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Women in our history seemed to have had endless energy. Not only in keeping their homes but in caring for their families.
We are blessed in this day and age to have many tools of convenience making our homemaking easier, quicker, and more efficient. But what homemaking tips can we learn from these women of the past? What homemaking tools and words of wisdom have been lost in the advent of chrome and batteries? Welcome to my Vintage Homemaking discoveries. As Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe so aptly put it... "while they sympathize with every honest effort to relieve the disabilities and sufferings of (women), are confident that the chief cause of these evils is the fact that the honor and duties of the family state are not duly appreciated, that women are not trained for these duties...and that, as the consequence, family labor is poorly done, poorly paid, and regarded as menial and disgraceful."~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This month we focus on...
Vintage Summer Cleaning
Vintage Aprons
July's Homemaker's Mentor class is Closet Organization
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Days and Weeks: The Days and Weeks of a Vintage Home Schedule. Find out how vintage women organized their time.
Health, Beauty and Fashion: The beauty rituals and practices of the vintage women.
Homemaking and Housekeeping: Vintage details for a tidy home.
In the Kitchen: Recipes, Cooking, and Kitchen Keeping
Little Children: Children and Baby Care in Vintage Times
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Saturday – Baking Day
Saturday could mean any number of activities for the vintage housewife. From catching up on baking to completing even MORE laundry. Or maybe just giving the home a spiffy touch-up before Sunday’s day of rest.
“Saturday Mrs. Grundy devotes to providing
for the wants of the inner man. The heaviest part
of the day’s work is the preparation [...]
Advice for the Vintage Wedding Invitation
What bride does not think long and hard when it comes to the designs of her wedding invitations. Today the choices for invitations are so numerous I think it would be most difficult to come to a decision. Only 13 years ago when planning my own nuptuals I felt dismay as to whether to have [...]
A Wedding Dress for the Vintage Bride
It is lovely add a vintage touch to your wedding. One may wonder what the styles and traditions of certain eras were. Here we touch on the Vintage Wedding Dress
Prairie Bride: The vintage woman most often wore, not a creation of white but, her best dress, for her wedding. This dress was put into continued [...]
A Bit On Mother’s Day
Ah Mother’s Day! Proclaimed for national observance on May 8, 1914 by United States President Woodrow Wilson Mother’s Day evolved to a holiday to be celebrated annually on the second Sunday in May.
What was begun by Julia Ward Howe as a call to mother’s to work for the peace their son’s had fought for in [...]
Friday – General Cleaning Day
In this modern era many choose to clean their homes in one fell sweep on Saturday morning. In many Vintage homekeeping schedules Friday was reserved as a day for cleaning up around the home…
Friday, sweeping, and window cleaning.
~ Progressive Housekeeping
Friday is devoted to sweeping and house-cleaning.
~American Woman’s Home
What tools do we need? A cleaning equipment [...]
