By Glenda Wise
Next weekend the holiday season begins with a home football game in Norman. Next weekend includes tailgating and then spending the last bit of summer. Then, it will officially be the holiday season and I am all clear to begin the fall decorating and pumpkin bread making.
Unfortunately, before all the fun can begin, I will need to do a bit of fall housekeeping. I’m spending this weekend cleaning and getting things in order for the upcoming fall decorating. I like to take the opportunity to do deep cleaning a few times a year—before I decorate for fall, after I put away all the Christmas and New Year’s decorations and at the beginning of summer.
This is my fall cleaning checklist:
Dust fans
Wash windows (get it done before it gets too cold outside)
Same goes for the porches—hose them down and thoroughly clean
Clean blinds
Vacuum and spot clean furniture (that’s actually a weekly thing for me because of our dogs)
Clean on top of/under the fridge
Clean baseboards
Clean the corners of the ceiling, i.e., cobwebs
Clean and rotate mattresses
Clean out pantry and fridge (to make room for all that fabulous fall baking)
Inventory spices (there is nothing worse than to start a baking project only to find you are out of a spice, so avoid it by inventorying early)
Clean gutters and downspouts
Clean coffee pot and change filters
Move furniture so you can clean all those pesky spots dog hair tends to accumulate
Organize paperwork you’ve been putting off (ugh…this one I really do not like)
Make any necessary repairs to your fall decorations, so there will be no hold ups when decorating.
Now you are ready to decorate for fall and enjoy for the rest of the season.
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