Anyone Else Spring Cleaning?

[mrswaz]

Misery loves company you know.

After a winter of dirt building up in all the corners and crevices in the house, I decided it was time. Cleaning my kitchen floor, appliances, cupboards, and molding by hand has taken longer than I expected. And I have so much more house...

[mbrogier]

I'm doing it slowly but surely. I have boxes in the basement to clean out and organize, but it is still way too cold down there.

[Veronica]

I'm with you! I have a two-page-long spring-cleaning list, but I'm having trouble getting motivated this week. I'd been going gang-busters over the past couple of weeks, but this week came along, and I'm just not in the mood. Even so, I'm determined to finish cleaning the insides of my kitchen cabinets and drawers this week. I started on this project last week, and it's taking forever. What a big job! Good luck with your cleaning!

[DeeK]

We are! Dh took the week off. So far we have had the A/C serviced, had the spa heater serviced, had the screen room repairs estimated and booked, have the cable provider coming out......we have service people coming out our ears. :D

We've pressure washed the house, the windows, the sidewalk and driveway, the pool enclosure and the deck. All of the outside plants have been given their spring trim and DH is outside now doing the bug spray.

The inside has been cleaned and tidied (sp?). We have some banking to do this afternoon and then we are done with our spring chores!

The last four days of his week off will be dedicated to enjoying the fruits of our labors. ;)

[AvrilH]

ARgh. I don't get my weekly cleaning done, let alone SPRING CLEANING!

But motivation (i.e. my parents' Easter visit) is right around the corner. Where should I start?!

[Kerri]

Don't take this the wrong way, but I hate you all. :D

It just that I see all the grime built up in the corners, etc, but I know that I will never get to it.

[mrswaz]

ARgh. I don't get my weekly cleaning done, let alone SPRING CLEANING!

But motivation (i.e. my parents' Easter visit) is right around the corner. Where should I start?!

I hear ya. DH's parents will be here on Friday- hence the big clean-up. I'm not feeling very motivated so I started with our kitchen and bathroom and really, I've just been scrubbing everything. It's amazing how much cleaner the place feels when you do something as simple as wipe down the baseboards. I started with the kitchen since that's most likely where we will spend most of our time. Our bedroom will be the last priority, since they are not staying with us. (Whew on that one!)

[bobmark226]

I still haven't gotten used to a house this size and I feel like I'm constantly cleaning. The dust up here is overwhelming and they just got all the winter crap off the streets last week. I did do some earnest (remember: I'm a guy!) deep cleaning last week when the weather really felt like Spring, but I'm doing much better at cosmetic things like hanging baskets of pansies from the drains, filling the house with potted flowers and hanging pussywillow wreathes. :rolleyes: The beds were completely stripped down and everything washed and that always feels like more than it really is. The yard cleaning, which was about ten hours of work (not mine, thank you!) made everything feel brand new already because the house is so open, and there's going to be a lot of painting soon for further freshening.

Bob

[jmarie]

I have started, but it is such a slow tedious process. Hopefully, I will be full swing by this weekend and be finished by mid-week next week. This is not my year for painting...thank goodness! We just have so much stuff and no storage space!

[aggie94]

Spring cleaning is on my agenda starting April 17 when I go on "vacation" (i.e. not going to work, staying home and doing things I haven't had time to do for months) for two weeks - stuff like finishing interior painting of our house, organizing recipes and photos, catching up on filing, going through our closets and getting rid of stuff, etc. Not looking forward to it, but it needs to get done, and I'd rather do it during the week when DH is at work, so I'm not spending my weekends doing "chores."

[Laurielee]

Dee, a question about your spa heater serviced, why do you do that? I have a spa and never knew a ting existed. What do they do?

TIA

Laurie

[DeeK]

Dee, a question about your spa heater serviced, why do you do that? I have a spa and never knew a ting existed. What do they do?

TIA

Laurie

Laurie,

Our spa is an inground spa connected to our pool. It is heated by a propane heater. We have the electrical connections and gas connections checked. The pilot and heater bar are cleaned of debris so that the flame burns cleanlyand efficiently.

Our spa heater is 13 years old and several pieces of the heater unit needed to be replaced because of corrosion. Since the heater unit sits outside it gets pelted by rain and baked by the sun.

I'm not sure that you would have the same issues with a free-standing unit. I would compare the service to the type you would do on an A/C or heater unit every year.

Hope this helps.

[ChristieinMB]

Don't take this the wrong way, but I hate you all. :D

It just that I see all the grime built up in the corners, etc, but I know that I will never get to it.
Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one to feel that way, does anyone really come to this board, to share thier cleaning joys?? :D :D

[LakeMartinGal]

I'm a slug... :o

I put new organizers in 2 drawers in the kitchen, and quit. Does it count that we got a new vacuum? ;)

[GingerPow]

Yes, I am spring cleaning. But it is still the spring cleaning I started in 2004.
It never ends. :rolleyes:

[Gecko]

No, but I have to start very soon. Not only do we have a bunch of junk, but we have some mold problems from all of the rain we have had. I keep telling myself that we need to pretend like we are moving every few years and just get rid of the junk.

[imloulou]

aaa..AAAA...AAAA-ChoooooOOoooooooOOOOO

(I'm cleaning ;) )

[CompassRose]

I did a whole ton of cleaning; hoed out my entire attic and Freecycled a large portion of it, and then moved down to a bunch of closets and pantry.... but I'm flagging a bit now.

Mostly because the part I've got to is the basement, and I SOOOO do not want to go there. :eek: I've kind of started, but not really.

[mbrogier]

Does it count that we got a new vacuum? ;)

Only if you've taken it out of the box. :D ;)

aaa..AAAA...AAAA-ChoooooOOoooooooOOOOO

Bless you! ---handing you a new box of tissues. Rob helped me vacuum under the sofa cushions tonight, and I'm sneezing more than usual. Thankfully I buy tissues in bulk at Costco. :p

[Kay Henderson]

I'm IMPRESSED with all of you -- I won't get to anything in my own house this spring, as I am concentrating on clearing out my late mother's house and getting it ready for sale.

All is not gloom and doom -- my brothers and I are presently having a work week, and discovering many interesting things in the large, crammed-to-the-gills house my parents bought in 1960. (My mother loved spacious closets and filled them all.)

I think I need to hire a keeper for myself as I tend to all this.

Good luck to all of you!

Kay

[lorilei]

This year... I am far behind.

I need to make a list, check it twice, and figure out if I'll be naughty or nice this year.

Does anyone want to share their list?
I'm trying to determine what spring cleaning really is in this day and age.

No longer are we clearing out the winter soot that makes its way down the winter chimney. No longer are we sweeping out our dirt floors. No longer are we replacing our bed curtains. :)

And yet -- how many of us wash walls? Clean baseboards?

This is all fascinating stuff.
'Tis the time of year when I do wish we lived in a smaller space. With less corners for that grime to accumulate :)

[mrswaz]

And yet -- how many of us wash walls? Clean baseboards?




I am! However, I wouldn't say it's an annual event. We moved in here in August and I was so busy at the time that I never gave the place a really thorough scrubbing. Now that I can open up the windows and let in the fresh air I am getting to it.

I will say though, this is the first time that I've missed our old place, it was about half the size, and it's taking me so much longer than I'd anticipated.

For your lists... today's job was washing the window sills and casings on the inside with Murphy's Oil Soap, and as long as I had that out, I gave the kitchen table and chairs a good scrubbing as well. Mostly though I'm going a room at a time. Yesterday I did the kitchen and laundry and today is the dining room and living room. Tonight DH is going to take all of the screens out and scrub them down so the windows will also get washed later today.

[AzAnne]

Oldest DS got married 2 wks ago so I was forced ;) to start my spring cleaning beginning of March. Good news is the majority of the heavy cleaning got finished 2 days before all the out-of-towners arrived :) Bad news is after everyone left, my house needed another major cleaning :o

Youngest DS's new house is ready for them to move into, so starting tomorrow all his "junk" that is filling up my garage will be leaving :D

[imloulou]

Bless you! ---handing you a new box of tissues. Rob helped me vacuum under the sofa cushions tonight, and I'm sneezing more than usual. Thankfully I buy tissues in bulk at Costco. :p

Why thank you :D I think I will need the whole box...I'm going thru the tissues this spring!

[Laurielee]

Thanks Dee fo your repsonse abou the spa heater.


I clean my baseboards every couple of months, they get so much acumulation of dog dander and dust, its amazing, and its so noticabel with white baseboards.


Laurie

[VictoriaL]

I started a couple of weeks ago by hauling everything (but the freezer and washer/dryer) out of the pantry/laundry room, painting the walls, and DH installed a huge new oak pantry system (with sliding wire baskets! yay!). I'm still not certain where a lot of my pantry items are.

Then I moved to the next room, the kitchen, and got diverted a bit. After washing the walls, I realized that it has been 3 years since I painted them. They have been white since we remodeled 10 years ago. So I am currently painting/ sponging 3 walls and the bulkheads in tones of soft yellow, and one wall a deep terracotta. I found window valences in a yellow & terracotta botanical print. And matching chair cushions. Should I buy the coordinating placemats/napkins? HELP!!!! I CAN'T STOP!!! :D

And I still have the rest of the house to do (I was planning on re-papering the bathroom before hosting our May supper club dinner, but....).

[jasonhoggan]

Last weekend was really nice. Spring fever was really kicking in. But today it snowed all day. I just could not believe it. We got close to a foot of snow!!!! I thought snow was for dec, jan, and feb. but not april. I live close to Park City. The greatest snow on earth or so we claim.

We did start on the garage last weekend. didn't get to finish though.

[Jazzmatazz49]

We are out of school for Easter break next week, and I will do some serious cleaning then. I let my cleaning service go after Christmas, and I'm re-thinking that particular decision! I have just started using the Melaleuca line of cleaning supplies (it's ecologically safer and contains melaleuca (tea tree) oil). I'm anxious to see if the cleaning supplies work as well as the laundry and personal hygiene products they have. But I'd rather the maid found out for me! I really don't like to do housework, I'm a cook!