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		<title>Saturday &#8211; Baking Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s day of rest.
&#8220;Saturday Mrs. Grundy devotes to providing
for the wants of the inner man. The heaviest part
of the day&#8217;s work is the preparation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage-homemaking.info/2010/07/saturday-baking-day/</link>
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		<title>Advice for the Vintage Wedding Invitation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage-homemaking.info/2010/06/vintage-wedding-invitations/</link>
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		<title>A Wedding Dress for the Vintage Bride</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage-homemaking.info/2010/05/a-wedding-dress-for-the-vintage-bride/</link>
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		<title>A Bit On Mother&#8217;s Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah Mother’s Day! Proclaimed for national observance on May 8, 1914 by United States President Woodrow Wilson Mother&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage-homemaking.info/2010/04/a-bit-on-mothers-day/</link>
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		<title>Friday &#8211; General Cleaning Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8230;

Friday, sweeping, and window cleaning.
~ Progressive Housekeeping
Friday is devoted to sweeping and house-cleaning.
~American Woman&#8217;s Home
What tools do we need? A cleaning equipment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage-homemaking.info/2010/04/friday-general-cleaning-day/</link>
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		<title>Thursday in the Vintage Home &#8211; To Market To Market&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Depending up on the era the Vintage Housekeeper&#8217;s Thursday was either a general catch all day for homekeeping chores or the day to head to town and do the marketing.
Very few housekeepers understand how to select meats wisely or how to buy economically. Most trust the butcher, or buy at hap-hazard, with no clear understanding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage-homemaking.info/2010/03/thursday-in-the-vintage-to-market/</link>
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		<title>The Ice Box &#8211; Pre Refrigerator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the period before refrigerators were available households kept perishables cool by using an ice box. Usually a wooden box that was lined with zinc and other insulating materials the ice box was the smaller, less efficient, ancestor of our refrigerator.
Ice for the ice box was supplied by the iceman who delivered it through neighborhoods [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage-homemaking.info/2010/03/the-ice-box-pre-refrigerator/</link>
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		<title>Wednesday&#8217;s Duties &#8211; Mending</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s past to have a set day for doing a particular household task. Just what task to do on what day most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage-homemaking.info/2010/02/wednesday/</link>
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		<title>Grocery Shopping in History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine if your refrigerator was gone. If you had to grocery shop for fresh meat pretty much when you needed it because frozen meat, and vacuum sealed were unheard of. And if you had never heard of tacos!
Such was life before the industrial revolution.  Well during too but it was the inventions coming about during [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage-homemaking.info/2010/02/grocery-shopping-in-history/</link>
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		<title>Victorian Paper Dolls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paper dolls have been around as long as paper. A simple way to keep children occupied the child could not only color the doll and outfits but take her hand at drawing her in the first place.
In the Little House on the Prairie books we hear Laura mention her mother making outfits for Mary and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage-homemaking.info/2010/02/victorian-paper-dolls/</link>
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