Sankalpam for puja daily updates

Preparation for Daily Puja Removing the flowers of yesterday's puja. Weekly once clean the idols with water and put chandan and kumkum.  If you have picture frame clean  with damp cloth and then with dry cloth and put chandan and kumkum.  Put chandan and kumkum on the lamp also.Usually people lamp clean idols/photo frame and brass, copper utensils or steel and plastic plates on Thursday night.  But can be done on any convenient day. Clean the plates and panchapatra udhrini daily Try to buy flowers in the morning if possible.  Flowers need not be washed. But the leaves – dhurba grass, vilva leaves and tulsi leaves have to be washed and drained as they might have accumulated dust.  Life of flowers are short and some may wither in the evening itself.  In the dhurba grass keep the top three and remove the bottom blades.  Slight bend the top blade then you will find one pointed blade will be there (sometimes it will not be present also). With little pressure pull it out.    In