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the annual ritual where you find everything except the thing you were looking for
means To give a place a thorough, top-to-bottom cleaning, traditionally done once a year as the weather warms.
from A plain compound of "spring," the season, and "clean." The custom predates the word and is genuinely old and widespread: a deep clean timed to spring made practical sense in the era of coal fires, oil lamps, and shuttered winters — once the warmer air arrived, you could finally throw open the windows and scrub away the soot of the cold months. The phrase "spring cleaning" settled into English in the 19th century as a name for this seasonal ritual, later compressed by some into the single tidy "springclean."
- origin
- Likely from Persian No-Ruz scrubbing before spring new year
- dust truth
- Household dust is largely your own dead skin
- hidden danger
- More heart attacks happen during sudden bursts of exertion
- clutter cost
- Average person spends days yearly searching misplaced items
- spider mercy
- Spring cleaning evicts thousands of cobweb-dwelling tenants
spring cleaning — annual deep cleaning tradition, documented in persian and european households for centuries, typically done in march-april
japanese oosouji — year-end deep clean in japan, performed december 28-29, preparation ritual before new year