I Like it Deep - My Cleaning, That Is

So, I've found this list of deep cleaning activities from The 50s Housewife Project, and it seems a good place to start.

MONDAY
Do a deep cleaning of the kitchen, living room, and dining room.  In the kitchen the appliances were thoroughly cleaned every week.  That's the stove, refrigerator, and any small appliances like the toaster.  Windows were washed in all the rooms and the floors were scrubbed spotless.  She would also do a thorough dusting in each room and replace any fresh flowers in the home

TUESDAY
Deep clean the bedrooms and bathrooms.  Bed linens should be laundered twice a week and the floors in the bedrooms should be vacuumed on the same schedule, windows should be washed, bathroom floors scrubbed, and bathroom fixtures polished with metal polish, bath tubs and toilets were to be scrubbed and disinfected.  Garbage pails were also scrubbed and disinfected.

WEDNESDAY
This day would be a kind of errand day.  She would go do the grocery shopping, go to the post office or library.  Anywhere she needed to go that week.  After returning home and putting away the groceries she had the rest of the day to do the mending or any sewing.

THURSDAY
Wash clothes.  Not everyone had an automatic washer so many 50's housewives still had to do this by hand.  It was an all day chore.

FRIDAY
The day after wash day was always dedicated to ironing.  She ironed everything, right down to underwear.  Table linens and sheets were also ironed.  This was another all day chore.

SATURDAY
Saturdays were for finishing up any loose ends from the week before and doing any preparations for your big Sunday dinner.

SUNDAY
Usually this was a day of rest.  The only tasks for the day would be a shorter version of the every day chore list and to prepare a lavish Sunday dinner.

Now, I can tell already that this isn't the exact format I'm going to stick to. We never iron, for starters, and I have no intention of starting now. We have a clothes steamer, and we use it only as it is genuinely needed. Mama ain't ironing at this time of her life. I'm sure I'll find a way to fill time on Fridays, though. Nature abhors a vacuum and all.