Spring Cleaning
To mop up a spill on a rug, take a cloth and do this.
What is blot the spill?
This color is most associated with Ireland.
What is green?
In 2010, a handmade set of this popular real estate game sold for $146,500 to the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York.
What is Monopoly?
This is the term for using long stitches to hold material together temporarily.
What is baste?
“In like a lion and out like a lamb” refers to this.
What is March weather?
Test these mandatory lifesaving home features to see if you need to replace the battery.
What are smoke alarms?
On March 17, we all have a touch of this nationality in our blood.
What is Irish?
Car dashboards made of this material have all but disappeared.
What is wood? Like most things, wooden dashboards have been replaced with plastic. However, aftermarket wooden kits are available.
In the store, it’s a length of fabric wound around a cardboard tube; in nature, it’s a unit of lightning.
What is a bolt?
In the United States, the clocks “spring” this way on the second Sunday in March.
What is forward?
This natural abrasive can help clean a cast-iron skillet.
What is salt?
A shamrock usually has this number of leaves.
What is three?
The 1943 penny was not made of copper; it was made of this alternate metal.
What is steel? The wartime penny was coated with zinc.
A gusset is either a diamond or this shape of fabric.
What is a triangle?
Among the first sounds of spring in many parts of the world are those of these migrating animals resting in the trees.
What are birds?
If you’re drowning in bric-a-brac, this is the very first thing on your spring cleaning task list.
What is decluttering?
Keep a close eye on this mischievous little man dressed in green, and he might reveal where he keeps his treasure.
What is a leprechaun?
These large stores served as anchors in malls.
What are department stores?
You’d be correct if you knew this term for the pretty side of the fabric that is seen when you wear the garment.
What is the right side? The wrong side does not include the features of the right side and faces inward.
This alternate name for the spring equinox comes from the Latin word meaning “of the spring.”
What is vernal?
Martha Stewart’s trick for cleaning coffee grinders is to run this food item through them.
What is bread? Just add a few pieces of bread to the grinder and grind as you would coffee. It will soak up the coffee grinds and the oil.
St. Patrick was born here.
What is (Roman) Britain?
These stand-up collars were popular in the 1970s.
What are Nehru collars?
These structured folds are named after a box-shaped German musical instrument.
What are accordion pleats?
If you live in New England, the maple trees give you this sign that spring has arrived.
What is sap?