Do you?

Not me!

It's a nice idea but I'm afraid I only do any sort of housework when it becomes essential or if visitors are coming. We do clean up after ourselves, of course, and change the bedding regularly. It's not a pigsty, just a bit dusty!

I like to clean the house after taking down the tree ? etc and am deciding if today is too early to make a start. Nothing else to do so think I might.

Perish the thought. I find new year depressing enough without adding cleaning to the mix!

No Berylsgranny i don`t,i do it the day before christmas eve.
I then do no house work until mid january unless we have an accident of course.

Would you come round my house please, Berylsgranny?

Nope.

Never come across this ritual, nor do I do anything like it. I do no cleaning at all over the Christmas period and then throughly dust and vacuum when the decorations come down. It is then back to the usual weekly routine.

Not here, bathrooms done regularly, ditto bedding changes and I must have a tidy kitchen. Other than that, floors done probably once a week, dusting sporadically, we don’t have any ornaments/photos which helps.

My mother did and I wish I had inherited that gene. But it’s true that after the “clutter” of Christmas, more people in the house (well, back in the day) and the different daily routine there is something fundamentally satisfying about the “clean start” , a bit like New Year’s resolutions - and that’s a whole new thread topic isn’t it?

I have a neighbour who does this although actually her house is absolutely spotless all year round.
She also pays all bills so that she has no debt to start the New Year.
She comes from Yorkshire and her family all did it, perhaps it is traditional there.

Not me. I think it's an old Scottish superstition. After the tree and cards etc come down I quite like a bit of a dust and hoover but that it and not before 12th night either.
I like to have some nice Hyacinth bulbs or, failing that, a nice fresh reed diffuser for a refreshing smell round the house after that.

I think a 'spring clean' is a good idea when the days get longer and you start noticing things are grubby in the sunshine. Maybe March or April. Otherwise vacuum and dust and wipe over surfaces, mostly before visitors call!

I find Christmas cards preclude any sort of cleaning activity.

No - definitely not - life's too short.

My dear old Mum had a superstitious ritual of “out with the old” in the last few hours of New Year’s eve.

She’d be in a frenzy of cleaning an already clean and tidy house. Right down to minor details of the kitchen bin being emptied at 11.30pm. She even emptied and washed out the teapot. Then she’d finally sit down exhausted at 11.55pm ready for the bells.

Not a chance.
#lazygran

I do have a good dust and tidy up in the living room when the decs and tree come down. But the house is always kept clean and dusted, all year round. I'm a bit OCD. To the point where I have little time to myself when I'm not doing housework. I'd actually like to be able to relax more, but I can't stand seeing dust or crumbs on the floor etc.

I plan to start a thorough clean of the house, but it won’t all be done by New Year’s Day. More like three weeks’ time.

Nope - not a chance!

My mum was from Yorkshire and one of her rules was having no ‘nest eggs’ left over before Christmas or New Year. This means no washing or ironing waiting to be done. I have this phrase going round my head so, of course, did the washing on Christmas Eve. My H came back from collecting the turkey and threw all his filthy work clothes into the basket! Grrr! He couldn’t see any problem!

Decorations are all coming down today and I can't wait cos I don't do clutter and want it all back to normal. In fact I wish everything in life could go back to bloomin normal.

Not likely. I make a sort of rota plan in January and am lucky if it's finished by Easter.
Unsettling the dust makes me sneeze anyway.

I do. My mother used to wash everything on Hogmanay and I mean everything,including light shades and ornaments. Those were on the days of coal fires so probably there was more dust around. There was an almost hysterical need to go into the New Year absolutely clean. Sadly I have followed on. I don't wash ornaments but the house is cleaned thoroughly and all washing and ironing taken care of. Even more sadly my dd has followed suit. Tradions! ☺