1900 House

The mother had the most difficult job in the 1900 house. This is evidenced by her continuous laboring (viz., sweeping, laundry, cooking, dressing, etc.). Eventually, she hired a maid to do the housework for her, but the laundry and cooking remained her tasks. The top two difficulties of the family during the three-month experiment were most definitely cleanliness and food. Cleanliness was hard to achieve given the options available (no hot water, no shampoo) until they …

…clothes, or anything, but they are very convenient and would prove to be useful in life in 1900. I wouldn’t have volunteered to live in the 1900 house because I wouldn’t be able to sacrifice all of our present-day conveniences. I would certainly have been unable to keep to the pact that they adhered to and I would have broken many rules of social and political etiquette. I’m simply not cut out for 1900 living.