Mastering 1001 Housekeeping Arts

So I've thrown myself right into my Housewife's Handbook.  And there was a lot to learn, even in the introduction.

Here's what it said:

Keeping house can be one of the most interesting or exasperating jobs in the world.  Running a home is not as easy job, but it can be interesting, and it need never be exasperating.  The women who enjoy housework are those who fully realize the tremendous importance and responsiblity of their jobs, and bring to it a willingness to learn and master the thousand and one arts that go into making a house a home.  Such women... are generally dubbed "born housekeepers."  Actually born housekeepers are rarities, and any woman who is willing to devote her energy, talent and imagination to learning the arts of the domestic science can become one.
 
Time and motion experts reduce the motions of completing a given task to it simplest elements to save both time and energy.  If we stop to consider the many tasks that have to be performed in the home in the above light, we will soon realize that we are squandering much of our time and energy in excess or wasted motion.

I, too, am concerned about squandering my time and energy in wasted motion.  That is why, instead of cleaning the kitchen, I watch a lot of TV.  Very little wasted motion there.

This housewife thing is going to be a lot of WORK.  Mastering a thousand and one arts?!  I am hoping at this point that they secretly mean baking 1,001 different kinds of cookies, because anything else seems scary.