Compulsive Listkeepers of Yesteryear

I decided to keep a blog of the chores that need to be accomplished and the ones that have been completed daily. I know it sounds terribly boring, but it was inspired by a book I'm reading called Home Comforts. The author reminded me that, in the "old days," homekeepers would keep a journal of all of the chores that they had accomplished around the house. It was probably for the purpose of keeping track of when a certain task had been done and when it would need to be done again, but it was also probably a catharsis for my fellow compulsive list-keepers of yesteryear.

I once found a journal on a dusty shelf of an antique shop. Within the pages, the woman wrote about her daily comings and goings in the early 1930s. The majority of the pages were filled with things like, "Took down drapes and laundered them," and "scrubbed floor before J and B arrived." It was oddly appealing to me. I felt a kinship...a sisterhood with this woman, though the only things I knew we had in common were our daily home maintenance rituals.

So, if you want to know the comings and goings of my homekeeping day, if it will bring you into kinship with me in some odd way, feel free to observe. If you don't...well...