With the spring season just around the corner, it is time in many parts of the country for home sales to thaw out of the winter freeze and get thinking about the spring housing market. One of the best ways that you can prepare for putting your home on the market, even if it doesn’t feel like spring yet in your neck of the woods, is by an early spring cleaning. Spring cleaning stems from traditional early cleaning after the weather starts to warm up and the days become brighter. In many parts of the country, once the days brighten up it is easy to see the cobwebs and dust that the winter gloom has kept hidden in the shadows. To spring clean your home in preparation for putting it on the market, pick a nice bright day if you can and open up all of the blinds and curtains in your home to let the light in. If it’s warm enough outside open up the windows and let your house air out while you work; make sure that you turn the heat off while you’re working with the windows open so that you’re not heating the great outdoors. If it’s too cold to work like that, try airing out the parts of your home that you’re not cleaning and then closing the windows and turning the heat back on when you clean those rooms. The best place to start spring cleaning in any room is at the top.