I am not into it. Not really. During COVID lockdowns, you'd think I could work harder at general cleaning. Having Gramma Camp every other week or so, I notice more dust, but it doesn't bother me. In the 'good old days' there was much pressure on women to keep a tidy home. It was a far cry from the days when people lived in log houses, then women swept dirty floors. My grandmother would put tea leaves on the floor of their boarding house, and sweep them up with the dust. They'd heat with wood, and have to wash down walls.
With the creation of appliances, it changed the nature of housework. We began doing more housework, more often. When women went out to work, during the war, I'm sure there was pressure to keep things up. Some men simply haven't stepped up to the plate, so-to-speak! The old division of labour is changing, in some families. My generation changed the patterns, and our kids share duties more equitably than in the past.
Our family, when the three kids were small, would all do housework on Sunday afternoons. I'd make up a To Do list, and my then-husband and I, and the kids, would pick a chore and get it done. Eventually, we took turns doing, for example, bathrooms. When we lived in North Gower, we were in a rural 4-bedroom house. The kids shared a bathroom, while we had an ensuite. They were each responsible for their own bedrooms.
I remember once I'd given a warning, and I ended up picking all the toys up from one kid's room and putting it in a garbage bag, and put it in the garage. He never missed it!
Back to the present... these days, I cook, JB cleans up. It is fair!
Oregano was back.In the backyard, there was something going on! The deer 1 are the canaries in the mine, anything moves and they are out of here!
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...my mother always said that the house was "clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to homey!"
We don't really do a spring cleaning. Hopefully, we are clean anyway.
I sometimes look at the dust and think "I'll do it later". But when it is done it always looks so nice.
I love your analogy? Canaries indeed, something spooked the deer. Cinnamon, he needs snowshoes.
The deer in your backyard are simply amazing! They are such beautiful animals.
My spring cleaning starts mid-March before Passover which falls end of March. We will also have general elections on 23 of March. Busy times!
Thing have changed in general. In my case I was a little farm boy and farm boys weren't supposed to do housework. Since I've retired I do almost any household task except washing clothes.
Cinnamon makes a very good travel companion.
I tend to clean things when I notice they need cleaning rather than do a big seasonal marathon of cleaning, which was my mother's method. There is something nice about having a totally fresh, clean place if only for a couple of days though.
I'm not calling it spring cleaning, but calling it covid cleaning. I've been slowly making my way through the rooms, cleaning, moving things around and purging. There is a huge give away pile and I've even found things to sell on Marketplace.
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