Spring Cleaning hacks you need to try

Now that we've sprung forward I am antsy to start spring cleaning!  The natural sunlight has been showing me grimy, dingy, cob-webby places all over my house.  There are a million plans and programs out there but ain't nobody got time for all that when we just need our house sparkling clean. 

Here is a great list from CasualClair.com that you can easily print out and use!  After I print my check-off list I will go through with a black marker and cross off anything that doesn't apply or that I just don't want/need to do. Then I will make a list of the supplies I need, check out this penny-pinching blog for supply ideas, and fill up my cleaning tote.  I have a wonderful young lady that helps me clean every other week or so and I will probably have her chink away at this list too.  If you are a Moscovite and want her info just message me!

Most of all you just need a good playlist, a bunch of little helpers and elbow grease to get your house spick-n-span 
but there are some other hacks along the way that can help, so here is my short list!

• Put everything you can into your dishwasher or a sink filled with super hot soapy water.  Ideas would be light fixtures, vent covers, and the yucky refrigerator screen.
• Use a lint roller to clean lampshades and screens
•  Check out a window track hack here!
• If you want to try cleaning your window screens without removing them click Here!
• If you have a huge house to clean, or a small house that needs a lot of work, celebrate once you are finished with a new spring candle, new spring table cloth or cheap fresh flowers from Walmart!

• This is my favorite post on deep cleaning a fridge!  She places her racks, drawers, and shelves in a big Rubbermaid bin, I use the dishwasher for the smaller pieces and the bathtub for the larger ones. 

• Cleaning an area rug isn't fun....I hate it.  I either buy cheap ones that I eventually throw out (we have a high traffic home) or expensive ones I don't mind having someone come and clean....the latter never happens.  This method of area rug cleaning is the one I have heard the most success stories with!  Now, get to it! 
• Oh, I almost forgot fan blades.  We don't have ceiling fans in this house and while I know I might miss them in August, I really don't miss cleaning them!  Maybe because I'm short at everyone just laughs at me as I try to do it!!

I think the above list are the things I really only do once a year! OK, not the fridge, that happens more often because my husband cleans it for me.  I do a great job of keeping it clean, but deep cleaning it?  Not my favorite!