Chinese New Year: Part 1

According to a website I was reading about the Chinese New Year, we are supposed to have cleaned our house from top to bottom before the first day of the New Year -- we are talking about the Chinese New Year.  Doing this is said to ward off any bad luck from the previous year and prepare our homes to accept the good luck for the upcoming year.  So does it count if I am cleaning today?  Probably not, but it's worth a try.  This cleaning of your home before the new year is supposed that there is no chance of throwing away your good fortune.  Wearing black today is also very bad.  It is associated with death.  Guess I need to go change my sports bra now.  *sigh*  Wear red as it is the color associated with warding off the bad spirits.  Well, guess, I'd better get busy!