tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80806798702667694062024-09-02T02:28:49.119-05:00Reflections of a working Homemaker who makes taking care of her husband and home her first priority.The Working HomeMakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00917589225768918149noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8080679870266769406.post-39441678463019824252006-11-24T23:20:00.000-05:002006-11-24T23:25:22.785-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/8190/986411116975923/1600/128199/husband%20and%20job.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/8190/986411116975923/320/500703/husband%20and%20job.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="photogalhdrdesc">A Career Girl's Tip Sheet posted in a 1943 issue of House Beautiful Magazine:</span><span class="photogaltitle"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="photogaltitle"><o:p> </o:p><br />DON'TS </span><br /><span class="photogaldesc">• Don't feel that housekeeping is purely a woman's job; let your husband be a partner in the maintenance of your home.</span><br /><span class="photogaldesc">• Don't plan fancy menus that take hours of preparation; eliminate the first course.</span><br /><span class="photogaldesc">• Don't have a lot of bric-a-brac around that has to be dusted.</span><br /><span class="photogaldesc">• Don't wait until things are obviously dirty to clean them; it takes less time to keep them clean than to have to do a hard and all-out job.</span><br /><span class="photogaldesc">• Don't collect potted house plants; watering them and picking up dead leaves requires too much of your precious time. Postpone this delightful hobby until you are a woman of leisure or until you can afford a gardener.</span><br /><span class="photogaldesc">• Don't set up for yourself the impossible goal that you'll keep house as perfectly as your mother did.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="photogaldesc"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="photogaltitle">DOS </span><br /><span class="photogaldesc">• Do arrange your schedule so that one whole day -- possibly Sunday -- is completely free of housework. For example, Monday night, clean the bedroom; Tuesday night, the kitchen; Wednesday night, do the laundry; Thursday night, iron, mend and darn; etc.</span><br /><span class="photogaldesc">• Do discuss this schedule with your husband and let him designate the duties -- in addition to the obvious ones like firing the furnace and sweeping sidewalks -- for which he will be responsible. Let him help with the dishes, wax the linoleum, polish the silverware (men love this little chore because the results are so obvious), keep his clothes picked up.</span><br /><span class="photogaldesc">• Do post the week's menus in a conspicuous place in the kitchen; then if your husband arrives home before you, he'll know what to start for dinner.</span></p>The Working HomeMakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00917589225768918149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8080679870266769406.post-31097611232019655182006-11-24T13:12:00.000-05:002006-11-24T13:14:21.883-05:00<a style="font-family: verdana;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/8190/986411116975923/1600/506461/businesswoman%20with%20headache.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/8190/986411116975923/320/585164/businesswoman%20with%20headache.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;">I never imagined it would be so difficult to set up this blog. I ask that you all please bear with me as I continue to add, change and move around items.</span>The Working HomeMakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00917589225768918149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8080679870266769406.post-56977429130242917122006-11-24T00:47:00.000-05:002006-11-24T12:46:58.992-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/8190/986411116975923/1600/457312/excited%20woman.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/8190/986411116975923/320/753391/excited%20woman.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >This is my very first blog entry and as I sit here at my computer the time is approaching 1am. But I am so delighted to have gotten this far. Recently, I began the quest to become a better homemaker. I've been blessed with a job that allows me to work at home 75% of the time. Since we do not have any children sometimes it can be difficult to find advice for homemakers without little ones, so I decided to create a blog to share my personal experiences of what it's like to be a working homemaker striving to be a Proverbs 31 woman.<br /></span><p><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></p>The Working HomeMakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00917589225768918149noreply@blogger.com0