Winter Cleanup Tips for Cleaning and Organizing your Home

1. Winter Clean-up - Cleaning your Home Whether it be a cluttered car, work email inbox or cluttered cabinet space, we’ve all experienced the stresses related to clutter. All that it takes is a single shirt on the floor or a small container not recycled, then our belongings started to accumulate. They start to compound on one another until one day we realize we can’t find that important document we’re looking for in the cabinet, or we discover how messy our car has gotten over time. Choose Trash Warrior’s Junk Removal San Franciscodecluttering tips to get started with – whether it’s with your bathroom or closet

2. Winter Clean-up - Cleaning your Home • Tips for Decluttering Your Home: • It’s best to stay focused on one room at a time. Starting in room number one, place unnecessary items in the room in a laundry basket. After you’ve completed the first room, carry that laundry basket to other rooms and collect items that belong elsewhere. Once you’ve completed decluttering, return everything in the basket to where it actually belongs. • Saving vacuuming for later, keep a damp rag handy so you can wipe down any dust bunnies you may find. • Minimize and recycle; Periodically gather items you no longer need and either recycle, trash or donate them to charity organizations such as Goodwill. • If you don’t already have a small trash or recycling bin in each room, make sure you get one. This will encourage you to toss items right away as they appear.

3. Winter Clean-up - Cleaning your Home • Tips for Decluttering Your Kitchen: • It’s easy for papers to pile up in your kitchen. Consider keeping one spot for mail, bills, etc. Consolidate piles. Pick one day a week to sort through the pile and toss away, shred or file mail, bills, etc. • If you tend to use the top of your refrigerator for storage, you can move those items elsewhere. Right away, you’ll notice the visual improvement.

4. Winter Clean-up - Cleaning your Home • Tips for Decluttering Your Kitchen: • Check the expiration dates on perishable items in the fridge, cabinets, and pantry. Discard any items that have expired! • Throw away any old cleaning products you find under your kitchen sink. Use a cleaning bucket to consolidate all cleaning products so it’s easy to grab them when needed! • Keep no more than 2-3 magnets at a time on the fridge – too many notes and papers can be overwhelming to look at. You can even invest in a magnetized fridge file organizer that will help you limit papers to what fits inside. • Separate kitchen drawers by category • Hang measuring cups, spoons, pots, and pans on hooks inside your cabinet doors

5. Winter Clean-up - Cleaning your Home • Tips for Decluttering Your Bathroom: • Fold towels, straighten floor mats and clean up the mirror with a glass spray cleaner. • Keep a hamper or laundry basket in the bathroom as a place to toss dirty clothes and towels in. • Reduce clutter on the sink counter by returning toiletries, colognes, polishes, etc., to the medicine cabinet or drawers. • Tips for Decluttering Your Bedrooms: • If you’re not already using under-the-bed space, use this space to store seasonal clothing and shoes, decorative pills, linens, and extra blankets in storage containers. • Take any dirty laundry and throw them into the laundry hamper. • Collect pocket change and place it in a jar on top of your dresser drawer. • Go through receipts and dispose of outdated ones into the garbage.

6. Winter Clean-up - Cleaning your Home • Tips for Decluttering Living Room Space: • Consolidate items that stay in your living room into a bin or basket such as toys, games, extra blankets, etc. • Because dust tends to collect in these rooms, keep wipes nearby to give coffee and end tables a quick wipe down. • Stack/straighten magazines and books on the coffee table and only keep ones out that you’ll actually read. • Tips for Decluttering Your Closets: • Take a visual inventory and consider moving any items to basement storage or for donation. • Sort through clothes, footwear, and seasonal gear, then store what you don’t need in your basement or attic. If you find that your closet is overrun with boots and shoes, think about investing in a large basket to keep them contained. • Pro Tip: Turn your hanging clothes 180 degrees around so that they hang backwards.

7. Winter Clean-up - Cleaning your Home • Tips for Decluttering Home Office: • Tidy up loose cords with either zip ties or twisty ties. • Organize books, and put loose desk accessories in drawers. • Avoid tossing loose items in a drawer by utilizing small cardboard boxes to organize the drawers. • Categorize desk drawers that are alike and don’t be reluctant to move their location. • No matter which decluttering tips you choose to get started with – whether it’s with your bathroom or closet, hopefully, these get you started somewhere. It is up to you how you will choose to declutter your living space. • Whether or rent or own your office or home, you deserve to live and operate with a clear mind-set and in a clutter-free environment. If you’re looking to get rid of old furniture or old office equipment, our team at Trash Warrior Junk Removal in San Francisco can help you meet your cleaning goals for 2020. We operate 7 days a week and you can simply give us a call today!

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