Housekeeping
Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4 welcomes you and we are very happy to have you back.Can we talk about housekeeping and chores today since January was usually the time for white sales and replacing linens and towels for the household.
1. My mother ironed sheets and pillowcases. I iron the cases but not the sheets. I feel that the cases feel better after ironing and I like the fancy ruffles etc to look better. What do you do? Is ironing a waste of time for you?
I do not iron anything if I can help it. I don't recall my mother ironing sheets and pillowcases, but she did hang them on the line to dry, and they came out a lot smoother and smelled so sweet that way.
2. A few friends really enjoy ironing. Are there any articles of clothing you iron ? And do you send clothing to the dry cleaner?
I rarely ever iron anymore. If something has been hanging too long and has wrinkles, I may put it back through the dryer (after dampening it a bit), to get the wrinkles out. I no longer have many things that need to go to the dry cleaner. When my hubby was still preaching, he had suits that needed to be dry-cleaned, but he doesn't wear suits anymore except for maybe a wedding or a funeral.
3. Home is enhanced by good cooking, clean rooms, freshly made beds, quilt and the lovely touches women bring to things. What special touches do you put on your home to make it special, cozy and warm?
Click HERE for a post about the quilts in our home. I wish I could say that I made those quilts, but I've never learned to do that. I just enjoy the ones that I've accumulated through the years from family/friends/gifts. As far as special touches go, I try to keep our home cozy and comfortable and not the kind of house where people are afraid to touch anything or sit on the furniture. Our home is meant to be lived in and love in.
4. Do you recall Mom or Grandma sprinkling and ironing clothing? Was there a laundry day set aside and an ironing day? What is washday like at your house>
Yes, I do recall my mother sprinkling and ironing clothing. Thankfully I was the youngest child and I managed to escape most of that "chore". My sister did a lot of the ironing for one of her chores. (I cleaned the bathroom and dusted the house). Then I recall for a while that my mother actually took our ironing to a lady in town who did it for us to earn some money. My mother was working full time and we kids were busy in school activities, etc., and it was a big help to have the ironing done for us. I don't think she charged much or we couldn't have done it. And yes, Saturdays were laundry day. My mother would make us strip our beds and the sheets would get washed and hung on the line. Then all the other laundry would get washed and also hung on the line, until one fine day we were able to afford an electric dryer. But my mother still hung the sheets and most of the towels on the line. Of course in Florida, we would get a lot of pop up thunderstorms and we'd have to run out and get the clothes off the line right away! Those were exciting times! LOL. Washday here now is most anytime I see we need to do a load of towels and underwear, and then a load of clothes. They are washed and dryed and folded and put away as soon as possible so they don't lay there and get wrinkled! By doing smaller loads more often it doesn't become a huge job all on one day. I prefer it that way since I'm retired.
However we choose to do our laundry or clean our homes, we are to be a sweet fragrance to Christ in all that we do...
"Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the FRAGRANCE of HIS knowledge in every place.
For we are to God the FRAGRANCE of Christ
among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.
To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death,
and to the other the aroma of life leading to life.
And who is sufficient for these things?"
I pray that my home and my life will be a sweet smelling fragrance of God to those who enter in. Amen.
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This brings back memories. I remember my mom sprinkling and ironing things. She taught me to iron, doing the sprinkling method and ironing cloth handkerchiefs, the fancy kind we would take to church.
ReplyDeleteI rarely ever iron anymore, I have a steamer that works great!
I am sure it IS a nice fragrance to God. I am grateful that you joined in and really enjoyed reading your answers. I hope your day is fresh, clean and cozy!! Hugs
ReplyDeleteI've always loved the fresh smell of clean sheets hung outside. Nothing quite like it! No ironing for me, either. Have a blessed day, Pamela!
ReplyDeleteI remembering my Mom sprinkling and ironing too. I learned to iron doing dad's cloth handkerchiefs and later dad's wash pants. They were hard but it was a good learning experience. Don't remember a special day for the wash and iron. There were only the 3 of us so there wasn't huge amounts of laundry. Like the rest of you, that fragrance of clothes dried outside was delightful...oh the smell just crawling into bed...sigh.
ReplyDeleteI really don't iron any more (if I can help it). Love "Perma Press" or what ever its called nowdays.
Sue
I remember sprinkling and ironing. In fact, I still have a sprinkler that fit in the coke bottle. We always hung our sheets out to dry. I started handling that chore in high school. I love laying down after the sheets have been line dried. I do dry my sheets outdoors as often as the sunshine and warmth allows which is lot for our area. Mama loved ironing and I am a dinosaur but I love it. It is my favorite chore and so relaxing. Neither of my kids inherited that though.
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