Spring cleaning needs to be about more than just getting rid of trash; it needs to be about purging anything they don’t want to carry into their adult lives. Often, this is an involved process, with almost every item needing to be scrutinized.
You’ll want to have four boxes placed either on the bed or the floor. One will be for items being kept, and two will be for discards, separated into trash and donate/sell. The fourth box is for items to hand down to siblings if any.
Encourage them to remove any programs they no longer need and examine their files to determine what needs to be saved or deleted. if it doesn’t provide them any value anymore, there’s generally no reason to keep the work.
School bags and purses can accumulate a surprising amount of junk over the course of the year, so it never hurts to completely empty them out and clean things up a bit.