A good family clean up

Living in a house with 3 other adults, two of whom are your adult children takes a bit of getting used to. Gone are the days when I could 'order' them to clean up their room and they would obey. Not that they 'obeyed' very much bit at least a token amount.
But joy of joys, my house got a good clean out this week owing to several fortuitous events.
Youngest and messiest son had a week off work so had time to completely eviscerate his wardrobe as well as to pick everything off the floor of his bedroom.

The 'Mad Scientist' managed to pick his papers off the floor and 'hide' them somewhere in the roof space!

The weather was fine and windy so I could wash and dry three loads of clothing, bedding etc on the Thursday Anzac day holiday.



And lastly, I asked a real estate agent for a valuation on the house, so we all cleaned up those annoying piles of paperwork, advertising and bits of information we must file at some stage.
So the filing ( ie move to rubbish/recycle bin) went on apace.

For the first time in a year we actually have a full rubbish bin and a full recycle bin.

I'll just have to wait for a week to empty the recycle bin (only happens each fortnight).
The house was looking lovely, clean and tidy in the warm (25 degree C ) autumn sunshine yesterday.
The next job is to weed the garden again, all the autumn rain ( not much but some) has helped the weeds grow strongly. My garden waste bin is nearly full but so are my compost bins.
On the bright side, my spring bulbs are sprouting and the camellia's are flowering.