Vintage Organizing
Wednesday
We know that Monday was laundry day and Tuesday was ironing day but what took place in the vintage home on Wednedsay?
Although it seems that it was common advice for a homemaker in time’s past to have a set day for doing a particular household task. Just what task to do on what day most [...]
The Daily Details of a Vintage Weekly Schedule
The art of scheduling the days within your week was fine tuned long before I was born. Planning the steps of your day leaves little undone. This extremely detailed workweek from an early 20th century housewife did include rest periods which are important for well being.
Examples Of Schedules
While, as was said, it is not [...]
The Weekly Cares of Home – Vintage Weekly Home Chores
Forgive me for yet another post about the Vintage (mostly Victorian) woman’s weekly chores schedule.
This choice tidbit is found in Catherine and Harriet (Stowe) Beecher’s American Woman’s Home…
Monday, with some of the best housekeepers, is devoted to preparing for the labors of the week. Any extra cooking, the purchasing of articles to be used during [...]
Vintage Weekly Schedule
These days we find great interest in the fact that women of time’s past had specific home duties they did on specific days. It’s really ingenious if you think about it. Something about applying a rhythm to your homekeeping duties not only brings order to your days but a connection to the past.
Here are a [...]
Vintage Daily Homemaking Schedule
from The New Housekeeping Efficiency Studies in Home Management
1912,1913
(take with a grain of salt and do try to remember she did not have the internet, television, or mommy play groups)
Rise 6:30 o’clock.
Breakfast 7 o’clock.
Dress little boy; scrape and carry dishes to kitchen; air beds. Baby’s bath,
7:30 A. M.; the baby naps from 9 to 10 [...]
Smoothing out the Wrinkles – Tuesday Ironing Day
Box Irons Heated Internally by Patent Artificial Fuel
Today most of our clothing is wash and wear, wrinkle free, or dry clean only. In the past Tuesday was the day to take all that was washed up on Monday and iron it to a becoming crispness. There was no benefit of wrinkle free fabrics in [...]
Monday Laundry Day
Monday – Wash Day
First let me go and give my washer and dryer a hug…
During the 19th and the early part of the 20th century Monday was known as washday or Blue Monday. Without the benefit of a washing machine, running water, hot water and ’stain lifters’, this meant time consuming duties such as lugging [...]
