Spring cleaning pirates when winter finally leaves Chicago

Although it still looks like January, it's official in Chicago from March 20th! Hooray!

But in addition to the start of the baseball season and finally being able to leave their flat without a coat, the beginning of spring brings a particularly difficult task: spring cleaning.

Yes, it is time for you to take a day (or two or five) to travel to the depths of your home and relive it for the season. And although it seems like a lot of work, we have some tips and tricks to help you.

Here are our favorite spring cleaning hacks, you know, when winter finally decides to leave Chicago forever.

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The laundry is of course zero. And if you're like me, doing more than one load at a time is the bane of your existence.

Enter, PressBox: The laundry service for a reasonable price and very convenient here to alleviate your spring cleaning problems. To use PressBox, just download your application, find the nearest locker, leave your clothes / quilt / napkin / winter sweater and POOF, you're ready to start. PressBox will send you an SMS if your business is well washed and can be picked up 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

While this is not the most economical option for your daily laundry needs (the main purpose is dry cleaning), the PressBox is ideal for deep cleaning. Or, if you're still like me, when you spill red wine on a white blanket in your past fashion slice, you'll fit ¯ \ _ (ツ) _ / ¯.

Picture credits: Daddy Instagram Scrub (not the real size, my god)

When I tell you that Daddy Scrub has changed my life, I enjoy the most because that shit is the real one. This small, sturdy sponge, which was first seen in the Shark Tank a few years ago, changes the flexibility depending on the water temperature. So if you need a very hard sponge, use cold water. If you prefer a fluffy sponge, use hot.

Honestly, I'm not sure anything in my department has been a scrub daddy clean before he, and if not laudatory back, do not know what is.

Besides, it's cute.

Credit of the photo: The brown elephant Facebook

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In addition to lathering and sprinkling every nook of her bare flat, for most of us, spring cleaning also requires a cleansing not used anything that has accumulated over the past year. From sweaters never use on books that you swore he filed in 2013 (here you see wild ones ), at the end of a good cleaning cycle, you're pretty sure to have a pile of stuff that does not just need.

And although I know how tempting you are to leave this stack in the dumpster behind your building and forget about it until the end of time, there is a better way. Be sure to donate your clothes / furniture and other used items for charity in places like The Brown Elephant, where all proceeds from the sale benefit LGBTQ health and underinsured people in Howard Brown Health.

Other charity options include Goodwill , the Chicago Abused Women's Coalition , the Salvation Army , Sarah Circle, and more.

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Well, I promise I will try not to get too excited, but the weather in Chicago is stupid. In winter, the frost is frozen with snow on the kneecaps and summer roast eggs on the sidewalk and nothing refreshes, but the Italian ice cream Mario (God bless you).

Understandably, many Chicago have two separate cabinets to fight the elements, and usually very little space to store both.

In this spring cleaning season, leave room in your closet by vacuum-packing your winter clothing and pushing it under your bed. You will thank me later. And yes, I connected you to Walmart, do not judge me.

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Do you want a place that feels clean, without giving fat on your elbow? Whether you are a pure monster or an absolute disaster, Tatin will be amazing with soy candles and wax that will brighten up your space in no time. These beautiful candles, made and sold locally, are beautiful, they look great and do not cost an arm or leg. Okay, they are not cheap, but still!

Another advantage is that part of the income of some candles is donated to great purposes throughout the city.

Picture credits: King of Maids Facebook

Maybe you are bad at cleaning, what will you do? Call Molly Maids or Maye's or King of Maids and they'll find you quickly and easily. For a fee, of course.

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