Survey #202 Response from Janice
| Pronouns | She/her |
|---|---|
| What project or task do you most closely associate with the phrase “spring cleaning”? What challenges or difficulties does this activity present for you? | Spring cleaning is fun and awful at the same time. It involves delving into corners ignored most of the year. It is fun when you find $10 in a jacket pocket, not fun when you find an old Kleenex... The challenges are, if I want to keep something, yet I forgot about it, how do I counsel myself: is it a reclaimed useful treasure or is it something to pass along. |
| What positive or negative feelings or memories does spring cleaning evoke for you? | The positive memories are that my mother would do hardcore spring cleaning every year, I mean washing walls and ceilings, beating rugs, polishing floors. Scrubbing the basement walls and floors with bleach and hooking up the garden hose to rinse them . She would wear a scarf over her hair. She was tiny but dirt had no chance! The windows were open and the house was ventilated with cold but fresh springtime air. She washed the vinyl window shades with Rosenthal. She would manually scrub the carpet with a carpet cleaner that you push and pull. The house would smell so clean and fresh. She and my Dad were heavy smokers and the bright walls and ceilings would again cloud over with brown stains , but for that short time, we lived in a spring meadow! Today (2.17) is her birthday! She is in Heaven. Happy Birthday Momma. |
| What question would you like us to ask the members of The Clutter Fairy community? Your submission may be related to clutter, organizing, productivity, or any other topic of relevance to our audience, whether we’ve covered it in a past webcast or not. | We (hubby and I) own a Canon brand very nice camera. It uses film. It is never used. It has a beautiful leather case and an embroidered strap. The shutter is stuck, which per YouTube is a very easy fix. However, no one uses cameras anymore, including us. We just keep moving it from one closet to another, because we just dont know what to do with it. It does not deserve the garbage can. Any suggestions for stuff like this? |
| What’s your favorite sign that spring has arrived? | crocus |
| Here’s your chance to ask Gayle and Ed any question you’re curious about. It need not be related to this survey’s topic(s). | This year I am going to try to go around my first floor like a clock, I will start in one corner and handle each item one time. After the closet is empty I will paint it also! I am planning about 2 months to do the first floor, as it contains a closet, a unit with storage baskets, and Entertainment center, and a china cabinet in the dining room. In May I will start the kitchen and do a lot of purging. I am excited to try it this way. It will seem tedious to some but I will decide each and every item I touch and I am in no hurry and no deadline so I actually plan to enjoy this a little. I will say goodbye to some things along the way. I am OK with that! Has anyone tried this? |
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