4.15.2014

3 tips for spring cleaning quick and easy

In the 18th century, when people wood stoves, fire, candles and oil, their homes had to be heated during the annual spring cleaning winter an excuse to break the window open and clean the soot formation. Hundreds of years later, the switch of the heater can be done Air conditioning with a literal switch, but always with the idea of spring cleaning in practice. Here are some things you need to forget this spring:

1 Your Cell Phone

Keep only the applications that are actually used to make the cell phone battery and memory.

Keep only the applications that are actually used to make the cell phone battery and memory.

The center of his world in the 21st century could the computer instead of your phone. Not only to clean the surface of the phone to remove the dirt from the fingers on the cheek, but you should also delete your data. From the outside, spray a paper towel with a spray of Windex and wipe the entire phone (no box). Then you start cleaning unnecessary things in your storage space. Things that are safe to remove are:

  • Contacts that you do not call
  • Applications that you no longer use
  • Pictures do not have to (or want to take, such as by-catch)
  • Supporters of the social networks that do not talk
  • Texting

While you're there, it would not hurt to change their passwords and a password to your phone (and then write them all).

February. Computer science

Do not forget the hard to reach places in the team clean achieve.

Do not forget to clean, to reach hard to reach places in the team.

It will increase the efficiency and save energy (both for you and your PC) by moving them to the list of spring cleaning. Just like your mobile phone, start from the outside and work your way easy to maneuver out of the screen and a Q-tip to your keyboard keys in. A super damp paper towel or a computer-get clean dust and germs. When cleaning the hard drive, not to forget:

  • Organize your mailbox
  • Delete old files
  • Photo
  • Remove Internet cookies (Tools> Delete private data. Would you like to "download history" and delete "cookies," "Navigation Data" "Images and files stored in the cache.")
  • Update your anti-virus software
  • Clarify your SD card (with camera) and USB drives

Finally, save your files. (Try Carbonite: an annual subscription to the computer automatically back everything on a cloud)

Three. Your junk drawer

Easier to find sort and organize your junk drawer, what you really need.

Easier to find sort and organize your junk drawer, what you really need.

Sure you can make more garbage for the next 365 days.

  • Old springs, chapsticks, medicines, disposable batteries: Offer of everything that is going on nearly empty
  • Dispose of old magazines and newspapers
  • Wrap the cable, and keep them together (, redesigned the bonds that can come with garbage bags and bread to keep cable tangle again)
  • Disposal of persistent

Note that if you have not used something for a year, you probably will not use to come for a year.

Electrical cables and surge protection in an empty box eliminates clutter and mess of the floor.

Electrical cables and surge protection in an empty box eliminates clutter and mess of the floor.

Usually you stay on an organized home, never leave a room without a little better than it looked when you came in. Make your bed when you leave the room, replace the toilet paper when you bathroom the leave, load the dishwasher when you leave the kitchen, throwing bottles of water out of the car, and set up the sofa and coffee table in the living room.

No own, but enjoy spring cleaning and use it as an excuse to declutter around. William Morris, the writer and artist of the 19th century, said: "Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."

- Elizabeth Ervin, Ole Miss freshman journalism student, and type a personality, elervin@go.olemiss.edu

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