NEWS
By SHERRY GRAHAM | April 25, 1995
From the date on my kitchen calendar, I know that spring officially has sprung. From the chaos in my house, it's obvious to any visitors that I'm about to begin my version of spring cleaning.I say, "my version" because anyone who knows me and my sister has a good idea which one of us is the cleaning fanatic.While I'm satisfied that every room is cleaned thoroughly during the same week and that I've assured myself that my boys have not hidden any "pets" or food under their beds, my sister washes, waxes and polishes everything that doesn't move.
FEATURES
By JACQUES KELLY | April 23, 2005
THE SUN'S been rising early these mornings. We've had some warm days, and my garden is full of spring color. There is bushy new leaf growth on the roses. All the signs point to spring housecleaning. So this week I found homes for the last of the little Christmas gifts that have been stashed in the shadows for months. I threw out some holiday wrapping paper I'd been hoarding. And when I walked the aisles of the grocery store, I threw a bottle of ammonia into the cart and bought a box of garbage bags.
FEATURES
By Jean Marbella and Jean Marbella,SUN STAFF | May 21, 1998
This week, five Today writers document signs of spring. Spring Cleaning, a longtime resident of the better households of America, died recently everywhere but a few outposts of civilization. Spring Cleaning never revealed her age, although some reports put it in the three figures.She had suffered from a series of maladies for several decades, including the increasingly chronic slovenliness of Americans. Services are pending, and in lieu of flowers, survivors request a moment of silence as you contemplate the accumulated dust of your life.
NEWS
By Elizabeth Large and Elizabeth Large,Sun Staff | April 11, 1999
So you feel proud of yourself for getting that closet emptied out last week? Here's what Diana Taylor of Harford County is doing in the way of spring cleaning: The mother of four, who also works part time as a bookkeeper and volunteers at her children's schools, cleans her house from top to bottom. Literally. She starts by washing the ceilings of her five- bedroom home with bleach and water and works her way down. She vacuums or dusts every part of the house thoroughly and flips the mattresses.
NEWS
By Ellen Goodman | April 11, 2002
BOSTON - We are adding another relic to the huge pile that looms outside our door when a neighbor walks by and asks approvingly, "Spring cleaning?" "Sort of," I answer, and turn my eyes to the sidewalk that looks like a giant yard sale of cardboard boxes, plastic bags and broken furniture. At one end of the pile is a decaying red cardboard table that my daughter once used for her preschool Play-Doh. Spring cleaning, 1975. Not far away there is an ancient and honorable and defunct box of tax returns.
NEWS
By Lori Sears and Lori Sears,Sun Staff | March 13, 2005
Light up rooms with Rare, natural and pure, rock crystal has long been used in the making of fine chandeliers and wall sconces. The transparent quartz crystal, stunning to the eye, features natural fissures with seeming bursts of crystalline explosions. So it's no wonder the brilliant quartz, which is mined and cannot be manufactured, has been prized by collectors and coveted by others. Jones Lighting Specialists in Towson is showing and selling a selection of modern and traditional rock crystal lighting fixtures.