Perhaps there could be a new tradition of cleaning up the code every 25 years.
So we did some digging and we've gathered a list of lunar new year cleaning traditions, including to-dos and tips, that supposedly should welcome prosperity into your home.
For many families, however, the Qing Ming festival this week could be the last time they carry out the annual Chinese tradition of visiting and cleaning the ancestral tombs in Bukit Brown.
In 1984, when this reporter took a job teaching tennis at Le Rosey summer school, the kids, according to long-standing student tradition, referred to the cleaning staff as "les esclaves" (the slaves); the local townspeople were termed "les paysans" (the peasants).
This tradition is founded in the belief that cleaning the house at this time of year will "sweep away the bad luck" that has accumulated inside over the past year.
But cleaning data up has a long tradition.
We have a long mythic tradition of the lone gunman -- think sheriff cleaning up a corrupt town against huge odds.
Following in that tradition, Hindus celebrate Diwali by lighting oil lamps, bursting firecrackers, cleaning and decorating their homes, distributing sweet delicacies and gathering with friends and family.
Parenting and Step-Families If your family had Mother's Day traditions - breakfast in bed, brunch at your favorite restaurant, flowers, cleaning the house, detailing your car, etc. - both you and your kids may be feeling blue.
And like many traditions that grow up out of necessity around New York City, this gathering of cleaning women had certain unwritten codes, accepted patterns that all the women acknowledged.
