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Don’t get me wrong. I love spring. Living in Florida, we still have green most the year round, but I still love seeing the flowers blooming and going to Lowes to buy new flowers for planting. Science Guy will tell you I don’t have much of a green thumb, but I like to try.
But what about the danger?
My mom was/is Mrs. Clean incarnate. I could give you examples but that’s another post entirely. I’ll just leave it at the house was always spotless. Cleaning over clean was/is her motto.
Me, I love a clean house. I love things to be where they belong, I love…okay, who am I kidding? I really do love all of the above and try to keep it that way, until life decides I’m too busy.
So what about the danger? I’m almost there.
Things pile up, dusting needs to be done, and closets need to be straightened. I’m going crazy since I want it to be magazine perfect, but don’t have time or energy right now.
All of a sudden Spring hits the air and it’s like my mom takes over my body. I’m ready to clean everything, everywhere. And what is the easiest way to clean? Throw it out. Oh yeah, throw it away.
Many a time, there have been fingers looking through the jumbo black garbage bags carefully to not let catch them pulling out the things they know we need.
My motto? If I haven’t used it in a year (last year’s spring cleaning) throw it out. We don’t need it anymore. Sounds great until I go to wear those perfect sandals with the only outfit they go with and I’ve gotten rid of them.
But there’s more…I throw out everything, papers, clothes, kitchen stuff, really…everything except books. I can’t throw those out ever. (I might could build a second home with them though).
So there you have it. I love spring, but my family gets a bit worried when they see Mrs. Clean begin to manifest in my eyes.
What about you? Do you throw away stuff to later wish you hadn’t? Does your house get crazy let go a month before the big spring cleaning? Or are you secretly related to my mother and your house is always perfect?
WW’s and PD’s,
Vicki, who really does love all the flowers and the beautiful sky at this time of the year.
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Every now and again, I get on a cleaning spree. But, really, not so much. I am a pack rat by nature. No we don’t need every drawing each kid made, but I can’t throw it out!
And though I’d like my house “magazine perfect”, the reality is with two boys there is a sock in every corner, a ball in every room, not to mention batting gloves, legos, strange little toys from McDonalds tucked into votive jars, Pokemon cards lurking on every shelf, eraserless pencils, dog toys, chewed flipflops, little bits of leaves ….I could go on and on. It would make me crazy to try and tackle it all so I just make the beds and pretend its clean.
Hey, it works for me.
My house looks pretty much like Amy described hers. It’s impossible to keep it clean!
I do get in cleaning spurts and I’m known to go through and trash. And I don’t tell. I mean, if hubs hasn’t seen Xitem in years and he suddenly goes looking for it, he’ll assume he lost it somewhere.
See, that’s really our house too. It’s just dangerous when I do the major cleaning. Throwing it out becomes much too easy while that’s happening.
Which means shopping for new stuff, which isn’t such a bad thing either.
My mother used to go in for cleaning spurts, but all in all the house looked as if people lived in it. One of my sisters is a clean house maniac, and the other is sort of like me and my mother. Although I have to admit my standards probably sagged when the children were younger (and still do sag when I’m on a white hot writing rampage). I do remember getting absolutely outraged when one of the children would innocently comment, “The house looks great. Is somebody coming over?” but it probably tells more about my housewifely skills than anything else.
Anyhow I don’t really associate spring with cleaning. I guess I “spring clean” any time during the year when I get fed up with looking for stuff.
My house is basically clean, but far from spotless. I must also confess that I am a packrat!
beppie – my sister’s house always looks amazing, but she has not one, but two housekeepers who come in each week and take care of everything.
cheryl – I really am a pack rat, it’s just the crazy throwing away spurts that makes it not seem so. But you should see the boxes I have Science Guy store for me in the garage.
Major pack rat here! I try to clean out the unnecessary stuff throughout the year and end up keeping most of it. Even find things I thought long gone.
It’s like a giant scavenger hunt at least four times a year around here. My mom’s the greatest. She’s a big help when she visits us. I get her to tell me to throw the stuff away and it doesn’t hurt so much. I know, I know, I need serious help! LOL
Melissa – that sounds like fun.
I love scavenger hunts.
Now the thought of my mom coming to help me send chills skirting down my spine. Seriously. I have to have it done BEFORE she comes down.
We do spring and Christmas cleaning around here. I love opening doors and windows and cleaning. But, I have a habit too of throwing so much away that I have to go shopping to get something I just got rid of.
I’m forever throwing out things I ultimately need later. But it’s not because I’m a clean freak, more like a scatterbrain. LOL
L – you made me laugh, except Iknow this is truth.
That is somewhat difficult for me to answer. I am a clean freak sometimes, but I get lazy after awhile of it staying clean. That is when I leave things laying around that I don’t need. Then, it gets messy. When there gets to be too much stuff laying around, the cleaning cycle begins again =)