Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-16
HOW 1T REALLY is.

Ed. Note: RICH has received
such an overwhelming num-
Der of requests for a reprint
of the following Schedule.
we are offering it again for
those who failed to see or clip
1t when it first appeared.
From the number of moth
ers who write RICH requesting
household schedules and the
great many replies, I deduce
that mine is not the only hus-
band who insists a woman's'
work would get done if she'd
only organize.
Well, fellow child raisers.
take heart-you have sched-
ule. I've been keeping house,
mid sundry other activities,
for seven years now and had
a schedule every single day!
Here's how-about midnight,
when you're almost through
for the day. sit down and
make a list of what you
ought to do tomorrow. Next.
20 over the list and heller
skelter delete at least fifty
items, preferably those that
can't be accomplished in less
than an hour per. Take the
remaining one or two hundred
and schedule one chore every
five minutes starting at 6 am.
and ending no later than IL
at night always leave time for
beauty sleep.
Start the next am. by get
ting up. clean up the unholy
squalor the kids created before
you arose, dress the kids.
throw something on yourself.
make breakfast, feed the baby.
eat, settle four or five disputes,
of the children during break
fast, read them a story to
quiet them down, play with
the baby, put the kids shoes
back on, comb girls hair. feed
the dog, administer nose drops
to children needing same, an
swer the telephone. pick up
the glass baby broke while you
were talking, burn the papers.
20 see drawing sister made.
explain to Junior where the
moon goes in the morning, go
erase sisters drawing off the
wallpaper. go see little sister
playing boat. stick some
clothes in washer. go wash
shoe marks out of bathtub
sister was playing boat in. put
the other kids clothes back on.
change diapers. fix baby a
bottle. tell brother to keep out
of flour tin, start on breakfast
. dishes, sweep flour of the
floor, start lunch, answer door,
get all the kids back in the
house, take wet shoes of, put
burned lunch food in garbage.
make sandwiches, feed kids
whip out schedule and revise
list. Take the eighty or so
items you never got to and put
them on the afternoon sched-
ule. Any one knows you can
get a lot done when the kids
are asleep.
Tell kids time for nap, get
hairbrush and repeat informa-
ton; explain why nap is nee
essary, put in bed. Come down.
stairs and breathe sigh of re-
lief go up and put kids in
bed, come down and start on
lunch dishes, go up and put
kids back in bed, lock their
doors, come down and finish
dishes, empty garbage; time
for kids to get ups sister has
splotches, probably measles.
put her back to bed, dress
'other kids, brush their hair.
change baby. play with baby
briefly, 60 turn shower off, take
off brothers wet clothes, put
on dry, take soap away from
baby, make brother return Sis
ter's doll, give sick one aspirin.
yank covers up over beds and
start dinner, everybody eat,
clean up what wasn't eaten
of the floor. feed dog, put kids
shoes back on. settle cur
rent disputes, start on dinner
dishes, take husband news
paper. glance at headlines, bor-
row husbands belt and an
nounce bed time to children,
drag up stairs, wash them.
scrub their teeth, undress, put
on PTS. listen to prayers. de-
part, come down and get sched-
ule. Delete first $50 items en-
tirely. If you're quick you'll
get two or three of the remain
ing so items finished by cur
few. Don't worry about all
you didn't get done-Just put
them on tomorrow's schedule.
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