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Spring cleaning – is anyone?

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Bags Wed 24-Apr-13 12:15:12

Just spent some time poking dust from between floorboards with a meat skewer and sookin' it all up (not the skewer) with the vacuum cleaner. Second time in seven years. Only did a few boards in the hall. Need a sit-downery and a snackeroo now.

Actually, I started worrying that I was removing "insulation" wink. Wouldn't want to do that.

annodomini Wed 24-Apr-13 23:49:51

Of course not nanaej. Wait until the fifth spring at the earliest. wink

wurzel Fri 03-May-13 23:12:23

I don't see any dirt, unless it's leaves from outside, if I'm not wearing my reading glasses! But I was very embarrassed when my daughter found
several ceiling cobwebs in the hall as her place is immaculate. I always
say it's more important to look after people - will we worry we didn't clean enough on our deathbeds?!

petallus Fri 03-May-13 23:17:43

Just threw out all of my white knickers and bought new ones.

Quite a few other clothes have gone!

Felt great doing it!

Tegan Sat 04-May-13 10:16:51

Have now done the compost area of the garden, the shed and the garage. Still full of junk but cleaner and tidier and more organised [organised junk smile]. I saw one of my resident rats on the bird table yesterday. It was the size of a squirrel [in fact I thought it was a squirrel at first]. I threw a bucket of water over it but it still came back later. Alas, I'll have to rethink the bird table; I assume there's plenty of food for them now anyway? wurzel; I only see cobwebs when I've got my reading glasses on wink. The shed [this is another shed where my son keeps bike bits] is always full of cobwebs; in the house I attack them with a dry vileda supermop and in the shed and garage [where the cobwebs are megahuge] I use a damp vileda supermop. I have a selection of vileda supermops that have various uses and always keep an old one that's ready for throwing out in case of a blocked loo. You can't have too many vileda supermops confused; one of the great inventions of the 20th century!

gillybob Sat 04-May-13 10:18:58

Why just all the white ones petallus what did they ever do to you? smile

petallus Sat 04-May-13 13:24:57

They go a horrid grey colour after a lot of washes.

Tegan Sat 04-May-13 13:35:03

Mine never get used; have a drawer full of black ones and white ones but always go for the black ones [too much information, methinks blush]. Don't you use them for dusters, petallus? I've usually got one floating round the house where I've got bored with the dusting, put it down and then left it there for the duration [weeks; months; years confused]...

annodomini Sat 04-May-13 14:01:51

Cotton ones for dusters or floor cloths. Synthetics aren't much use for such tasks. I have a drawer full of assorted colours, not many white. Now, excuse me while I go and by a supermop....grin

annodomini Sat 04-May-13 14:02:09

by BUY!!

petallus Sat 04-May-13 14:04:47

No I don't use them for dusters due to an excess of modesty and anyway they are not big enough grin

Maybe I could use them for steaming puddings in!