clean with the windows open and not breathe quite so much dust and fumes as you go along. but spring cleaning can mean much more than this.
cleaning is work, but that’s not what makes some of us dread spring cleaning. it’s the idea of “everything you own” that makes spring cleaning difficult. you can’t clean everything you own without looking at everything you own — and that brings up a whole range of questions. probably for most of the things you have, the last time you saw them was the last time you cleaned them, so why do you have them — do you have them just to clean them? 