For the past two and a half weeks I have been spring cleaning three houses. My nephew's, my niece's and my sister's. This past week instead of reading and writing here on Vocal I spring cleaned my sister's house. I washed down the walls, washed the windows, laundered curtains, too, polished the furniture and mopped the floors.
The first step when I spring clean is to go one room at a time moving things out or moving them around so that I could wash the walls and floors. After washing the walls and polishing/dusting furniture the floor was next, and when the floor dried it was time to arrange the furniture in a different way from the way it was before. In doing this kind of cleaning in the kitchen I even pulled out the stove and refrigerator and cleaned behind them as well as the washer and dryer. At times it is hard to believe how much dirt and dust accumulate under and behind these appliances. I even washed all the kitchen cupboards for that was a job and a half pulling out all the dishes and whatnot. This is the way I did all the rooms in the three houses I worked (cleaned).
Actually, I like spring cleaning for me it is fun and therapeutic and well very slowly I am also de-cluttering, and I did get some things thrown away. I am still working on this for a lot of my de-cluttering is mainly paper for I am organizing my notes for various writing projects and a new course I will be teaching this coming Summer.
There is such a good feeling when you finish this version of cleaning for the house smells so much fresher than it did all winter. Spring cleaning is also activity that combines cleaning with exercise for unlike regular day-to-day cleaning you can actually get a lot of stretching, bending, twisting, and also a lot of walking even though it is mainly just back and forth. The bending, stretching and twisting is when one is stretching to take down and put the curtains back up at the windows, bending at times to move furniture and twisting a little when cleaning those small areas that seem to collect things that you didn't expect to see.
All in all, spring cleaning is an activity that most people hate, but I am not one of them.
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Mark Graham
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Can you come do my house if I send you my address. I could do with the springtime clean. Sounds like fun though, great exercise...I once spent three weeks with a lovely Jewish family and we cleaned the house ceiling to floor, ate kosher food and had great fun. I lost 10 pounds and looked really great.
Spring cleaning is absolutely therapeutic. Your family is fortunate to have you perform these tasks for them. Good for you, Mark, for taking some time away for yourself!
That is great, Mark. I used to love spring cleaning myself, and I did it every year. My life though has changed quite a bit in the recent years and just do not have the time or motivation to do such a large project. I wish I could hire you to do my house. Anyhow, this was a good interesting read and I enjoyed it. Great work as always.
I must admit I did wonder where you had vanished too lol now we know. Good on you.⭐️✍️♦️✍️