Evening star., 1954-01-03
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"a. D. S., GninesUilleJ

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Ed. Note: One Of the most
popular items to appear In
RICH last year was the follow
ing schedule" We have had
SO many requests for . reprint
that we are Offering II again.
From the number Of moth
ers who write requesting
household schedules and the
great many replies. ! deduce
that mine Is not the only hus-
band who insists that q wor1-
ans work would get done II
she'd only organize.
Well, fellow child-raisers.
take heart-you have a 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. go over the
list and heller skelter delete
at least so items. preferably
those which can't be accom-
plished 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 tal-
ways leave time for beauty
Sleep).
Start the next morning by
getting up, clean up the un-
holy 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 breakfast. read them q
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. answer the telephone,
pick up the glass baby broke
while you were talking. burn
the papers. go see drawing
sister made. explain to junior
where the moon goes in the
morning, go, erase sisters
drawing of the wallpaper. 60
see little sister playing boat.
put some clothes in the wash
er. go wash the marks out Of
bathtub sister was playing
boat in. put the other kids
clothes back on. change dia-
pers. fix baby a bottle. tell
brother to keep out of the
-four tin. start on breakfast
dishes, sweep -four Of the
floor. start lunch. answer door.
get all the kids back in the
house. take wet shoes on. put
burned lunch food in the gar
bage, make sandwiches, feed
kids. whip out schedule and re-
wise list. Take the 80 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 neces-
sary. 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 to bed. lock their
doors, come down and finish
dishes, empty garbage: time
for kids to get up; sister has
splotches. probably measles.
put her back to bed, dress
other kids, brush their hair,
change baby, play with baby
briefly. go turn shower of,
take off brothers wet clothes,
put on dry, take soap away
from baby. make brother re-
turn sisters doll. give sick one
aspirin, yank covers up over
beds, start dinner. everybody
eat. clean up what wasn't
eaten of the floor, feed dog,
put kids shoes back on, settle
current disputes. take husband
newspaper, glance at head
lines, borrow husbands belt
and announce bedtime to chill
dren. drag upstairs, wash
them. scrub their teeth. un-
dress. put on p. Us, listen to
prayers. depart. come down
and get schedule. Delete first
$50 items entirely. If you're
quick you'll get two or three of
the remaining fifty items An
ished by curfew. Don't worry
about all you didn't get done