Clean and Clutter-free: spring cleaning list

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Author Content cathy4 St. Louis County, MO (Zone 5a) April 1, 2008 1:17 PM Post #4741064 Okay, I'll admit it, I've NEVER spring cleaned. Spring and garden go together, spring and clean do not. This year I'm trying to reform, as long as it keeps raining I'm going to clean. Where do I start? I have all the stuff, I just don't know where to begin. Is there a list?? Cathy4 bhaugh Norfolk, VA April 1, 2008 1:23 PM Post #4741087 OMG!!! did you know that if you google spring cleaning you can get detailed lists of what you are supposed to do? and I always thought that spring cleaning was an old wives tail or something!!!! LOL [HYPERLINK@housekeeping.about.com] cathy4 St. Louis County, MO (Zone 5a) April 1, 2008 1:36 PM Post #4741136 LOL, it will take all of spring just to read them! Thanks bhaugh Norfolk, VA April 1, 2008 1:48 PM Post #4741187 I know what you mean, but honestly, I do spring clean...I just move all the furniture and clean behind and under it, clean all the ceiling fans, move the fridge and stove, just all the stuff that normally doesn't get done on the regular cleaning. I think of spring cleaning as more of a deep clean for the house. Take one room a day and you won't feel overwhelmed by it. cathy4 St. Louis County, MO (Zone 5a) April 1, 2008 1:52 PM Post #4741199 Oh my, move the fridge and stove? McGlory Southeast, NE (Zone 5a) April 1, 2008 1:54 PM Post #4741208 I'm with you, Cathy. Not only does moving the stove and fridge sound like a lot of work, it might scare me half to death. I've heard stories... bhaugh Norfolk, VA April 1, 2008 1:55 PM Post #4741210 ok, my hubby moves them for me, but they do get moved twice a year and cleaned behind and under. It amazes me the amount of dust and crud that can build up under those two things!!! bhaugh Norfolk, VA April 1, 2008 1:57 PM Post #4741221 your right McGlory, it can be scary! I remember when we first moved in this house (we rent it), the first thing I did was clean everything in sight. I swear the fridge and stove had never been moved, it was gross!!! cathy4 St. Louis County, MO (Zone 5a) April 1, 2008 1:58 PM Post #4741227 I get dizzy on ladders, someone else will have to do the ceiling fans. Maybe I should call a cleaning company? I did empty out all the bathroom cabinets and pitched a ton of stuff. Maybe I'll go back in there and do some more. If the sun ever comes out, I'm outta here! bhaugh Norfolk, VA April 1, 2008 2:00 PM Post #4741232 LOL cathy4, pulling weeds doesn't sound like such a chore anymore now does it? McGlory Southeast, NE (Zone 5a) April 1, 2008 2:19 PM Post #4741308 Oh, to be pulling weeds instead of looking at the inside of my cluttered house... cathy4 St. Louis County, MO (Zone 5a) April 1, 2008 2:27 PM Post #4741352 I couldn't have said it better, I really don't mind weed pulling in the spring, I use lots of mulches and don't get many anymore. One spring weeding and then spot weeding now and then. My yard isn't very big, but I want to play outside, not clean! bhaugh Norfolk, VA April 1, 2008 2:39 PM Post #4741411 there you go cathy4, just mulch the house and your done!!! LOL McGlory Southeast, NE (Zone 5a) April 1, 2008 2:41 PM Post #4741430 LOL! cathy4 St. Louis County, MO (Zone 5a) April 1, 2008 2:43 PM Post #4741446 Um, if you could see the family room floor, it isn't that far from the truth. The back door comes in there and the dog and my husband have been tracking in mud and I've been potting things up in here since it is raining. I vac every day but you can't tell, lol. My mother would faint! bhaugh Norfolk, VA April 1, 2008 2:45 PM Post #4741457 throw in some grow lights and tell her it's your new green house... cathy4 St. Louis County, MO (Zone 5a) April 1, 2008 2:59 PM Post #4741519 those are in the kitchen, lol! flowerjen central, NJ (Zone 6b) April 2, 2008 2:35 PM Post #4746611 The only cleaning I specifically save for spring... window cleaning MistyPetals North Augusta, SC April 6, 2008 11:34 PM Post #4769215 Spring cleaning? What spring cleaning? I did it all during those dark, dreary days called winter frost, Zone 7/8. I'm done. I can go outside and play. Fortunately, my DH helps out, bless his heart. I was raised in a home where everything had a place and dust was unheard of. To me, it was a cold sterile place that can be compared to a clinic or something along those lines. Believe it or not, a little random clutter here and there makes me feel more content. Odd? Probably, but after watching Mom clean DAILY for all those years, I decided I wanted to do other things with my alloted time on earth. I love to garden and that's what spring is for. Spring cleaning, my eye. I am one of those who would rather paint a wall than scrub it. When I purchased the house, oh, say about two years ago, I went through it with a fine toothed comb. One of the things I did was to replace the walls in the bathroom to rid my home of the germs that were PC, that's pre-closing. No way did I want to inherit those. The one thing I need to do is the wallboards in the kitchen and I am seriously thinking of having those replaced. A few years ago I had a really bad fall and getting down there on my hands and knees hurts I've learned about cleaning wall boards is with the mister we use in gardening; its great for spraying them and wiping them down with a Lysol or Clorox wipe.

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