Posted on 04/15/2005 6:38:21 AM PDT by grellis
Has everyone filed their taxes?
Its that time of year again--the snow has melted, the days are getting longer, it is finally spring! If you're like me, that means it is time to deep clean the house. I no longer have an excuse for not cleaning the outside of the windows. It is finally warm enough for me to take down the Christmas lights and wreath. Time to pack up the parkas, ice skates, hats and gloves.
It is also tax time, a great time to deep clean the paperwork that has accumulated over the past twelve months. Do you save every receipt? Do you use the "circular file" a little too brazenly?
Spring also means yard work. Do you garden? Have you cleared away the remnants of winter debris and begun planting yet? Or do you know there is at least one hard frost lurking in the calendar, waiting to wipe out your seedlings?
Share with us any spring cleaning tips you have!
Call me Sloppy, but I never move out of season clothes out of my closet. I simply move the fall/winter stuff to the right side of the closet and keep the spring/summer stuff on the left side. Then in the winter, I reverse the situation and move the current stuff to the left side. I do regularly cull out stuff to go to Goodwill or other charity, and I do keep a cedar board in my closet for bug repellant. I just don't remove anything from that one closet. I figure, for me at least, if I move the out of season stuff to the upstairs closet it's still in a closet, so it might as well be in the closet that's the easiest on me.
We have hummingbirds - they just arrive this week, even though it's still kind of cold for them.
I do windows!
(although the drive to do yours would be an adventure)
I actually got one of the squeegies with the extender arms. I keep a bucket of vinegar and water next to me, dip, clean the window, rinse with a hose, then squeegie. I never leave the ground and the windows are perfect.
That makes sense. Some of our children share dressers, so we have to move the out-of-season things to storage boxes to make room for the current stuff. Then there are the clothes that don't fit anyone right now ...
I'll have some boxes going to The Salvation Army when we finish sorting.
Can we just come to your house for meals and skip the laundry?
I started the sorting of clothes on monday - half of them are still on the dining room table because I've had the child home with a stomach bug........
Gardening has been sort of hit and miss. Hubby got part of the big garden tilled up but I haven't put anything in yet because I have been unable to find the black plastic weed control stuff I want.......but I do have umpteen flats of seeds started up in the attic. I had been doing them outside - but the bottom once again fell out of the temperature and the wind has been relentless for the past week.
We have snapdragons and Shasta daisies. I've been looking for Salvia, but haven't seen any in the stores so far this spring. Maybe next week ...
My wife told me she wants a separation, so She can clean the house. I will still plant flowers for her with my daughters come Mothers Day, because nothing will change the fact she is the mother of my kids.
Are you feeling like "melange of leftovers"? Or "What's with this casserole again?" Or "that salad with the beans." There's always plenty!
I didn't bother telling them that our tomato patch was a favored spot for every neighborhood dog to lift a leg 8^}
I have to "cane out" my raspberries sometime today. I let it go the last two years so it is going to be a biiiig chore.
We got our refunds from Delaware and the Feds - but still owe Virginia.
We were able to totally close out one charge card and put in a new kitchen floor, a new ceiling in the living room, finish the insulation in the attic, and get the shingles for the roof. Hubby is out in the barn bending metal for the soffitt and hopefully the wind will die down next week so we can get it up and start putting on the roof.
Hmmmm. I read "salvia" as "saliva" at first and thought you meant that you were drooling as you planted the petunias.
Oh, and about the laundry. I put some of those over the door hangars on the back of my door. I live in the country and most times wear clothes more than one day (at least two if I can) to cut down on laundry and wear and tear on the clothes. I also go a bit wrinkled so ironing is really cut down. No one notices or cares, except I have not been invited to join the country club in town yet.
We have to rotate stuff out of the closets--the house is an old Vic, no original closets, just tiny ones built into a few of the rooms. We have a few cedar chests that double as coffee/ knick knack tables for storing our out-of season wear. No pack rats in this house! Just no room for it.
Do it as soon as you can!!!!!!!!! I ADORE my laminate floors. We did the kitchen and the bathroom and I eventually plan on doing the family room and laundry room.
Now, if I could only find a decent cleaning product for my hardwood floors I would be a happy camper.
You've got hummingbirds already? Yikes - I better get out the feeders and clean them up and get making the go-go juice!
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