Here are three tips to get your spring cleaning done faster – so you have more time to stop and smell the flowers.

Prioritize: Do the biggest, most important jobs first. Inside the home this means dusting, vacuuming and scrubbing in all the hard to reach places. Outside it means cleaning gutters, raking the yard and digging up the flowerbeds.

Don’t procrastinate: Not the easiest feat, but think of it this way – the sooner it’s done, the sooner you can forget about it for another year.

Check things off: Having a checklist where you can tick off items as you go feels gratifying. Plus, it will help you to remember often forgotten cleaning tasks like washing out fan filters and dusting the baseboards.