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The Accidental Housewife: How to Overcome Housekeeping Hysteria One Task at a Time

HOUSEKEEPING 101

Accidental Housewife (n): an individual who manages the household unexpectedly, unintentionally, by default, or by chance, with minimal skills, a glass of wine, and little interest in mastering her/his domain.

Once upon a time lived the 1950s housewife who joyfully followed her domestic duties. Today’s housewife is anything but traditional, yet some things never change: mounting laundry, accumulating dust, looming clutter, and the refrain, “What’s for dinner?” Now Julie Edelman, the go-to gal for entertaining and practical household tips and trends, turns these mundane chores into fun and easy tasks. Offering real life advice and simple solutions, Julie helps you

• tidy up with the faucet to floor facelift: a stress-free way to clean with minimum effort to achieve maximum effect, as you dance with dust bunnies and indulge in a bit of pampering along the way
• conquer PMS (Pretty Manageable Stains): learn how to painlessly deal with the most common stains using everything from industrial products to everyday items such as hairspray, shaving cream, and ice cubes
• practice feng shui my way: harmonize chaos and clutter and get chi (energized) in the process, courtesy of coffee
• follow a food and mood planner: uncover innovative ways to balance your family’s nutritional needs with your desire to let them eat cake

Inside, you’ll also find Burn This: Housewifely Calorie Counter (you can lose weight vacuuming and lifting loads of laundry) and HI Q (Housewife Intelligence Quotient) tests to measure your housewifely expertise. So drop that mop and grab a latte . . . hassle-free help is at your fingertips!

Visit the author's website at www.theaccidentalhousewife.com

1960s style - headscarf worn turban fashion - a style that came into its own during WW2 and indeed was, I believe, recommended by the Government, as being the most efficient way of keeping hair (long hair was fashionable) cleanish and out of the way of machinery in factories,

The beehive hairstyle of the 1960s was probably the biggest factor leading to the demise of this style, together with the introduction of hygene hats, snoods etc. and a generally cleaner and less dangerous working environment.

The fag danglling from the lips was a common sight when smoking at work was allowed.

The nylon overall is made in celon - the British Celanese company's answer to bri-nylon. Brinylon or bri-nylon, spelling varied a lot, was the market leader. Brinylon was made by British Nylon Spinners.

Many women wore a belt as a fashion item rather than for any practical purpose - although an overall large enough to be worn over winter clothing would have been a bit baggy at the waist when worn over summer slothes (or no clothes at all!) so gathering the waist in with a belt would have avoided snagging on hazards.

Almost every working class woman (it was still OK to talk about social classes in the 1960s) in the country wore a black skirt quite frequently and these got cascaded down from best wear to second best to casual to workwear. My working class wife who had got promoted a bit at work and considered herself middle class refued to wear a black skirt on the basis they were "common" - another concept that has disappeared. "Common" people lived in "council estates" and had all sorts of other labels attached to them through no fault of their own. They were, after all, the backbone of industrial Britain and the "salt of the earth". More outdated concepts.

Rubber gloves, especially heavy duty ones such as those depicted, were only just coming into common usage. The art of coating the insides of gloves had not been perfected then so rubber gloves were sweaty and uncomfortable to wear and could make hands more sore than working without them. In fact working people's hands were generally rough in those days - even my mother's hands were coarsened simply from housework and vegetable preparation etc and she didn't work outside the home.

I am not sure how authentic the tights are. I suspect most charwomen worken bare legs or Nora Batty style crinkly stockings!

Mules have been popular footwear for eons, so I reckon those are OK.

The galvanised mop bucket is really only just being replaced by a plastic type. Earlier plastics were probably a bit too brittle. Mop buckets, by and large, have a tougher life that 'ordinary' buckets.

The broom, of course, is timeless in many ways although wooden handled versions are, I tink, disappearing fast.

IBERIA:
From Madrid to London:
Way out - subsidized by the Spanish Government
Way back - with no hopes left.

Terms of arrival:
- Ignorance of the English language (due to the horrible education system in Spain)
- Will to work (in the kitchen, of course)
- University degree (not worth a penny)
- Mandatory luggage: serrano ham, rubber gloves and scouring pad to clean up, and "rentokill" for beg bugs

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