Our grandmothers didn’t spend their weekends drowning in housework — because they had systems that kept things from piling up in the first place. In this video, I’m breaking down the forgotten housewife cleaning routines that actually worked better than most of what we’re doing today.
What I’m covering:
– The old-fashioned weekly cleaning schedule (Monday–Sunday) that eliminates decision fatigue
– The “never walk away empty-handed” rule that stops clutter before it starts
– The Big Five cleaning ingredients our foremothers used for everything — white vinegar, baking soda, bar soap, ammonia, and lemons
– The clean-as-you-go mentality that keeps small messes from becoming big disasters
– Why owning less (and knowing your neighbors) actually made homes easier to run
This isn’t about going back to 1940. It’s about recapturing the intentionality and the systems that made home feel like a place of peace — not a to-do list with walls.
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yep. I’m focusing on weekly and monthly to do lists for this type of stuff. 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿I would work Shabbos would be my version of Sunday.✡️🧿✡️🧿✡️🧿✡️🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
an example of monthly would be to scour the inside of cabinets and drawers everywhere. Especially in the kitchen and bathroom. .🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿I’m determined to have these routines sink in swiftly. Especially with Saturn retrograde here, it’s the best tune for something like this svd yes, in my sidereal chart this type of thing is very much present and also on my tropical chart. Even more on my sidereal chart. Virgo midheaven in sidereal astrology issues. Also in sidereal astrology very much related to this is my sixth house Aries stellium including Aries Sun and south node in the sixth house in sidereal astrology. Theres more than this though but it’s a main thing with this type of energy in my sidereal chart. 🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿
you can see the challenges astrologically though in the placements I mentioned being the midheaven and south node. It’s a thing I’m determined to get familiar with again to the past life level. And yep. Musical vocals are in my south node in tropical astrology. Venus in Aries in my fourth house trine Neptune in Sagittarius in my first house. Same determination about south node strength with that as well. It’s not exactly a south iidd thing in sidereal but close to it. As I explained before about that a few tubes I throughout this blog. 🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿
I’m starting to incorporate new moon water into the cleaning routine as well. Especially craning shelves, etc. 🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿