You need to get these items out of your house ASAP!

A problem everyone faces every time they clean up the house is, “What to exactly throw away”. This can be a real problem and can make every spring clean or even a clean-up-Sunday a huge mess.

This leads to the next question, “how can we make the next clean-up session quick and easy”. Well there are a few tricks you can try.

These tricks can not only save up your time during your up-coming cleaning sessions, these can also your help you get rid of the unwanted mess crowding your drawers and closets!

1. Old Knives

Look through your kitchen drawers and who are we kidding, I’m sure you can find old knives, spoons and even forks that you have replaced over the years. You can bubble wrap these carefully and stack them in cardboard boxes and donate them to the nearest soup kitchen or the Salvation Army.

2. Worn-out clothes

Go through your closets and find the worn-out bed sheets and pillow cases. You definitely don’t need them anymore and let’s face it, who is going to care if your Star Wars bed spread are worn out? You can donate these to nearby animal shelters.

3. Hangers

Ever opened your closet and wondered why there are so many hangers inside? They seem to multiply every day don’t they? Once you can figured out how many hangers you want inside the house, you can give them away to thrift shops or even second hand clothing stores.

4. Expired Medications

Stuffing your medical cabinets with expired medications can be horrible. You can flush these down the commodes to make sure they don’t enter the local water supply.

5. Expired Beauty Products

You should not use facial cosmetics for more than 12 months and eye make-up should be replaced to avoid catching an infection. Make sure you dispose these carefully not to harm the environment because they definitely include chemicals.

6. Used-up Batteries

Open a drawer right now I’m sure you can find at least 5-10 of these! You can take these to a recycling centres close-by.

7. Burned-out light bulbs

Compact fluorescent light bulbs can be recycled however mercury-containing bulbs should NOT be thrown away. The LED bulbs are safe to get rid of the usual way.