Big Green Spring Clean

Every year you hear about people all over the place doing their “spring cleaning.” As the days slowly start to draw nearer to spring I want to know if you will be participating in the annual ritual of a Spring Clean. Now I do not normally do this because I tend to find it a little tedious. Last year I did “spring clean” and finally finished I think in October. Now why did it take so long you ask? Well mostly because I really was not sure what to do and well there was just so much to do. I wanted to make sure the house was extra clean for when family and friends came over for the holidays so I set about cleaning. Window blinds, fan blades, the non-carpeted part of the stairs and the base boards. There were other parts of the house I tried to clean, like the crayon on the walls, except for the basement; I figure I can clean that when we move out. The basement is really a free for all in the art on the walls department. While I do try to discourage the coloring on the walls, I find that I do not really harp on them to not color down in the basement. Mostly just upstairs where more people would see it. I think I even took the magic eraser to the tile grout in a few choice places.

Now this year I think I will actually try to spring clean, but possible try to get it done in the spring instead of early fall. We have so many boxes in the garage that I think we might just need to have a yard sale. Why keep moving the stuff around if you do not see it at every stop. Now I will say that some of the stuff is in boxes because we just do not have the room to put it all away. Another sad fact that leads me to think that maybe, just maybe we have accumulated too much crap. Now the idea here is to be more green and clean with products that will not harm the environment, but where should I start? I’m pretty sure that I should drop the magic eraser and opt for a different type of product. The only bad thing about that is they work so well on the crayon. My current cleaner is supposed to be environmentally friendly, such as biodegradable, but I’m not sure how well I trust it.

With that in mind how will you or will you do any spring cleaning? What would be your target cleaning locations, or do you just plan to be more organized and open those last few boxes that you have not touched since you moved in?