Housekeeping on a Homestead
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What Does A HomesteadDo To
Housekeeping?
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It makes a big difference in your housekeeping when you
have a homestead. When I lived in the city I had no
interest whatsoever in housework except for learning to
cook elegant meals. I became so bored with apartment
housekeeping I found a job in a large New York City
department store. And did I add anything to Ed's and my
security? I did not - for it took practically all my salary
to provide adequate clothes for my job, lunches, bus fares,
a part-time maid and other incidentals. Now that I am a
partner on a homestead, housekeeping is just the routine
part of a bigger job - not the be-all, end-all of my
existence.
Of course you have much more to do on a country place than
in the city. But these new jobs are stimulating, creative
and varied. Think of the satisfaction of having a freezer
stuffed with luscious food you helped raise yourself.
Imagine your canning shelves laden with full, glistening
jars - your handiwork.
And you can do all sorts of other things: separate milk to
get heavy cream, make scrapple, make cheese, extract honey
from the combs, (this is a 3-ring circus of fun!) and serve
dinners of "home-raised" products that guests really
appreciate!
There are also many pleasurable activities outdoors. The
pigeons, geese and ducks, and all the new born goats can be
your special projects. You'll help with the garden, have
herbs and all the beautiful flowers you want. Someone has
said, "He who lives with the land has innumerable
professions." He is, for example veterinarian, farmer,
gardener, animal husbandman, chemist, accountant, manager,
weatherman, machinist and so on. That is equally true for
the wife who shares homesteading activities.
Once you get started doing and making things for yourself
you'll probably want to do even more - do more sewing for
your housemake your own Christmas presents (we're raising
popcorn this year for little remembrances) maybe even make
some rugs or do weaving. You can also raise or make things
for sale. Life will become a question of how can you do all
that you want to do.
Because a homestead offers a woman an unlimited field of
creative activities, it removes the complaints against
housekeeping.
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