What is Spring Cleaning?
Spring cleaning is an annual deep cleaning which classically takes place in the spring. Spring cleaning is especially common in regions with harsh winters which make it hard to clean during the winter months. During a spring cleaning, a home will be scoured from top to bottom, and gear which is used in the winter will be cleaned and prepared for storage. Many people set aside several days in the spring for spring cleaning, and people may also refer to “spring cleaning” generically to talk about any deep clean, even if it is not spring. The origins of the tradition of cleaning in the spring are unclear, although there are some interesting theories. Most probably, spring cleaning evolved as a natural response to the need to store things like heavy blankets and other winter equipment, and to the fact that cleaning can be challenging in the winter because the cold weather makes it hard to air a house out, while wet and freezing conditions contribute to buildups of mud, salt, and other mate
Here is what the web said …. Spring cleaning is the period in spring time set aside for cleaning a house, normally applied in climates with a cold winter. The most common usage of spring cleaning refers to the yearly act of cleaning a house from top to bottom which would take place in the first warm days of the year typically in spring, hence the name. However it has also come to be synonymous with any kind of heavy duty cleaning or organizing enterprise. A person who gets their affairs in order before an audit or inspection could be said to be doing some spring cleaning. Here is what I say …..( other than its a pain in the a** ) It is a time when you open the windows and just clean everything really good where it all has been kinda shut up due to the winter and lots of people use this time to paint and redo some areas of their house ….you just take one room at a time and clean it from top to bottom….then when it is done you can kinda just kick back and enjoy the summer months
Is it a routine everyone is supposed to do? If so, why? The best explanation I have heard for what spring cleaning is, and why, is that it is a custom left over from times before electricity, when everything in peoples houses was covered with soot from candles, fireplaces, kerosene, and lamp oils used for heat and light during the winter. By the spring, every inch of the home had to be cleaned to rid it of the layer of soot. Given that we now use relatively clean methods of heating and lighting it seems the practice of spring cleaning has persisted long after such a cleaning overhaul was needed. Rational or not, spring cleaning is a tradition many of us still like to do, if for no other reason than to turn over a new leaf, and for this I am offering here some of my favorite nontoxic cleaning recipes. I must say, I do love to get winter dust out of my house when daylight is returning in the spring. There is nothing like the sun streaming in the windows to show all the cobwebs. I like op
