tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139017677124620997.post6030286179371538310..comments2024-03-28T12:31:11.055-07:00Comments on Adventures In Keeping House: Streamlining Your HomemakingSannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08124283361844607678noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139017677124620997.post-35001008119425295112014-06-11T15:31:41.718-07:002014-06-11T15:31:41.718-07:00It's an interesting idea, about keeping people...It's an interesting idea, about keeping people preoccupied, I have never thought about it this way but it does make sense. I think in the times past people used to live in a more simple way, take children's birthdays, for instance. It used to be that children just got some cake and sandwiches and played together, nowadays people will organize elaborate theme parties complete with costumes, structured play time and stuff. Sannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08124283361844607678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139017677124620997.post-72478832084612571382014-06-11T14:01:30.113-07:002014-06-11T14:01:30.113-07:00I read or heard something interesting along the li...I read or heard something interesting along the lines of this post; that the messages coming from popular society via tv, magazine, etc is get us to be really, really, busy so that we will be so tired that we won't notice or care about the encroaching tyranny being foisted upon us. We'll just do whatever we're told and not take time to consider the implication of a thing. One needs time to concentrate and to take time for the task at hand. Remember the day of the week tea towels? Monday wash day, Tuesday Bake day, etc? Time was taken out to get these things done instead of a zillion errands and todos in a day. Back in the day there was alot to do but there was a steady pace for it.Shaolinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09111880135950533263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139017677124620997.post-30394150908786845042014-06-11T10:25:40.967-07:002014-06-11T10:25:40.967-07:00You are welcome, Maggie! I'm glad you liked th...You are welcome, Maggie! I'm glad you liked this post. When I watch old sitcoms like I Love Lucy, I notice that the homemakers weren't expected to do a hundred things at once, like now. Lucy, for instance, was a good cook, but she didn't bake her own bread and she didn't make her own clothes. In the beginning of the show, their apartment was really small and not that diffucult to clean, and they regularly ate out so that she didn't always have to cook, yet the show constantly stressed that homemaking was a real job and it was difficult. Nowadays women at home are expected to do all sorts of things like combining working in a successful home business with homeschooling 10 kids while grinding your own flour and growing your own food and what not. Things just don't work that way in real life. Sannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08124283361844607678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139017677124620997.post-68131943162957379592014-06-11T08:45:23.342-07:002014-06-11T08:45:23.342-07:00I'm 40, with a toddler, and work from home. (N...I'm 40, with a toddler, and work from home. (Not much longer as I resigned and my last day is the end of the month.) I'm already tired. Having a family AND a job is just exhausting. And bonus: living in a messy house you're just too tired to clean up beyond what absolutely needs to be done for health reasons. You're right, society (secular and Christian) keeps pushing this myth of Superwoman, and it just simply can't be achieved. I've made my choice, and I look forward to getting my house in order and back to focusing on what I can do for my family. Thank you for the post. It reinforced why I made my choice. :-)Maggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17822114942100389379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139017677124620997.post-22492717564756291142014-06-11T07:29:50.150-07:002014-06-11T07:29:50.150-07:00You are welcome, Becky! It's true, as we get o...You are welcome, Becky! It's true, as we get older our minds and bodies also need more rest, that's why the ideas of Christian feminists about recycling older women in the workplace never made much sense to me:)Sannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08124283361844607678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139017677124620997.post-30594269428081944672014-06-11T06:56:02.036-07:002014-06-11T06:56:02.036-07:00THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS. I Have learned to say ...THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS. I Have learned to say no and wish I could keep streamlining my schedule. I am 54 and getting really tired:) Asking the Lord for wisdom in this. <br />Blessing to you<br />Beckybeckyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09779906229261926165noreply@blogger.com