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- Title
Dust off Assumptions about Spring Cleaning.
- Authors
Hitchcock, Heather
- Abstract
The article offers information on the speculations and superstitions to the history of spring cleaning in the U.S. Speculations on the tradition include the ritual cleansing for the Passover, the top-to-bottom cleaning of the home right before the Chinese New Year, and the 19th century practice of waiting until spring to spruce up by opening the window and allowing the March winds to blow out the dust. Famous people who took the risk to do spring cleaning include Edith Bouvier Beale and Edie Bouvier Beale who became famous for living in the reclusive squalor in Hamptons, New York, and the Collyer brothers who could not open their front door due to hoarding. The creation of the imaginary character Mr. Clean by Ernie Allen for Procter & Gamble Co. is also mentioned.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HOUSE cleaning; PASSOVER customs &; practices; CHINESE New Year; SPRING; BEALE, Edith Bouvier, 1917-2002; BEALE, Edie Bouvier; COMPULSIVE hoarding; ALLEN, Ernie; PROCTER &; Gamble Co.
- Publication
Phi Kappa Phi Forum, 2010, Vol 90, Issue 1, p18
- ISSN
1538-5914
- Publication type
Article