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Tips for Spring Cleaning

By Kalli

*Spray Febreze on all furniture

*Sprinkle carpet sprinkly stuff on all carpeted areas.

*Empty vacuum canister, leave vacuum and other pieces in separate and various places throughout the house.

*Look busy.

*Open the window next to the cat box.

*Take Ibuprofen, have a cup of coffee, check Pinterest

*Clean out Gmail Inbox, wander aimlessly through a few blogs/articles.

*Pick up cigarette butts from yard

*Read instructions on seed packets & dig for heating pad to speed up late germination of starter plants

*Re-start the dryer.

*Run the dishwasher again as background noise for a nice nap.

*Spray windex on tv screens, give kid a rag and praise her for participating in this spring ritual.

*fluff pillows, straighten furniture covers, remove obvious clutter from front room to give illusion of clean house.

*light candles

*Read articles on Pinterest about cleaning, purging, organizing, and “upcycling”.

*Start a craft project.  Put it down, start another.

*Have manicure time with kid, paint our toenails KU Blue.

*Search pinterest for “how to crochet a jayhawk”

*Dismantle Christmas Tree.

*Formulate a plan for packing all the Christmas stuff away.
*Celebrate the Equinox by teaching Grace how to balance an egg on one end.  
*Mop kitchen floor.

*Crochet some blue pom-poms for “Elf on the Shelf” in case he decides to make a rare off-season appearance.

*Make some calls, check gmail, check facebook, catch up games of WWF.