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  1. DoraDueck
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    Maybe in our world it was stew on Thursday. 🙂

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  2. Janet
    Janet at |

    rhymes.org.uk has it like this:
    Wash on Monday,
    Iron on Tuesday,
    Bake on Wednesday,
    Brew on Thursday,
    Churn on Friday,
    Mend on Saturday,
    Go to meeting on Sunday.

    I am so glad it no longer takes a whole day to iron (or mend)! And brewing and churning are right off the list. 🙂

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  3. Maxine George
    Maxine George at |

    I cannot help but respond with a couple of comments.
    One – there was a poem that said women washed clothes on Monday, ironed on Tuesday etc. One day was for baking and another was cleaning. I’ve forgotten most of the poem now. I suppose it would come to me if I really put my mind to recalling the rest of it. I remember that the women in the town would all have their clothes out on their clotheslines early on Monday mornings.

    When you mention you mother and grandmother, Colleen, if they came from the Prairies, especially your grandmother, toilet cleaning may not have been part of the ritual. Most people who lived in the country, in those days, had outhouses. Running water was a rare luxury. I was thinking about them the other day. Many people did not even have toilet paper as we know it. They used to put last season’s catalogue out there, so people could rip out the pages as needed.

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  4. Becca
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    How funny, because I was cleaning today too and feeling might proud of myself for it 🙂
    I remember my mother cleaning EVERY darn day, though. I sure didn’t get those genes!

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