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What Are Your Best Spring Cleaning Hacks And Tips? [Block Talk]

It's spring cleaning time. How do you get started? What's the oddest or coolest thing you ever rediscovered during spring cleaning?

It’s spring-cleaning time. How do you get started? What’s the oddest or coolest thing you ever rediscovered during spring cleaning?
It’s spring-cleaning time. How do you get started? What’s the oddest or coolest thing you ever rediscovered during spring cleaning? (Getty Images)

ACROSS AMERICA — After months of cocooning, you may feel an intuitive desire to clean up your physical surroundings, both inside and out.

That’s no surprise. The spring cleaning tradition dates back to ancient times, is incorporated in religious texts and has been handed down through generations. Deep cleaning delivers health benefits, too. There’s even a National Spring Cleaning Week, starting on March 26, though the origin is as murky as the view outside your smudged front window.

For Block Talk, Patch’s exclusive neighborhood etiquette column, we want to hear your best spring cleaning tips and hacks. Also, what’s the strangest thing you ever rediscovered during the spring cleanup?

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About Block Talk

Block Talk is a regular Patch feature offering real-world advice from readers on how to resolve everyday neighborhood problems. If you have a neighborhood etiquette question or problem you'd like for us to consider, email beth.dalbey@patch.com, with Block Talk as the subject line.

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