10 Tips Guaranteed to Cut Your Spring Cleaning Time In Half!

  1. Rotate dirt-busting. Each month schedule one room for a soap bubble blitz.
  2. Treat the room like a checker board and make every move count.
  3. No skipping around the board. Complete each chore completely before moving to the next.
  4. Buckle on a tool belt (low on the hip for maximum effect) and carry equipment around the room with you.
  5. Memorize what goes where in your tool belt and keep feather dusters out of toilet brush pockets.
  6. Work the room -- (attack it from top to bottom, left to right).
  7. Keep tools in good working order -- use sprayers with unclogged nasal passages, holeless vacuum cleaner bags and hairless beater bars.
  8. If it ain't dirty, don't clean it.
  9. When it's clean....stop.
  10. If you've used up all your elbow grease, and the stains refuse to go away...paint it.

About the Author

Joy Krause has been a single mother, scrubwoman, spiritual seeker and survivor.
When she was just a young girl herself, she was left alone with two babies, no money, no education, and an abundance of bills. She didn't waste time feeling sorry for herself. She advertised instead:
"Cleaning lady for hire.
Windows included."

So began a journey that took Joy Krause way beyond mere job description -- literally "from the outhouse to the penthouse."
She started out scrubbing other people's toilets and twenty years later sold a flourishing business having built it -- virtually out of the dust -- into one of the largest of its kind in the Northeast. Now she can afford a penthouse and the help to clean it.
In Spring Cleaning for the Soul, Joy tells how she got from there to here. It is a life-affirming and joyous story of hard times viewed from a positive perspective. The floors she scrubbed were never beneath her, the clients were never above her.

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