Spring Cleaning: Organize Your Home

With the budding leaves of spring comes the desire to clean. We all want to enter the warmer seasons feeling refreshed, reinvigorated and renewed, right? Fortunately, the internet offers a host of resources to transition into the flower season more organized than ever.

• RealSimple.com provides fantastic tips on how to organize your home, one room at a time. In their Home and Organizing Section, discover simple cleaning techniques, tricks for de-cluttering your space and new, nontraditional uses for everyday items.
  
  
• eHow.com Spring Cleaning Guide is your one-stop shop for tricks of the trade to get your house in tip-top shape for spring. Discover how to clean using professional techniques and how to avoid spring-cleaning injuries. eHow also provides great spring-cleaning videos, like this one:
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
• SpringPad - A nice life organizer, with features like web clipping to archive useful bits of online information, task lists to keep your home and work life in check, and Twitter/Facebook connection to easily share your tidied life to family and friends.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Unclutterer - A daily blog for neat-lovers. Join in the conversation as they discuss everything from proper food storage to product review on the must-have organizational items on the market.
  
  
  
• Mnmlist - For some, spring cleaning doesn't mean reorganizing old stuff, but rather making an entirely clean slate. This squeaky-clean blog is devoted to the ethos of "less is more." Let it be a daily reminder of the beauty of simplicity.
  
  
  
  

Now you tell us: What is your organization strategy? Are you a neat-freak, or a believer in "organized mess?" How do you plan to get your life prepared for spring?

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