Community Connection Thread: Spring Cleaning!

[community_team]

Hello everyone!

It’s that time of year again and we’re getting ready to do our spring cleaning. Who doesn’t love a fresh start and a clean living space?

For our topic this time, we want to know what are your go-tos and tips for creating a sparkling abode? Any specific cleaners or steps you take that help you stay organized? We’d love to hear them!

As always please keep the conversation on topic and be respectful of each other. This thread will remain open from 4.7.2021 to 4.17.2021. 

[loveyourimagination49]

Going to dust off the date coding machine of other countries.

[gracieallen01]

Go away for a week and hire someone to come in and 'do it' whilst I'm gone.

[silverstatetreasureboxes]

   But community team we've been " spring cleaning" for a WHOLE year now!

Well the one thing I do always is when I get something out I put it right back in it's place. Everything in my pink house has its own cubby, drawer, nook and cranny.

     I don't touch the hubs things and he doesn't touch mine. Now the little white fluff that rules here is a different story. His babies and pillows are everywhere!

[chapeau-noir]

We've been clearing stuff out for a while now here and there, but I personally have never owned a lot.  The DH has owned more but beyond our hoards of books and sports equipment it's not too bad.  My stores need clearing out, though, but that's more seasonal than spring cleaning.

[toysaver]

If you have company coming over just spray Windex in the front hall and they'll think everything is clean...

[femmefan1946]

@toysaver   That sounds like Phyllis Diller's advice . "Just dab a little OCedar wax behind your ears. It makes you smell tired."

I have found that having a cleaner come in just once a month keeps my house as clean as I want it to be. Since knowing the crew will be coming makes me at least tidy up, and try to get DH to clear his stamps off the dining room table, so they can clean the room.

[jack_bucks_ghost]

in all honesty, there is nothing i can offer this topic in good faith...any helpful tips i offered would plagiarized, fantasized, or mythologized. i'm still trying to get caught up on pre-covid laundry. there's no need to dust if you cover every inch of table, counter, dresser, and unused chair with stuff. books and boxes (i sell sports cards, so there are lots of boxes) take up a substantial amount of floor space. pizza is one of my favorite/regular treats, but those boxes don't fit in my trash can...I do try to make quarterly runs to dispose of them, but stuff comes up sometimes, so i don't quite make it as often as i should. still, i am a bit envious of the clean freaks (my mother was one of the highest order) who can actually recommend "specific cleaners or steps you take that help you stay organized," but sometimes i feel sad for them...i'm a firm believer that you gotta live the space, not let the space live you...lol. Sure, some people call me a hoarder, but I just tell them, "no, i'm just eBayer."

[caz-10]

For a while there I thought you were talking about cleaning my Ebay Store.So i Did.

Now I can put off cleaning my home and car!

[magic*moonbeams]

I'd love a fresh start on some new eBay polices that back sellers!! 😄 😄 

How about some spring cleaning on eBay policies that help their money makers (their SELLERS)  That would be a go-to, amazing space!!

🙂 🙂

Nothing but love 🙂

[chapeau-noir]

@jack_bucks_ghost   any helpful tips i offered would plagiarized, fantasized, or mythologized. 

What ARE these tips?  They sound awesome (or possibly mythical).  Are they better than my method of just plowing everything out the back door and burying it in the garden?

[jack_bucks_ghost]

the one that has worked for me the last couple of years is to just move every so often and forgo my cleaning and security deposits (i prefer one year leases for the flexibility)...do note, that's a cleaning tip, not a personal finance suggestion

[chapeau-noir]

So no piling stuff up in the driveway and just burning it, then.

[gracieallen01]

Three quarters of a century ago, my great grandfather had an incinerator in the back yard and never had any problem with spring cleaning.  Good thing, too, as my great grandmother was quite persnickety - one of those nasty-clean people - and everything had its place, and it would be in that place.  Now, he had spring cleaning down to an art!

[jewelbiz]

When you are old, Me, and have been an antique dealer 4-5 decades and have been to countless antique shows, flea markets, yard sales, swap meets,  thrift stores, ladies houses, etc., etc., etc.

and have lived in same apartment 52 years, you just give up the cleaning vibe...

I constantly open up some drawer or look 👀 on a shelf & find some lovely thing here I never saw before in my entire life!