What does your "Spring Cleaning" look like?

@TheHorse (238306)
Walnut Creek, California
June 11, 2016 2:45pm CST
Everyone has different rituals for Spring Cleaning. Some weed their garden and then plant. Others clean out the boat in the driveway and get it ready for Summer. Others just--well--clean. One of my Spring rituals is sanding down by balcony table and re-oiling it. Sometimes I add a little stain. Other times I don't. It gives me a chance to get a little sun, and of course it's wood, so it satisfies my woodworking mojo. I'll attach a "before" picture of the table that I just took (it's late Saturday morning here). After I finish a stack of pancakes, I'll be outside with my 60 grit sandpaper. I'll oil the thing up gradually over the next few sunny days. What are some of your Spring Cleaning rituals?
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@Lucky15 (37391)
• Philippines
11 Jun 16
That is a.nice.set :) And by the.way, we don't have spring here,.;)
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@TheHorse (238306)
• Walnut Creek, California
11 Jun 16
My friend from there describes unusual seasons. But he says it gets especially hot in the Summer. When do the rains usually come?
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@Lucky15 (37391)
• Philippines
11 Jun 16
@TheHorse this.month, have started the rainy season(wet season), it could last until october or november ;(
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• New Delhi, India
11 Jun 16
We do cleaning mostly in November near festival Diwali
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@TheHorse (238306)
• Walnut Creek, California
11 Jun 16
What makes Novemeber, or that festival, special?
• New Delhi, India
11 Jun 16
@TheHorse according to Hindu calendar Diwali comes in mostly November. Festival of goddess Lakshmi related with wealth & health.
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@TheHorse (238306)
• Walnut Creek, California
11 Jun 16
@ModernDayWriter Ah, thank you! Sounds like an appropriate time for cleaning.
@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
11 Jun 16
Just the normal cleaning that we all do each year at this time like wash windows, etc.
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@TheHorse (238306)
• Walnut Creek, California
11 Jun 16
I do my windows at "random" times.
@TheHorse (238306)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 Jun 16
@Marty1 On some. Others are quite dusty!
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
12 Jun 16
slowly clean out areas and haul stuff off to the dump, or give it away
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• Centralia, Missouri
13 Jun 16
@TheHorse we might could too right now
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@TheHorse (238306)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 Jun 16
I tend to do that when I move. But I don't move very often. If I put my mind to it, I could fill up a dumpster.
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
11 Jun 16
Be gone dust! I move stuff and dust behind it.
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@TheHorse (238306)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 Jun 16
I use my vacuum attachments to get behind stuff. I get hypnotized watching the dust bunnies swirl around in my Dirt Devil.
@teamfreak16 (43595)
• Denver, Colorado
11 Jun 16
We don't. We just kind of clean when needed.
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@TheHorse (238306)
• Walnut Creek, California
11 Jun 16
Do you do any Spring Cleaning on your bike? Do you try to ride, at least a bit, all Winter?
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@teamfreak16 (43595)
• Denver, Colorado
12 Jun 16
@TheHorse - I usually shut it down around the end of September, but last year I rode through October. I do usually get a few February rides in, though.
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@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
11 Jun 16
I used to pile through the whole house, deepest corners, etc. now I can no longer do it. sadly
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@TheHorse (238306)
• Walnut Creek, California
11 Jun 16
Oh oh. Do you have dusty corners? I occasionally discover corners that have been "neglected" for some time.
@marlina (154103)
• Canada
11 Jun 16
I do a lot of gardening in the Spring. I used to do all the windows too, but this year will hire a company to do them.
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@TheHorse (238306)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 Jun 16
How much do you pay? I can be on an airplane after our gig tonight!
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@amadeo (111937)
• United States
11 Jun 16
mine is not to clean
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@TheHorse (238306)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 Jun 16
Do you leave that to your hubby? Or do you just walk around in a swirl of dust, like Pigpen?
@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
11 Jun 16
My daughter came over yesterday and did some much needed cleaning for me. She was here all day. Cleaned out two flower beds and vaccumed thoroughly throughout the house, including window blinds. Also, washed the front of all the cabinets in my kitchen and did the floor on her hands and knees. I just can't do some things anymore. She also, cleaned both bathrooms, the shower stall and floors. I babysit for her several times a month so she "repays" me by cleaning.
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@TheHorse (238306)
• Walnut Creek, California
11 Jun 16
Sounds like a fair deal! I enjoy vacuuming but don't do kitchen counters as often as I should.
@blitzfrick (2890)
• United States
11 Jun 16
I start the cleaning ritual outside in the yard and garden. I rarely make it inside to spring clean, although I did manage to vacuum under my bed this time around. I tell myself—and it's true—that I'm slowed down or totally deterred from much cleaning activity by my daily pain, but a big part of the truth is I detest housework, so there's that. I try to do housework in pieces, but then it lasts all year and doesn't really count as spring cleaning, does it? I like your definition of Spring Cleaning as cleaning-just-one-thing!
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@TheHorse (238306)
• Walnut Creek, California
11 Jun 16
Heh. That's my official "It's Spring!" project.
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@DeborahDiane (40846)
• Laguna Woods, California
12 Jun 16
We have an entry courtyard that gets a little overgrown during the winter. We always trim everything back in the spring. It is hard work, but very satisfying. Let us see what your table looks like when it is finished!
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@TheHorse (238306)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 Jun 16
The courtyard sounds nice. You know I enjoy my "before" and "after" photos. Here's what the table looked like half sanded this morning.
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• Laguna Woods, California
12 Jun 16
@TheHorse. It is going to be lovely and look new when you are finished!
@paigea (36143)
• Canada
12 Jun 16
My system is to clean one thing thoroughly each day and to have routines to keep up with basic tasks so there is never a need to Spring Clean. Well, in my head that is the system. I am thinking of implementing it today.
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@TheHorse (238306)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 Jun 16
One thing each day? I should try that!
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@NJChicaa (127135)
• United States
11 Jun 16
Ours involve cleaning the yard and getting the vegetable gardens ready to plant
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@TheHorse (238306)
• Walnut Creek, California
11 Jun 16
That sounds like fun. That's a part of my ritual as well.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
12 Jun 16
I simply take one room at a time and gradually work through the house.
@LadyDuck (502466)
• Italy
12 Jun 16
I have many spring cleaning rituals, the inside of the house first (windows, curtains and so on) and then there is the garden. Weeding, planting sandpaper the fence and the hot tub, then I apply the protective oil.
@DaddyEvil (174430)
• United States
15 Jun 16
We spend a day taking everything we own out of our walk-in garage, clean/sweep the ceiling, walls and then the floor. Then everything we decided to keep goes back into the garage neatly arranged for maximum space saving. Whatever we don't want is either put into a garbage sale or we set it beside the dumpster in the alley beside/behind the house. (There is a family who lives just down the street who will take things from the alley, but won't accept the same things if we offer them to them. We can't figure out why they do that, but we have found we can't put whatever we don't want into the dumpster. That family will later come by and dig everything out of the dumpster again, leaving is scattered around the alley so we have to put it back into the dumpster again later.) Over the next year, as we need something, we pull it out, use it and then are too lazy to put it back where it was before, which necessitates the yearly cleaning and rearranging of the garage again.
@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
12 Jun 16
I use to do a lot of things @TheHorse but I just don't have the strength for it anymore; which sucks. I've got about 30 gardening pots still sitting under the front porch empty. About the only thing I've done so far this year is cut low-hanging branches from trees. I can't wait to see the table once you're done. I know it will be perfect.
• United States
12 Jun 16
I go through closets and drawers and eliminate the nonsense that has collected there. I also make sure the contents that are left are tidy. I don't have to "clean" anything, since I have a cleaning service that comes every other week.
@JudyEv (382068)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Jun 16
I don't know that anyone really 'spring cleans' over here as we don't have huge changes in the seasons. Certainly some would get boats or caravans ready for the summer but no-one seems to go the whole hog with cleaning house - at least I don't :)
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@TheHorse (238306)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 Jun 16
It's just something I've always heard about. I guess the warmer months motivate me to do a few things.
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