How Not to Take a Shower While Spring Cleaning Your Cellar

The joys of spring are sometimes dampened by the words spring-cleaning that strike fear in the hearts of many families across the United States each spring. I have a way to make some excitement here, yes, spring-cleaning does not have to be unexciting, nor does it have to bring down your springtime excitement.

There is no firm rule that says spring-cleaning has to take place in the spring, it can occur anytime we want it too, I have already begun spring-cleaning in my cellar last week, and when that is done, I am coming up stairs and taking care of business.

My house, which is just a tad less than 1,000 square feet, has an unfinished cellar of the same square footage, which is now used for storage. My washing machine, a chest freezer, one of the couches, and the hot water heater are the only possessions I desire to leave there, I am tired of seeing the other stuff.

I got the cellar about half cleaned last week, and this weekend Ray and I will be working on it some more, a few hours at a time is about all I can take because it is unheated and we are in a very cold spell here right now but it is the perfect time for spring-cleaning.

I am sure it would not take so long if I did not have to examine each and everything down there, as there is a wealthy of memories down there in each toy, each article of clothing that my teenagers have long outgrown. Being down there means I am not up here being interrupted by knocks on the door by well meaning people who have come for a visit.

I can take a radio down there, crank it and the concrete walls act as a huge amplifier making the music seem much louder, I am lost in my own world, happy as a clam doing spring-cleaning. Unfortunately I have not spring cleaned down there in years, do not get me wrong I have cleaned there, but not to this degree, every thing must go simply because it is not needed.