March 27, 2015
Gather Your Tools | The Best Tools for Spring Cleaning
If you’re ready to do some SPRING CLEANING, you’ll need to gather your tools. I find it most effective to gather from tools I have and then assess the situation and see if I need to get anything else. This ensures that I am ready to do a little bit of cleaning every day and stay on track to meet my goal of having the whole house spring-cleaned by the end of April in under 30 minutes a day. Grab a container, a basket, or a cleaning caddy and collect the tools you’ll need for spring cleaning. You can carry this from room to room with you or keep it in a mudroom or storage closet and just take out what’s needed each day.
The best tools for spring cleaning also happen to be some of my favorite cleaning tools. I am guessing you have a few of these already and if you don’t and you don’t have the budget for anything new, make do with what you have. Spring cleaning is mostly about dusting and vacuuming and cleaning those not-cleaned-very-often places in our homes. If you do end up purchasing new, you’ll have great all-purpose cleaning tools to use all year long.
Clean Mama’s Favorite Spring Cleaning Tools
(links go to the products – some are affiliate links – read my full disclosure here)
- Spring Cleaning Checklist
- cleaning caddy/basket/bucket (the aqua basket is from Homegoods and the white caddy is from West Elm, but not available any longer)
- gloves
- vacuum cleaner with attachments – I love the new Dyson Cinetic – it’s amazing!
- garbage bags
- window and glass cleaning tools – I use a cloth, a small cleaner, and a squeegee
- ceiling fan duster
- blind dusters – depending on how dirty they are I use a vacuum cleaner attachment, a glove, or a blind cleaning tool
- extendable reach duster
- microfiber cloths – I use a the Clean Mama Home microfiber cloths for everything.
- bar mop towels – I use these for so many things!
- sponges – I love these pop-up sponges and Magic Erasers
- scrub brushes – I like to keep a variety of styles on hand for any cleaning conundrum
- small duster
- lint roller
Don’t forget to grab and print your FREE checklist here!
Can’t wait to get started? The Clean Mama Spring Cleaning Kit is in the shop! You can see all the products in my shop here.
Sabrina | Frugal Italian Family Says
I am with you!
Lisa Lyons Says
I love this ideal. I am wondering though where you found the awesome cleaning caddie you have photographed in the top left hand picture above?
Becky Says
Post authorIt’s from West Elm, but it’s no longer available.
Talia Says
I hate to be a stickler but your link for the bucket/caddy/basket goes to an Amazon page for the Casabella window cleaner.
I really wanted to get my hands on the basket…
🙁
Kimberly Says
What would you use for pet hair on carpet?
Becky Says
Post authorThe vacuum cleaner and attachments – a lint roller works great too on those stubborn areas 🙂
Chrissy Says
Hi – Love this post and it reminds me to get everything ready for a massive spring clean when the sun eventually comes out (I’m in the UK!) – One thing I always use when cleaning is a toothbrush as this gets into all the little cracks and areas that the larger scrubbing brushes just can’t.
Bonnie Dewkett Says
I started spring cleaning today and it quickly turned into purging…i had to get back on track and having my caddy really helped. I love your scrub brushes for those tough jobs. I must add those to my list.
Ygritte Says
Thanks for sharing these tips. Although I don’t have an extendable duster, my extendable broom reed works just fine. 😉
Kristi Says
Wow! I never realized how many corners we had in our house. I started last week, finished today. great feeling.
shauna moss Says
how do you get hard water off of fiberglass showers and tubs also off of chrome faucets
Becky Says
Post authorCheck out this post:
http://www.cleanmama.net/2015/02/the-best-way-to-clean-and-care-for-hard-surface-floors.html
xo, Becky
Heather roth Says
How do you clean your baseboards.
Melissa Says
Where did you get the scrub brushes from?
Becky Says
Post authorAmazon 🙂
Robbi Says
The check list link takes me to a squeegee on Amazon. …
McDonna Says
Any idea which rubber gloves actually last more than a few weeks? The Playtex gloves seem to be more durable than most, but that isn’t saying a lot. I used to be able to buy heavy duty rubber gloves by Playtex. The hands were heavily layered with additional rubber. One pair would last almost a year, but I have seen them in the stores for ages.
Any thoughts or recommendations for this?
Thank you for another inspiring post.
b r Says
Post authorI have had good luck with the ones shown – I believe they are Casabella.