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It’s that time of year again! The weather outside is finally beginning to warm up, and blossoms are starting to appear on trees. There’s that sense of freshness in the air, and you just want to go outdoors and enjoy it! Except … there’s that nagging feeling that you should be up in the attic, going through your old stuff. Spring means spring cleaning after all. This is also the time of year when everyone looks up spring cleaning tips and starts building spring cleaning checklists. But should you? Is spring cleaning really important?

The truth is that spring cleaning is in many ways a holdover from earlier times. In the past, many homes were heated using furnaces. These furnaces created a buildup on the walls. Soot would get all over furniture, drapes, and the like as well. It was literally necessary in springtime to get rid of all of this soot for health reasons.

Nowadays, of course, this no longer happens. You might have a little dust build up during the winter months, but you are hardly going to have walls covered in soot. Still, you probably know dozens of people who are diving into spring cleaning with all barrels firing. They are going to clean those corners and clear out that clutter and that’s that!

You might think that we would be the first people to tell you how important spring cleaning is, but it is arguably a bad idea. Why? When you dedicate days of intensive labor in the springtime so you can clean and organize your home, you will exhaust yourself, probably to the point where you will not want to touch it again until next spring! That is really the reason spring cleaning happens in the modern era—it is a vicious cycle! Sound familiar? Wouldn’t it be great if there was a better way? Well, there is!

What do we suggest instead? This year, consider making a decision to skip the spring cleaning altogether. Instead, come up with a regular decluttering and maintenance schedule for your household. Even if you just dedicate 15 minutes a day three or four days a week to various decluttering and cleaning tasks, your house will stay cleaner throughout the year. You will no longer have to work like crazy every spring just to catch up. Instead, you can enjoy the feeling of accomplishment that goes with knowing your home is always clean and organized, and you never have to feel overwhelmed or exhausted doing it.

You will find a lot of great sample schedules for cleaning maintenance schedules online. Any of them can make a good starting point for your own home cleaning schedule. Remember to individualize your plan so that it fits you and your family. Don’t force yourselves to follow a plan that wasn’t tailored for your scheduling needs. You will have the best success by using a plan that fits all of your personalities and works around your other obligations effectively.