Hi everybody! Well as they say Spring has sprung and so here in Georgia it's time for Spring Cleaning. As some of you may remember I started Spring Cleaning last year but did not complete it (I found lots of things that I'd rather do.) This year, however, things are going to be different. This afternoon after I get home from the library and play with Little Bit for awhile, I am going to get my composition book and a pen and walk through my home and write down EVERYTHING that needs doing. Then I will let you know where I go from there. In one of my Yahoo groups, some of us are engaged in what we call our April Challenge. We get to choose what it is. Mine is to set up the new all-in-one, dispose of the old one, and to clean up the kitchen, dining room and living room. We are to be finished by April 24th. I may have gone a little far with that April Challenge, but I do intend to finish my Spring Cleaning which is a completely different thing from my April Challenge. I will post my progress on my Spring Cleaning later tonight.

Spring cleaning

I guess I'll start on all my windows.

Hope you get done what you plan on doing Jeannie.

Lorraine, I guess I'll have to do some of what I had planned to do tomorrow morning because I got home too late to really do anything except to watch M*A*S*H and then Little Bit reminded me that it was time to eat so I called Subway and asked the manager if he could fix a tuna sub and deliver it to me and he did. They're really not supposed to deliver, but the manager knows that I like to eat there and so he bends the rules for me and certain other people if he knows we can't just jump in our cars (that we don't have) and drive there. Adam (the manager) is a very nice guy.

Thats my one easy thing to do "spring cleaning". I do it as I unpack. But then the real clean up comes at the house warming. I'll have a utensil for everyone who shows up. Oppps I mean
everyone can add to the beauty of my new home. LooooL

I am getting a very slow start on my Spring Cleaning. It's kind of like I don't want to start. However, it has to be done at some point in time so I think that tomorrow will be a good time for me to start by walking through the house with a notebook and pen so that I can write down everything that needs doing. This is what I will do tomorrow. Then I will get on the computer and read some e mail. This will be my reward for starting my Spring Cleaning.

sounds like a plan. Did it woork that way?

No, it didn't work quite the way I planned. I did get one page of things written down and then it was time to read e mail and then there was supper and then there was television. I'll have to put my plan into action again tomorrow. I am going to get the house cleaned this year because I am going to put up my Christmas tree this year.

Hummmmmm sounds like me and my ever changing plans. lol
But you have plenty of time for that Christmas Tree to be set up, so you will get that spring cleaning done even if it is late summer.
I have to go back to Bicknell tomorrow and get some business done. Hope to be back before the weekend is up!

Well, I am going to start my spring cleaning tomorrow. I have decided that I will work on my smallest room and get that clean. Then I will go from there.

i wish i lived next door to you Jeannie i would leave my door open.

Don't worry Jeannie as I will be unpacking till summer ends. So I have put spring cleaning on hold for now.

I am going to start on my Spring Cleaning this week. My goal is to have the bathroom cleaned.

Well, I am finally starting on my Spring Cleaning. I started this morning in my bathroom which is my smallest room. This is what I did:

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[color="#cc6600"]1. Cleaned out the medicine cabinet

2. Started cleaning off the bathroom counter.

3. Started collecting garbage and will empty it later. Not enough for right now.

It is a start Jeannie. Good going. You will get it done.

Thanks sky. I had intended to work some more tonight but decided to work tomorrow morning instead. I have made a deal with myself. I complete one or two things each day.

I'm at the opposite side of things it's getting time to wear a coat out at night and pull all the blankets and the quilt up at night.
Now I do hope it's a cold winter this year, the days feel like early spring nice and warm with cooler nights.

Well I don't really clean. The occasional jobs, sure, but nothing planned.
Although this weekend I'll be cleaning, my folks are trusting me with the house for 3 days, oh the fun.

It is nice to be trusted, that's something you can carry with you for the rest of your life.


Jeannie, I also need to start my Spring cleaning. I think I'll start on the windows next week.

QUOTE: Jeannie, I also need to start my Spring cleaning. I think I'll start on the windows next week END QUOTE, Lorraine I am bad at any glass surface. If you would be a dear and stop by I have the Windex and soft cloth or paper towels. I'll buy the gas and dinner for you and your best...

Sky, I'm lucky if I get mine done, I have 22 windows + screens to clean, and that's not counting 6 doors and storms doors. I use to have about 42 windows..That's counting the storm windows, until I had all new windows put in the house. It cut my work in half. But thanks for the offer of buying gas and dinner

OK guess I will use the money for my gas tank. It has gone up here again. And I need to rescreen several windows. I'm finding small things the old owners never fixed.
looooool seems to be always on me. But I shall get it done. I can live with smeared windows.
I just never get it right cleaning windows. Any suggestions?

This is how I clean my windows, get a row, or maybe two rows of cheap white paper towels.

Then I pull 5 full sheets from it, then I pull another 5 full sheets. The first 5 sheets, I use to wipe the windows with when I spray on the Windex. and the second 5 sheets I use to dry the windows with.

I have double hung windows, so I can clean the inside and outside windows from the inside of the house.

I wash one pane at a time, with the first 5 sheets, then dry it with the second 5 sheets, then I go to the next pane and do the same thing until I have 4 panes done. then I pull another 5 full sheets, and use those for drying, and the ones you used before for drying, I use for washing. If you don't do that, then the paper gets too wet, and all you're doing is smearing the windows. The trick is, when you are drying the window, keep drying until you don't see any streaks.

So that's how I do it, just keep rotating the paper towels. You can use the wet ones to clean off the window seal.

Well, that's my suggestion for the day.

Thanks Lorraine. But for the outside windows I hope my 16' ladder will get me high enough. I doubt it. But I shakll try your method with all and the bathroom mirrors too.

Hi Lorraine,
Thanks for posting this. I also have double hung windows and I never can figure out how to clean them without streaking. I will try your method this year.

Jeannie

You're welcome Sky and Jeannie.

I'm just taking a break right now, I finishing up 5 windows and 2 doors and the storm doors today.

Another hint...Don't do the windows if the sun is shining on them, wait until the sun goes around the house, because they will dry too fast before you can polish them dry, and that will leave streaks also.

Thanks but the bath room mirrors still streak. Some things a man just shouldn't do . I think my darling wife used vinegar but not sure now.

In May I had intended to make quite a dent in the Spring Cleaning, but the weather turned hot. Not hot like May (which isn't hot here) but hot like July. Therefore, I didn't get anything done last month. I did think about cleaning several times but always it was just too hot. This week I have decided to begin again and work only 5 minutes at a time and see just how much I can accomplish in 5 minutes. I did that last summer and accomplished quite a bit. I'd work for 5 minutes and then five minutes more and then 5 more minutes. I had a good start on cleaning up the kitchen last summer. I have decided this week to work on the smallest room in my house and get it clean and then go from there. My smallest room is the bathroom so tomorrow I will start by emptying the garbage in the bathroom and then seeing just what else I can find. I will post the progress tomorrow. I was reviewing this thread just now to find out just what I said and I noticed one of the posts I made ends with "not enough garbage--will get later." I really should have gotten all of the garbage.

Jeannie do like me put the pen down and close the notebook and do a little at a time as you see the need arise. Otherwise your never going to get it done dear lady.

That is what I have decided to do sky. I have thrown out one 33 gallon bag of garbage last week. This week I am going to work on the kitchen and see how much I can get done 5 minutes at a time. Last year, I worked like that and if I hadn't stopped, I would now have a clean house.

Hi everybody,

I read the thread for this topic just now. I had completely forgotten about it. I am going to work some in the bedroom today. I have already gone through the paper that found its way to the bedroom and have separated it into two stacks: 1. Keep and 2. Throw out. Today I will gather up the Throw out stacks and put them all in a garbage bag. Then I will go through the Keep stack and see just what I really need to keep. I know that some of what I kept is outdated and needs to go out.



After I do this, I will start on cleaning out the drawers. I will start on cleaning out the drawers in the chest of drawers first I think and then I will move to the dresser.



Jeannie

Hope all goes well with your cleaning Jeannie.

Hi Lorraine,

I guess I'm going to have to work in the mornings before I leave for the library and post what I did before I got here. I got home yesterday and was too tired to do any housework so none of the housework got done. What I did do was to sit down in my easy chair and play with Little Bit and watch television until time for supper. I will give it another try tonight. There's still that new Christmas tree Mama bought for me last year that I am planning to put up this year and the house must be all cleaned before I do that.

Hi everybody,

I worked on the house all last weekend and continued with working all this week. So far I have thrown out one 33 gallon bag of trash. I have another two large (33 gallon) bags of paper ready to go out. I will take them tomorrow. I was going to take them out today, but I have been working at home on the house and had neglected to pay the bills so I had to do that today. I still have the satellite bill to pay and also the phone bill. I will pay both on Monday. I would have paid them today but I didn't have the cash with me.

Good for you Jeannie, keep at it, and before you know it, it'll be all done.

Thanks Lorraine! I have worked some more since I posted last and although I am still working on the kitchen, I have decluttered it and started decluttering the living room. I got one whole bag of clutter/trash/garbage just from the living room so that will be a second 33 gallon bag of trash outside when I go through and pick up the rest of the trash in the house today. Hopefully I can do that. I noticed last night that I have pulled a muscle in my back. I don't think that I did it in cleaning. It didn't show up until after I had gotten back from grocery shopping. I think that when I reached to pick one (or more) of those six packs of Cokes in my shopping cart that I probably pulled the muscle. However it didn't show up then. It didn't show up for 3 hours so the mystery lingers. At the time the pulled muscle did show up I had been sitting in my easy chair with my feet up and Little Bit wanted me to go and get supper started. I worked some last night in the kitchen. How is everybody today?

I have decided that the clutter in my house simply has to go! I do not want to live in a cluttered house. I want a neat, decluttered house that is clean and pleasant to be in. That being said, this weekend I decided that each week I will work on a room in the house. This week I am working on the bathroom. I know it is Wednesday instead of Monday, but I am starting on the bathroom this afternoon. Here is what I will do:



1. Empty the trash.

2. Clear off the bathroom counter. Some of what is there does not belong there, it belongs either in trash or it belongs in another room. After the bathroom counter is cleared off, then I will wipe off the bathroom countertop with cleaner.

3. Clean and shine lavatory and faucets.

4. Clear out medicine cabinet.

5. Wipe off medicine cabinet, inside and out.

6. Wipe off green cabinet, inside and out.

7. Go through contents of green cabinet (first aid cabinet)

and toss what is outdated or no longer needed ( I don't know exactly just what is in there.)

8. Wipe out shower.



There is more, but I will do these tasks for a start. I notice that I started this thread back in the spring. I have not done much on the spring cleaning, but I have noticed that I do not have much energy to work for long periods. I think that I should start taking my vitamins again and also

I should start getting some exercise each day so that I can

build up my wind and this would help with the energy thing.