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Spring Cleaning Sounds Good Or Not

Back when I was a kid homemakers - and these were usually our mothers - held an annual ritual called "spring cleaning." This was normally done on a sunny weekend when, with the help of all the kids, you'd haul the furniture out on the front lawn, take down the drapes and hose out the house. We'd dust the spider webs from the ceilings and wash things we hadn't seen since the previous year's spring cleaning. We'd go through our closets and fold up the winter woolens and store them in a box in the attic, and out would come the summer clothes. Dad usually was in charge of the garage and it got swept and cleared just like the rest of the domain. After it was over, the family could move back into a sparkling clean house that required only normal maintenance until fall cleaning came around/Kathy Hedberg, Lewiston Tribune. More here.

Question: Do you "spring clean"?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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