Mine was Winter Cleaning this year since we were moving. How did we collect so much stuff? I gave away nine 55 gallon trash bags of clothes! Why couldn't I do it before? I forced myself to do it and it felt so good.

We put things no longer needed for the trash men and the carpenters in our neighborhood got them before the trash came. We saw a truck with Sammie's old bird cage in the back, going down the road. It was her outdoor cage and all rusted.

My mother was such a neat freak we never needed to spring clean. We weren't even allowed to wear shoes in the house. It was miserable.