I know we experience 4 seasons in a day here in the Mother City, but technically it’s still Spring, which means Spring Cleaning is a must. We know the basics of decluttering and dusting, but here are the spaces you’re probably forgetting:
- Your Phones Contacts: I still have my very first cell phone number, which means over the past 20 years I’ve collected a lot of different numbers. There’s no reason to still have your ex ex boyfriend’s number in your phone, if you’re not in contact. Sometimes we’ll have people saved and no recollection of who they are. Take the time to delete all those numbers you don’t use anymore.
- Apps: Let’s be real here. You probably only really use between five and 15 apps every single day. Yet, we all probably have about 100 different apps “just in case.” Go through all your little folders, deleting the apps you haven’t used in the last six months. If you can’t remember the last time you opened it, you probably won’t any time soon. Streamline your phone to just what you actually open, for both your storage and your sanity’s sake.
- Cords: Does anyone else have a drawer just dedicated to all the cords we think we might need one day? If you aren’t using those devices consistently, there’s probably a reason you don’t need the cords. There’s no reason to keep the chargers to those old iPods or Blackberries, or t he phone chargers that only work when you wiggle it just the right way.
- Skincare products. Your beauty products have expiry dates. Comb through your skincare routine, checking for expiration dates, if anything smells different from when you first purchased it, or if it doesn’t suit your skin anymore. Most of us forget about all those products we don’t use every single day. (And if you’re not using it all the time, should it still be in your collection?)
- Medicine: Exactly the same way beauty products have expiration dates, so does medicine. Go through your medicine cabinet and take all the expired ones out. Here’s the thing – please don’t chuck them in the bin because they could fall into the wrong hands. You need to dispose of medicine responsibly. Take the expired medicine to your local pharmacy and they will get rid of it correctly.
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