14 {REALISTIC} Homemaking Habits from GRANDMA you might not like, but you NEED to be doing!

I'm a grandma, and I still do all these things. My mother, too.

Grandma didn't have a job outside her home. She had time to keep a neater, cleaner home and always cook from scratch.

Handwriting dishes is faster and easier. Smart homemakers realize this. Wash as you work. ❤ Done and ready.

I find hand washing dishes so satisfying. I don't even use dishwasher ever.

i do every one of these things naturally, I guess I'm just like grandma!

My mother did. I should say. I'm 73 now. I remember my mom used a scub borad until my dad bought her a wringer washer. She never had a dryer, always hung on the line. We had a very clean house. My mom scrub on her hands and knees. There were for of us kids.

I ,too, am a grandma. And I too keep my home neat snd tidy.

Memories of my grandma (who experienced Great Depression) never played with me stood in kitchen and did the things in video. My mom born in 1933 lived in kitchen etc. also spent a lot of time doing what is in video. I chose a balanced life, I cooked simple healthy meals from scratch for the majority of time, but my children and my grandchildren actually have memories of a lot of games, zoos,walks, drawing, swimming, cooking out, evening fires etc. I chose to be remembered as being present. Times change-the male computer generated voice didn’t glorify Grandpa’s life without weed eater, lawn service, garage door opener, remote control etc. Often we romanticize the past without remembering the cost.

This is just life in the UK. We have tiny houses. we do not have laundry rooms. tiny kitchens, means,no space for a dish washer, and ur lucky if you can fit a washing machine in your kitchen. defo no space for a dryer. so we go to the laundrette, wash dishes by hand, and put our clothes to dry on the line.

Just perfect and the older I get the more I appreciate. I just subscribed.

Are you talking about country grandma or city grandma? They are not the same grandma.

All this is a way of life . Taught by my parents and I’ve passed these beliefs to my kids and grandkids to promote social and economic well being .

On your handwashing dishes tip. As a Registered Nurse who took microbiology we did an experiment where people brought their forks from home. Some students used dishwashers, some washed by hand and the results when we streaked a plate of agar agar and incubated it for 48 hours to assess bacterial growth were: the hand washed forks results were covered with a hairy growth that filled the specimen plate. As opposed to the dishwasher forks Which had negligible or no growth. You pick.

Finished planting our garden today, except for a couple herbs.

Yes, This was my family style. Still is.

This was definitely true of my grandma.

In our apt, the dishwasher ran all it's cycles for two hours. Where is the savings on water and electricity in that? Washing by hand less than 20 to 30 minutes. Wash as you cook.

Line drying is great when your picky landlord is too busy to snoop around. Laundry takes electricity so does cooking. Because we have the highest electricity costs in the country, it is costly to cook and using the oven is off the charts.

Grandma held a standard.She demanded and received quality and service.Shopkeepers and repairmen respected her .No floorwalker at Macy or any football field sized store ever send her wandering on a quest.She knew her budget down to the penny so salesmen had to romance her with manners,patience and a decent useful product.She had a job.She belonged to a union of housekeepers that knew their profession and held the line that we now suffer from the loss of.

Grandma certsinly saw homemaking as a full-time job.