and creative ways you can organize your home and your life in the coming weeks.

Get Sustainable in Your Cleaning

You're not the only one embarking on spring cleaning in the coming weeks. Millions of people across the United States and worldwide will be doing the same. That's why it's never been more critical to be mindful of your cleanup's impact on the environment.

How can you be more sustainable in your cleaning?

• Use natural cleaning products or homemade solutions like vinegar, baking soda, and lemon. Making your own cleaning products is not just environmentally friendly; it'll also save you a small fortune.
• Reduce your use of disposable products, especially if you typically use paper towels to wipe surfaces. Instead, buy yourself a good quality duster or use a product like Blow-Off, which is also great for cleaning electronics and hard-to-reach items like keyboards safely.

Be Creative with New Furniture

Organizing our space gets more challenging every year. Sure, acquiring more stuff has a lot to do with that. But it's also true that many of us who move find that real estate is increasingly expensive. And that modern condos often have room for little else other than the essentials.

So, if your 2024 spring cleaning is extending to new furniture or a more comprehensive home renovation project, you need furniture that looks great and doubles as storage space.

Your options?

Think Ottoman beds or beds with built-in drawers, floating shelves, and TV and display benches with built-in storage space. Remember that furniture brands know space is at a premium, so there’s no end of multi-functional pieces available for all budgets.

Embrace Tech for Help with Cleaning

In the last 12 months, what in your life has become "smart" or uses artificial intelligence in some ways to be more valuable and productive?

We'll let you keep that list to yourself but also encourage you to embrace such technology to make your life easier at home. It's been a long time since products like robot vacuums and window cleaners were cool things we only saw in sci-fi movies, but what's really great is that these products are now widely available to buy at reasonable prices.

Setting your robot vacuum to take care of a different room daily while you're at the office and the children are at school is a great way to stay on top of your ongoing cleaning.

Just remember not to leave it with the cat or the dog!

Remember to Digitally Declutter!

When we think about spring cleaning, it's easy to only think about organizing our homes from top to bottom. But, much like our health isn't just about physical aspects, we can make a significant difference in our lives by decluttering the digital part of our lives, too.

There are a whole host of things you can do here, including:

• Deleting old emails, text messages, and WhatsApp messages cluttering your inboxes.
• Unsubscribe from emails and other correspondence you never read.
• Remove old files from your devices.
• Organize digital photos – this is also great for reflecting and prompting yourself to contact people to plan meetups during Spring and the remainder of this year.
• Uninstall any apps you don't use or that don't add anything to your life – this is an ideal way to start a social media detox if you feel like you need one!

It's incredible how mentally refreshing and liberating these five simple steps can be. And you can do it all in just a couple of hours, too!

Your Essential Spring Cleaning Checklist

We promised you a spring cleaning checklist after going through some new ideas, and here it is. Continue reading for some extra tips that will help you in the long term.

• Deep clean all carpets and upholstery. If a vacuum doesn’t do the trick, consider hiring a cleaning company to do this for you.
• Clean windows inside and out
• Scrub down your kitchen and bathroom by deep cleaning appliances, scrubbing tiles and grout, and checking and clearing cabinets and drawers.
• Declutter wardrobes – if you didn't wear something in 2023, you probably won't this year. Time to donate!
• Clean outdoor areas like decking, and check any outdoor furniture and gardening tools are in good order.
• Conduct safety checks on smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and replace the batteries if needed.
• Remember your digital declutter!

Winning Ways to Stay Organized in the Long-Term

Want to know the secret to a successful spring clean? It's keeping everything in order after doing it, so you don't need to do another next year!

Here are two great tips that you should use to stay organized and tidy throughout the year:

• Have regular decluttering sessions. You don’t need to go all Marie Kondo here, but try and get into the habit of at least once a month – aim for once a week if you have a lot of “stuff” – of donating, discarding, or gifting one or two things in your home that you never use or even like. It's incredible how many things we keep hold of just because we're used to them being there!
• Compartmentalize your home. Split your home into four zones and aim to clean and declutter one zone a week. Turn it into a game for everyone at home and get the children involved – especially if most of your cleaning time is usually in their bedrooms! Consider using a dry erase calendar so everyone knows what needs doing and who needs to do it.

Make 2024 the Year of Your Last Spring Clean!

There’s something uplifting about a spring organizing and cleaning project. But by staying organized throughout the year, you'll never need to do another and can enjoy the benefits of having a tidy and orderly space all the time.

Use these tips and ensure you stay stocked up on affordable home care and cleaning supplies from our online store, and you'll never need to undertake a full-on spring clean ever again!