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Wed, 28 Jul 1999 13:57:02 +0100
Hiya Loonies...
Here's everything you needed to know about housework...
Wishes & Dreams...
- ANDREA
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How to do your Housework (from Home Management, 1934):
"Daily Work -
l. Open bedroom windows top and bottom; strip the beds and leave them
open to air.
2. Light the fire in the dining-room; brush the grate; clean the
hearth; sweep and dust the room.
3. Clean shoes, if they have not been done overnight.
4. Sweep and dust porch; wash steps if necessary.
5. Clean the brass, if there is any, on the front door.
6. Lay breakfast and prepare it.
7. After the meal is finished, clear the breakfast things.
8. Tidy the living-room.
9. Wash up breakfast things.
10. Make the beds.
Take up rugs and shake in garden. The rugs go back upstairs, together
with carpet sweeper and mop, short broom and dustpan, and three dusters,
one dark one for the hearths and two for dusting furniture.
Sweep up the fluff from under the beds and all the pieces from the
floors; wipe round with a damp cloth every other day, dust the room and
the fireplace and put rugs back down, leaving the rooms quite fresh and
neat. Do this in all the bedrooms.
Then sweep down the stairs, dust the handrail, wainscot and the sides of
the stairs.
The drawing- or sitting-room shoud be made tidy and dusted, and any
special work for the day be done.
Preparation for the dinner must now be attended to, and laying the
table.
After dinner comes the washing up, and the scullery must be tidied, the
fire made up, and the hearth swept.
The principal part of the day's work being done, the housewife will be
able to change her dress before tea, and when the tea-things are cleared
away there will be shopping to be done for the next day, unless she
managed this in the morning.
At dusk the bedclothes should be turned down, windows partly closed and
blinds drawn, children bathed and put to bed, supper prepared, cleared
away, and some preparation made for the morning.
The great thing in home-making is to consider the comfort and welfare of
the inmates, and to do one's very best to promote their happiness and
well-being.
Weekly Work:
Monday - General preparation for washing clothes; sort, mend and put to
soak; fill copper; make starch.
Prepare, or cook dinner for Tuesday to save time.
Clean sitting room or drawing room.
Tuesday - Wash and put clothes in copper to boil. When washing finished,
clean scullery. Dry clothes and fold.
Wednesday - Ironing, airing, and baking cakes or bread.
Thursday - Clean two bedrooms, stairs and landing.
Stair rods to be brightened every week, where no vacuum cleaner stair
carpets to be taken up once a month and stairs well scrubbed.
Friday - Clean small bedroom or bathroom alternate weeks, dining-room.
Polish silver and bright articles and windows.
Saturday - Passage, pantry, kitchen, scullery, yards and any
preparations to lighten the work for Sunday.
When the washing is done every other week more time will be left for
extra house-cleaning, such as scrubbing the stairs, etc.
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