I start my Passover cleaning in January. No joke. No matter when Passover falls, I take out my trusted self-created blue-bound Passover Cleaning Guide, and the cleaning begins. My housekeeper is invaluable to me at this particular time of the year since I work full-time.
Back to the manual.
Every page in my manual is dedicated to a week’s worth of detailed cleaning- instructions of a particular room in my house. When that week’s work is complete, we go on to the next room.
We start with the lavatory. A very thorough cleaning of that room ensues and the area is turned upside down before it looks impeccably clean. Expired medications get tossed. Partially-used and no-longer-favored toiletries are bid farewell and cosmetics get a keen looking-over – am I still using the same shade of pink?
In the bedrooms, closets get a “clean sweep”. Hanging rods, shelves, shoe-racks – all become practically sterile. And if a garment hasn’t been worn in two years, it gets donated.
In this fashion, we cover every room in the house until we approach a date closer to the holiday.
The Kitchen is the last room in the house to be tackled and we devote two weeks to its’ tedious work.
Inspection follows after each room is scoured and that’s when the bonuses are discovered. Once we found my granddaughter’s favorite little hair-thing-a-ma-jig over which she mourned. Another time, we found a medication we swore the pharmacist forgot to put in the bag. And yet, another time, we found a long-lost check - you have no idea what an exhaustive search took place for that check.
I am telling you this because several people have asked me about this “manual”.
“Where can I get one?” (You can’t. I made it up. You need to specifiy it to your needs)
“How long did it take you to put it together?” (How big is your house?)
This made me think. I’ll bet YOU have your own helpful hints on how to prepare for Passover/Spring cleaning. Would you like to share them with us? We’ll happily share with others in our store and on our website!
Feel free to “come clean”.
Gleamingly yours,
Edna Krausz
First Seder night is Monday, March 29th
