Did anyone teach you how to keep house or did you just absorb it? I don’t remember anyone teaching me how to cook and clean, I was just surrounded by full time homemakers and I learned by watching them.
I spent a lot of time with my grandparents when I was small and always “helped” my grandmother around the house. I’m not sure she would have called it help but she let me do it anyway.
I was raised in a generation of women who were still mostly stay at home mothers. I saw women cooking, cleaning and doing laundry every day of my life. And when I grew up I wanted to be just like them.
I used to cook and clean, and then I got divorced and decided that cooking and cleaning were overrated. Yes, I still have to do them but they are not my “job” like they were for previous generations of women.
I’m trying to figure out how to teach my daughter to keep house. I’ve always cleaned the house on Saturday mornings while Hailey was sleeping so she hasn’t witnessed a lot of housework.
We are having conversations about all the things that go into keeping a house. You need to know how to clean certain things, what clothing should never be washed in hot water and how to plan a menu.
Grocery shopping is something Hailey stopped participating in as soon as she was old enough to stay home alone. Now I have to teach her how to grocery shop so that you have actual meals, not just hot Cheetos and Mountain Dew in your cabinets.
The importance of comparison shopping and how to feed yourself on a shoestring. My next few blogs will be dedicated to the basics. All the things I didn’t have time to teach while she was growing up.
What are some of the things you wish someone had taught you about keeping house?