Green Cleaning Through the Seasons: Jumpstart Spring Cleaning

Closets have often been associated with fear. For children, they fear monsters are in their closets.  Thriller movies keep you in suspense because of who may be lurking in the closet.

Closets are sometimes just plan scary-- you could get a concussion from whatever falls out of them when you open the door!

Jumpstart your green spring cleaning by taking the fear out of the closets! 

Begin with a PERSPECTIVE ADJUSTMENT.

How different would the contents of your closets be if you viewed them as an area "to retrieve" things rather than "to store" things?

Turning your closets into places of retrieval will change what you put in them, making them serve a higher calling in your home/apartment.  Give them an "upgrade" –an upgraded purpose!

EMPTY ALL CLOSETS AT THE SAME TIME 

Typically the approach is to purge/organize and clean them one at a time.  However, if you view your closets as a place to retrieve rather than store items, you will want to utilize all the closes to the best of their space. 

Taking everything out of them at the same time allows you to get a good look at what you have and then you can more completely and accurately assess what you need to do with the stuff. 

On a personal note:  In the past, I used to purge, organize and green clean my closets one at a time.  A problem I ran into was that I would organized one and then discover the next closet contained very similar items that really could have been placed in the previously cleaned closet.  The problem was that I only allowed enough space for what was in the first closet. If I would have emptied all my closets at once, I would have seen the similar items and then been able to place them together.

With everything out in the open, create a Master Closet-Retrieval Plan. 

Plan your closets in "zones" based on function and location.   Just because you have a closet that is probably meant for linens, does not mean you have to use it for linens.  Maybe it would serve a better purpose for other things you have and would like to easily retrieve.

SPARE YOURSELF FROM COMMON PITFALLS

1. Complete the task at hand.  

2. Do not keep things you do not have the space for.

3. The amount you spent on an item does not mean you have to keep it.  Quit allowing the item to remind you of the mistake you made purchasing it because it is still hanging around. 

*We can learn a lot from others.  I find Julie Morgenstern's  book, "Organizing from the Inside Out" to be a great resource.  Many of these closet organization tips have come from her book.

IT'S A WRAP:  GREEN CLEAN CLOSETS  

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 The all-natural lavender essential oil scent will refresh you and leave your closet with a sense of "Job well done!" 

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