Does anyone still do a spring clean

Pollycat

I like to give the house a good fettle about now and again around the end of November.

Sayschezza

Yes I do too. Slap another coat of emulsion paint on any walls looking jaded. Wash paintwork down with sugar soap. Wash curtains and blinds where necessary. Not keen on doing it but love it when it's done.

juliettet

THIRZAH wrote: »

I do too. It's nice to feel that the house is really clean and I can then turn my attention to the garden.

Me too, and a reverse in October.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Yes! I throw BoPsie in the bath every spring and give her a good old scrubbing!

LameWolf

Yes; before I became ill and was still doing paid work, I used to take a fortnight's annual leave every April (carefully including my birthday, in order to get out of the obligatory "birthday trip to the pub") and literally gut the place from top to bottom; furniture moved out from the walls and cleaned behind, light fitments dismantled and cleaned, the whole lot.

Nowadays I have a less ambitious list, and it will take as long as it takes - probably well into summer - but it will be done.

Cappella

Houses don’t get as dirty as they used to do in the days when we all had coal fires as our main source of heating. All the smuts and dirt of the winter fires used to be cleaned away thoroughly each spring by ‘good housewives’ which is where the term first came from according to some social historians. Added to which the better weather( wonder what happened to that) was the best opportunity to air bedding, eiderdowns and rugs, and to wash heavy blankets (no duvets then) which had probably not been washed since the previous spring. Hard to imagine in these hygienic, washing machine rich days but I’m talking about the 1940s and 50s here not hundreds of years ago!

I still do a deep clean between Christmas and the new year. I like greeting the new year with a clean house

kathrynha

I like to totally deep clean every room, emptying every cupboard, de-cluttering, shampooing carpet, washing curtains, touching up d!cor at least once a year. Doesn't often happen in spring though. The rooms with most storage cupboards I normally do early Autumn. Done it since my daughter was little, as clearing the cupboards meant spare storage space on the run up to Christmas to hide presents