So, I haven’t managed my “daily” updates for a couple of days. I’m not doing too bad with the 1950s Mom Routine — but I am also falling asleep at 9:30 every night and have no brain waves for my updates in the evening. Anyway, I am going to squish my updates together and get […]
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A lot of you have probably seen this list of daily housekeeping tasks for a 1950s housewife. It looks like a lot. It is a lot, especially when it is all laid out, step by step. But then, even though it is a lot, it is still just for newlyweds and couples with no children.
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Happy July! Today seems like an excellent day to announce my new half-year project — The 1950s Pregnant Housewife Experiment! What is a 1950s Housewife Experiment? A 1950s Housewife Experiment is choosing to live, dress, cook, and do housework like a vintage housewife for a set amount of time. I have loved the 1950s Housewife
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Welcome to summer! Even though we homeschool, I don’t do school year-round. My kids have a summer break from June 1 to August 31. They spend all summer unscheduled and unplugged, doing our Summer Challenge. What is an Old-Fashioned Summer? So what is an old-fashioned summer? I’ve also seen it called vintage summer, 80s summer,
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Way back in the 1950s, women couldn’t turn to YouTube for tips on beauty, cleaning the house, or marriage. Of course, this also gave them more time to actually practice the advice that they found in books and on the radio. Often, their skill at homemaking came from the enduring, daily practice they had at getting things done . . . Here are 8 of the best things you can do to level up your housewifery.
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Housekeeping is a real job — and it is a job that will quickly take over your whole life if you let it. Without organization, housework can quickly become mind-numbing, repetitive drudgery. The same tasks will keep building up and can prove to be quite daunting if left unchecked. The best way to keep your
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The subject of minimalism is hot these days. We have never been inundated with so much inexpensive stuff. We have never been so bombarded with marketing that promises to make us feel better about our lives. Even in the Populuxe heyday, the mid-century era of Mad Men, we did not have as much stuff to buy,
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