Spring Cleaning, Day 2
I dropped Lily off again at the sitters this morning and rushed right home to get to work on the kitchen. I knew that it would take me every second and then some of the 4 hours I had, so I wasted no time getting started. I decided to work in sections and do the top to bottom approach again.
Today was really quite physical work! I had to get up on a chair and then stand on the counter top to reach the top of the cabinets. Let me tell you, like other things in the house, these had not been cleaned since we moved in and let me say, ew. I have made quite a few resolutions to keep on top of this in the future because it should never get that dirty. Then, in each section, I would work my way down emptying each shelf of its contents and then wiping the shelves clean and finally the insides of the doors and then out, or emptying drawers and then wiping out and replacing everything. I also cleaned all of the appliances that sit on the countertops and wiped the ledges and walls behind the counters.
Then I moved on to the window and the back door and cleaned those.
I also did a quick purge of the pantry. This is something that gets done pretty frequently, so I didn’t waste a lot of time on it. I just got rid of a couple of expired items and found some things to donate to the food bank at school.
During the whole time I was cleaning the cabinets, I ran the clean cycle on the oven. Eesh! Reminder not to do that again; it made the kitchen unpleasantly hot.
The top of the fridge was a difficult and yes, disgusting, task. Not something I can reach without a chair, so it doesn’t get attended to enough. Threw out ancient cereal boxes that sit atop it, and then wiped it all down.
Lastly, I cleaned the microwave and the ceramic top of the oven, which thankfully, is something that wasn’t bad at all because I am pretty good at staying on top of those things.
My time ran out at this point, so now I’m eager to send Matt on a long errand with Lily at some point this weekend so I can finish with the cleaning. I still have the glass door, the small cabinet that stands in the corner, the mirror, wipe out the oven and the table and chairs to clean thoroughly before I’m finished.
