Springing Forward Into Spring Cleaning
I'll never be the housekeeper my mother was. Every spring she literally tore the house apart. She scrubbed and cleaned and washed everything in sight. By the end of March the entire house smelled as fresh, clean, and crisp as spring itself.
She scrubbed the windows, sent all the drapes to the cleaners, waxed and polished every imaginable surface. Naturally, my brother and I got dragged, kicking and yelling, into this madness. My dad seemed to escape the terror, although I don't know how. My mother was on a mission and she was taking POWs. If anyone took the old adage "Cleanliness is next to godliness" seriously, it was my mother.
I suspect I was a sorry disappointment to her in that area and yet every spring I feel this sudden urge to clean and organize. I just may have more of my mother in me than I realize. But then, don't we all?
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Unfortunately, yes.
I like the IDEA of Spring cleaning...however, the reality just doesn't happen--too many other (more tempting) activities seem to occupy my time!
Hi Debbie; love your saddle shoes you have on the photo above. I am starting to hear some of my habits in my daughter ... & she confessed to recognising it herself last year during a telephone call.... she said oh no... and I chuckled.
I think this skips a generation....don't get me wrong I'm not lazy but I'm an outside girl....getting dirty in my gardens is much more fun then spring cleaning. My daughter however, she gets every corner and every nook and cranny squeaky clean.
The year I was laid off from my job, I decided to tackle a spring cleaning. I washed down the walls in my wall papered bedroom. I didn't realize that wetting the walls would make the wall paper let go. Whoops! But it was clean.
It has always felt so rejunvenating to clean up something that has been an eye sore.... or see the windows and sills streak and dust free ! the fresh air scent when the windows are left opening when cleaning and hanging out comforters on the clothesline... blowing in the spring cool March and April winds. ....too bad I didn't do it as much as I should !!! lol.
