"Spring cleaning" where I am means "go through your things and throw away what you haven't used since the last spring cleaning." Recently I was watching a TV s

"Spring cleaning" where I am means "go through your things and throw away what you haven't used since the last spring cleaning." Recently I was watching a TV show about some guys living in the woods in Alaska and they really mean spring cleaning. In their case, their farm animals' feces had spent the winter frozen to the coop and barn floor boards, so at the first thaw they scrambled to clean the place up quickly!