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02-25-2012, 11:53 PM | #1 |
Donating YT 5000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: MD
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| True Confession Time - Spring Cleaning We've not had too bad of a winter here in Maryland and it's actually been pretty nice during the daytime lately. I'm getting spring fever and have been in the spring cleaning mode. I'm boxing up and donating lots of stuff and clothes to local charity organizations. I keep a relatively clean house but there are a few things that I only do from time to time. One of those things being pulling furniture away from the walls and cleaning behind and under them. I recently pulled the sofa away from the walls to vacuum behind and under them, oh my gosh! I cannot believe how much crap had accumulated. lol, I found several dog combs, grooming bands, clips and bows and even a couple of old bully sticks. lol I am now working my way around the bedrooms doing the same thing. Dust, dust and more dust! True confession time, how often do you pull your furniture away from the walls to clean under and behind? lol
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02-26-2012, 02:24 AM | #2 |
♥ Maximo and Teddy Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Northern Virginia
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| I'm like you and always keep things picked up/organized, but I have neglected real cleaning for far too long (Max and Teddy cured me of my OCD ). I started spring cleaning this week. The dust on my large ficus trees was ridiculous. Worse, I moved a couple of beds to vacuum and found dust bunnies as big as some small Yorkies. I also discovered that I am out of shape.
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02-26-2012, 02:33 AM | #3 |
"& Seeger, too" Donating Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Central Kentucky
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| .... I have hardwood floors in the bedroom.... I know what ya mean about those dust bunnies! I try to move furniture in the familyroom and vacuum under it every couple of months. The furniture in the formal livingroom has legs that my vac can fit under, so it gets done everytime I vacuum. Thanks for the inspiration.... I need to start doing some Spring cleaning, too!! (maybe AFTER I get back from Moochie and Co )
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02-26-2012, 03:38 AM | #4 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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| Humm... clean under the furniture... is that some sort of lost art??? I definitely don't do it enough.
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02-26-2012, 06:39 AM | #5 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Canton, GA
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| I am part of the "don't do it enough" club. Another thing I neglect are my blinds, I dislike cleaning them so much.
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02-26-2012, 06:44 AM | #6 |
♥ Bella's Mommy ♥ Donating YT Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Little Rock
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| hmmmm.....moved into the house in October.....so I think that was the last time. I cleaned before furniture was moved in. :P I am actually in the spring cleaning process now though. Its amazing how much random stuff can accumulate in a short period of time! LOL
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02-26-2012, 07:17 AM | #7 |
I Love My Yorkies Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
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| We did some spring cleaning this winter but now Im starting to do it again. I got a basement that I need to clear 20 yrs of junk out of. We put things down there and never get into it again. Its time for it to go. I clean under sofas and beds and things once a yr. I always feel so much better after its all done. We also start doing alot outside in April.
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02-26-2012, 07:29 AM | #8 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Wilmington, NC
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| I don't pull the furniture out as much as I should. We have all hardwoods and there are dust bunnies the size of tumbleweeds blowing by. LOL! Seriously, we sweep alot! Prior to this house, I have always had carpet. There wasn't tumbleweeds! It's just crazy. I have a room called "the junk room" - it's the room that everything gets thrown in to when I don't have a place or time to deal with it. I keep the door closed. It's now time to clear out the junk room! It's going to be like shopping. There is some really good stuff in there. My problem is that I have toooooo much stuff and not enough storage. We live in an older house and the closets are tiny. The attic is packed and we don't have a garage - just a carport. I like things neat so this constantly wears on me. I'm going to donate, have a huge garage sale and reorganize!
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02-26-2012, 08:18 AM | #9 | |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Michigan USA & Sheffield UK
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All my rooms either have tiny closets or no closets. So there's no where to store stuff. Fortunately, I do have a garage, but it's piled high with JUNK from my last house that needs to be sorted through. We had a big snow storm coming the other day, so I was dragging stuff around so I could JUST fit my car in the garage. I literally just fit the car in...there was no room to open the doors...had to climb in & out Dukes of Hazard style...that's not as easy as it was 20 years ago That experience (and the pulled muscles from it) is enough to motivate me to get going through stuff at the first sign of Spring.
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02-26-2012, 11:14 AM | #10 |
and Khloe Mae's too! Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Eastern Washington
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| Luckily, we have a Roomba that goes under our furniture, so I don't pull the couch/beds away from the wall very much. I really should run her more often... and we wouldn't have any dust bunnies
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02-26-2012, 04:43 PM | #11 | |
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I am fixing to do a total spring clean.
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02-26-2012, 05:22 PM | #12 |
Jada + Bogie = ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Mayberry AKA smalltown usa
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| I detest cleaning blinds!! I usually do that twice a year. I have hardwood floors too and will pull out the furniture in the living room about every 2 months. I just vacuum under the beds, don't move those. I really need to move the dressers and chests in the bedroom...I shudder to imagine what is under and behind them
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We've been in this house 7 years now and I swear when we moved in, I could see the floor in every closet! lol
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