Does anyone fancy a spring cleaning thread?

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Seeing as the sun is shining I decided to start my spring clean today! Aiming to do a deep clean of one room every couple of days to fit around work and family life. Anyone fancy joining me for encouragement and general chat about progress?!

Sorry to hear you've been under severe stress, that sounds awful. I think a good clean and clear-out will definitely be therapeutic!

london I'd love to inspire you but I don't seem to have done much since the kitchen blitz last week. Been busy, work, ill family again and the heat really took it out of me. This seems to have been the year of non stop viruses invading my house.
fastwindow Hello! I definitely find a good house blitz therapeutic! Sorry about your stress, getting control of the house has been a great catalyst for me feeling more in control of things.

Hi london and quick I did a lot of putting away yesterday. Unfortunately, not a lot of culling, so the drawers are full to bursting. I think the house is suffering from hand-me-down syndrome... My sister keeps kindly giving me her three dcs old stuff, so i now have 0-6 in boys and 0-3 in girls. Ill open a shop.

Its work stress- basically im burnt out. Cant wrap my head around even opening a laptop. Horrible. Still, hopefully a good therapeutic declutter/clean will cheer me up.

How's everyone getting on? I've just returned from a long walk which I forced myself to go out and do. This week I've managed to throw out a few things which I didn't think I could, so it's getting ever clearer! Am pretty much back to normal health-wise, so cleaning morale is up again. I'm still on top of the laundry, must say I'm surprised I've managed to keep on top of it. I had to go up into the loft this week, and I spotted things which I really think I can get rid of. I'll get up there again when the kids are at school and go through it all. I think I've reached a stage where all that's left in the house is the stuff that's harder to discard, so I'm now seeking out areas where there's still stuff that's easy to throw. Which leaves only the loft! I realise I'm copping out somewhat, but I tell myself that as long as the clutter is going, it doesn't matter quite so much in what order I'm doing it, the main thing is it's getting done.

One other thing that's happened since I joined this thread, and which I've been meaning to mention but haven't yet, is that I had an absolute mountain of cleaning products in the house and had banned myself from buying any more until it was all used up. You wouldn't believe how many things have been used up and discarded since we all embarked on this Spring-cleaning mission! I had more than I even realised, all shoved under the kitchen sink or at the top of the bathroom cupboard. Loads of it was half-empty and forgotten about, but now it's pretty much all gone. Let me know how you're all getting on, I love to read what everyone else has been doing.

Hi London! Nice to see you on the thread, great to hear your progress! How funny that you had a hoard of cleaning products-were you just buying them out of habit?
We have been going through our garage, it's basically a dumping ground, there's even boxes still with stuff in from our last house move. Boxing stuff up for charity and binning/recycling everything else. Still more work to do but ran out of time today.
House remaining clear and tidy, am going to write a to do list for the week on Monday morning! Anyone else fancy compiling a list to motivate them?

I'm so late replying! I always buy cleaning products when they're on a promotion, then I stock up. I just genuinely didn't realise how much I had built up, then when I did realise, I decided I was not to buy another thing until all the excess had gone. Which it now has! Right now though, the place is an absolute tip, the laundry has piled up and I'm looking forward to the kids getting back to school! They're back on Tuesday, so one more day to go. Actually, one other thing I've emptied is the freezer, that was rammed with stuff that needing using up, and now it's empty. I've started buying food more frequently, in smaller amounts rather than stocking up, as I kept throwing out so much and I hate doing that. One day I will be a minimalist who never wastes food and has an immaculate house. I will, I will!