Whether you have plans today or are just staying in. May your Saturday be an awesome one. Stay safe, keep warm. Peace!

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Would you guys like me to give you household tips everyday? Because I have a lot of books on the subject and I have done many experiments over the years. My mum and dad were cleaners in past lives. We call cobwebs “Christmas decorations”.

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      1 year ago

      Yea please. Bonus points if you also include some crack/snake oil historical ones or dumb misogynistic household tips from the 50s.

      • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
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        1 year ago

        “Take a moment before your husband is due to arrive home from work to freshen yourself up” said the generation that had real cocaine in their coke.

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          1 year ago

          Well now I know why my brilliance has been foiled and my accomplishments tarnished

          Why didn’t anyone tell me that to be useful to the church and society, I just had to iron Mr Omoikiri’s shirts?

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            1 year ago

            You are a blemish in your garments!

            A phrase I have never heard before, am not sure exactly what it means, but it certainly sounds bad.

      • Catfish@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        I’ve got a book that recommends doing your hair and putting on lipstick before sewing

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              Wunnderful! Does it include making pot scourers from the combings of horsehair from the horse that pulls the family carriage? And using cabbage leaves to clean the toilet (thunderbox style)? I have a copy of the 1898 edition of Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management, which contains useful advice on hiring a butler. And housemaids. I could use both but the supply is very limited rn.

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                  Yep. Only a MUCH older edition. The recipies are about half of it. The rest is ‘household management’. Including how to clean carpets without a vacuum, and how to prepare a bedroom suite for guests of ducal rank. Used tea leaves are involved for the carpets. And guests of ducal rank expect a tin of biscuits on the mantelpiece in case they get the munchies during the night. And fresh sealing wax in the escritoire. Makes one wonder a bit what the Gs of DR were getting up to on the preceding evening.

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      1 year ago

      Absolutely! Like u/anotherspringchicken if it can’t be solved with bicarb soda, vinegar or gaffer tape, I’m SOL.

    • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      Yes please! My repertoire extends to bicarb soda and gaffer, and if things can’t be cleaned or fixed with either of those I’m out of ideas