We’ve covered baby’s layette, and the housewife wardrobe, so now we are going to talk about older children’s clothes! Here is a basic vintage school wardrobe for children, which you can use to form a capsule wardrobe to simplify laundry. A capsule wardrobe is also an excellent way to teach your children about style and …
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Today was living-rooms-and-dining-room day. I also did the kitchen, even though we aren’t going shopping this week. We’ve been extending the time between shopping trips to 2-3 weeks, rather than every week during the stay-at-home order. Going to the store so rarely makes me wish for daily milk deliveries! It’s the only thing I keep …
Before you can start cleaning your house properly, you need a cleaning basket. Now, obviously, the cleaning basket is just part of the vintage cleaning closet. The closet also contains other essential equipment and materials. But the cleaning basket is a real timesaver, and one of those vintage housekeeping secrets that helps the ’50s housewife …
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Today is bedrooms-and-bathrooms day! I have to do a serious cleaning of the bathrooms every day. 10 of us using 1 bathroom is . . . a lot. I am so glad that I found the vintage cleaning routines. Every day I follow the routines and my bathroom never gets out of hand. I don’t …
Today was an odd-jobs sort of day. I spent the day scaling patterns to the correct size, so that I can cut out and sew some clothes from vintage patterns. Sewing makes me happy! I tried to make a cheese souffle for the first time today. Not a success. I need an oven thermometer. And …
One of the defining features of being a mid-century housewife was babies. You married, expecting to have babies. And when they came along, you raised them right. So what kind of clothes and furniture did the proper ’50s housewife have for her baby? What was in the vintage baby layette? Things to Have Ready For …
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Tuesday. Today I tackled ironing. I don’t actually have very much that needs ironing. I iron my husband’s good shirts, but not the ones he wears while working. When I finish my new cotton housedresses, they’ll need ironing. I am also trying to get all of my kids to wear more wovens, and fewer knits …
I see a lot of people who wonder how to build a vintage capsule wardrobe. Here, I am showing how to design a ’50s housewife capsule wardrobe. This is going to be a slightly different capsule than, say, a 50s college girl would have had. But it does show what was considered an adequate basic …
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It’s Monday! That means laundry day today. It’s hot here now. We were frost-free about a month earlier than normal. Ordinarily, we’d still be expecting a frost. Not this year. And it’s hot and dry enough that my laundry is done in half the time that it usually takes! I’m expecting a long, hot summer. …
A schedule is the best way to manage your housework. Housework is, after all, a real job, and needs good management, or you’ll end up a workaholic housewife. If you want to plan your housework, you need to make a schedule, especially if you are caring for young children or an elderly parent. Some housewives …
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