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Top Ten Signs Your House Needs Spring Cleaning CPR:
1. When you have ten toothbrushes in the holder and you only have six people living in your house.
2. When the pile on your desk of current bills has one from the year 2005 on top. Oh wait, maybe that’s why the lights haven’t come back on in awhile…3. When your plastics drawer is a dangerous place to visit and the lids and containers have morphed such that you can’t find one perfect match. So you cover the drawers with caution tape and walk away. It’s not worth undoing all the progress you made in your anger management class.
4. When the dust on your dresser top is so thick, you mistake it for a piece of construction paper. And your blinds have changed colors, but not to a prettier shade.
5. When the floor space in your house has shrunk with the random boxes and bins and toys and various unmentionables that have been conveniently pushed to the walls and before you know you, you can’t remember if your flooring is wood or tile, carpeted or vinyl. And you sense that the ceiling is just a tad closer to your head these days.
6. When your spices are so old, they have solidified into one huge clump, and little tiny people have taken up residence in the jars. And I’m not talking about the cute little guys from Arietta’s world.
7. When the books on your bookshelf have titles like Baby Faces, Baby’s First Words, and Bye Bye Baby, and your youngest is about to start college. It’s about that time you make room for say…an SAT Prep Book or two.
** I interrupt this progam for a SHAMELESS plug of MYSELF: if you’re looking for an S.A.T. Tutor and you live within a 15 mile radius of Locust Valley, NY, I’m your gal! …
Sorry to digress. Where were we?
8. When your pantry has no room for your groceries, because there are ten thousand cereal boxes with only cereal saw dust at their bottoms. And your canned goods have actually outlived their shelf life…now that’s just a whole new level of scary.
9. When you find hair stuff everywhere. With a house full of girls, hair accessories are almost as critical as bread when it comes to survival. But when you get to the point, where colored rubber bands are turning up in your socks drawer, your spoons drawer and your bowl of soup, you have got to take action! And the hair balls… don’t even get me started!
10. When it’s two months into winter and your winter clothes are still in the attic. And your summer clothes are also still in the attic…which brings up the point? What are you wearing these days?
Yes, I would say at this point you have no choice. You need to stop ignoring the mess, especially that one crate you bump your toe on every morning when you step out of bed. Move it to the attic. Or even better, outside to the recycles. Hey, you gotta start somewhere.
STAY TUNED FOR THE MINI-MANSION [when you live in New York, everything is bigger and smaller…it’s how we roll] MAKEOVER by my very own SUPER-SPRING CLEANER HUBSTER! If Spring Cleaning were a Super Power, he has it, and he used it mightily this past week. I’ll be posting some pics and the results of our first attempt in over a decade of the ultimate Spring Cleaning Extravaganza. So y’all come on back, ya hear!! 🙂
** So what about you? Have you started your Spring Cleaning? Are you excited or terrified? Name the one room/area you must tackle before you lose your mind??
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** So what about you? Have you started your Spring Cleaning? Are you excited or terrified? Name the one room/area you must tackle before you lose your mind??
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SIMONE!!!!
If nothing else, can’t wait to hear the battle cry from the streets of Manhattan! If it makes your kids come running and your hubby grab a garbage bag too, you might have a few helping hands on the front lines!! May the wind of lemon scented cleaning produts and the joy of extra floor space be behind you!! You got this girl!! And make sure you report back so I know you’re still alive!! love ya, Raj
Hey Raj –
In a state of inspired denial — I’ve convinced myself that I have until the vernal equinox to spring clean. Spring starts in about 15 days and I am pretending that on March 20th I’ll be so thrilled by the prospect of warmer weather, birds, bunnies and the like, that I’ll grab a garbage bag, bellow a battle cry then dive into the clutter. Wink. So today, truly inspired by your blog, I am going to mentally plan how I’m going to tackle the clutter on March 20.
-Ms. Procrastination
Glad you Stopped by Anonymous!! Come again! 🙂
I was just looking and saw the EMERGENCY sign and of course I HAD to read it. Made me stop and look:))