Are your cupboards and drawers filled with outdated clutter? CDs, paper, photo albums, DVDs and books take up a lot of space. Here are 10 ways you can take the plunge into a digital, clutter-free life.

If you're a member of the Never Have Time to Clean Club and your messy home is getting you down, try this new cleaning strategy. If something that will help keep your place tidy takes less than a minute to do, just do it.

So you've stepped off the upgrade treadmill, but you're still a little jealous of all those people who splashed out for the new iPhone 5, or your Galaxy S II doesn't feel as shiny when the Galaxy S III is making big waves. This weekend, take some time to clean up your old phone and make it feel like new.

Short on wardrobe space? Use the tabs from the top of soft drink cans to double your hangers up, making more efficient use of your space and letting you keep favourite outfits together.

Clutter isn't just a problem in your house. Wander through any supermarket car park and you'll see back seats filled with junk. As part of your spring cleaning frenzy, take time to sort out your car as well.

The scroll wheel is often one of the first parts to wear out on a computer mouse. If you're keen to give an ageing mouse a new lease of life, you can replace the original rubber wheel with titanium (or another long-lasting metal).

If you do spring cleaning properly, you'll end up with a stack of objects that are perfectly functional but have no place in your life anymore. Whether you want to sell them or give them away, we've rounded up your options.

Still harbouring an old external floppy drive from a beloved old eight-bit machine? Rather than just wasting space, with a little work you can swap out the internals from a vintage drive to produce modern storage with a retro look.

Dear Lifehacker, I'm trying to get the chaos that is my paperwork under order, and using your Spring Cleaning Week special to springboard me. In particular, I'd like to digitise all of the varying important-but-life-clogging paperwork detritus around me. Is there any way I can make it less boring?

This is exactly what always happens with spring cleaning. You start out with the best intentions and a burst of activity, then you get distracted by seemingly more pressing tasks and before you know it the whole process goes off the rails. When that happens, you have to own up to your mistakes, plan better and press on. And that's why our Spring Cleaning Week 2012 series has stretched from a week to a fortnight.

If you're keeping roasting trays, muffin pans and other baking items flat in a cupboard, chances are you're making life tougher for yourself than necessary. Storing them vertically makes it easier to grab the one you want and won't take up any more room.

Dear Lifehacker, Council clear-out days come around with regularity and in apartment-land where I live folk are chucking out old tech all the time: printers, monitors, old PC tower units, HDDs, even working laptops. What are the legalities here? What can you pick up? What must you avoid? What responsibilities would you have if you find folk have not erased data and apps? Thanks, Scavenger

Clutter piles up quickly when you bounce from room to room in your house. Objects end up in odd places and stay there for no good reason. Unclutterer's solution is to make it a rule to always take something with you when you leave a room.

The challenge with spring cleaning is often throwing stuff out. Get started with this no-brainer list of items that have no place in your life.

Some people treat getting additional Facebook friends as a competitive sport, but if you are friends with several hundred people chances are your list could do with some culling. Sean Goode suggests an easy way to do that: delete anyone you don't have a distinctive and meaningful memory of.