Welcome to the Organized 365 Podcast. My name is Lisa Woodruff and I'm a professional

organizer and blogger in Cincinnati, Ohio. I want to help you get your home

organized and help you organize life stages and unexpected events.

So sit back, relax, and let's get organized.

This week and next I want to share with you some spring cleaning ideas.

I am here in Ohio in March and right out my window right now I could see snowflakes falling so it's not like I'm out of the

dead of winter but what happens is sometime in February March April you get a

couple of those nice you know high 60 degree days and all of a sudden, it's like you get this

infusion of energy and you want to just deep clean your entire house from top

to bottom. Maybe you don't, but I do. And I find that during this

time there are a whole bunch of household related tasks that I do that I do not normally

do, and I have a lot more energy to do these kind of tasks. But some of

them are very important tasks like changing the batteries in your smoke detector and

I actually just read on a blog the other day that you're supposed to actually buy new smoke detectors like every three to nine years so I think I'll be doing that this year since it's been about 15 since I did that and and what I find is if I

don't have a deadline or somebody telling me hey go change the smoke detector

batteries it feels like I just did that yesterday, even though I haven't done that for probably a year.

And so for me, it is easier to assign a couple of these arbitrary tasks that only get done once or twice a year to the time

change so that I can knock all those out the week that we change the clocks and

not forget to do some of these big maintenance tasks.

So I'm going to go through a list of 12 tasks

that I do every spring when we change our clocks.

And then in the fall, I will go over what those tasks are

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