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How is the cleaning going?
Topic Started: Apr 1 2008, 12:21 PM (149 Views)
zuncompany
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Mine is going but not as well as I would like. We FINALLY got rid of our couches (kids were reacting and they couldn't be saved) so now I am redoing the living room and cleaning as I go. Bathroom will be done by the end of the week. My room and the kid's room will be done next week. I am leaving the dinning room for last. This week I am focusing on the living room (where all the toys are!) and the kitchen. The kitchen I want the counters, fridge, and stove ready to be turned over by the weekend. I plan to do the oven and fridge Sat. night. Sunday we are going into NY to get food and matzah (and new Shabbos robes!). The floor will get done next week or so. Not the most important thing I find cause you just have to keep redoing it right up until YT.

I know- I am crazy to turn over so soon BUT Tev has surgery next week and it puts a krink into my original plan since we can't leave the area for 2 weeks after and that means Sunday is my last chance to go into NY. I need the freezer and counters ready to go because of this. My kids love pesach food so I am safe. We will keep a draw for the rice milk (though we go through a carton a day so I am not so worried about needing a place for it!) and their cereal in the dinning room since thats the last thing done. Same with crackers and soy butter. When I put up Challah this week I will make enough to last and freeze it in my other freezer thats chumatzdick.
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I'm feeling totally swamped, making my first Pesach. I am spending so much more money then I have ever spent in my life, because I have to buy everything new. I have done the bedrooms for a while already. On Sunday, I did most of the playroom, will have to finish it when I get time. Meanwhile there's no eating int he playroom, only in the kitchen. BH, kids are beign very good about that. I don't even know when I plan on doing the kitchen, cuz dh has CRAZY working hours. I know that I need it done by the Sunday before yomtov, cuz otherwise I'll never be able to make yomtov! I have made up a list of food items we need, and it is oodles and oodles long. I am highly considering purchasing a second fridge for my own menuchas hanefesh. Just have to make sure I can put it where I want to put it.
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Well, mine is going really slowly. I'd like to pretend that I'm pacing myself, but really I think I'm just procrastinating.
The general plan is to finish the basement and my bedroom this week (playroom with all the toys down there!). The basement storage room has the second fridge, which is pretty much empty, and when it's cleaned I can start buying Pesach food. I have one pantry emptied, but I need to clean and line the shelves - hmm maybe this afternoon?
Sunday I get the kids to do their rooms (with help!) and my cleaning help will do a very thorough vacuum in the rooms and closets to finish them off on Monday.
Next week I work on the Living Room, Dining Room and Den, which will have to be rechecked the week of Pesach, because we are pretty open-plan. I'm tempted to have shabbos the week before Pesach in the kitchen, because otherwise the crumbs go everywhere! I have to have chametz in the kitchen so I might as well limit it to that room.
The week of Pesach, my cleaning help and I will do the kitchen together on the Monday, and get the heavy cleaning done, and then I will work with dh to actually switch over on Tues or Weds (moving dishes and pans to make space for pesach stuff, kashering). My goal is to be switched over before the kids get off for Pesach (I think they are home on the Thurs and Fri).
This shabbos I will cook double (plus I have a couple of kugels in the freezer) and make a double batch of challah, so next week I will only have to make the cholent.
DH is telling me and the kids that he wants a simple pesach, with as little work in the kitchen as possible, and that we can have fresh fruit for dessert, simple foods, etc. He doesn't want me exhausted and not enjoying Pesach (or falling asleep and missing the seder). He's also offered to take a day off work to help with the cleaning, which seems more logical than paying someone to come help me, because he can work independently (and he gets paid leave!).
At some stage, I will give myself a break from the pesach cleaning and go buy some new clothes for yomtov (and I need to find the box of too-small clothes to see what I have for my youngest, and buy the few extras that the kids need for the 3-day yom tov!)
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What cleaning? When?

The extent of the cleaning is that we don't bring food upstairs. Therefore, according to our Rav, we don't have to clean it for Pesach as there is no assumption that there would be chametz there.

The downstairs is a whole other kettle of fish/nightmare, that I don't even want to think about right now.
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Marion,
Normally, I wouldn't have to clean upstairs or the basement, as we don't allow food anywhere but the kitchen, dining room, and sometimes the den. But, this year I wasn't up to my normal level of paranoid parenting, and not only did I find the kids eating in the basement playroom one day, but I'm sure there was food in the bedrooms, too. And I know I've had chametzdik throat lozenges in our bedroom. And dd found a pretzel in her closet, that had fallen out of her schoolbag (not sure how, as she keeps her lunch in a lunchbag that isn't supposed to go upstairs). Anyway, suffice it to say that even though I theoretically should have very little to do, and so far haven't actually found any chametz anywhere I checked, I know for sure that this year I need to check pretty much the whole house (except maybe the linen closet and my sewing room).
Once the kids' bedrooms are done, the boys have to change into pajamas downstairs, to avoid them trekking crumbs through the house on their sock, in their tzitzis, and everywhere else they manage to get the crumbs when they are eating. Otherwise it's a never-ending process!
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My cleaning lady will be here tomorrow. :) I don't let the kids have food upstairs, so just dh and I do, but we won't after tomorrow. No food downstairs after tomorrow either. I did the pantry yesterday.
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I really have'nt done much, but i do have a maid and my sis in law is coming on thursday, so hopefully everything will get done!
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Oy. that sums up my cleaning.

Being sick the last 3 Sundays in a row, has put me back big time. I have one bedroom and one closet done, and I hope to have the second bedroom done by weeks end. I have now been sick for 3 days, and I am moving beyond slow. I also am making the seder for the first time this year, so I really need to get my rear in gear. I just NEED to get over this virus, and MUST have the kids over it too. (we've been passing this thing around for nearly a month)

BH, I have just about everything I need to actually make peasach, as I have made peasach minus the sedarim for the last 8 years (yup, my eighth anniversary will take place 9 days before peasach!) I will need to add a few odds and ends, but I am not to concerned about the money, because it is really minor stuff.


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Well most of my house is done because we just moved in but will go through just in case. Wiped down some toys that I am worried about. Kitchen will be the big job, dining room not to bad (mostly chairs), 2 couches will need vacuuming.
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So far I've done the laundry room (which was a big project and needed to be done anyway) and the refrigerator. I know, the fridge sounds nuts, but a chaseedish friend taught me this years ago. I used to leave it until the end, but it was very stressful. I now clean really well early and then it's just a wipe down when we get the food.
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The car seat apolstry is in the washing machine. It is dh's job to take it all off, and put all the right parts back..should be interesting we have 2 car seats. I am treating my self to an in and out car wash probably tomorrow. We are going overseas from the 9-14 so I need everything (more or less) to be clean before we go, plus pack, pick up passports, and the usual worrying before a big trip. Gotta run, sounds like my daughter is up to no good in the kitchen I guarantee it contains chometz!
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My Pesach cleaning? OY! Where to begin?
Well, I read the term "paranoid parenting" a couple of posts ago, and that pretty much sums up the way things go in our home. The second floor is completely off limits to any and all food items with the exception of bottled water. So, one would think that I wouldn't have anything to do up there. However, I am also very neurotic this time of year, so I insist that we clean upstairs anyway. Now that my kids are well beyond the baby stage (IY"H, they will all be considered adults from a Judaic POV following next Cheshvan), they are all capable of cleaning up their own rooms and helping out around the house. So, as of now, the upstairs is ALMOST done. Our bedroom is finished, compliments of me. The closets upstairs are good to go too. Our daughter's room is done (and I didn't have to do it :)- she took care of it all!!) The products in the bathroom/laundry room (its one and the same) need to be "checked over". But for the most part, its done. The only room I really worry about is Son #2's. He has not a clue how to organize his room into a ROOM. You know what I mean..a place without papers and junk all over the floor. A place that looks somewhat hospitable. A floor that can be seen instead of looking like a scene. The problem is, he has absolutely no organizational skills, and hates being "helped". He doesn't know how to get rid of things either. I'm pretty sure that all the lost game pieces in the world reside in his room, but I can't step in there long enough to count them before falling down.
I've sent both his siblings in to help them, but they get frustrated since he drives them nuts. He doesn't want me to help either. In the end, I won't get mad, I'll "get GLAD" (you know, the garbage bag). That's what he fears the most. The problem is, he's known for a month that this needs to be done. He doesn't use his time wisely and I really don't look forward to his moping about all the things that he wanted to save, but "Mommy threw out". I keep telling him that he needs to keep his room somewhat hospitable and then I wouldn't care. He needs to make sure there isn't any chametz that accidentally sneaked up there as well.
As far as the second/main floor..the entry room is completely done. Our bechor started the job, and I finished it off. The LR was yesterday's project. I flipped over and vacuumed out the couch and loveseat and cleaned up the end tables and their contents. The bechor did the dvd shelv behind the door. Now, we have a hamster whose cage is kept in that room, so there will be kitniyot in our house for Pesach, but that's what we have to do. So, the hamster will be permitted his chametzdik food until probably the week before Pesach. He doesn't traipse it around the room, so no worries there. :D . I still need to clean up the area where the stereo and cds are kept. I would have finished it off yesterday, but after couch flipping, I no longer had any strength to move or do anything else. Our LR and DR are one big room, so this room can be tricky to clean so (seemingly) early in the game, but if I do all now, I can drive everyone nuts about making sure that they stay out of the LR portion with food for the next 18 days :ha . Then we'll just give it the "once over" and all will be good. I hope to get the DR mostly done this week as well. I figure that I can get the bookshelves in the room done and the breakfront as well. I already started cleaning off the top of two bookshelves (you really can only imagine what I found up there!!!!!!!!).
The last part of the main floor is the kitchen. As we all know, that's the absolute worst part of the house to do. I think I'm going to start moving things up and around in the cabinets so that I will have something less to do during the final week. The majority of the room will need to be done during the last week before Pesach. As you can tell, I'm beyond thrilled.
The basement, with the exception of our extra fridge and freezer that live down there, I leave to hubby and (this year) Son #1. B"H, they cleaned the basement out this past Sunday. The bechor lives down there as of this year, so had a real interest in getting the place Pesachdik. Of course, the fact that we didn't allow him to use the computer the entire week past until he helped out became a major factor as well. He got to use it that night. Amazing what the right incentive can do :).
The car is probably going to be delegated to one of the kids as well. Most probably the bechor or the girl.
I can't believe how much I've written about this. Talk about avoiding the problem!
Guess I should go back to work. :blink: :doh!
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car is done. Dh did it sunday
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Freezer is done - I'm picking up my meat order tomorrow. Computer table/ office space is done, kid's drawers are done. That't about it. We are moving overseas 2 weeks after Pesach. :blink: B) :o So my original plan was to pack as I clean. Well... It doesn't work that way.... It is either one or the other. For now it is Pesach.
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