Spring Cleaning

I understand why people wait until spring to clean. Everything looks so filthy in the winter light anyway, so why bother? You clean, and then the sun shines a floodlight at floor level and every speck of dust casts a foot-long shadow.

But last week I was outside and the air was full of oxygen, and I thought, "I could go back home and clean." But I did not, because the sun was setting.

That made me wonder, what are the perfect conditions for spring cleaning?

1. Your house has to be reasonably clean already, because spring cleaning is devoted to crazy stuff like dusting the baseboards and door tops.
2. The house must be filled with spring sunlight, and ALL the interior lights must be on, the better to see the filth.
3. Daffodils must be up so you can place a vase of them on your table.
4. It cannot have rained in the last day, because wet footprints will mar your shiny floor.
5. No one can have mowed in the last day, again, because you don't want grass bits on your floor.
6. It cannot be too hot. Eighty degrees is too hot.
7. It has to be a weekend, because you won't get the full sun during work hours in the spring.

And of course, this is why I haven't done any spring cleaning for ...let me think ... five years.

Comments

[Ernie]

Ha! I guess you covered this in #1 but I would expand on it and say I cannot spring clean when all the clutter is still in my face. Clutter is impossible to clear, so as far as spring cleaning goes . . . I am out.

[TheQueen]

Ernie - even with no one in the house but me and the husband, I fight the clutter battle. Currently, I Put clutter into baskets and leave the baskets pointedly at certain doors and on certain chairs.