Spring Cleaning

Yes, next week will be a good time to visit our otherwise shabby sty!
Spring cleaning  helps remove clutter/cobwebs/normally unreachable filth in the physical space. It does just the opposite in our minds I discovered. Everything cleaned had a association to an event, period in time, person, memory etc. What to remove or add into to the showcase was an exercise in aesthetics balanced with family members emotional needs and attachment to things. I have now discovered among other things 3 cameras including a digital one all in good working order and have no idea how to deal with them. Last week I gave away a large Hanuman idol that some christian colleagues of my wife had given her with all good intent. Now, I still have some more idols of gods that we are unable to accomodate in the small nook we have for prayer. How can we spring clean the mind? I wish I knew. I can live comfortably in my home with just the regular cleaning, however, my life would change for much better if I could spring clean the mind and remove all the baggage that failures, hurt, memories miserable etc have created in my mind leaving it clean with all the right stuff like happy memories of successes, love and times of joy.  Meditation may come close to a solution?? I dont know yet