A thing.

[theweaselking]

Until I owned a house, I never understood "spring cleaning".

But now, three years in a row, I've been all "the ice is receding OH GOD THAT IS NOT A CARPET THAT IS CAT HAIR WITH A CARPET CHASER".[1]

The first year I chalked it up to the place we bought actually being, uh, kinda not clean when we took possession, so spring was my first real chance to drag out all the crap from the garage and the storage room and throw it out, and hey while I was doing that why not?

The second year, we'd just gotten a dog and dog hair was everywhere.

This year, I'm pretty sure my only excuse left is demonic possession. So yesterday, on my day off, I did laundry, cleaned the kitchen, master bathroom, master bedroom[2], upstairs hallway, and made stew[3].

Today I came home from work and basically steam-cleaned my car, and my office is next.

Tomorrow, the library. Friday, ZE WORL^W^W the living room. In a few weeks once it's really warm and the streets are clear, the garage is getting *bleached*, and as soon as the snow melts the back yard is TOTALLY getting gardenzored.

I have become domestic.

[1]: This is largely not an accurate description. Nothing was *that* bad, except the spot in the library where the sun hits JUUUUUUST right and Angus likes to lie and groom himself. That? was growing its own whole new cat.

[2]: torrain arrived home to find her side of the bed COMPLETELY covered in her stuff, all freshly cleaned but placed there for her to put away.

[3]: Hey, snakey, you know what North American Guinness is good for? COOKING. Mmmmm, s t o o spells stew.

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[matgb]

Posit: You spend the winter mostly looking at the inside of the house using artifical light or poor sunlight.

In the spring, suddenly you can actually see the mess in the sunlight, and you're in a slightly better mood overall as the sunlight cheers you up.

Ergo you can see the mess, and you're more motivated to care that there is mess.

I'm pretty much the same. Stepdaughters bedroom got tidied and hoovered over the last few weeks. Don't think it'd been hoovered since I moved in.

[errolwi.livejournal.com]

Until I owned a house, I never understood "spring cleaning".

Wait until you are selling a house. Then you are highly motivated to clean it _really_ well. Sponging down white painted walls and ceilings is a joy, I tell you.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I do that already.

Once a year.

In the spring.

It's a COMPULSION I tells you.

[rev-ursa.livejournal.com]

We're starting a 5 day vacation dedicated to doing exactly this.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Oh man. I don't get vacation.

[skiriki.livejournal.com]

I have become domestic.

Or possibly domesticated. ;)

I kid; I'm a chaotic soul and my SO deals with general household maintenance (although I do bathroom scrubbing, which I will do in an hour or so), 'cause I'm generally unable to keep coherent order of things and deploy "first available surface" method of storing stuff.

On the other hand, I maintain our servers and keep them hygienic and pest-free.

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

torrain arrived home to find her side of the bed COMPLETELY covered in her stuff, all freshly cleaned but placed there for her to put away.

My SO hates it when I do that - or, heavens forbid!, put away stuff she's not looked at for 2 years (like university scripts which already had accumulated half an inch of dust & cat-hair or a knitting project, half-finished, which the cats used as a combination bed/toy).

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

As does mine. However, we've reached a compromise: Either I move her stuff and clean, or I clean around her stuff and then bug her until she does it.

(The fact that I keep it all sorted, so things from place A are now all together in Basket A in place B, helps.)

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Either works, really. :) Recent experiments (to wit, all that stuff on my side of the bed) suggests that I *don't* hate it as long as I know where it all is.

(Exceptions may apply for knitting and the office-like object.)

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Ooooooh, she knits?

--pardon, reflex.

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

.. though I'm not sure she ever finishes something.

But then again, I wouldn't notice if she did, insensitive clod that I am.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Hey, finishing knitting is hard.

...actually, finishing a knitted object is hard. Finishing the knitting work on an object not so much, but the weave-in-ends/sew-seams/what-do-you-mean-block part, that stands between knitting and completion like... like...

Like spring cleaning stands between me and relaxation. Yes. A suitable analogy.

(Do relay my best wishes for dealing with the UnFinished Objects? Those things can be a real pain.)

yup. Spring Cleaning

[disgruntledgrrl.livejournal.com]

You can open the windows and let out the dust. In Texas, you can't do that in the summer. You open the windows and melt onto your bed with the detritus of your feeble attempt surrounding your prone form.
You clean now so you don't have to in the summer. You don't in the winter because the clutter keeps ya warm. I do clean in the fall as well as spring but because fall and spring feel the same in Texas.

Guinness is awesome for cooking stew. Best Guinness stew I had? New Brunswick, Canada

Re: yup. Spring Cleaning

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Guinness, beef, onions, bacon, thyme. YUMMMMMM.

[being-here.livejournal.com]

I am glad it isn't just me. I know it would be easier if I cleaned everything a bit more often, but there is something hugely satisfying about it going from one extreme to another.

One day I might be an adult about this sort of this - just not yet.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I clean some bits regularly - I have non-carpeted stairs between the first and second floors, and so they attract MASSIVE amounts of dog and cat hair (http://theweaselking.livejournal.com/tag/puppy).

So those get swept and vacuumed regularly.

But there are some bits that simply... don't.