It’s spring cleaning season, and if you haven’t already started, you’re probably gathering up the energy to power through the biggest clean-up of the year. Although we can give our homes a deep clean at any time, our inherent instinct is to wait until spring arrives. Why do we spring clean at this time of year? It turns out, it’s all to do with removing a winter’s worth of soot from our homes when we relied on open fires for cooking and heating.
And it seems that it is still a tradition in many American homes, as an American Cleaning Institute (ACI) survey found that 80% of Americans plan to spring clean this year.
