Do you?

I did clean the bathroom this morning, up to Xmas was too busy writing cards, baking xmas goodies and wrapping presents. DH doesn't think it's anything to do with him!!

Everything had to be clean and tidy and bins emptied before new year.

I remember the days of the Hogmanay clean, I may even have partaken when I was much younger. These days I’d rather eat chocolate and watch a film.

Yes I do. Decorations have to be down and the whole bungalow will be cleaned and polished within a inch of its life (it always is though I’m a bit fussy). Washing and ironing done too. My maternal grandmother was Scottish and it was passed to my mother and then too me. Funnily enough our three children are the same so guess I must have passed it on. Happy New Year everyone, and a healthy and safe one too.

No, I like to find other things to keep me busy

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! ☺

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.

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.

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!

Nope - not a chance!

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.

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.

Not a chance.
#lazygran

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.

No - definitely not - life's too short.

I find Christmas cards preclude any sort of cleaning activity.

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!

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 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.

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?

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.

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.

Nope.

Would you come round my house please, Berylsgranny?

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.