Dust shelves and storage bins
Areas of the home such as attics, garages, closets and other storage areas tend not to get seen every day. It is good to get in there approximately once a year to dust off those areas where most of your things are stored in the house.
- Type:
- Cleaning
- Space / Item:
- Closets
- Season:
- Time of Year:
- Any
- Frequency
- Monthly
How to clean out the attic
In general, it is a good idea to go through items in various boxes and decide an overall strategy of keeping them, throwing them away, selling them, or giving away to charity. A good organization tip is labelling all the boxes with the items that are inside. This helps you when you need to retrieve items like holiday ornaments.
It is also a good practice to vacuum and dust off various boxes and shelving to keep things relatively clean. Here is a good conceptual concept video from Howcast.
