Saturday, April 10, 2021

Saturday and Spring Cleaning

     I need the spring cleaning bug to bite me! With a week of rain, I rather want to be out and about, well, Covid style anyway, not inside cleaning. I think I'll strike some deals with myself and work hard this morning and tomorrow, but give myself this afternoon to get some poking around garden shops and Trader Joe's after tagging along with my daughter. I have a  a lot of regular tasks to do, but every time I look out windows I literally see the spring cleaning need. Likewise the porch needs a thorough deep clean and chair cushions washed. That will make working from the porch more enjoyable. When I think spring, I think light and bright and gardens, and that had me thinking Paris, so that's the mug I grabbed. Paris, I'll see you again!


     Do you have a tried and true spring cleaning routine or do you just add tasks to your regular cleaning? I'm also on the look out for some replacement white porcelain balls for our headboard. I'd just remove the copper tube on right and replace with just the porcelain  balls on each side. I have no clue what and how long ago the parts fell off and where they are, but I like my head board, just need it to be symmetrical again. On line I've only found flower versions. I'll look in 2nd hand places but if any one has ideas, let me know. I bought the headboard 30 years ago from the old Spiegel catalogue. It was the exact headboard I had always dreamed of having in a roomy old cottage. Well, I got my head board in a newish 1988 typical suburban house instead, but with a cottage feel. Taking this photo makes me want new bedding and pillows. This quilt and sham set is about four years old, but it's wearing well and is machine wash and dry and perfect year round weight.  It just has little springiness. The whole bedroom needs a purge, deep clean, and refresh.


     Last year for Mother's Day my daughter bought me this yellow flowering basket. Well look what popped up growing in the much needed care rock hedging! The seeds from the dried out flowers found their way to the dirt. Do I leave them to do their thing or try digging them up for a planter? I'm tickled by it though and am going to buy a bunch of flower seeds  for my assortment of pots and see what I can get.


     I'm going to call my youngest at 9:30 to make sure she doesn't oversleep and miss her vaccine appointment. I know, she should be self reliant, but I'm not taking chances after seeing the kid sleep soundly until nearly 11:00 on many days of her break. This appointment is too important for me not to make mom noises. Now I better get back to my own list of things to do and practice a little discipline myself. Whatever Saturday brings to you, I hope you enjoy!

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  1. I don't think I actually "spring clean" but when the urge takes me I put a timer on for an hour and pull something apart and clean it from top to bottom - and then leave it until the next fit of enthusiasm strikes. I keep the house pretty picked up but I have had a few surprises when I've torn a bookcase down and REALLY cleaned behind it. No dead bodies yet but ...!

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    1. That's probably a better description of what I'll do. We got a chunk done this morning and a couple rooms feel better already.

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  2. I say go for it with waking your daughter up - this is an important moment, and it's not like it's something you do daily. :-)

    I have two methods of cleaning. A weekly task list that includes the standard stuff, and then a daily checklist of quick things. Dusting floorboards in a particular room, mopping a floor, etc. I try to tackle one of those daily items between meetings, or when I'm on a particularly tedious conference call where I'm just an observer. I keep a container of wipes on my desk for just such an occasion. :-)

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    1. She answered right away, with "I now mom-I won't forget." She gave a friend a ride as well, so both have shot one done. I fold laundry during meetings where I am a listener and no camera needed.

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  3. My Amish neighbor says deep cleaning should be done one room at a time. She starts on the top floor and cleans down to the basement. My friend says do drawers, then closets, and clean in sections. My OCD daughter 2 says clean all the ceilings, then the walls, windows and woodwork and then the furniture and then the floors. Daughter 4 who is fighting cancer said one ceiling and the light, then one wall a day and then the furniture and then the floor IN ONE room a week. Considering it is the first time ever that Daughter 2 and I didn't go do her deep cleaning and she got the whole house done in 8 wks and NOT make herself over whelmed...I think I am going to try her way as mine definitely needs a good cleaning.

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    1. I think room by room is a good plan, though a few more visible spaces were tackled this morning.

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  4. Definitely time to make mom noises, I would do the same. I'm so glad I decided to do my deep cleaning and decluttering in February. I wouldn't have wanted to miss a second of the beautiful spring weather. Hope you get yours done quickly so you can get out and enjoy! Have a great weekend. :)

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    1. February we were in a deep freeze, so no windows open to air out the house. I'll be tackling things evenings and weeekends for a while I think..

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  5. I think they call those "finials." A search with that term may give you more accurate results. I have found headboard and footboard sets like yours at the thrift shop here for under $20, which would be cheaper than ordering the finials. It wouldn't matter what size headboard you got, as the finials are the same size. For what it's worth, I *LOVE* that headboard. (But I prefer the flowered finials, and am planning on having them as cabinet pulls in my new build.) I miss the catalogues--I bought my daughter had a similar one--headboard, footboard, canopy from the J.C. Penney catalogue, before I discovered the joy of thrift shop furniture. At about age 11, she decided she didn't want white furniture, and found a gorgeous used oak suite for a song at a moving sale, complete with matching vanity, dresser, and pristine mattress and base. (Elderly couple moving to the southwest, and the mattress was in their guest room for guests.) She traded her headboard and footboard for her friend/mother's help in picking up the set and carting her old mattress off to the dump. I remember sitting on an old shower curtain in our front yard with her, on the hottest day of the summer, dismantling her old base so we could use the wood for kindling. In case you're interested in the bed-rotation, when Girl's mother was able to have her back, Daughther gave Girl her old mattress, and an old, Jenny Lind style headboard and footboard we had in the garage, which we found for about $10 at a thrift shop. ($7.50, to be exact.) Daughter took the new mattress which Girl had in the guest room. Guest room now has a Costco memory foam style mattress--personally, I think it feels like lying on a sponge, but I don't ever plan on sleeping on it. The most expensive thing in that whole switcheroo was the "bunkie board" Girl's mother had to have cut to put on the rails to support the mattress. (Since we kept the base.) It cost more than the Costco replacement mattress!

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    1. That is a bed saga! I have not seen wrought iron beds in any thrift store, but will keep an eye out. I just would prefer White or none at all rather than flowers.

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  6. I love the headboard! Similar styles are the only ones I can find with footbards that are at least as high as the mattress to keep my covers from sliding off the end of the bed. Love it.

    It is thrilling when I find a plant has self-seeded and given me additional plants. I would leave it in the rocks.

    Waking her for this shot is different from calling her for every appointment or work. This is too important not to make Mom noises.

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    1. We opted not to get a food board because I thought I was going to get a nice bench for the end of the bed. That never happened.

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  7. Boy even though we have not been in this house a year, it still needs a deep clean and purge.

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