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Spring is in the air and I am starting to tally up the jobs for a big spring clean. I just noticed the fly screens need to taken down and washed and all the windows cleared of dirt and spider webs!
We also have to re-do the shed (and locate baby clothes!) and clear out closets of out of season gear.
So what's on your list this year?
Well for one I still get confused that is Spring next, September, October etc sounds like should be Autumn to me :-). Second problem is I have never done a spring clean in my life - but I might not have work for the next few weeks so I am going to use this thread and do something - fly screens is a great thing to do. Also they are running GarageSale Trail at end of October which I think is a great idea and enjoyed the other year so will try have one this year so will have to get stuff sorted for that.
Blinds, windows and some walls... we just moved into a rental that was not so clean, but four kids and a new baby makes it hard to get to the 'extra' cleaning.. I rang my mum and she is coming to help me spring clean next week!
EVERYTHING!! Lol. I am in serious nesting mode but work is taking it out of me and when I get home I just look at the stuff with no actual will or energy to do it :( So when I'm on leave I'll work through:
- Organising the pantry
- Organising the WIR
- Cleaning the mould that has started to appear on some of the window sills
- Washing all the windows and fly screens
- Clean front door
- Tidy up ensuite and cabinet
- Tidy up second bathroom cabinet
- Tidy up baby room
- Completely clean and organise office & paperwork
I think there might be more and it sounds totally lame but I'm so excited to get into it lol.
I have done some big cleans the last few days (the house needed it!), but still have some more to do.
* want to go through all the bags of kids clothes that no longer fit, and check what i want to keep, what is good for op shop, and what can go to shed for rags.
* windows, curtains (when weather better) and fly screens
* clean gutters
* weed and feed the lawn and spray/pull weeds
* possibly swap kids room and toy room around
* do toy organisation and cull.
* sell, give away or dump stuff we no longer use or need (i have hoarder tendencies but am trying not to give in to them)
Most of my list is 'nesting related'...
Clear out WIR to make room for bubs clothes
Clean windows and frames in the bedrooms at least (vaporiser has meant that we have a mould outbreak)
Reorganise the bookshelves to fit the five bags of books we've inherited
Go through baby clothes and make a list of things Bub will need
That's quite enough for me, lol! ;)
Ooooh I'm feeling accomplished! Half of what others have listed we've managed to get done over winter (winter doldrums make me neeeeed to clean. Spring coming means outside and fix up the vegie patch!)
Stuff we've done -
- sorted and donated dd's stuff from babyhood, apart from what furniture we will sell
- sorted study and all paperwork is put away
- sorted spare room. No longer the dumping ground, its now "the library" and (neat) storage room for Lego/playdoh/games
- sorted much of the garage. Still needs some work, but will get there eventually. Dh struggles to let go of stuff from his dad/grandfather so I am being more lenient on clutter than I want to be
- tidied up the rumpus/bar. Not too bad on there though
- sorted all the kitchen cupboards, took all the inherited Tupperware that was damaged for exchange (and got all new stuff for 40 year old stuff -score!)
Still to do
- wash windows and fly screens
- sort out walk in robe (currently on hold while landlord gets ensuite fixed as its leaking into wir and I don't want to go messing with stuff
- shampoo carpets
- sell rest of dds baby furniture
- garden (prune small hedge out the front, finish weeding vegie patch, plant vegie seeds)
- disassemble water feature (stupid cat killed my fish so I've lost all desire to run it any more!)
Oh wow bg I am impressed! This weekend looks sunny and dry and perfect for organising the shed and doing windows. I'm going to go buy one of those window squeegee thingies (pg brain) in preparation.
Don't be impressed. It was out of necessity! Got an ikea book case very cheap and had to make room - and once you start it has a flow on effect lol
All the things.
And the garage.
So much stuff to do - zero motivation or energy.
I do have to organise my pantry again too, it was all pretty a few weeks ago, but I've been busy and just getting stuff out and chucking it wherever so I really have to pull my finger out and get back in there. I want some spice racks. Like, really really want some.
Hopefully we move into our house this spring. Which means a top to bottom clean and a good chance to throw out everything I should have ditched when i packed.
I too have hoarding tendencies. Something my DH is complete opposite of so it works well for us. He tells me what to throw out!
I'm the same! I've been "decluttering" forever. I just don't know what to do with anything. My time is extremely limited. DH is no help. As for spring cleaning - I don't clean lol. Lucky my DH is a cleaner. I tidy/declutter. DH cleans. He doesn't do spring cleaning though. He just cleans whatever whenever he gets annoyed with it. He did our rug & carpets a couple weeks ago & DD has already done number 2's on the rug & number 1's on the carpet :/ Why bother lol.:
This morning I've rearranged the lounge room. Moved all the couches around to now allow light through the floor to ceiling windows that we put couches in front of in winter to reduce some heat loss.
Vacuumed and cleaned both couches as well - we live in an old house that accumulates lots of dust.
We recently rearranged the twins room - out of necessity as one has now moved into a BIG bed from a toddler bed, and once the other is ready to move up to a big bed we will have to rearrange again.
The play room was also done recently as we got given a second hand lounge suite for the kids.
So I suppose my next thing will be going through all the wardrobes and clearing out unused/grown out of clothes and rearranging to get all the warmer weather clothes out and pack up all the thick winter woollies :)
Get on top of the regular housework. It is out of control.
Then
-sort out the hallway cupboard, organise some more shelves and a space for my vacuum cleaner, mop, broom, linen, etc. Unpack the last few boxes stored there.
- empty out the storage area in DS room and sort out what is to be kept and what is to be sold/ thrown out.
- get baby stuff sorted out. <- thats kind of a priority even though it relies on the other things being done because I cant get to or put away anything until they are! *stress!!*
- kitchen and carpets are yet to go in. So once they are done it will be easier. I hope!
Its all just a bit much at the moment so Im just trying to focus on the regular housework and get that under control. :shakehead:
I'd be happy to just catch up with the regular housework and sort out a pile of tax papers before we see the accountant