Spring is here.  That means it's time for spring cleaning.  MHL wants to help.  We won’t do the work for you, but we’ll give you some great tips and book suggestions to help you get motivated or help you procrastinate. 

Our 5 favorite tips:

• Toss (or donate) as much as you can.  For example, get rid of gross towels, old hair products, and the shoes you’ve never worn but keep anyway because you might wear them one day.
• Clean your phone, light switches, doorknobs and refrigerator doors.
• Throw the fast food condiments away.  You don’t need all those ketchup and soy sauce packets.
• Clean your trash cans, both inside and out.
• Think twice before storing something in the attic or basement.  Will you ever use it again?  Will you remember it’s there?

8 for Inspiration

1.  The complete book of home organization by Toni Hammersley

2.  New Order: a decluttering handbook for creative folks (and everyone else) by Fay Wolf

3.  Never too busy to cure clutter: simplify your life one minute at a time by Erin Rooney Doland

4.  Mess: one man’s struggle to clean up his house and his act by Barry Yourgrau

5.  The organically clean home: 150 everyday organic cleaning products you can make yourself by Becky Rapinchuk

6.  Simple matters: living with less and ending up with more by Erin Boyle

7. and 8. Marie Kondo’s bestselling books, The life-changing magic of tidying up and Spark joy.

Happy cleaning!