Game-changing task

Get a handy child to do it!

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Everything in the housewife’s day gets easier if this one task is taken care of early on, and it doesn’t even have to be done by you.

Unload the dishwasher (or put away the clean items in the dish drainer if you don’t have a dishwasher) first thing in the morning and before any kitchen work starts throughout the day.

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It’s just too, too paralyzing in a busy household to have all the clean things still hanging out while meals are being eaten and another round of dishes is coming at you.

A child (or several children! when my kids were young, I had three on this task!) knows where things go and can get the job done swiftly — and then breakfast can commence, or dinner prep, or canning, or whatever it is that needs to happen.

Don’t start without first unloading and putting the clean things away!

As with everything here at the SFH, the best thing is for you to take my ideas, which come from my experience of escaping feminism to enjoy the gift of 45 years of marriage, seven children, and more than a score of grandchildren, and apply them to your situation with discernment, prudence, and confidence — and a sense of humor!

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My book on how to live with the Liturgical Year: The Little Oratory