Call THE MAIDS cleaning service!

That's what I do :o)

Mom spring cleaned in Chicago Most eveyone used coal for heat during the winter
and by necessity things needed to be cleaned in the Spring and we used to get a
spring cleaning vacation from school too. I remember seeing
rugs on clothes lines and women using rugbeaters to knock out some of the grime.

I started the other day. Today I was noticing the baseboards and was wondering if I had a Mr. Clean Eraser in my cupboard but then I got lazy and came on here instead. All winter long it was my dog shedding - now it is the 2 cats. Hair everywhere and I just used my last vacuum bag.

Anne

I remember mother spring cleaning.
One room at a time and she rearranged everything in the bedrooms and living rooms.

Remember everything smelling so fresh and clean!

My mother used to spring clean. Of course, that was in the 50's when no married woman worked outside the home. I guess she felt it was her "job". I never did spring cleaning. I figure if I keep the kitchen and bathrooms clean all the time, I can get by by just making the beds,keeping the clutter at bay, dusting surfaces, and vacuuming or sweeping all the floors.

This will be the fiorst year of almost 40 yrs marriage that I wont be cleaning,
im just trying to survive right now.

I'm with you Dink...the last 5 years have been toooo hard. I did have a young woman come in Friday; she did the bathrooms and some of the kitchen. Today I am trying to pick up and put away the clutter in hope that she will come back. Nanny

Heck no - not any more - used to deep clean one room each week - not any more, though. I, too, remember my mother spring and fall cleaning - tore each room apart from top to bottom - nearly killed herself, starching lace curtains, stretching them on curtain stretchers, beating huge rugs, washing windows, baseboards, ceiling fixtures - bah, to heck with that nonsense - I live in a 'lived in' house and it shall ever be that way.

How I remember my mother with the spring cleaning. Yes, in the 1940's and 50's. She did one thing that drove me crazy as a child. At least every 6 months every box spring and mattress was brought outside to the front yard, and chairs were used to hold them off the ground. They had to be aired. We lived on a main road in our small town, can still see all of those in the front yard for the day. All the floors were washed and waxed. Our yards were mainly sandy and not grass. We kids had homemade brooms that we used to sweep the yard. Goodness no, I don't want to go back to the good old days. Oh, my mother is still living and in her nineties, still pulls the mattress outside to air, she can't pull the box spring, but I have pulled into her yard and there is the mattress "airing".

I air my pillows in the sunshine, on my back deck, frequently.

Ditto what kayjones said. My house is lived in also. I try
not to be my mother's daughter.

Not nearly as much as I should. Hard to walk around after awhile, so just do a little at a time. Oh well.

Spring WHAT?

I had visions of doing it this year (I haven't for several years)... but I doubt it will happen. Easier to wait until it's time to remodel. lol

Yes I do spring cleaning. I also try to do it in the fall too. Funny you should post this today, I am getting in the mood to start soon too. I was just thinking about it.

If the snow ever melts and stops coming I hope to have someone in as my back and legs aren't as young as they were, and besides housework is not my thing.

Not the kind of spring cleaning where everything is torn apart and gone over. Just general cleaning, every once in a while cleaning out the refrigerator, or shelves, or closets, etc.
I was a kid in the 50's and I don't remember cleaning to the extent some have posted about, yet our home was always clean.

My mom never did spring cleaning. She kept the house cleaned the year round. She was a housewife. It is too early to even think of spring cleaning here, we are still in the middle of winter with lots of snow and more to come. My spring cleaning consists of washing all the curtains.

No, no spring cleaning and the problem around here is: I don't do much in the summer, fall or winter, either.....Sigh.

I don't spring clean the house. I have a girl do my regular cleaning, and she rotates some of the tasks that only need to be done irregularly. Then I routinely do some of the other odds and ends, whenever I have the time and the inclination. I like order, and cleanliness, so with her help, we keep this place in pretty good shape.

Now, I do seem to do a spring cleaning in the greenhouse, and also in the garden. That needs to be done by the springtime, and I have the urge to do it then.

I am NOT insane:). Besides, I've always worked on the theory that if you can't write your name in the dust, it ain't ready.

No way. I'm another person who tries to keep the kitchen and bathroom clean. As for the rest of it, an occasional run through with a swiffer or a vacuum cleaner does it.

Not any more. I did plenty of that when I was still at home. We would carry everything outside, one room at a time and clean everything and then carry it back in. I just clean everyday something it seems.

Sue

More about my Mother (now 86) and her spring cleaning routines. She would put on "dungarees" and tie her hair in a kerchief. She'd pull everything out of my bedroom and closet. Shake the rug outside. Wash the walls top to bottom. Wipe off all the furniture. Strip the bed, wash the linens, drag the mattress outside in the sun. Scrub the floor, let it dry. Then drag everything back in, put the closet stuff back, then the bedroom. That would take her the full day. Tomorrow she'd do it all again in anbother room. I think it took about two weeks. I still remember the smell of fresh are and Spic and Span. And I remember my Mom always wore red lipstick and looked like June Cleaver. I'm glad Those Days are Gone!

Do WHAT???
I use to,many moons ago.LOL Now I just try to keep things reasonably clean.
Man Jannie,I'm tired just reading about your mother!LOL