Leila Marie Lawler

Writer at The School for Housewives

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Protect your flexibility

1 week ago | schoolforhousewives.substack.com | Leila Marie Lawler

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. The housewife’s availability is her secret to the entire household’s prosperity — even to that of her husband. I don’t mean financial prosperity necessarily, but rather all the good things that come out of having a full and fruitful life. It’s hard to achieve it without someone at the heart of it who is ready and free to meet expected and unexpected needs.
A pause to remember what we're doing here

1 week ago | schoolforhousewives.substack.com | Leila Marie Lawler

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Greetings, new subscribers! So very glad to have you here!A note about The School for Housewives!Here at The School I am offering general thoughts about how to run one’s home more proficiently. Some exceedingly practical, some more metaphysical, all offered in light of the vast importance of home and the woman’s role in making it.
Spring cleaning!

1 week ago | schoolforhousewives.substack.com | Leila Marie Lawler

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Go here for The Tidying of the Things lesson to be sure you’re caught up. Let’s review the Moderate Clean* now that it’s Spring and we have a bit more energy for getting things freshened up!Nearly every day you want to spend about 45 minutes in a zone in your house, dusting and really digging out the corners, under the furniture, and behind things. You can and should make your minions help you if they are at all sentient.
"Mental Load" is a psy-op

1 week ago | schoolforhousewives.substack.com | Leila Marie Lawler

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. The woman of the house indeed has a lot on her mind, because her mind encompasses every facet of life instead of one circumscribed slice of it. She cares for her home, the bodies in it, the neighborhood outside it. She is building the one place upon which it all depends. Casting this effort as an intolerable burden on her, emphasizing that she is not paid for it, and inciting in her a chafing rebellion against it, undermines her value.
Being able to identify hue

2 weeks ago | schoolforhousewives.substack.com | Leila Marie Lawler

The School for Housewives brings you short, practical, and thoughtful messages to inspire you to make your home. If you’re new here, go to the homepage for the previous Lessons; the categories are arranged in the menu bar at the top. Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.
Feeling like you wish someone would rescue you?

2 weeks ago | schoolforhousewives.substack.com | Leila Marie Lawler

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Some husbands cook all the meals or some of them. But most do not. If you don’t have a cooking husband or an in-house chef, and feel like you are slowly drowning in all the claims on your time, you need to do something particular as soon as possible:You need to get in the habit of knowing what is for dinner by 10 am (sorry, it’s a little late today) and ultimately, for the whole week.
Recovering prettiness! With homework

2 weeks ago | schoolforhousewives.substack.com | Leila Marie Lawler

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Every once in a while, one finds a book that changes everything in its subject, because it offers the organizing principles. We talked about feminine dress a bit, and having a feminine way of speaking. Don’t worry — we’ll have more on those lessons in the future!I had a question from a reader about feminine makeup.
Confession of an imperfect housewife

2 weeks ago | schoolforhousewives.substack.com | Leila Marie Lawler

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Sometimes dinner has to be served this instant, and there is indeed a messy pile of prep items on the counters as we sit down. Sometimes I have to run out of the house and the sink is by no means cleaned out. Sometimes kids (in my case, grandkids) are caught up in all the play and all the creativity and the scene is chaotic.
Cleaning the Sink, Part Two

2 weeks ago | schoolforhousewives.substack.com | Leila Marie Lawler

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. On Friday, we had the lesson about the exact process of cleaning out the sink in maximal detail. I just wanted to answer a question I got about it, which is whether you have to do all of that every time, that is, after every meal or even snack. My answer: No, you don’t have to do it all, every time — just at the end of the day when you are closing up the kitchen.
Cleaning out the sink

3 weeks ago | schoolforhousewives.substack.com | Leila Marie Lawler

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Flow in the kitchen is the key to avoiding overwhelm; the final step of that flow is scrubbing out the sink. The very last thing is to get all the debris out and wash the sink. Don’t do this before you’re done with everything else*; don’t omit this once you are done. If you have a disposer, run it.