Before You Leave
Please clean up any spaces you used during your stay!
Bedrooms
Bedrooms
- Remake the bed with clean linens
- Wash the used linens, and store clean sets on the shelf
- Vacuum the bedroom floor
- Wash the dishes and put them away
- Wipe down the stovetop and counters
- Take your leftover food with you and wipe down the fridge interior
- Sweep the floor
- Clean all bathrooms
- Wash used towels and rugs, and store clean towels on the shelf
- Wash the golf carts and make sure the tires have air
- Leave the golf cart batteries charging
- Refill the propane tank for the grill
- Empty the trash, putting bags into the covered outdoor bins. Trash is collected from the bins on Mondays, and between June 30th and Labor day, Fridays too.
- Take your empty cans and bottles, MI has a 10¢ refund for each
- Close all windows and doors
- Turn off all lights, heaters, air conditioners, and fans
Closing Up For The Season
- Put a bag of mouse poison in each room, like under a dresser. Mice will take over if you don’t do it. Buy a bucket of bags, cut bags in half, and tape.
- Bring in the hammock
- Take the flags down, and store them in the bin in the front porch
- Bring outdoor table and chairs in
- Bring in the white wood bench by the hose
- Put the grill in the shed, allowing easy access for the hunters
- Leave the white table by the grill out
- Turn all lights off
- Turn the heat off
- There’s plastic for everything, just unfold it and make sure it best fits what you’re covering
- Remove all garbage and returnable cans and bottles
- There are glass storm windows in the upstairs of the shed. Put them in place of the screens on the lakeside windows of the living room
- There is also a glass piece in the shed upstairs, put that in the garage side door
- Stack bikes in the shed
Upstairs
- Keep all bunkbeds made and wrap them in plastic, tucking it in all around the bed
- Front porch beds get stripped and bagged in black bags.
- Lay newspaper out on top of mattresses and put bagged bedding on top, tied top face down
- Unplug all lamps and devices
- Make sure windows are locked
- Close all blinds and curtains
- Bring tissue boxes downstairs
- Pick up rugs and bag them
- Strip and bag the middle bed, pink ped, and both beds in Katy’s room. Put newspapers down.
- Bag bedding in reverse so that the first thing that comes out of the bag is the mattress pad, then fitted and so on
Bathroom Upstairs
- Bag all towels on shelves- one bag rests on the shelf and the other big one sits on the chair
- Pick up rugs
Linen Closet
- Everything gets bagged and put back on shelves
- Check all bedroom closets for extra items
- Bag extra blankets and such
Front Porch Downstairs
- Keep beds made and wrap them in plastic
- Bag and tie all chair cushions and pillows
- Unplug everything
- Lock all sliders
White Room
- Find plastic that will fit the bed and just leave it folded on bed- the hunters will use the bed
- Unplug everything
- Check the closet
- Bring tissue boxes out
Living Room
- Plastic covers for sofa, two lazy boys and push two white wicker and cover as one
- Keep plastic away from heater
- Make sure lakeside windows are locked
Pink Bathroom
- Pick up rugs and bag them
- Put towels on top of rugs
- Put a bag in the bathtub, and leave it untied for the hunters - Debbie will take care of it later
Busia’s Bedroom
- Keep the bunk beds made, and cover them like the upstairs bunks, tucking in all around
- Find plastic to fit two twins and leave them folded on made beds - Debbie will cover them after the hunters stay
- Check shelves and bag all pillows and blankets
- Put bags back on shelf
- Unplug everything
- Make sure slider is locked
Kitchen
- Clean out the lazy susan, disposing of all food in there
- Check the pantry, keeping canned goods and discarding items that will not make it to next year
- Empty the baskets on top of the fridge baskets
- Wash out the fridge
- Some stuff can stay for hunters, otherwise discard or take home the leftovers
- Check the potato bin!
Kitchen Bathroom
- Put a chair from the dining room in bathroom and put bag on it filled with towels - Debbie will cover them after the hunters stay
Other
- Clean out garage fridge - move anything that can go for hunters to the kitchen fridge
- Turn off garage fridge and freezer, and wash them
- Put a towel over the garage fridge door to prop it open
- Remove air conditioners from all windows, and put them in closets
- Keep the box fan in the dining room window and cover with plastic
- Bring all beach items in
- Collect Kleenex boxes and bag them and put them on the dining table
- Empty all garbage containers, including in the garage
- Take all returnables home.
- Plastic for futon and other sofa in garage. Lock all dining room windows and kitchen door.
- All plastic and black bags are in a gray tub in the new garage upstairs.
- You will need lots of newspaper!