In the spring, my fancy turns to thoughts of deep cleaning.
I keep my home highly organized year round and am committed to a regular weekly cleaning schedule, but something about that first burst of spring air makes me start clearing out closets and soaking window screens.
Though as much as I love the feeling of a fresh home, I hate figuring out how to tackle it all. That’s why this year I’m using these Android apps to help me declutter and clean.
Sweepy
I can take cleaning room by room, one step at a time with Sweepy. After selecting a room in my home, I customize a list of tasks, building on suggestions from Sweepy. For each task, I can select how often it should be done and add a reminder. Every task is automatically given a rating for how much effort it takes, and on days when I don’t have too much time or energy, I can sort to find the easiest, fastest ones to accomplish, maximizing what I get done.
Laundry Symbols
Deciphering hieroglyphics without a degree in Egyptology can be easier than trying to figure out what those symbols on laundry tags mean. Laundry Symbols explains it all and even has a full guide to doing laundry. All I have to do is click on one of four categories (washing, bleaching, drying, ironing) to find out just what those pictographs mean.
Swappa
One of the hardest things for me to get rid of is electronics. They generally serve me well in the process of testing tech but every once in a while I have to evaluate what I have and sell off what’s no longer useful. When I need to get rid of tablets, laptops, headphones, smart speakers, and the like, I use Swappa. It’s a fast and easy process of clicking my way through the system and I pay only 3% of what I get to Swappa.
Taskrabbit
If there are some things around the house that you can’t manage on your own for whatever reason, you can turn to Taskrabbit. I’ve used the app to find people to hang art, assemble furniture, and even take away a huge haul of things to donate to Goodwill. I appreciate that I can read reviews for Taskrabbits in my area and then handle all communications as well as payment right in the app.
Pocket Casts
I would not be able to get through cleaning anything without the constant background sound of a podcast. Pocket Casts is my app of choice. It syncs between my Pixel and my iPhone, so I don’t need to keep track of what I was last listening to and where.
