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Have you thrown open your windows yet to let in the fresh air? It might not be time just yet but within a few weeks we should be ready to welcome spring. A terrific idea for bringing in the freshness is with a little greenery. Believe it or not, live plants can go a long way towards keeping the air in your home fresh. Houseplants like Spider plants, English Ivy, rubber plants and peace lilies make the best natural air filters.
If you really want to freshen up your interiors you might consider giving your rooms a fresh coat of paint. Paint manufacturers have gotten in to the eco-friendly act by designing paints that reduce Volatile Organic Compounds. These are the chemicals that form vapors at room temperature. Some older paints have these compounds in high numbers. Look for new paint with non-VOC chemicals.
This spring you could save a few trees by forgoing the paper towels and instead opt for reusable lint free dust clothes. You can even use an old T-shirt that is destined for the trash or newspapers. This makes you a proactive recycler. One aspect of spring cleaning that you should really be embracing is tossing out all the junk you’ve been collecting over the years. The debate of what is junk and what isn’t has raged in households for generations. If you want a classic definition used by professional organizers than junk is anything that you haven’t used in six months or don’t plan to use for the next six months. That includes any old furniture you’ve put in storage, appliances you’ve replaced, computers you’ve upgraded or stacks of magazines or newspapers you’ve either read or have no intention of reading. It is easy to figure out what stuff of yours is ready for the junk heap. And it’s easy to get rid of all that stuff when you hire Junk King Cincinnati.
Junk King takes all the hassle out of junk removal by providing you with a crew who will do all the picking up, loading and driving away. What a Junk King Cincinnati crew can do in less than an hour would probably take you several hours between renting a truck, loading your junk and driving to the nearest landfill or recycling center. Don’t you have better things to do with your free time? Let Junk King give you back your weekend and turn your home into a junk free zone. And don’t forget that spring cleaning also means cleaning up your yard. Junk King Cincinati can help with yard waste removal as well. Make them your one-stop spring cleaning partners.
Do you know what’s up in your attic? Recently, residents were surprised to return home and find their apartment building surrounded by police. It turns out that a 23 year-old-man took refuge up in their attic after trying to escape from police during a routine traffic stop. After jumping out of his car, the suspect found his way into an apartment building where he hid in the attic. There wasn’t much effort to get him down from there.
Do you know where your Freon is? You’re refrigerator is a good source and if you have an air condition unit chances are that will be loaded with Freon as well. For those keeping score, Freon is a cooling agent that is also classified as hazardous chemical. As long as it is kept inside the machine that it’s supposed to be in everything will be alright. It’s when it leaks is there a problem. That’s why you have to dispose of ACs and fridges in a responsible manner. Here in Butler County, locals have an opportunity to do just that… at least for a while.
Around the Cincinnati area there was a 12.5% increase in home sales in August compared to the same time last year. Here’s how the numbers break down: “County real estate agents closed on sales of 388 houses last month, the highest number of sales for the month of August in four years, according to figures provided by the Cincinnati Area Board of Realtors. Approximately 345 homes sold in August 2011, 275 in August 2010 and 374 in August 2009.”
Last year at the annual Keep Cincinnati Beautiful clean up day, over 800 volunteers armed themselves with gloves, shovels and trash bags and fanned out across 40 separate locations with one goal: pick up the trash. At the end of the day, that group of dedicated residents managed to collect over six tons of garbage by 7 illegal dumpsites, 15 parks and many other public places. There was on intrepid group who kept a running tally of the cigarette butts they picked up: 1,000. As the cleanup crews made their way through the neighborhoods picking up trash they were followed by the planting crews who dug in and placed over 12,000 daffodil bulbs throughout the city.
How much space do you really need? A lot of Cincinnati residents are asking themselves that very question when it comes to figuring out where they should live. If you’ve been wondering about downsizing your life then you’re not alone. Keep in mind that downsizing doesn’t always mean moving into a smaller place. It could mean making the most of the space your living in now and that requires getting rid of junk.
Recently GreenSource Cincinnati held an event downtown to allow folks drop off their e-waste. What they accepted where any kind of cables, CD-ROM drives, cell phones, circuit boards, computer speakers, monitors, DVD players, fact sheet, hard drives, keyboards, laptops, LCD monitors, mainframes, microwaves, modems, personal copiers, printers, scanners, speakers, telephones, televisions, terminals and VCR. Pretty much anything that has to do with electricity they collected except for batteries or light bulbs.
The difference between an avid collector and a clinically diagnosed hoarder is often in the eyes of the beholder. While a hoarder might think there is nothing wrong with holding onto everything that comes into their possession over the course of a lifetime there are others who say that this kind of collecting creates a health hazard. Compulsive hoarding is not a new phenomenon; it’s just something that has recently been recognized as a serious mental disorder. Many neighborhood associations have banded together to form cleanup crews to help their neighbors tackle these problems. However, a Cincinnati judge hopes to get at the root cause of this condition by requiring those who are charged severe hoarding seek out professional mental health counseling as part of their prohibition.
A dumpster could really be thought of as a magnet that attracts all sorts of undesirable elements. The most obvious is all kinds of vermin. While it might not seem as though rodents can get into a dumpster for some reason they always find a way to especially when there is a good meal at stake. This is the same for folks who like to go dumpster diving. Whether they are looking for a potential discarded treasure or hoping to fill up a shopping cart with recycled bottles dumpster diving is all too common anywhere around these gigantic metal containers. There’s just something about a dumpster compels some people want to open up the lid see what’s inside.
The popular cable channel TLC introduced the phenomenon of hoarding too many Americans through their show “Hoarding: Buried Alive.” On this reality program cameras were taken inside the home of hoarders whose lives have gotten out of control through their obsessive-compulsive behavior. In most instances these hoarders were in complete denial as to their surroundings. Some of these stories were especially tragic when there were innocent animals involved like the house that was overrun with rats while another one was swarming with rabbits. It takes a lot of coordination between professional junk haulers and trained psychotherapist to help these hoarders regain a sense of normalcy. Sadly sometimes after a thorough cleanup these folks go right back to their old habits.