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Cleaning Up:  do you ever feel like you spring clean backwards  |
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FieldsofThyme
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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 Posted - Sep 29 2011 : 06:30:21 AM
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I always heard there was a spring cleaning and a fall cleaning. Spring cleaning is traditionally to get the soot and dirt from the winter out, and Fall cleaning is the during the last warmish/sunny days before your clothes on the clothes line start freezing to get you set up for a winter inside. I definitly end up doing both even though I do have a washer and dryer inside and we don't do wood or coal burning.
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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Fiddlehead Farm
True Blue Farmgirl
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Diane
Waupaca
WI
USA
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Posted - Sep 29 2011 : 06:35:52 AM
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I always seem to do more cleaning in the late fall, after the garden is done.
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City Chick
True Blue Farmgirl
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Deb
Chattanooga
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USA
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
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Annika
USA
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Posted - Sep 29 2011 : 07:31:35 AM
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I'm surrounded by farms and all of the dust seems to collect in my house! I always do a huge cleaning and decluttering in October, it helps get me prepared for the holidays to have a clean and tidy house to begin with 
Annika
Farmgirl & sister #13
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~Leonardo DaVinci
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smiley
True Blue Farmgirl
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lea
pea ridge
arkansas
USA
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Posted - Oct 08 2011 : 5:31:34 PM
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| I always fall clean. Spring I want outdoors with my plants. Fall I know to decclutter so being shut in during winter wont aggravate me so much! |
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debtea2
True Blue Farmgirl
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deborah
nutley
nj
USA
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Posted - Oct 09 2011 : 5:31:06 PM
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I always do a fall cleaning washing windows wax floors changing curtains and air filters
batteries for the smoke alarms
flipping the mattress changing the comforters and decorating for fall
i tend to live outside in the summer so the indoors gets a bit neglected
than i light some spicey candles and relax with nice cup of apple cider.
inch by inch we find our way
jersey farmgirl
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lisalisa
True Blue Farmgirl
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Lisa
Broomall
PA
USA
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Posted - Oct 17 2011 : 08:27:05 AM
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I find myself doing the same thing. Maybe it's the invigorating air. Open the windows, start some soup on the stove, baking in the oven...
mmm, time to have a cup of tea! ---Lisa |
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Heartbroken farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Annette
rio vista
Ca
USA
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Posted - Oct 19 2011 : 08:33:24 AM
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I do both spring and fall cleanings. In spring, I go through clothes and donate all out growns, sift through toys and rid us of the least used, vacuum closets, shampoo carpets, pressure wash the driveway, and get the garden beds ready.
In the fall, I do it again, but have a bit more to do, if I'm going to be indoors most of the winter, and we entertain a lot over the holidays, so I clean for constant guests too.
The tears I shed then, watered the flowers I harvest now.
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batznthebelfry
True Blue Farmgirl
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Michele
Athol
Ma
USA
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Posted - Oct 20 2011 : 06:03:32 AM
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Its funny but i do very little spring cleaning except to get the yard & gardens ready but the fall is when I seem to go crazy...I think part of it is I know I will be indoors with all the snow on the ground so the Fall is when I tend to clean & clean so I don't have to worry about it so much.....I also try to spend as much time outside while its cool & get the junk around the house moved ect & get the garden beds ready for the winter....love the fall air...the smell of woodstove smoke & the different color of the tree leaves....Michele'
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Tammyb
True Blue Farmgirl
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Tammy
Bluffton
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Oct 29 2011 : 7:44:19 PM
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I agree with Alee. I spring clean and then I fall clean! Gets my house ready to "open" up and then ready to "close" up.
Tammyb
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Violets November
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Violet
Exeter
California
USA
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Cleaning Up: do you ever feel like you spring clean backwards |
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do you ever feel like you spring clean backwards
