As soon as you start thinking about your spring cleaning, you should prepare yourself for the Easter celebrations. Here are the main points for every housewife.
You need to clean the windows, the drawers in every room, the wardrobes, the books on the bookshelves, the shoe drawer, vacuum the carpets, wash the door mats and the curtains, clean the blinds, put the winter clothes away for the season. Check if the medicines in the medicine cabinet have not expired. To the same for your spices. Clean the fridge, the oven, the microwave and the washing machine. Last, but not least, decorate your home according to the season – spring theme and Easter decoration.
Make sure you get yourself in the right mood for doing the spring and Easter cleaning so that you do not do it with a frown on. Put on comfortable clothes, play energetic music and do not clean for the whole day – leave yourself a couple of hours to go outside for a walk.
Don’t be afraid to ask somebody for help. Try not to get too exhausted. Start with the cleaning earlier and clean a little bit each day so that you don’t have to do it all in a day. A good idea is to work with a neighbor or a friend who can help you at some point – when you have company cleaning is more fun and easier. You can do some work and socialize at the same time. Don’t forget to return the favour!
Also, plan for helping your mother or grandmother with the spring cleaning, even if they haven’t asked you for assistance.
You don’t want to be exhausted and moody when the celebrations come, therefore you need to organize your cleaning. There is no point in cleaning the floor with a sponge if you will be dusting afterwards. If you want to both clean and sanitize everything you clean, you need to be thorough. You need to move in one of two directions. You can go either from top to bottom or right to left/left to right. For example, it’s better to start with the ceiling and the upper parts of the walls and then go down to the windows and walls, finishing with the floor.
Clean the things you haven’t thought of before. This includes the mattress, the phone, the dustbin, the shower curtain, the dishwasher and the fireplace. You can clean all that with nothing more than hot water and a rag.
Clean and sanitize the toilet dish, the kitchen floor and the cutting board. It might seem strange, but the cutting board, according to recent studies, can host more than 200 times the bacteria than the toilet dish. You can clean it by spraying it with vinegar and leave it overnight.