Oh yes! Years ago, if you didn’t turn your house upside down every spring, emptying closets, kichen cupboards, washing curtains and shampooing rugs, you were an indifferent housekeeper to put it kindly. I guess I’ve always been an “indifferent housekeeper” especially on nice spring days.
Howdy, ucm. I was wondering what the term ‘spring cleaning’ meant to - after reading Wneighbor’s post - and I guess it’s from people having fires all winter.<<<
Yes on the cleaning part of spring cleaning and there was a time that we took down the heavy winter drapes and put up light and lacy curtains.
Put away the quilts and got out the summer blankets.
Same with clothing, stored the furs and heavy coats and got out the light summer clothing.
We did not wear white shoes or use white gloves before Easter and went back to dark and heavy on Labor Day.
Winter hats were felt and summer were straw.
No lady, even the lower class went out without a hat, gloves, shoes and purse that matched and matched her dress.
Today, they wear getups to church, that I would not have worn out in public when I was a young wife.
We wore cocktail dresses at night, with shoes that were high heeled and sexy and our dresses were sexy, cut to fit our curves, not to make us look like a young boy.
We made an effort to be feminine and not look like a man, the burn the bra crowd has their roots in the communist manifesto, it is under “ruin the family unit and make the state the most important”, so they killed our motherhood and wifehood.
I always worked in the field as hard as any man, but when it was time to be a woman, I wanted to look like one and act like one.......LOL, I still expect men to open the door for me.
I have had men tell me that they have been cussed out by women that they opened the door for, said “they could do it for themselves”, foolish women if you ask me.
Enough already, LOL, spring cleaning, also includes repotting the house plants.