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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...
Care and Management of a Linen Cupboard
Autumn Cleaning
August's Homemaker's Mentor class is Caring for Your Cast Iron Cookware
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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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Vintage Housekeeping Time Savers
From the 19th into the early 20th century the ever increasing number of middle class housewives found that having a “systematic” way with housekeeping details made for more leisure time for the housewife. “Orderly, systematic work is the great time-saver in housekeeping, as is every other vocation in life. A written programme, of which the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
