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Clean Up Your Room Day

It’s Clean Up Your Room Day! Have you been avoiding your spring-cleaning this year? Today is the day to get motivated! Whether you decide to tackle a messy closet, a mounting pile of laundry, a whole room, or even the entire house, it’ll be well worth the effort.

The tradition of spring-cleaning dates back to the days when people relied on fire to light and heat their homes through the winter. After months of being shut up with no fresh air, everything in the house would be covered in soot and ash. Spring-cleaning traditionally took place on the first warm day of the season. The entire family would roll up their sleeves and move all the furniture and linens outdoors. They would then clean the house from top to bottom, scrubbing down the walls, beating the dirt out of the carpets, and dusting everything in sight.

Begin your spring-cleaning by putting things away in their proper places and creating piles for trash and donations. Once you’ve decluttered it will become much easier to do the actual vacuuming, dusting, and scrubbing. When you’ve completed your project, remember to reward yourself for all your hard work! Happy Clean Up Your Room Day!

Today is also Lag B'Omer & National Shrimp Day

  
May is National Bike Month & National Strawberry Month & National Hamburger Month

This week is National Pet Week

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History for May 10 1773 - The English Parliament passed the Tea Act, which taxed all tea in the U.S. colonies. 1869 - Central Pacific and Union Pacific Rail Roads meet in Promontory, UT. A golden spike was driven in at the celebration of the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S. 1924 - J. Edgar Hoover was appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 1965 - The Rolling Stones produced their very first recordings when they recorded "Come On" and "I Wanna Be Loved" from the album "Out of Our Heads." 1969 - The National and American Football Leagues announced their plans to merge for the 1970-71 season. 1974 - Eric Clapton recorded "I Shot the Sheriff." _________________________________________________________ "If we’d only stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time." --Edith Wharton