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Cleaning tips for vacation homes

For vacation home owners, the burden of preparing for the summer season can be taxing and stressful. It’s called “spring cleaning” because it’s supposed to happen in the spring, but do you have your work done yet? One great way to improve your mood and speed up the process is by creating an organized list, breaking down tasks by the room and accomplishing smaller goals as you work your way through the many nooks and crannies that make your vacation house so unique! Here, veteran cottage owner Maria Lamb offers a multitude of spring cleaning tips and tricks for your benefit. Happy cleaning!

5 Vacation Home Spring Cleaning Tips You Need To Learn Now.

It’s that time of year again.  Time to spring clean the cottages.  After about fifteen years, we’ve finally got it down. Sort of.  It’s a chore, for sure.  It seems that I never, ever get to relax at any of my vacation homes, but there is something in the preparation for a new season that just is so enlightening (I admit it).  But it’s exhausting, too.  Every muscle aches when I fall asleep around 8pm.  And I’m not even touching the yard work.  I think I need to hire someone for that as there is no way I’m going to...

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