Hello darlings! Just thought I would add that this was just an experiment to see what it would have been like to live and follow a schedule in the 1950s. By no means do I believe that all the values they had were right, because there weren’t! But some of the family values like sitting down together for meals, were really nice! I think in today’s society that sort of family time isn’t always prioritised. Remember, vintage style not vintage values! Sending lots of love, Sage xx
Ghosh! Thank God you said that I was getting that really very spooky feeling from that values they had we should only keep the styles agree with you fully agree with you I am lot more sighing now after read your comment😊
You would really think she wouldn’t have to, but just look what the person above you wrote. It’s really sad that someone would assume making a video like this means you agree with prioritizing your husband and home over yourself, think women shouldn’t work, think men are better than women, like segregation of people of color and people with disabilities, etc. etc. 😩 I have had people tell me that they think I rather live in the 40’s or 50’s. I was born disabled and have used a wheelchair most of my life. Of course I don’t wish I lived during a time where I wouldn’t have been allowed to go to school, and I’d be considered “lucky” if my parents chose not to put me into an institution after I was born! 🙄 I totally agree with you, people need to stop with their assumptions. Andddd...that ends my Ted Talk for today! 🤣 💗
@MAGA Mandi Better values as in women weren't traded to their husbands as teens is why. You were seen as an unfit woman if you physically couldn't birth children or even carry a child full term. It was a house rule for the wife to stop her house work when her husband got home and asked how his day went, the problem with that is she wasn't entitled to talk about how her day went with him as her problems was beneath his. I believe in the value of having a house wive. I don't believe in the value of treating your wife like property. The 1950s had a dark underside that still treated their women like property. Keep the home values AND look of the 1950's, leave the female property bull crap ownership behind. People need to learn their history. We still had segregation with actual "No Blacks Allowed" signs and not being allowed with whites, grown men could actively dated 16-year-old girls and there was arranged marriages. My own grandmother had an arranged marriage. This is why this UA-camr stated to keep the traditional style and not the traditional values. Keep the style, class and modesty of the 1950s, leave the rest behind.
Here's a hint my 1950s/1960s mother shared with me; the drapes were not opened in the morning until you were ready for company (house tidy, housewife dressed and hair combed, children fed and husband off to work, etc). Once the drapes were open, the neighboring housewives would know it was okay to come over and have a chat.
Interesting! I’ll start doing this!!! Errr wait...we have things like cellphones now where people ask if they can come over 🙄 just stop by! I’d love a random visit from family and friends like back then.
I enjoyed your program! I really was a 1950’s housewife! Actually we didn’t dress each day in stockings. heels, fancy dress and a girdle. But we did wear them for evenings “out” and special occasions. Just as I do today, I wore comfortable clothes like jeans, slacks, sweaters, etc. I didn’t spend the day with so many household chores. My time wasn’t regulated back then. Because I was my own “boss” at home , that made it a lot easier than having to go out to a 9 to 5 job and following someone else’s orders. But then we had one income.. my husband’s. I remember when my friend got a job , having extra money meant she could buy lots of extras. But shortly after, two incomes became almost necessary as people wanted to have more things. Kids didn’t have the kind of activities after school that required driving them. My family activities centered at home. ...I feel like I’m giving away a “secret” because back then we actually had more freedom and the time to spend with what we most valued...family and friends. It was just easier then.
wow, thanks for sharing all that info Nancy, wish things can go back to that time, I've got 5 kids, my husband has to work two jobs and I need to stay home and homeschool our oldest children and look after the babies, do you have any tips for me try and keep the place clean and be this lovely 50 housewife despite it all? I so found this a beautiful and inspiring and would love to implement it, my husband isn't too happy to have to work two jobs, maybe if I could be more like back then even though I've got three children and a couple little babies, my husband will be a little happier with me.
A girdle was always worn in my house - in case someone knocked on the front door, meter readers, salesmen and the like. Women loved their figures in girdles and would again if they tried it and gave it a chance! My mother's heavy Twilfit girdle went on every morning she rose. My sister's 18-hour girdle too. They stayed on all day until bedtime. I asked them about it and they said it was none of my business!
@@ayisha1978 well yoir husband shouldnt complain and be happy that you went through all the labour gifted him 5 kids and you even take care of all of them everyday on your own. Thats more work than he will ever do.
My Mum was a 1950’s housewife and carried her routines through to the 80’s until she passed. She had 7 children, her first born in 1955 and I was her last born in 1975. My Mum wore Scholls around the house but heeled shoes or boots when she went out. She woke at 6am daily and did not stop,she’d eventually sit down at 7pm where she’d smoke 1 cigarette and read her paper. I have adopted some of her routines out of respect for her. She was an amazing lady.
Yeah me too I do this everyday and I'm a grandmother now. Only thing that is different is the clothes. I don't plan anything though .....I'm retired lol. Yeah I occasionally hang out clothes on the line. Gardening is a plus .the girdle .....never was a fan ....so I just didn't wear neither did I wear a bra ....oh wait a minute , my young adult years of marriage was in the 70's 😉✌
I agree that it should be recognized as a job. I would even go as far as to say that the husband should pay her (if he didn't already - with food, water, security, health care plan, jewelry, entertainment, new clothes, beauty saloon, transport and a roof over her head). As for it being full time, I think technically it is a part time job, because part of everything she works for is hers (half of the: mess, clothes, dirty dishes, child, meal, and so on...)
I well remember my mother as a homemaker in the 50s with four children, loss of a pregnancy at 6 months, a miscarriage plus two more full term pregnancies. She had a strict schedule of washing clothes and hanging all of them up on Monday using an old style washer wherein she had to manually run the washed clothes through a wringer. A general sweep through the house making beds (kids made their own if old enough), clearing clutter, sweeping floors manually washing dishes. Kids took turn washing evening dishes if old enough. Tuesday she sat at an Ironrite mangle to iron all the clothes while listening to Arthur Godfrey, taking care of baby or toddlers. During the week she always had a full meal for six on the table at supper but for breakfast she made coffee and dad had cereal. Kids had cereal, too. Mom made sack lunches for dad and all school-aged kids. Wednesday was a full day of top to bottom house cleaning. Thursday all the beds, bunk beds and crib were stripped and made up with clean bedding and dirty sheets and pillow cases were washed, wrung and hung on the line. Continual light cleaning and straightening of house, taking care of baby, sterilizing bottles, washing cloth diapers. Friday at least three little children accompanied her on the city bus to a small supermarket where she got all the groceries on the list she had prepared for the following week’s meals. Then a trip into the five and dime store for fabric and crochet thread and then she corralled all the kids and grocery bags, boarded the city bus and went home to put it all away. Friday supper was all the week’s leftovers, fresh egg salad and by the 60s, also a frozen pizza. Saturday another deep house cleaning while dad tackled the yard, car, cleaned the garage, fixed anything that was broken, put up and took down storm windows, they both tended a huge vegetable garden, all the kids pulled weeds, Saturday night baths for everyone plus mom washed the girls’s hair and set them in rollers and prepared clothes for Sunday Mass. Sunday besides early Mass, my mother prepared the biggest meal of the week, dad set the dining room table with the best dishes and China and we all sat down together at noon. Every day of the week plus after Sunday dinner, we all knelt down together and said the family rosary. Both my parents quit smoking by 1953, neither took drugs and dad had one beer before supper. My mother also sewed ALL the girls clothes, dresses and pajamas for everyone and sewed all her clothes. She knit mittens and scarves, crocheted table clothes and doilies, knit sweaters and even our dishcloths in later years. She was Wonder Woman because she also painted rooms, made curtains and the most perfect pinch pleated drapes. Sadly because of the loss of the baby in 1957, she had a nervous breakdown in spring of 1958, spent three months in a mental hospital and had 14 shock therapy treatments. How could any woman keep up this schedule for years and not go stark raving mad? The oldest child was born in 1943 and the youngest was born in 1965 when she was 43. She was my hero and a saint and I miss her every day.
Your mother and father were legends and how could anyone not respect that. I was born in 1957 in NZ. My parents had 7 kids and did much of the same things as yours. Except it was my Dad who cooked us all a big breakfast/lunch after mass on Sunday and let my mum and the baby rest when we got home. It was also on Saturdays if he wasnt at work he would get up early and make us all breakfast and take us out to the beach so mum and the baby could have a little lie in. Feck they all worked tirelessly in those days. Thank you for your lovely story, I can so relate.
Thank you for sharing a glimpse of.your childhood with us. I'm a Millennial that washed all curtains deep clean 2 restroom today and I'm beat.....ordered takeout for dinner 😬 hat off to your Mother wow!
I must thank you for your careful documentation and add that THIS was the type of routine and business of life in the 1950's and 60's that we were used to, with increased/modified chore types depending on number of children/income. For example, we didn't have as many children, but my mother sewed ALL our clothes except underwear, msdr our coats, and knit all our sweaters, slippers, etc. And remember also Young Folks 😉, there was a great deal more to do than listed here- birthdsy parties (everything homemade including decorations and games), halloween costumes, homework, volunteer work at the schools or religious institutions. I lived through it then and I still struggle to fully grasp how it all got done. I wish I could express my awakened appreciation to them now.
my great grandmother passed at 103yrs old in 2001. She was born in 1898! I remember as a child going to her home and she still kept up this schedule till about a week before she passed. Still living in her own home. Her first husband died young in war, her second husband passed in 1950s and her third in the mid 80s. As per her wish she was buried with her first love. Her eldest daughter who fell out of a barn loft as a child and ended up with severe brain damage. My grandmother at 103 was still caring for that daughter at home. She was such a tough lady, guess they had to be back then. Perfectly meticulous house looked like a time capsule becasue she took such good care of everything she owned. She wore a very similar styled dresses like this still everyday, put her stockings and small heeled peekaboo toe shoes everyday and yes the cold cream too! At her funeral everyone was commenting on how beautiful her skin was, hardly a wrinkle at 103! She always wore sun hats too. Anyway the talk around the funeral home was she also used every virgin olive oil om her face every night. We live in small town and i went to grocery store next day to buy some extra virgin olive oil and ponds cold cream, the shop keeper was sold out. Seems all the ladies at the funeral home were thinking the same thing after seeing how great her skin was at such an age
Here's a tip from my mother and grandmother, who were housewives in the 1950's. Don't wear heels or makeup until AFTER your housework is done. Clean ONE room every other day, just touch up the other rooms. Then, you will be able to deep clean every couple weeks, but just keep up the touch ups so the house is always clean. Mom raised 8 kids this way. Her laundry was done by breakfast every day. This was with 3 in diapers for years. She hated the new automatic they got, and wanted the old wringer washer back, it was faster to clean cloths she said. Flats, pants and leaving the dresses and heels for when you go outside to the store or something else.
Thank you for sharing! I want to be more of a homemaker and it always seems so daunting when I’ve tried in the past so I’m always finding ways to stream line. I also want to take more pride in my appearance so knowing I’m not restricted to dresses and heels 24/7 is encouraging! 🥰
Of course, we were country folk; but as late as the 1960's, my grandmother cooked on a wood stove. There was a butane range in the kitchen, but that was for rendering, canning and the like. She never became convinced that a decent meal could be cooked on anything but a wood stove.
It always cracks me up when TV moms dress up to do housework. Really? Most real moms wore tennis shoes or house slippers or barefoot around the house. And simple housedresses.
Note: the women did not always clean house in their nice dresses. They often wore housecoats and flat slippers. She was a little hard on herself. Often they called and had their groceries delivered.
My poor mother raised 11 kids doing all this and we never had store bought bread. She baked bread at least twice a week. During the 70’s she baked two kinds of bread white and wheat lol. She had wash on the line before we left for school and allowed us to come home for lunch.
I wish I could be more like her :(. I have five children and as much as I dream about accomplishing so much to make my family enjoy life, I can just never seem to measure up or manage life so smoothly. I really do hope that one day I can figure it all out while I’m still young.
@@kathrinen3834 My mother said if she had it to do over she would have had all the kids help more. She didn’t want anyone touching her washing machine lol. My father didn’t want the kids cooking, he said we could practice on our husbands when we married. We weeded the garden, did dishes and shoveled snow. That was all.
My paternal Grandma said that you would normally wear flats around the house, not heels to save your feet, and you would wear a house dress for cleaning and no girdle. If you went anywhere though (even the grocery store), you then changed into a nicer/non-house dress, heels, and wore a girdle. Once you became a teenager (middle school aged 11-13yrs), you HAD to wear a girdle in public and absolutely to school at all times. You washed your hair typically once per week and bathed daily. My Grandma grew up in rural Colorado. My maternal Grandma grew up in a small town in South Dakota. When it became hot and humid in the heat of summer, the fathers would come home and eat lunch with the family, then stay all afternoon at home relaxing until the heat passed, then they would go work for a few hours later into the evening, and dinner would be at 8-9pm and was called supper instead. The rest of the year the dads would go home for a good lunch then go back to work...but the point being that families ate together for basically all meals of the day. If I recall the kids might have gone home for lunch as well often times.
My mum was a housewife. She never wore heals and a nice dress to clean. Old slacks and top was the cleaning uniform. She got nice just before Dad got home.
Yes, women didn't dress up to clean. They wore their nightgown and robe and slippers with hair in curlers to cook breakfast. Get the husband off to work, get the kids up feed them and tend to their needs. Then she would sit down with coffee and toast and read the morning newspaper. Then after that it was up to start the day.
Yeah, my grandmother never dressed like this lady to do chores. She didn’t even do the makeup unless it was Sunday. Or half the chores she does. & what is with that fluffy nightgown?
My mom and my dad shared house hold responsibilities and child rearing. I’m so grateful for both them. Especially having two kids with undiagnosed ADHD, one with very mild Cerebral Palsy and one with mental health issues. It must have been so hard.
I was a teenager in the 1950’s and I can tell you that NOBODY did all of those things on the same day! It was more like Monday - Washing, Tuesday ironing, Wednesday house cleaning, etc., etc. We also did wear loafers or flats when we were going to be on our feet much. You need to greet your husband with a drink when he comes home - bring the children in to say hello to their father before tucking them into bed and then serving him dinner. TV in the evening and then bed.
Different people have different lifestyles and way they lived, some people complete these things EVERYDAY and others didn't, she was just showing things people in the 50's might've did on a day to day or weekly basis, but nice comment! :D
Mother never wore a gurtle at home while cleaning and washing. This is more like a movie version of 1950's house wife. Yes we had to greet dad and even I still am left with the tradition of welcoming husband home with a drink. Either coffee, tea or beer.
This whole video would've been different if she had like 5 kids (like you were supposed to). 2 in school, maybe, and 3 at home. 2 in diapers, cloth, of course! which you had to wash yourself! In addition to laundry for 7 people.
I think she has based this on s magazine article of what somebody thought should be done by a housewife back then. It was probably written by a man or a woman who, being a magazine writer, probably had a maid to do the work. Just read an article today of what those magazine writers think a household is like and you will know what I mean. Who in the world actually has a house like those they show pics of in those magazines?
I loved this video. I can think of three reasons the schedule was so hectic. 1) Lack of experience. A 50's Housewife would have been quicker at doin the chores, dressing and putting on makeup, because she did it all the time. 2) the chores took longer because they you haven't been doing it every day. In the 50s the dusting and cleaning the bathrooms would have been more touch ups than deep cleaning because they would have been done all the time. With these first two, you'd have to do this for at least a month before it all got settled in. 3) and perhaps the biggest reason is all the time it took to set up the cameras and show what you're doing. Anyway, this is a great video, thanks for doing it.
Well done! This is a great video! ( Really though, my mum would not vacuum, dust, wash and iron in her very best afternoon dress, stockings , and girdle 😱
LOL. My grandmother's house was pristine too but it drove me positively batty. I would throw one piece of tissue into a trash can and in less than an hour my grandma had emptied it. Also, we were required to sleep ON TOP of the bed-spread so we woudn't make her feel obliged to wash and re-make the bedsheets. And god forbid I ever show up to her house hungry-- she would bark at me that "I'm not a restaurant." My grandad was retired for 35 years before he passed away so I think my grandma always resented the fact that she never get to retire.
@@mycolorfulcottage Me as well from my Grandma. Cleaning for hours on cleaning days....more than four. Then non cleaning days it must be about two hours over those days that I work my very long hours from home. So many of my friends have commented over the years that I have a very clean home but I personally never feel its complete. By no means am I dressing up for any of this😅
Yes! Cottage pie was a staple meal in our home. My mother called it Shepard's pie. We could have a bare fridge and cabinets and she could still find ways to put food on the table.
I worked with public school girls- they mostly don’t know how to do much in regards to cooking, housework, money management, baby care. It’s sad- but they spike volleyballs well!
@@amandasmith5344 its crazy but I remember taking “home ec” (home economic) classes in elementary/middle school & I’m a 90s kid (born mid 80s)! However, I did grow up in the midwest which as we all know is much more traditional in values....but they no longer offer it either 😔
I was a young housewife (19) in the late fifties. I was spoiled by my mother as I was an only child, so I didn't have much experience, but I learned quickly. My mother was the talented homemaker who had a knack for making everything nice, she could sew anything, she was pretty near perfect. Four children and many dogs and cats later, plus a full time job, I could never match up to the lady in the video, or mom. 😊
@@DraGnFly007 I do. We are a one income family, I follow a similar routine (I have kids and homeschool so have additional things I have to do) and we get by nicely, have home cooked meals and a clean comfortable home
I'm a man and I've realized that the routine I set for myself recently to help with my life is literally being a 1950's housewife. Well'p time to put on my highheels! lol
My mom was a 1950's housewife. You came pretty close in some areas, like Ponds Cold Cream and Vanishing Cream were on her vanity all her life. But she would hoot with laughter watching you clean house in a girdle and heels. She'd be barefoot in shorts and an old shirt. Other housewives I knew would wear plain cotton "house dresses." They wouldn't leave the house in them but they wouldn't be embarrassed if a friend stopped by to visit either. They'd clean up and change their clothes before their husbands came home. I remember exercising with Jack LaLanne sometimes when I was a kid but my mom was much too busy cleaning house. She'd say that if you clean your house properly, you shouldn't need any other exercise. She had a daily cleaning schedule (make beds, light dusting, clean bathroom, vacuum whole house), a weekly schedule to do an extra chore like ironing one day a week in addition to the daily chores. And then there were once in a while chores like stripping the floors and waxing them. My mother would take occasional breaks from her housework during which she'd have a cup of coffee and a cigarette. Most people smoked in the 1950's. She took weekends off and we'd usually go visit friends or go somewhere. We were a family of only 3 but we didn't have leftovers often. My mother cooked in small amounts. Dinner might be pork chops, mashed potatoes (no gravy) and a large spoonful of canned (yuck) vegetables and milk. There would be dessert for after dinner. Our meals were definitely not as healthy as the ones you prepared. Most people were not very informed about nutrition. They were a generation who lived through the Great Depression. They were grateful just to have food on the table every night. My dad liked to see red meat on his plate because he was proud he could afford it and felt he deserved it as the wage earner. But true to the image of the 1950's housewife's reputation for thrift, my mother would often serve us thriftier meals like chicken ala king served on toast, much to my dad's disgust and my delight.
I recall creamed eggs and string beans on toast, Welsh rarebit, too. On Sunday nights, there'd be a family talent show with popcorn while homemade pizza was cooking or maybe the talent show after the pizza, Yes, the daily chores, on Saturday chores including Altar Society assigned cleaning the church duties, and fixing Sunday breakfast ahead of time. Inevitably, in the afternoon there would be a chicken cooking in the pressure cooker, and the tooting when the pressure was attained and the heat lowered, then the dratted smell of pressure-cooked chicken while removing bones of the hot chicken to quickly place in the refrigerator. Mother sure knew how to cook a chicken with fluffy dumplings, though. I've never seen anyone cook it the way she did. Father's choice of a special meal, baked steak, potatoes, cabbage salad or canned spinach, and the ever popular red or green Jell-O or pudding for dessert. Before there were too many of us, she baked pies, and we'd wait for her to put cinnamon and butter on the extra piecrust for pinwheel cookies.
@@engletinaknickerbocker5380 I was around 9 years old when my father came home with a cheese pizza. It was an exotic food to us. We weren't impressed and I didn't eat another one for some years. Of course, my dad hadn't know that the toppings were .important and worth the extra cost.
I agree with your comments, no housewife would do housework in their best dress and outdoor shoes! And fruit for breakfast? More likely porridge and golden syrup. Also no meal plans, they shopped every day.
I remember the 50s, and while many folks smoked, the majority did not. I recall our teachers relaying the dangers of smoking back then. My father was the only smoker in my family.
@@LUIS-ox1bv I was born in 1948. My parents, very respectable hard-working people smoked. My aunts and uncles all smoked. All my parents' friends smoked. When I started working in offices in the 1960's, the great majority of my co-workers smoked - inside the office. The non-smoker was definitely in the minority and it would not have been wise to mention anything about being bothered by the cigarette smoke.
This makes me miss my mom even more. She was such a hard worker. And she loved her five children more than anything. Thanks mom for the best childhood. I love you.
You are so right........I never understood how hard mom worked until I had to do it. My kids are now grown and I never taught them very well..... I always did everything. You have to teach kids or they will be ignorant.
Watching this video made me realize that the way my grandmother and my mother taught me how to keep house (cleaning, setting the table, looking nice) is exactly how my grandmother lived in the 50’s! I guess I never really thought back on it, but it’s funny to see this way of life sneaking into mine every day, even in small ways!
I grew up in the 50s and for sure women rejected that role over time. But there is definitely value in traditional roles so long as they are voluntarily chosen. When men and women appreciate one another’s efforts that’s great.
Yes, key words, when men and women "Appreciated One Another." I don't know a man at this time besides my father and son, that I would make a peanut butter sandwich for.
@Dove Smiling Thank you, I believe this. But it is something great when you have come through it all together. Now you have history and stories to tell. Awesomeness 😄
Someone has to do all the things. Now with the two income family, all these things are now being outsourced. The two incomes have to add up to a lot for it to be worthwhile.
You Truly portrayed what a female in the 1900’s up to the 1970’s who actually “have a life” of responsibility and confidence !!! It’s such a LOST ART now !!! Best and Blessings to you !!! 💞🙏
Exactly. The Mrs Cleaver (from the TV show “Leave It to Beaver”) idea of vacuuming in heels and a dress with a pearl necklace was NOT what the average housewife did. I was born in 1951, and my mother only dressed up when she went out. It’s just not practical, as you found out.
Ladies may not have all worn high heels to do housework but my grandmother did. She didn’t even own a pair of flats. She thought exercise was walking around the block. She lived in San Francisco and dressed up before my grandfather arrived home after work. I lived with my grandparents during my teen years and it was very much like TV portrayed it. She was born in 1900. This lifestyle was valued as being very civilized.
My great grandma wore slippers inside and changed into heels when going out. She was always a practical woman, with a very tidy house. She didn't like wearing "outside shoes" indoors cause it made the floors dirty really quickly.
My takeaway from watching this: there are some REALLY good lessons to be learned here. Are ALL of the things housewives did applicable/rational? No. Should everything they did be thrown out as a relic of times past? Absolutely not! The idea of using leftovers and being thrifty, or sewing your own alterations, OR PLANNING YOUR MEALS FOR THE WEEK are incredible. There is definitely some wisdom in these things. Just don't expect me to vacuum in heels.
Ok, I Juuuust Finished Watching! She Is So, Adorable! I Love Her Creativity! I Bet She's A Gemini! I'm Hungry, Now And I Want Those Little Cucumber Bread Treats...😂! Thank You, For The Wonderful Video! You're A Doll!😉👌
I showed this to my Memaw, and she had a lot to say, but I'll summarize it with "aw honey. This is how society wanted us to be. It's not how we were... We were still normal women." 😅 Update: @23:17 she smiled and said yup she's gettin it. P. S. My Memaw was a full time nurse too. Lol
There were millions of women who were enthusiastic in the role of housewife, or more correctly as mother and nucleus of the family. A woman of this sort has greater value than a 'career' woman.
Housework can be viewed as an awful chore, or something that helps to bring a sense of order and comfort to your life. It’s funny how in our culture how modern housewives or homemakers are belittled and yet their parents and grandparents are considered heroes for doing the exact same thing.
It's because people shifted the goal post, equality for women hasn't be achieved just because we can work!! We deradicalized the movememts that should've been radical and now we're suffering for it
There’s still some women out here in the 21st century that CHOOSE to be housewives but then get called “lazy” or a “gold digger” etc for it that’s not real women equality actual women equality is when there’s women that CHOOSE to be housewives and not be shamed for it just like how there’s career women that arn’t shamed for it. No one should shame either housewives or career women.
I'm not a housewife but as an adult with adhd having all the household chores written down and setting specific time periods for them really helps with my toddler brain 🤣🤣
I'm the same way. I just bought a super cool pad that has a to do list, meals, MUST DO's!, important times, shopping lists, exercise and hydration reminders. And at the bottom a space to fill in what I'm grateful for... so I don't forget to remind myself to always be grateful no matter what is going on in my life. It's been such a God send when life seems overwhelming.... in my toddler brain LOLOLOL!!
With those big flowing skirts. I found them very attractive. But now, it's leggings everywhere, bouncing cellulite on display. Sigh....... Bring back the 50s, at lease this aspect of it. Liked the cars, too.
Seeing this makes me realize that being a housewife in the 1950's was a profession along it's own!!!! Hats off to all the women who endured it. So much work! Makes me grateful to be a woman in modern society.
my mom would dry mop the hardwood floors. then mop them. then the next day would dry mop again to make sure they were clean. THEN, she would take paste wax and paste wax the living room floor on her hands and knees. then go back & buff them with a towel on her hands and knees. no joke.
My great grandfather used to yell at me about needing to “learn how to cook, clean, and sew!!” I was like, what is there to learn? Apparently quite a lot 😭 shout out to all the hard working women out there 🙏
To be fair I think both genders should know how and also how to work on broken things around the house and car. And yes I'm saying men should know how to sew, it's a good thing to know
@@GabrielleHayes1921 men should work mostly they are biological stronger than us to handle hard work compared to women we need rest days. Our generation women can do whatever they want but studies show women are so stressed and tired because we can’t run away from nature and biology we chosed to challenge it and we have to many social problems nowadays and life is more complicated.
My mom was the queen of clean and carried on with most of her 1950's housewife responsibilities her entire life. But...she always took a break in the afternoon to watch the soap operas. I loved watching this video - you did a great job :)
My Grandmother wore a girdle like that every day. She said that it made her feel secure and all ‘tucked in’ and didn’t understand how women could go about their day with everything ‘hanging out’. It was a challenge in the 90’s to try and find more girdles for her. She passed away 17 years ago yesterday, she was an amazing woman.
My maternal grandmother had severe osteoporosis weighing only 98 pounds fully clothed. She never suffered from it as she always wore a girdle that reached to under her bra band. She'd stopped wearing heels. Grams instead wore quarter inch heels these really nice suede shoes that were quite expensive for the time about $50 a pair and definitely the Keds tennis shoes. she never suffered from the osteoporosis until she was told by her brassiere fitter for her new mastectomy bra (because she didn't have a rebuild like they do now). The fitter stated grams didn't need a girdle she was so tiny and thin, even though she'd 4 children and was one who'd moved from corsets to girdles. All her lifetime her body had been supported by this type of garment. She was now in her 70s! Well, going without that girdle allowed her back and her ribcage to shatter when she leaned over to tie her tennis shoes! Her girdles design and length had held her body together! We had to spend months visiting her in the hospital then rehab center she begged us to take her home and we did. she was one of these people who becomes dementia it's called hospitalization dementia she honestly thought she was on the QE2 going across the pond to England's to visit the family in Scotland and going with her dead husband who died in 1948! Upon returning home she was immediately fitted for a modern therapy girdle.. We sometimes wondered how many other women fell apart once their family told them oh you don't need that anymore or refuse to help them find a girdle once they stopped being sold in the stores? At
@@valiantsfelinesmccarty6678 do you think her body was supported by it that she got weak? maybe odd question I know they say you can get a weak back from it
We do SPANX now. More comfy. And I agree.. I can't stand to let it "all hang out' even when I'm at home in a house dress. I wear my spanx. There is a comfort in it. Glad it's not those old girdles or corsets though!
@@sancraft1 totally agree ! But I want the same quality that they had back then! Spanx and even bras are not the same quality as back then... bullet bras are truly amazing I just wish it was without the bullet lol less pointy but unlike today's bra it separates instead of just shoving boobs up.. and therefore making one look more slender.. instead of a uniboob..
The big thing that changed is how neighbours no longer get together. Stay at home mums used to take a break and visit each other for a quick chat a couple of times a week. Always ready to help out by sharing things if one of them was running out - sugar, flour, etc. Dads used to go to the local pub and meet their friends. We were poor and didn't have much but I never felt we lacked anything that we really needed. Most people were slim because food was fresh, not processed and most people walked or cycled to work. Women had few labour saving devices and most men did manual work. The income divide was much narrower than today. Nowadays some people have much more disposable income than others and it seems to have made us more individualistic, more materialistic and less community minded. Sharing common hardship brings people together.
My dad never went to the pub, but in the summer he/we sat outside and kibitzed with our neighbors. He did have a semi-regular card night at one of the men's houses.
My parents always had dinner parties, my mom had tea with the ladies, and my dad had pool night with the guys where they came over for billiards. But that stuff just stresses me out! Whenever we have people over for dinner, I spend a month stressing about it and dreading it, then for the actual dinner I have to fake my way through it with layers of deodorant and pray that I don’t get nervous diarrhea while company is over. As soon as they leave, I collapse onto the sofa and sleep for a few hours. I have no idea how people can enjoy it. Corona lock down has been so stress free. I don’t have to constantly make up excuses for not getting together with people. Do people actually enjoy getting together? I only do it out of obligation.
I meet up with moms I went to nursing school with, pretty much daily. Such a blessing that so many of us stay home now and have each other. Restrictions where I am aren’t as severe as other places.
@Xray Paul somehow I don’t think Amy Coney Barrett is a liberal feminist and yet she has a job. So did Sarah Palin and any number of conservative women so it’s not liberal feminism that changed things only.
I'm 67 I still live like this. Of course not in the US. Not an easy life but very fulfilling! I cook everything from scratch, sweep and mop my floors, scrub most of the laundry by hand before putting it in the washer, do all dishes by hand...no dishwasher appliance. Water all my plants and flowers everyday plus I take care of my very disabled daughter (physically and mentally) used to have some help before but since the pandemic no help from outside at all. Alot of work but I still find time to excercise every morning before dawn as I need to keep (and build) my strenght. I guess the key is to be grateful for the many blessings I have.
I do most of this too, but still seeing it like this makes me tired! I think we just get used to doing it every day and don’t realize how exhausting it truly is. I will admit to not doing actual daily exercise but three grandsons are here everyday so playing with them counts for something 😉
@@mskerriboberri thanks for taking the time to reply. And you're right about your grandsons! Mine only comes once every one or two weeks and I end up exhausted. He is in the 'terrible twos', so I can't imagine handling 3 kids at once every day!!! Bet you burn more calories than I! Take care and sending regards from Guatemala. Edit: the name on the Chat refers to a French painter I love but I'm for sure a Grandma!
Iam in the same boat iam 32 single mam to two girls and a carer to my mentally sick mam its exhausting both physically and mentally but it's also really rewarding when you see a clean house and happy kids lol
@@eggfluffington5408 Hi! I commend you for having such a positive attitude. The right attitude lessen the load incredibly. I have a heavy load up my shoulders but my 70 y/o husband and my other special needs daughter are a blessing to me. I couldn't do it without their help. Keep up your spirits. Your girls will grow up and will be a tremendous source of support and help. Sorry to hear about your mom. Will pray for you.
@Claude...LORD bless you! I have a question for you though, what does living in the US have to do with anything? I live in the US, and a live alone senior and I have a daily cleaning, chores and errands schedule. Just curious is all.
@@madashell7224, thanks for the idea. Mwahaha! I'm gonna have my daughter help as soon as she's old enough to talk. Of course, I'll make her feel like a big girl since she'll be doing big girl things. 🤭
my Mom did with 6 kids. She had a routine. She did not do it all in one day. But she also did not have a washer machine like today. it was a wringer style and alot of work, no dishwasher, no fancy vacume cleaners. My father had a push mower and no snow blowers. We also had our chores to do on cleaning day. You had to eat what she made. No special meals for picky eaters. You ate what she cooked or you must not be hungry LOL
@@madashell7224 You could’ve had the best of both worlds in my family! I not only got to be the oldest of 6 kids (2 girls and then the 3 boys-in that order) and do the milking of 50 cows and all the feeding of the calves, chickens, pigs, etc. plus the mowing o the 1 1/2 acres of grass with a push mower, throw the hay bales off the field, on to the wagon, then unload on to the hay elevator in to the top of the barn (the haymow). Then, it was usually time to head back out to the barn at 5 to milk the cows again. Mom also had to have my help with my 5 siblings, weeding the garden, cleaning the house, harvesting the garden and on and on and on...while my 3 little brothers never had to want for a thing but to be waited on and cleaned up after as they took off with the car ( dad worked over the road construction so they got away with murder) for several days while nary a scolding from their ever protective mother who thought that the boys were to be boys, out joy riding, smoking substances, and then having a hot meal waiting for them upon their arrival home no matter the hour or length of time they had been gone. Arthritis is a wonderful friend to a hard working woman, all the payback for misogyny in your own damn household growing up and fully supported by your own mother! To this day, us 3 girls keep up our homes and yards while that same sentiment cannot be equated to the 3 “boys” for that is what they forever will be to my mom. I’m so glad the 1950’s are history for the sake of women.
I love this. I was a child in the 50s, and I remember every single thing that you’re doing. I don’t think people realize that “stay at home moms“ really were busy. I raise seven kids, and got a job when the littlest ones were in kindergarten. (Two sets of twins). When I finally began my Career outside the home, I couldn’t believe what a breeze it was. It was actually a hard job, working for protective services with children. But compared to being a stay at home mom, I loved it. I have to add, that I really loved being a stay at home mom. I couldn’t have loved it more.
The blouse was too big so she “quickly put it on the sewing machine and sewed in a few darts.” Seriously, Sage, you are my inspiration. I can’t even darn a sock with a hand needle and thread without feeling like a total backwoods loser. 😢😂😂
My mother never came out of the bedroom in her robe, she was always dressed. My dad never came to the table in a T shirt, he was always dressed except for his tie and suit jacket. My mother's exercise was housework and taking care of 8 kids
My mam tells me stories like this, from the late eighties when she was with my dad. My ganda never came out in a robe or anything he was always fully clothed, even when he was sick in his latter years. My mam told me how he only started to come downstairs in his knickers and top after my dad moved in when they were married. My mam was fully on so embarrassed
I NEVER saw my step grandmother without her makeup on or in a pair of slacks, always a skirt suit I think I may have seen her in a pair of garden shoes buut they were definitely kept in the shed away from eyes. Apart from that she always wore black 1 inch patent leather heels. Her hair could double as a crash helmet it was so thick with hair spray.
Also, I highly doubt they wore such fancy dresses for housework, even with an apron. That t-shirt dress she wore towards the end of the week was probably more what they wore during the housework bits every day, and then changed into the nicer dresses for going shopping or having company over, and when the family came home. Definitely no on the pencil skirts for housework (though I did like that denim one!), as that would have been way too impractical.
That's what I was just about to say. Mum had house dresses and shoes, and going out dresses and shoes. But I must say, my mum ALWAYS had her hair and makeup looking like this.
In my house we wear slippers or house shoes inside, and save the others for going out! It’s more hygienic, keeps the floors clean, and the feet aerated and comfy!
Something my grandma used to say about chores: Skip one day, you'll notice. Skip two days, your family will notice. Skip three days, your visitors will notice. I don't stick to these rules but I do understand what she meant.
Was thinking the same thing lying next to my 8 month old so he sleep bcuz he’s taking reflux med and has insomnia at the moment from the meds so he only sleep if I’m next to him 😩 i do love cuddling with him but it’s been a hard week like this hope he’ll be better in a few days
@@SusiesTips Yes like when you want to vacuum and you pick all their crap up and put them away get the vacuum out then they trash the room just to be difficult.
You are a fantastic cook, I’m so proud of you young lady. You brought back so many lovely memories for me as a child of the 1950s! All of the 1950s as I was born in 1950. I am so into making clothes from vintage patterns now. The dresses made a woman look feminine back then. Thank you for a beautiful video.
That’s what my mom did. Or I’d play by myself or with my brother or sister. My mom never sat down and played with us. Parents didn’t play with there kids or schedule everything for their kids. Kids were kids and adults were adults. Most of the time it was two separate worlds. This was 60’s and 70’s.
I grew up in the 80s where the whole family had a chore list. This was a rude awakening for my MIL as I had to retrain her son that the wife doesn't do everything, but is a joint effort by the entire household. 19 years later, I now have her on a joint schedule with the household. She realized now how much easier it is.
It also taught kids to be creative, to be their own self-contained entertainment, to not be afraid of being outside - even in a yard - and to be independent. It shaped their whole development and the role of the mother was different. They played with each other and it helped shaped community and society
Not gonna lie, this was really interesting and very enjoyable to watch. It has actually given me wonderful ideas for food to try and how important being with family is
Really nice video -- thank you for sharing. A couple of words, however-- I cannot speak for Australia, but I grew up in the 1950s in the United States and I never heard of anyone (except TV moms) doing housework in girdles and heels. Ouch! Housewives wore mostly housedresses, ( a cheaper, plainer dress that could be repeatedly laundered but was not worn outside the home) Some women on my block wore slacks - especially when they were tending to their gardens. Nobody but Donna Reed and June Cleaver wore heels and perls while they did housework. And everyone worked hard -- not just the wife. Almost every child I grew up with had a list of household chores they had to complete. We did the dusting. One of the things that marked this period was that there was an orderliness in the society (it had both good and bad implications) Activities dictated your wardrobe. I would never wear my play clothes (or slacks) to school nor would I wear my school clothes to church. My mother worked hard around the house all day, but by the time my Dad came home from work, she had changed into a pretty dress (with an apron) and made up her face (with her bright red lipstick) and had done her hair. We all sat down to the dinner she had prepared. (When I was older, I helped) At dinner we talked to each other. This was not a barbaric time as some people seem to have assumed. It was a different time.
That was just adorable! Now we know why our grand daddies were so spoiled! But those women were determined to make their men feel loved and appreciated because they had been through hell in the war. Those ladies had a different perspective.
I never thought of it like that, but your so right! It’s sad that modern Hollywood made women of that period look like slaves. Growing up I loved and despised that era because I thought these gorgeous women were being taken advantage of by their husbands. I’m very glad I came across your comment! Many blessings 😊
You’re right that sitting down to dinner together as a family is still so important and now it needs to be said without phones....time to catch up with each other.
My grandmother was a housewife in the 50s, she would get fully dressed like you but wear her slippers around the house and only wear heels when she went out
My grandmother told me that 'heels' wore worn out or if you had company over (and when husband came home) but for most of the day at home, a pair of flats were worn. Also, Aprons were worn all day while at home doing housework (or a type of house dress was worn if you weren't expecting company) and taken off when going out, when company was over (or you put on a pretty half-apron). And no woman left the house without heels and earrings. Both of my grandmothers loved talking about "The Good Old Days"
I am 82 and I still don't leave the house without makeup and earrings on and hair looking just fine. I loathe scruffy women and those dreadful women in Walmart make me cringe. You'd have to drag me kicking and screaming into one.
No wonder my grandmother can't stop cleaning..even to this day. Shes 77 and lives on her own. She would do her lawns, get on the roof to blow off the roof, clean, cook and so much more. Ive learned so much for her. My husband is lucky
I remember my mom doing housework to the early Beatles ,8 days a week, was the song. She would pick up my sister and I and dance around the house still doing housework. Love that memory.
We listened to the Beatles too, on housecleaning days on the weekends! Dad out doing yard work and Mom, my sister and I cleaning the house, listening to "records on the Hi-Fi"!
@@judeflowers2813 my parents were just a bit older...my dad called the Beatles "ya-ya music" ..She loves you yeah, yeah, yeah.. lol lol lol They preferred Frank Sinatra
There are actually plenty of good things to learn from the 50'es. For me personally, I like that they took so much pride in their home, and in their appearance. Just those two things alone makes you feel so much better about yourself, and because these areas are not neglected, they are not constantly draining your energy in the back of your head. So you have the mental energy to be social (because you are not embarrassed to let people in, or to let others see you), and to do creative hobbies (because you don't have a super long to do list weighing your down). And waking up to a clean house just an amazing feeling.
Now scruffy women actually take their children to school in the jim jams (pyjamas). Bone idle and spend half the moaning and groaning about how much they have to do.
There were some really beautiful elements of this routine that I'd like to implement i.e. cooking homemade meals, and getting dressed up everyday- even when staying home, it makes the day seem purposeful. Also love that you weren't using your mobile this week!
Agreed! In my relationship, my partner (female) works full time and I'm (NB male) in graduate school so we joke that I'm the "house spouse" because I'm at home studying a lot and have the time to take care of the house/daily chores. It's not a strict 50/50 split, my partner helps with cooking some nights and I usually have a part time job to help with added income. Anyway, I usually just wear my pajamas to do chores, but it really feels motivating to put together a "look" even if you're not going outside at all.
So basically I think I found out I’m a 50’s housewife at heart 😂 I love my home clean, to the detail, I enjoy workouts at home, I cook. At least twice a day from scratch, bake, I plan everything, can’t sit still, I even have vintage aprons. Love this video so much!!! Thank you!
@@nicoletrammell3792 I’m insane, I do it around school and work, have five cats too 😬 but honestly when the semester and work gets too much I let my house go for a bit and just focus on those and cooking. It helps I’m in school part time too and right now the semester ended. I was working part time but now I work full time but it’s from home, so it’s easier to cook or keep things clean and care for the kitties.
Completely agree! I was a kid in the 70's & 80's and we still didn't have as much stuff. Also when you bought a mixer it was a quality product and lasted you 30+ yes.
Agreed. But then again, many people did not have either a vacuum or a washing machine (or even electricity) which in turn would have added more working hours. At least in Germany, but maybe we were a bit behind... 😏
@@Panbaneesha In America you definately had electricity if you lived in a town. Now if you lived what we would now call off grid you probably didnt even have running water!
I was born in the 50's grew up in the 60's, I miss the petticoats, you only had the slips but the ladies wore tulle petticoats with stiletto shoes which made a special sound as they walked, I still have a crop top my mum wore over her thin to the mid calf slacks with little slits on the side, glasses they wore swooped up the side and had reflective glass decorated around the edges. I miss the lady days of gloves and hats, hankies and patent leather shoes. aprons when we cooked, gadgets to curl our hair. Oh. how I miss the slower pace, I wish I could have taken film of our daily life, you did a very good job. Thank you.
I love that with you being a vegetarian and still making meat for your husband. It shows the ability for the 50's housewife to be flexible for dietary needs when cooking. I loved this video, please do more!
Uh... no. Moms were not short order cooks then. You ate what she made or had nothing. Vegetarianism was not a thing, except in India and the occasional individual who would have been considered odd.
This is my day LOL! Minus the heels, the girdle, and the dress LOL. I do take breaks in between. I love being “old-fashioned“ and I’m very blessed to live the life of a housewife.
Honestly, same. I want to be a housewife when I’m older. I love cleaning, I love cooking and taking care of kids. People think I’m crazy but I really like taking care of myself and other people! Right now I’m going to go to college to become a teacher!
@@irislutwen.stanley4360 I worked before children, between children, and after. Now, retired and back to the housewife role again. Loved all my roles, and hubby loves being spoiled lol xx
The 1950’s fashions were really flattering to a woman. I’d like to see some of those styles or a variation of them come back - have always loved the shoes from the ‘30’s to the ‘50’s.
Everyone always looked put together and tidy. Nobody was out in public in pajamas or icky yoga pants you can see their cellulite through. 🤢 People had class and self-respect and I wish we could go back to that.
My Mom didn't wear heels to clean the house. She also wore a house dress and an apron when she cleaned. She put better clothes on and fresh lipstick before my Dad came home from work. Other than that, a lot of the routine was very much like that. She also had kids to take care of. Diapers on the clothes line and a basket of clothes to iron.
This. In the 1950's, my grandmother didn't like to wear shoes in the house. She went barefoot. (Granted, they lived in Florida, so it was usually warm!) She also had a plain house dress that she wore for daily work with an apron. She had two house dresses and would air them out rather than wash each time. Her nice dress was for church. There were four kids, plus my great-grandmother living with them. Plus she worked outside the home once my youngest aunt was old enough to start school!
@@greaselighting101 my gran did everything in slippers or sandals unless she was going out, then she’d wear heels. We also live in New England so it’s too cold to be barefoot on a hard floor for most of the year.
@@greaselighting101 My mother (she's in her 70's) wears heels to do EVERYTHING. She said she's so accustomed to wearing heels that when she doesn't wear them it feels like she's falling over backwards.
I feel the same way. Society makes you feel like an underachiever or tell you that you're "oppressed." Imo, if I have to be tired after working all day, I'd rather it be from taking care of my loved ones rather than from making someone else rich.
Props to my grandmother (RIP) to wearing heels, and being a 1950s housewife. My great grandfather is 97, and alive and doing well. He is a navy veteran, he served in WWII, was stationed in Australia, where he met my grandmother, and brought her over to the states. At 97, he can still drive, live by himself, and still helps at the church. I can't wait to ask him some questions about the 1950s lifestyle. I know that during the great depression (1929-1939) that his family had a coal and ice business in East St. Louis. That's how they survived.
totally. my mom was a 50s housewife and they had house slippers and house dresses so their nice clothes were saved for outside chores and not messed up in all the cleaning and cooking. just like an art smock. also hair would have been in curlers until 10 minutes before dad got home. that's when lipstick went on too.
Right! That's what I was thinking. What she was wearing the last day seemed the most authentic for doing home stuff like chores. Then dress up when you leave the house. But idk.
Makes me appreciate my sweet Mom even more! She passed away earlier year. She married in 1949, was married for 70 years and raised 11 children. She didn’t work outside the home until I (her youngest) was in school. But she always volunteered at school and church....and she always looked beautiful while doing it. I miss her so much! 😇💕
You just made me realize why my grandma used to set the table at night lol it was for breakfast! I somehow never realized, I always thought it was weird to just leave the cups and silverware out when no one was going to eat that late. Gives some nice insight as to what her routine might have been like when she was younger :)
As above, even now I lay the breakfast things out before I go to bed, plus a quick tidy e.g. plump up cushions and fold up newspapers. I also made sure that most of the children's toys were tidied up and put away before my husband came home from work.
I lived like this in the late 1960's- 1970's married to a part-time farmer. Life was hard we were semi poor & I was young & devoted to raise a family & be his mate in life. Although, life was hard i learned alot & not all memories are bad. I gained, knowledge, skills and self respect for myself because I personally grew, I loved life & my family. So having a good & healthy routine & ck list of chores for the wk is not bad it kept me focused. I learned to be grateful & to appreciate what I had & didn't have. I have never forgotten & many years has pass but I never lost my nerve to face challenges in life or give up because it was hard. I looked into a mirror one day and seen i become a wonderful & beautiful woman wife & mother . Nothing can replace that.
You welcome Ariel Williams. I'm glad you seen my comment it in a humble light it really made me appreciate life so much more. Today I thank the Lord & my Parents for Ioving me enough to allow me to grow. I have great admiration for those ( like Sage & many others)who look back on the ages of time and see a quality of life one can make for themselves. Cheers!
I had one of those. I remember pulling with all my might to get that thing to move. My arms were so sore. Changing out the bag on the back held by the spring, it pinched like crazy. Those things were pure evil.
That's why kids back then were always told to sit still and be quiet and "don't touch that" or "leave that alone". That's the voice of an exasperated housewife.
Wow, that was amazing. The memories of my grandmother and my mother. They were also traditional wives, but with a career it’s so beautiful to see this.
My mother was a housewife in the 50's. She wore shorts, pants and comfortable shoes to do the work. She wiped wallpaper walls with dough on a ladder. Painted woodwork, planted gardens. Wearing dresses and heels were for TV housewives.
@@mrsaye499 ; Curtains & bedding? Damn! My gran never did that. Curtains were for the dry cleaners (once every other month & vacuumed with the hose attachment on the old tank vacuum in between times). Bedding didn’t really need ironing - just proper folding before putting the clean extras away. Now shirts, suits, pants, skirts, and handkerchiefs, on the other hand, those all had to be pressed & ironed yeah. Most coats & jackets went to the dry cleaners though, along with certain suits & dresses. She also helped with the bookkeeping for their shoe store, which she mostly did at home after Grandpa Doug brought her the ledger & receipts for the day. They actually had their desk for that & the bill paying in their living room, across from the sofa & coffee table. That always seemed a little weird & awkward to me. 🤷🏻♀️💜👡👢👞👟🥾💜🤷🏻♂️
Very important back then, yes it was. But, I guess she & her husband don’t have anything that would actually need ironing. Virtually everything these days is “permanent press”, except for tee shirts, and nobody irons those - not even in the 1950s. They were mostly considered part of men’s undergarments back then so, no one would see them. Well, maybe somebody who was really super finicky about their clothes might have their tee shirts ironed. But, most folks probably didn’t. 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♂️
Wait... why would you iron towels? Towels don’t get wrinkled if you just fold them up & put them away. Or, did someone among your family elders use very thin towels? I suppose towels of a thinner fabric might need it? 😯❓😯 🤷🏻♀️
My mother was a 50’s homemaker. She kept an immaculate house and was very proper in every way, but she did not wear makeup, girdle or high heeled shoes around the house while she did housework. I’m sure that saved a lot of time. She fixed up to the nines when going out, but at home it was strictly her work dresses and flats. Thanks for making the video. It was fun to watch.
Some of them were probably like that, and some of them were probably so hard on themselves, like apologizing for not being able to do it effortlessly (your way is better for the mental health!)
I was a kid in the 1950s and my Mom never wore a girdle as a regular part of the day. They were hot, restrictive and uncomfortable. Stockings were silk and very easily snagged even after just one wearing, so you saved them for church, meetings in public, eating out, or parties. She also did not wear fancy dresses like yours during the week. That is a party dress. She had house dresses (all were 100% cotton and all needed to be steam ironed), and she also wore tops and bottoms, like blouses and wrap-around skirts that were made of two fabrics so they were reversible. In summer she would wear the same things but the skirts were mostly gathered and were quite cool to wear. There were few knit fabrics then. Gathered skirts with matching tops were made of striped, floral, plaid or gingham fabrics, to give the look of a one piece dress. She never wore pants, slacks or shorts until maybe the 1960s except in forest activities like hiking. I NEVER saw either of my grandmothers in pants of any kind. As a stay at home mom, my Mother made all my school dresses and skirts. She would sometimes buy my school blouses because those were more time consuming to sew. She would then sew A-line or gathered skirts to coordinate. She would also knit sweaters for me for school. I also wore woolen skirts in winter to school with knee socks or in HS by 1966, tall boots. We had to change into shoes once at school, and keep the boots in our locker. We girls were not allowed to wear jeans or pants to school. Besides clothing, she did all the cooking except for Saturday noon when Dad did the cooking, and she did all the laundry, hung it outdoors to dry, and ironed or folded it all. She did all the cleaning, often did weeding or gardening out doors, did all the canning and freezing of veggies from our garden. Plus raising three kids, she was a very energetic and organized person so she could carve out some time to sew or knit for relaxation. As the only girl child, I learned to iron very early in life and still enjoy it though I have very few items that need it. My Mother might have whipped on some lipstick, but never wore make-up, perfume or jewelry in her daily home routine. Shoes were comfortable and NO high heels. In summer Mom and I both wore huaraches or sneakers. Living in a northern climate, we wore leather shoes in winter -- I wore saddle shoes in the '50s, loafers in the '60s. She would wear low heeled shoes in winter, or lace up leather shoes around the house. She wore those thin rubber shoe covers in winter, or winter boots that were just above the ankle, with heavy winter socks when she did the marketing or went to organization meetings. We were Pennsylvania German and so ate meat and vegetables and very few other ethic dishes, not even spaghetti or chow mein or fajitas. NONE of that, and even few restaurants serving food from different ethnicities. She made most food from scratch, eventually by the 1960's she would make cake mixes. Being a housekeeper and Mom in those days was not for the faint hearted. She got so much exercise just working around the house that she didn't do exercises in front of the TV. We had four channels on TV. That was IT! She originally had a washer with a ringer attachment, and then she hung the wet laundry in the basement in inclement weather or outdoors in sunny weather, winter and summer. She had an electric clothes dryer but rarely used it b/c it was costly in those days to operate. Eventually she got a washer that actually had cycles it would go through so it was automatic and you didn't have to stand over it all morning. She had a vacuum and electric linoleum cleaner with dual brush heads. No other cleaning machinery.
Thank you for such an in-depth description! That's very cool to hear about. I am 16 now, and I'm sure my life has been very different from yours. While I wouldn't want to live in another time, it's still very interesting to hear how much things have changed and how much I take for granted in my life. I am very glad that I have lived the way I have, but sometimes I do wish that we could bring back certain elements from the past. I envy the slowness and order of it all, and how everyone always seemed be present in the moment. I feel like people were happier then and less stressed about their lives. Everybody seemed to have everything figured out. But still, I am grateful for the freedom and opportunities I have in the modern era, and I wouldn't trade my life for the world.
@@the_sky_is_blue4939 It is interesting that at 16 you are interested in such things. Let's see. My Mom is now 100. BUT when SHE was sixteen it was 1936 and war loomed in the horizon. She hung out with a bunch of girls from her church. They would go to youth meetings at church and would go for LONG walks on country roads on weekends that would last all afternoon and often end up at one of the girls' homes where they would have hot dogs or something fun like that. As war came, food became rationed. She was in her early 20s and had graduated from high school. She had been on the track team as a relay race runner and took part in local and county school meets. She completed a secretarial course in Reading, the nearest city. When war came, she became an airplane spotter. (This was in SE Pennsylvania near Reading, PA). She went to a particular tall building in the countryside that had a good view from it's roof. She would watch for any airplane and compare its silhouette on a military chart of silhouettes, and then call in any to a central location that looked suspicious. (They looked for German planes and bombers....). I still have her official spotter pin and woolen, embroidered arm band. I also have leftover ration books. All foods were rationed like flour, sugar, butter, meats of all kinds. If you wanted lots of sugar to make jelly or jam you had to request that specially or use coupons from friends. You grew your own fruit and vegetables and canned or dried as much as you could for winter storage. Freezers in the home weren't common yet. You kept chickens in the back yard for a source of eggs. Now as for me, I was born in 1951 and my, but this was an exciting time to be a teen in the late 1960s. I lived in a small college town in PA. There was the JFK assassination in 1963. I was 12. I remember my parents drove us to a nearby city, Reading, to walk around as other people did too. I remember a department store window had removed its usual mannequins and draped a blue velvet drape over the background, with a framed portrait of Kennedy on an easel. I was in the middle school library in study hall when it was announced over the loudspeaker that the president was dead. We didn't know which one they meant b/c at that time a few former presidents were aged and still alive. So we went back to our homerooms and school was immediately dismissed. And then came the assassinations of MLK, Jr. and Bobbie Kennedy. Those were horrible and shocking. My grandparents died during these years too which added to the tumult. Our family got a weekly magazine called Life, which was very popular and influential. It used top quality photos taken by famous photographers to illustrate the news stories of the week. I remember a particular photo of Black people marching for civil rights. They were being chased and harassed by police using fire hoses and German shepherds. The force of the water on the people virtually knocked them over. It made me angry to see people who were marching peacefully treated so cruelly. Now you know why the Black Lives Matter movement has such deep and distant echoes. The entire civil rights era was photographed and presented in Life and its rival, Look magazine, both large format (like about 12 x 14" at least) so the pictures had real impact. And let's see, there was the flower child and hippie movement and surfers. The Beach boys surfer craze caused us all to wear our hair long, parted in the middle, and ironed flat. We used spray on bleach called Sun-in that worked with the sunshine to give our hair blonde highlights. I embroidered a pair of green jeans and wore them proudly until I outgrew them. I made myself a dark brown suede vest with long fringes to which I attached plastic pony beads. When I walked the fringes swayed and clicked on a very satisfying way. I taught myself to play the guitar because folk music was extremely popular with Peter, Paul and Mary, the Kingston Trio (we had at least 15 of their LP albums), Pete Seeger and Joan Baez. I still have my journal book in which I wrote down the lyrics to all the folk songs I knew -- several hundred. I graduated from HS (head of the yearbook staff, I was an art student too), and then went to the local college in my hometown and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, then I went to Penn State and got a Master of Education in Art. My Mother never got to college, she went to secretarial school where she met my Dad. She wrote to him all through the war and I think they came to an understanding that each thought the other was very special. We still have Dad's letters home to his parents, as he went from Africa to Sardinia, into France and finally after the war, into Germany. He loaded bombs on bombers and cleaned the guns on them so they would operate without jamming up. In the Sahara, blowing sand was an enemy of those guns, jamming them up. When he came home from the War in late 1945, they dated and were then married in 1946. I met my husband at Penn State and we married in 1975. As you grow up you can imagine what those two eras were like, read more about them, see if Google has Life magazine copies you can read online, investigate hippies and flower children and aircraft spotters! One of those might make a good essay or even a term paper if they still make you do those.
@@virginiasoskin9082 Wow! You have so many cool stories! Thank you so much for all of this. I have always been interested in history and how regular people lived throughout time. Even though it wasn't very long ago you were my age, things have changed so much in that short period of time. I think a lot has stayed the same though. I still spend time with my friends and we go over to each others houses and go on walks like you said your mom did. It's interesting to see how history so often repeats itself, like with the Civil Rights Movement in the 60s and the Black Lives Matter Movement now. I am looking forward to growing up and collecting stories from my life that I will be able to tell people about in the future. I really am so grateful to you for taking the time to tell me all of this information. It is very fascinating and puts a lot into perspective.
@@the_sky_is_blue4939 You are living through a very unique time right now with COVID. The last time a pandemic hit the USA was in 1918 with a killer flu that, on top of all the war dead in WWI, was just the worst thing that could happen especially for those in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany whose homes and livelihoods had been destroyed (the misery wasn't over b/c then came the Great Depression and WWII!). I hope you are keeping newpaper clippings of the COVID events. Or if you haven't been doing that start now as the vaccine rolls out. Make a scrapbook with the clippings, with your own photos of what you look like now, drawings, poems or music lyrics you write yourself, your favorite foods, books, movies, singers and so on. Your kids and grandkids will find that endlessly interesting because it will be a snapshot of you and your country (USA?) at 16. I have a music newsletter my Dad and his army buddies created. In it, they talk about how they love big band music and anyone who doesn't like it really isn't welcome to their club! They talk about Bing Crosby being their favorite singer, and that that newcomer, Frank Sinatra, isn't as good as Bing! This is hilarious, because Sinatra had a long and successful career where Bing was at the height of his popularity (see White Christmas!) and after 1950 was pretty much on the way out while Sinatra got very popular (screaming girls at his concerts!). So Bing slowly receded as Frank soared. And then came rock and roll with Elvis by the time I was old enough to remember -- 1955 or so. We had a TV by the time Elvis came on the very popular Ed Sullivan TV variety show (you had "arrived" if you got in Ed's show), and Elvis was singing and they only showed him from the waist up because his gyrating hips were considered wayyy too sexy. I looked at him and I asked my Mom, "what's wrong with him?" (He would sneer and twist his body as he sang.) My Mom said, "he has ants in his pants." I thought how awful it must be to have ants crawling around inside your pants. I took her literally of course, being just about age 5. As I may have mentioned, my Mom is 100 and still has a pretty good memory so I can ask her about things that happened in her childhood to her, her family and relatives. I will often wonder about something and ask her about it and she can tell me some really good old stories. People are people, and those long ago loved one another just as much as we do now, and losing a child, which was a much more common event then than now, hurt for a long time. People suffered a lot more back then, due to lack of good medicines and vaccines. Mom talked about how she was quarantined at home with some illness like measles but she wasn't very sick and was not in bed. So her Mom put her and her older sister to work spring cleaning! Imagine that. I can just hear Grandmom saying, "well if you feel all right then get off your keister and get busy scrubbing the floors." In those days everyone worked to help out around the house and kids babysat and delivered papers and mowed lawns to make money to contribute to the family. Mom's father was a pork butcher and he had stands at several farmer's markets which he went to each Friday and Saturday all year round. Mom and her older sister would often go help and learned how to measure out pounds of bacon and sausage, and make change. Mom said that one time it was snowing on the way home as the sun set and the truck did have windshield wipers but you had to operate them from the inside of the truck cabin by hand. She said her arm really ached moving them back and forth to keep the windshield clear enough for Grandpa to see to drive. Grandma kept a truck patch of vegetables and Mother and her sister helped plant, weed, harvest and can that food. When I was a kid, my Dad had a fairly large garden out back in our yard. He would come home from his office job, eat dinner and then work in the garden til sunset. We were expected to help plant, weed, hoe, harvest and process the food. We had two large sour cherry trees and we would help pit the cherries. That was juicy messy work. Mom would put them in freezer boxes to freeze to make pies, cobblers and fruit salads in winter. I can remember shelling peas (easy), lima beans (harder because the shells were thicker and watery so you fingers got all ridgy), and corn (husking it) and then Mom would parboil it and cut it off in long strips, and pack it into freezer containers. All this frozen stuff would last up til about March and then they would have to rely on canned vegetables which we kind of thought were a treat though most kids turn up their noses at canned peas. Ha, ha. Gosh, I go down memory lane and can't stop. I bet your relatives have lots of good stories to tell. Ask them how they lived through events in their own lives and see how far back they can remember. For me, one spectacular event was the first moon landing in, what, 1969? The year of my HS graduation. We sat in the living room on a hot summer night watching it on TV. We didn't know if the astronauts or the lander would sink way deep into the moon dust or what. It was also not a "given" that the lander would eventually take off as planned and return the astronauts to their space craft above the lunar surface. They could have been marooned on the moon and died there. That was suspenseful and exciting to watch history being made. It was black and white, dimly lit, but we COULD see it and then the following week LIFE magazine had very sharp, clear photos of the moon landing. That was really cool. Anything else you want to know about? Just ask.
@@virginiasoskin9082 That is a good idea to make a scrapbook. It would be very cool to look back on. I want you to know that I always have the biggest smile on my face when I am reading your comments. I love them so much. My grandparents are in their 70s now, and they have some stories, but they don't talk about when they were younger much. We were watching old videos from when they were first married last night, and from when my aunt and mom were born. They were very funny. There was no sound, but they were telling me about what was happening in each video. I sometimes ask them about things they did when they were younger or events they lived through, and it's always very interesting to hear their stories. I really love history, especially hearing about regular people's lives throughout history. I think stories like yours help people to relate more to people living in the past. You have made me realize that people have always been the same, all throughout history. Sure, new things have been invented, people have developed new ways of life, but we are all the same. Thank you for helping me to see that. I think I am going to ask my grandparents for more stories. I want to hear about them because yours are so interesting. If you have anything else to say I would love to hear it. No pressure, but you are very good at writing and storytelling and I really like hearing everything you have to say, even if I have no idea who you are lol.
My mom wore flats to do housework in the 50's. Also save the girdle for going out. Not necessary at home. Boy, do I ever remember how a girdle felt at the end of the day. Kudos to you for making it through.
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Hello darlings! Just thought I would add that this was just an experiment to see what it would have been like to live and follow a schedule in the 1950s. By no means do I believe that all the values they had were right, because there weren’t! But some of the family values like sitting down together for meals, were really nice! I think in today’s society that sort of family time isn’t always prioritised.
Remember, vintage style not vintage values!
Sending lots of love,
Sage xx
Ghosh! Thank God you said that I was getting that really very spooky feeling from that values they had we should only keep the styles agree with you fully agree with you I am lot more sighing now after read your comment😊
Values being taking care of yourself and husband. Today is tit for tat and no one knows what their role is.
You would really think she wouldn’t have to, but just look what the person above you wrote. It’s really sad that someone would assume making a video like this means you agree with prioritizing your husband and home over yourself, think women shouldn’t work, think men are better than women, like segregation of people of color and people with disabilities, etc. etc. 😩 I have had people tell me that they think I rather live in the 40’s or 50’s. I was born disabled and have used a wheelchair most of my life. Of course I don’t wish I lived during a time where I wouldn’t have been allowed to go to school, and I’d be considered “lucky” if my parents chose not to put me into an institution after I was born! 🙄 I totally agree with you, people need to stop with their assumptions. Andddd...that ends my Ted Talk for today! 🤣 💗
New subber here you're as cute as a button
@MAGA Mandi Better values as in women weren't traded to their husbands as teens is why. You were seen as an unfit woman if you physically couldn't birth children or even carry a child full term.
It was a house rule for the wife to stop her house work when her husband got home and asked how his day went, the problem with that is she wasn't entitled to talk about how her day went with him as her problems was beneath his.
I believe in the value of having a house wive. I don't believe in the value of treating your wife like property. The 1950s had a dark underside that still treated their women like property.
Keep the home values AND look of the 1950's, leave the female property bull crap ownership behind.
People need to learn their history. We still had segregation with actual "No Blacks Allowed" signs and not being allowed with whites, grown men could actively dated 16-year-old girls and there was arranged marriages.
My own grandmother had an arranged marriage.
This is why this UA-camr stated to keep the traditional style and not the traditional values.
Keep the style, class and modesty of the 1950s, leave the rest behind.
Here's a hint my 1950s/1960s mother shared with me; the drapes were not opened in the morning until you were ready for company (house tidy, housewife dressed and hair combed, children fed and husband off to work, etc). Once the drapes were open, the neighboring housewives would know it was okay to come over and have a chat.
That’s so cool!
Yup! Then it’s Coffee Time. There used to be a song on the radio.
That makes a lot of sense actually.
Interesting! I’ll start doing this!!! Errr wait...we have things like cellphones now where people ask if they can come over 🙄 just stop by! I’d love a random visit from family and friends like back then.
I remember my mother saying something similar.
I enjoyed your program! I really was a 1950’s housewife! Actually we didn’t dress each day in stockings. heels, fancy dress and a girdle. But we did wear them for evenings “out” and special occasions. Just as I do today, I wore comfortable clothes like jeans, slacks, sweaters, etc. I didn’t spend the day with so many household chores. My time wasn’t regulated back then. Because I was my own “boss” at home , that made it a lot easier than having to go out to a 9 to 5 job and following someone else’s orders. But then we had one income.. my husband’s. I remember when my friend got a job , having extra money meant she could buy lots of extras. But shortly after,
two incomes became almost necessary as people wanted to have more things. Kids didn’t have the kind of activities after school that required driving them. My family activities centered at home. ...I feel like I’m giving away a “secret” because back then we actually had more freedom and the time to spend with what we most valued...family and friends. It was just easier then.
wow, thanks for sharing all that info Nancy, wish things can go back to that time, I've got 5 kids, my husband has to work two jobs and I need to stay home and homeschool our oldest children and look after the babies, do you have any tips for me try and keep the place clean and be this lovely 50 housewife despite it all? I so found this a beautiful and inspiring and would love to implement it, my husband isn't too happy to have to work two jobs, maybe if I could be more like back then even though I've got three children and a couple little babies, my husband will be a little happier with me.
I would love if you guys did an interview together for this chanel!
@@legacyjoyofficial that’s an amazing idea... thanks Nancy for sharing
A girdle was always worn in my house - in case someone knocked on the front door, meter readers, salesmen and the like. Women loved their figures in girdles and would again if they tried it and gave it a chance!
My mother's heavy Twilfit girdle went on every morning she rose. My sister's 18-hour girdle too. They stayed on all day until bedtime. I asked them about it and they said it was none of my business!
@@ayisha1978 well yoir husband shouldnt complain and be happy that you went through all the labour gifted him 5 kids and you even take care of all of them everyday on your own. Thats more work than he will ever do.
My Mum was a 1950’s housewife and carried her routines through to the 80’s until she passed. She had 7 children, her first born in 1955 and I was her last born in 1975. My Mum wore Scholls around the house but heeled shoes or boots when she went out. She woke at 6am daily and did not stop,she’d eventually sit down at 7pm where she’d smoke 1 cigarette and read her paper. I have adopted some of her routines out of respect for her. She was an amazing lady.
I'll bet she was really classy. I do like the dresses from this era. Things were more classier back then.
And flattering.
Agree. Flats were fine for indoors. We overthink things.
Same with my mama. House dress and house shoes for cleaning. I still change and look nice even if I just going to corner shop.
Ложиться рано до 11 часов и просыпаться рано часов в 6, полезно для здоровья, тогда не чувствуешь усталости!
Being a housewife and mother in my opinion is a full time job.
Yeah me too
I do this everyday and I'm a grandmother now.
Only thing that is different is the clothes.
I don't plan anything though .....I'm retired lol. Yeah I occasionally hang out clothes on the line. Gardening is a plus .the girdle .....never was a fan ....so I just didn't wear neither did I wear a bra ....oh wait a minute , my young adult years of marriage was in the 70's 😉✌
Yes the government should pay us :p seriously.
I agree that it should be recognized as a job. I would even go as far as to say that the husband should pay her (if he didn't already - with food, water, security, health care plan, jewelry, entertainment, new clothes, beauty saloon, transport and a roof over her head).
As for it being full time, I think technically it is a part time job, because part of everything she works for is hers (half of the: mess, clothes, dirty dishes, child, meal, and so on...)
Why the government? Trying to strike a deal on tax reduction? :p
And an amazing one imo. Shamed out of the home women were.. not EVEN a "choice" for many
I well remember my mother as a homemaker in the 50s with four children, loss of a pregnancy at 6 months, a miscarriage plus two more full term pregnancies. She had a strict schedule of washing clothes and hanging all of them up on Monday using an old style washer wherein she had to manually run the washed clothes through a wringer. A general sweep through the house making beds (kids made their own if old enough), clearing clutter, sweeping floors manually washing dishes. Kids took turn washing evening dishes if old enough. Tuesday she sat at an Ironrite mangle to iron all the clothes while listening to Arthur Godfrey, taking care of baby or toddlers. During the week she always had a full meal for six on the table at supper but for breakfast she made coffee and dad had cereal. Kids had cereal, too. Mom made sack lunches for dad and all school-aged kids. Wednesday was a full day of top to bottom house cleaning. Thursday all the beds, bunk beds and crib were stripped and made up with clean bedding and dirty sheets and pillow cases were washed, wrung and hung on the line. Continual light cleaning and straightening of house, taking care of baby, sterilizing bottles, washing cloth diapers. Friday at least three little children accompanied her on the city bus to a small supermarket where she got all the groceries on the list she had prepared for the following week’s meals. Then a trip into the five and dime store for fabric and crochet thread and then she corralled all the kids and grocery bags, boarded the city bus and went home to put it all away. Friday supper was all the week’s leftovers, fresh egg salad and by the 60s, also a frozen pizza. Saturday another deep house cleaning while dad tackled the yard, car, cleaned the garage, fixed anything that was broken, put up and took down storm windows, they both tended a huge vegetable garden, all the kids pulled weeds, Saturday night baths for everyone plus mom washed the girls’s hair and set them in rollers and prepared clothes for Sunday Mass. Sunday besides early Mass, my mother prepared the biggest meal of the week, dad set the dining room table with the best dishes and China and we all sat down together at noon. Every day of the week plus after Sunday dinner, we all knelt down together and said the family rosary. Both my parents quit smoking by 1953, neither took drugs and dad had one beer before supper. My mother also sewed ALL the girls clothes, dresses and pajamas for everyone and sewed all her clothes. She knit mittens and scarves, crocheted table clothes and doilies, knit sweaters and even our dishcloths in later years. She was Wonder Woman because she also painted rooms, made curtains and the most perfect pinch pleated drapes. Sadly because of the loss of the baby in 1957, she had a nervous breakdown in spring of 1958, spent three months in a mental hospital and had 14 shock therapy treatments. How could any woman keep up this schedule for years and not go stark raving mad? The oldest child was born in 1943 and the youngest was born in 1965 when she was 43. She was my hero and a saint and I miss her every day.
Your mother and father were legends and how could anyone not respect that.
I was born in 1957 in NZ. My parents had 7 kids and did much of the same things as yours. Except it was my Dad who cooked us all a big breakfast/lunch after mass on Sunday and let my mum and the baby rest when we got home. It was also on Saturdays if he wasnt at work he would get up early and make us all breakfast and take us out to the beach so mum and the baby could have a little lie in. Feck they all worked tirelessly in those days.
Thank you for your lovely story, I can so relate.
Omg wonderwoman isn't enough to describe her
It feels surreal as a member of the gen z to read all your comments filled with so much love and nostalgia. This touched my heart❤️
Thank you for sharing a glimpse of.your childhood with us. I'm a Millennial that washed all curtains deep clean 2 restroom today and I'm beat.....ordered takeout for dinner 😬 hat off to your Mother wow!
I must thank you for your careful documentation and add that THIS was the type of routine and business of life in the 1950's and 60's that we were used to, with increased/modified chore types depending on number of children/income. For example, we didn't have as many children, but my mother sewed ALL our clothes except underwear, msdr our coats, and knit all our sweaters, slippers, etc. And remember also Young Folks 😉, there was a great deal more to do than listed here- birthdsy parties (everything homemade including decorations and games), halloween costumes, homework, volunteer work at the schools or religious institutions. I lived through it then and I still struggle to fully grasp how it all got done. I wish I could express my awakened appreciation to them now.
my great grandmother passed at 103yrs old in 2001. She was born in 1898! I remember as a child going to her home and she still kept up this schedule till about a week before she passed. Still living in her own home. Her first husband died young in war, her second husband passed in 1950s and her third in the mid 80s. As per her wish she was buried with her first love. Her eldest daughter who fell out of a barn loft as a child and ended up with severe brain damage. My grandmother at 103 was still caring for that daughter at home. She was such a tough lady, guess they had to be back then. Perfectly meticulous house looked like a time capsule becasue she took such good care of everything she owned. She wore a very similar styled dresses like this still everyday, put her stockings and small heeled peekaboo toe shoes everyday and yes the cold cream too! At her funeral everyone was commenting on how beautiful her skin was, hardly a wrinkle at 103! She always wore sun hats too. Anyway the talk around the funeral home was she also used every virgin olive oil om her face every night. We live in small town and i went to grocery store next day to buy some extra virgin olive oil and ponds cold cream, the shop keeper was sold out. Seems all the ladies at the funeral home were thinking the same thing after seeing how great her skin was at such an age
This is awe inspiring.
Wow
I wish I would have amazing skin!
Awww, that was nice to read. I have Ponds Cold Cream in my bathroom cabinet right now. Great makeup remover.
Awww that's for sharing that! She sound slike an amazing woman
My mother WAS a 1950s housewife.
Her day was mostly screaming...."wait until your father gets home!" ...to five active children.
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I hugged my dad & looked cute. Wait til you're father gets home. My poor mom.
Here's a tip from my mother and grandmother, who were housewives in the 1950's. Don't wear heels or makeup until AFTER your housework is done. Clean ONE room every other day, just touch up the other rooms. Then, you will be able to deep clean every couple weeks, but just keep up the touch ups so the house is always clean. Mom raised 8 kids this way. Her laundry was done by breakfast every day. This was with 3 in diapers for years. She hated the new automatic they got, and wanted the old wringer washer back, it was faster to clean cloths she said. Flats, pants and leaving the dresses and heels for when you go outside to the store or something else.
My mom missed her electric washer as well. Said the clothes weren't as clean.
Thank you for sharing! I want to be more of a homemaker and it always seems so daunting when I’ve tried in the past so I’m always finding ways to stream line. I also want to take more pride in my appearance so knowing I’m not restricted to dresses and heels 24/7 is encouraging! 🥰
Of course, we were country folk; but as late as the 1960's, my grandmother cooked on a wood stove. There was a butane range in the kitchen, but that was for rendering, canning and the like. She never became convinced that a decent meal could be cooked on anything but a wood stove.
You just described my life but find myself looking like a bum more often than not cause too much to do.
It always cracks me up when TV moms dress up to do housework. Really? Most real moms wore tennis shoes or house slippers or barefoot around the house. And simple housedresses.
You didn't make James dress up! 🤣 This guy from 2020 keeps popping up in your life
True he should have been wearing a suit, tie and hat.
@@misterdog7 And reading the newspaper after breakfast, while drinking his coffee and smoking a lucky strike
@@zackstaa7826 exactly!
Note: the women did not always clean house in their nice dresses. They often wore housecoats and flat slippers. She was a little hard on herself. Often they called and had their groceries delivered.
Hahaha💓💄
My poor mother raised 11 kids doing all this and we never had store bought bread. She baked bread at least twice a week. During the 70’s she baked two kinds of bread white and wheat lol. She had wash on the line before we left for school and allowed us to come home for lunch.
God bless your mother
Your mother was a superhuman
I wish I could be more like her :(. I have five children and as much as I dream about accomplishing so much to make my family enjoy life, I can just never seem to measure up or manage life so smoothly. I really do hope that one day I can figure it all out while I’m still young.
@@kathrinen3834 My mother said if she had it to do over she would have had all the kids help more. She didn’t want anyone touching her washing machine lol. My father didn’t want the kids cooking, he said we could practice on our husbands when we married. We weeded the garden, did dishes and shoveled snow. That was all.
God, that sounds lovely. Not raising 1q kids but wing a kid with a mom who was present and focused on home.
My paternal Grandma said that you would normally wear flats around the house, not heels to save your feet, and you would wear a house dress for cleaning and no girdle. If you went anywhere though (even the grocery store), you then changed into a nicer/non-house dress, heels, and wore a girdle. Once you became a teenager (middle school aged 11-13yrs), you HAD to wear a girdle in public and absolutely to school at all times. You washed your hair typically once per week and bathed daily. My Grandma grew up in rural Colorado.
My maternal Grandma grew up in a small town in South Dakota. When it became hot and humid in the heat of summer, the fathers would come home and eat lunch with the family, then stay all afternoon at home relaxing until the heat passed, then they would go work for a few hours later into the evening, and dinner would be at 8-9pm and was called supper instead. The rest of the year the dads would go home for a good lunch then go back to work...but the point being that families ate together for basically all meals of the day. If I recall the kids might have gone home for lunch as well often times.
A healthy and wise grandma. You should be proud
Ballet flats is what my English grandmother would wear around the house.
So interesting! We assume this unrelenting 9-5, but it doesn't make sense in every occupation.
My mum was a housewife. She never wore heals and a nice dress to clean. Old slacks and top was the cleaning uniform. She got nice just before Dad got home.
Yes, women didn't dress up to clean. They wore their nightgown and robe and slippers with hair in curlers to cook breakfast. Get the husband off to work, get the kids up feed them and tend to their needs. Then she would sit down with coffee and toast and read the morning newspaper. Then after that it was up to start the day.
Yeah, my grandmother never dressed like this lady to do chores. She didn’t even do the makeup unless it was Sunday. Or half the chores she does. & what is with that fluffy nightgown?
I think it has to do with the television shows back then. Enough showed women in dresses, heel and pearls doing housework.
My mah never did get dressed up to clean the hose she wore short and my dad still loved her
Most women did not wear slacks in the 50s. It was not ladylike. They had pride.
I'm 73 and this takes me back to my childhood. Mom did all those things plus raised two kids. Good copy of a woman's life.
Is your mother a superhuman?
Doing all the chores, cooking AND raising 2 kids
Glad my mom raised me and my brother while she worked a job and went out with friends by herself for almost 8 years
My mom had 5 kids...made us a ice skating rink and would buy used formal dresses and glue glitter on them...so we could be princesses.
My mom and my dad shared house hold responsibilities and child rearing. I’m so grateful for both them. Especially having two kids with undiagnosed ADHD, one with very mild Cerebral Palsy and one with mental health issues. It must have been so hard.
@@SimmerJanay My mom had to work when I was a child and I resented it
I was a teenager in the 1950’s and I can tell you that NOBODY did all of those things on the same day! It was more like Monday - Washing, Tuesday ironing, Wednesday house cleaning, etc., etc. We also did wear loafers or flats when we were going to be on our feet much. You need to greet your husband with a drink when he comes home - bring the children in to say hello to their father before tucking them into bed and then serving him dinner. TV in the evening and then bed.
U Just EXPOSED THIS VIDEO 😂😂😂
Different people have different lifestyles and way they lived, some people complete these things EVERYDAY and others didn't, she was just showing things people in the 50's might've did on a day to day or weekly basis, but nice comment! :D
Mother never wore a gurtle at home while cleaning and washing. This is more like a movie version of 1950's house wife. Yes we had to greet dad and even I still am left with the tradition of welcoming husband home with a drink. Either coffee, tea or beer.
This whole video would've been different if she had like 5 kids (like you were supposed to). 2 in school, maybe, and 3 at home. 2 in diapers, cloth, of course! which you had to wash yourself! In addition to laundry for 7 people.
I think she has based this on s magazine article of what somebody thought should be done by a housewife back then. It was probably written by a man or a woman who, being a magazine writer, probably had a maid to do the work. Just read an article today of what those magazine writers think a household is like and you will know what I mean. Who in the world actually has a house like those they show pics of in those magazines?
Well I think we can all agree that James had the best week ever.
Lollllll
He was enjoying those homecooked meals 5 times a day
@@princessmia5735 pretty sure not 5 times a day like you said. Who eats 5 meals in a day..
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I loved this video. I can think of three reasons the schedule was so hectic. 1) Lack of experience. A 50's Housewife would have been quicker at doin the chores, dressing and putting on makeup, because she did it all the time. 2) the chores took longer because they you haven't been doing it every day. In the 50s the dusting and cleaning the bathrooms would have been more touch ups than deep cleaning because they would have been done all the time.
With these first two, you'd have to do this for at least a month before it all got settled in.
3) and perhaps the biggest reason is all the time it took to set up the cameras and show what you're doing.
Anyway, this is a great video, thanks for doing it.
Well done! This is a great video! ( Really though, my mum would not vacuum, dust, wash and iron in her very best afternoon dress, stockings , and girdle 😱
My grandmother was ALWAYS cleaning all the way till she died at 98 years of age. Her home was PRISTINE! I loved being at her house.
LOL. My grandmother's house was pristine too but it drove me positively batty. I would throw one piece of tissue into a trash can and in less than an hour my grandma had emptied it. Also, we were required to sleep ON TOP of the bed-spread so we woudn't make her feel obliged to wash and re-make the bedsheets. And god forbid I ever show up to her house hungry-- she would bark at me that "I'm not a restaurant." My grandad was retired for 35 years before he passed away so I think my grandma always resented the fact that she never get to retire.
Same for my mom.
Same for my grandma and I picked up some of those habits.
@@mycolorfulcottage
Me as well from my Grandma. Cleaning for hours on cleaning days....more than four. Then non cleaning days it must be about two hours over those days that I work my very long hours from home. So many of my friends have commented over the years that I have a very clean home but I personally never feel its complete. By no means am I dressing up for any of this😅
That'd great.
My mom's secret was turning leftovers into another meal. Meatloaf and mashed potatoes becomes cottage pie
Yes! Cottage pie was a staple meal in our home. My mother called it Shepard's pie. We could have a bare fridge and cabinets and she could still find ways to put food on the table.
@@dianacherry1411 cottage pie is beef mince base. Shepherd’s pie is lamb mince based. 😊. They’re the same recipe just with different animal mince
@@rachelathome7516 haha yes thank you! It's just what she always called it; that's why I mentioned Shepard's pie.
Once had a family member make leftover soup, it was quite interesting
And you survived like best food ever
I help take care of the elderly. And many of them being 50s housewives...and to this day, Their homes are immaculate.
oh I know what you mean. Some of my residents keep their home almost supernaturally clean
I worked with public school girls- they mostly don’t know how to do much in regards to cooking, housework, money management, baby care. It’s sad- but they spike volleyballs well!
@@amandasmith5344 guess their parents failed to teach them 🤷🏽♀️
@@amandasmith5344 its crazy but I remember taking “home ec” (home economic) classes in elementary/middle school & I’m a 90s kid (born mid 80s)! However, I did grow up in the midwest which as we all know is much more traditional in values....but they no longer offer it either 😔
@@Snail_Nailz They need to bring back home ec :)
I was a young housewife (19) in the late fifties. I was spoiled by my mother as I was an only child, so I didn't have much experience, but I learned quickly. My mother was the talented homemaker who had a knack for making everything nice, she could sew anything, she was pretty near perfect. Four children and many dogs and cats later, plus a full time job, I could never match up to the lady in the video, or mom. 😊
Who could? If one income could support family we'd all have cleaner homes.😜
Just do your best.
@@DraGnFly007 I do. We are a one income family, I follow a similar routine (I have kids and homeschool so have additional things I have to do) and we get by nicely, have home cooked meals and a clean comfortable home
In your defense, she has zero kids 😂 and that makes a big difference lol.
I'm a man and I've realized that the routine I set for myself recently to help with my life is literally being a 1950's housewife. Well'p time to put on my highheels! lol
You're awesome! Wanna come to my house? I'm too damn lazy.
Don't forget the girdle!
Beta!!! LOL
@@vgyhhtyhujh6500 since when helping someone you love is looked down upon?
@@Iamjustherek hahaha :D
My mom was a 1950's housewife. You came pretty close in some areas, like Ponds Cold Cream and Vanishing Cream were on her vanity all her life. But she would hoot with laughter watching you clean house in a girdle and heels. She'd be barefoot in shorts and an old shirt. Other housewives I knew would wear plain cotton "house dresses." They wouldn't leave the house in them but they wouldn't be embarrassed if a friend stopped by to visit either. They'd clean up and change their clothes before their husbands came home. I remember exercising with Jack LaLanne sometimes when I was a kid but my mom was much too busy cleaning house. She'd say that if you clean your house properly, you shouldn't need any other exercise. She had a daily cleaning schedule (make beds, light dusting, clean bathroom, vacuum whole house), a weekly schedule to do an extra chore like ironing one day a week in addition to the daily chores. And then there were once in a while chores like stripping the floors and waxing them. My mother would take occasional breaks from her housework during which she'd have a cup of coffee and a cigarette. Most people smoked in the 1950's. She took weekends off and we'd usually go visit friends or go somewhere. We were a family of only 3 but we didn't have leftovers often. My mother cooked in small amounts. Dinner might be pork chops, mashed potatoes (no gravy) and a large spoonful of canned (yuck) vegetables and milk. There would be dessert for after dinner. Our meals were definitely not as healthy as the ones you prepared. Most people were not very informed about nutrition. They were a generation who lived through the Great Depression. They were grateful just to have food on the table every night. My dad liked to see red meat on his plate because he was proud he could afford it and felt he deserved it as the wage earner. But true to the image of the 1950's housewife's reputation for thrift, my mother would often serve us thriftier meals like chicken ala king served on toast, much to my dad's disgust and my delight.
I recall creamed eggs and string beans on toast, Welsh rarebit, too. On Sunday nights, there'd be a family talent show with popcorn while homemade pizza was cooking or maybe the talent show after the pizza, Yes, the daily chores, on Saturday chores including Altar Society assigned cleaning the church duties, and fixing Sunday breakfast ahead of time. Inevitably, in the afternoon there would be a chicken cooking in the pressure cooker, and the tooting when the pressure was attained and the heat lowered, then the dratted smell of pressure-cooked chicken while removing bones of the hot chicken to quickly place in the refrigerator. Mother sure knew how to cook a chicken with fluffy dumplings, though. I've never seen anyone cook it the way she did. Father's choice of a special meal, baked steak, potatoes, cabbage salad or canned spinach, and the ever popular red or green Jell-O or pudding for dessert. Before there were too many of us, she baked pies, and we'd wait for her to put cinnamon and butter on the extra piecrust for pinwheel cookies.
@@engletinaknickerbocker5380 I was around 9 years old when my father came home with a cheese pizza. It was an exotic food to us. We weren't impressed and I didn't eat another one for some years. Of course, my dad hadn't know that the toppings were .important and worth the extra cost.
I agree with your comments, no housewife would do housework in their best dress and outdoor shoes! And fruit for breakfast? More likely porridge and golden syrup. Also no meal plans, they shopped every day.
I remember the 50s, and while many folks smoked, the majority did not. I recall our teachers relaying the dangers of smoking back then. My father was the only smoker in my family.
@@LUIS-ox1bv I was born in 1948. My parents, very respectable hard-working people smoked. My aunts and uncles all smoked. All my parents' friends smoked. When I started working in offices in the 1960's, the great majority of my co-workers smoked - inside the office. The non-smoker was definitely in the minority and it would not have been wise to mention anything about being bothered by the cigarette smoke.
This makes me miss my mom even more. She was such a hard worker. And she loved her five children more than anything. Thanks mom for the best childhood. I love you.
You are so right........I never understood how hard mom worked until I had to do it. My kids are now grown and I never taught them very well..... I always did everything. You have to teach kids or they will be ignorant.
Watching this video made me realize that the way my grandmother and my mother taught me how to keep house (cleaning, setting the table, looking nice) is exactly how my grandmother lived in the 50’s! I guess I never really thought back on it, but it’s funny to see this way of life sneaking into mine every day, even in small ways!
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I grew up in the 50s and for sure women rejected that role over time. But there is definitely value in traditional roles so long as they are voluntarily chosen. When men and women appreciate one another’s efforts that’s great.
Yes, key words, when men and women "Appreciated One Another." I don't know a man at this time besides my father and son, that I would make a peanut butter sandwich for.
Yessss! Absolutely. Well said.
@Dove Smiling I respect that, my father and mother have been married for 54 years.
Awesome 😊
@Dove Smiling Thank you, I believe this. But it is something great when you have come through it all together. Now you have history and stories to tell. Awesomeness 😄
Someone has to do all the things. Now with the two income family, all these things are now being outsourced. The two incomes have to add up to a lot for it to be worthwhile.
I remember doing exercises in the morning with my mom. We would follow along with Jack LaLanne on our black and white TV.
HappyBird's Glitter Nest Me too! Jack was amazing and a freak of nature! Check out his athletic records.
I remember that too! And he had a big white German Shepard!
@Danielle Hess Yes!! Happy! I loved that dog!
U brought back such great memories. Did same with my mom!
@@katherinemcclellan8825 so did I! I was a little thing, around 3 or so.
You Truly portrayed what a female in the 1900’s up to the 1970’s who actually “have a life” of responsibility and confidence !!! It’s such a LOST ART now !!! Best and Blessings to you !!! 💞🙏
Ladies didn't always wear high heels when doing housework. That is a misnomer created by television shows of that era.
Thank you. Wearing heels all the time is how you get bunions. They were worn for going out and special occasions.
Exactly. The Mrs Cleaver (from the TV show “Leave It to Beaver”) idea of vacuuming in heels and a dress with a pearl necklace was NOT what the average housewife did. I was born in 1951, and my mother only dressed up when she went out. It’s just not practical, as you found out.
Ladies may not have all worn high heels to do housework but my grandmother did. She didn’t even own a pair of flats. She thought exercise was walking around the block. She lived in San Francisco and dressed up before my grandfather arrived home after work. I lived with my grandparents during my teen years and it was very much like TV portrayed it. She was born in 1900. This lifestyle was valued as being very civilized.
Well my mom and granny did
My great grandma wore slippers inside and changed into heels when going out. She was always a practical woman, with a very tidy house. She didn't like wearing "outside shoes" indoors cause it made the floors dirty really quickly.
My takeaway from watching this: there are some REALLY good lessons to be learned here. Are ALL of the things housewives did applicable/rational? No. Should everything they did be thrown out as a relic of times past? Absolutely not! The idea of using leftovers and being thrifty, or sewing your own alterations, OR PLANNING YOUR MEALS FOR THE WEEK are incredible. There is definitely some wisdom in these things. Just don't expect me to vacuum in heels.
Luckily for us, after reading a few comments from the children of these 1950s house wives they actually vacuumed in flats! Haha 😋
Ok guys let's be honest...She is so adorable ❤
She's even got the innocence of the times
She sure is
Yes! She Is Super Cute!
Ok, I Juuuust Finished Watching! She Is So, Adorable! I Love Her Creativity! I Bet She's A Gemini! I'm Hungry, Now And I Want Those Little Cucumber Bread Treats...😂! Thank You, For The Wonderful Video! You're A Doll!😉👌
Yes she is and not everyone can get away it you have to be beautiful to dress like this
I showed this to my Memaw, and she had a lot to say, but I'll summarize it with "aw honey. This is how society wanted us to be. It's not how we were... We were still normal women." 😅
Update: @23:17 she smiled and said yup she's gettin it.
P. S. My Memaw was a full time nurse too. Lol
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There were millions of women who were enthusiastic in the role of housewife, or more correctly as mother and nucleus of the family. A woman of this sort has greater value than a 'career' woman.
@@--legion ope, found the ignorant neckbeard chauvinist. 😅
@@ZiggyWhiskerz Your revolt against Nature is a fart in the wind.
@@--legion it's funny how many assumptions you seem to make. 😅 Calm down and eat the chicken nuggets your mom made for you.
Literally we are now expected to do all this PLUS a 40 hour work week. and that's when they decided to take cocaine out of soda
Ommmmmmgooodness seriously feel that. I live with my family at the moment and🙃 I work full time so its very hard to clean up everything.
haha well said, Miranda. :-)
This is the best! 😭😂
It’s sad
🤣 so true
A neat side affect of this experiment, her house got thoroughly cleaned.
She calling herself lazy and lousy when she does more in a day than I do in a week
hahaha, I know!
Facts. I actually have been a little inspired to clean more 😅
@@remindyouofwho7201 Same. I even ordered a duster, lol.
Yes.... 🤔
Do you have the recipe for the vegetarian meatloaf?
Housework can be viewed as an awful chore, or something that helps to bring a sense of order and comfort to your life. It’s funny how in our culture how modern housewives or homemakers are belittled and yet their parents and grandparents are considered heroes for doing the exact same thing.
It's because people shifted the goal post, equality for women hasn't be achieved just because we can work!! We deradicalized the movememts that should've been radical and now we're suffering for it
There’s still some women out here in the 21st century that CHOOSE to be housewives but then get called “lazy” or a “gold digger” etc for it that’s not real women equality actual women equality is when there’s women that CHOOSE to be housewives and not be shamed for it just like how there’s career women that arn’t shamed for it. No one should shame either housewives or career women.
I’ve never felt belittled for keeping my house in order.
I'm not a housewife but as an adult with adhd having all the household chores written down and setting specific time periods for them really helps with my toddler brain 🤣🤣
On the other hand, you are highly organized. THAT is something to be proud of!
I'm the same way. I just bought a super cool pad that has a to do list, meals, MUST DO's!, important times, shopping lists, exercise and hydration reminders. And at the bottom a space to fill in what I'm grateful for... so I don't forget to remind myself to always be grateful no matter what is going on in my life. It's been such a God send when life seems overwhelming.... in my toddler brain LOLOLOL!!
I have ADHD, and you just gave me an idea to be more productive.
*watches video*.... *Gets up and starts cleaning house at 10:45pm*
Right?!😂 Now I'm thinking of everything that needs to be done around my house. It looks like a bomb went off!
@@snoopy1390 lol,I'm looking around feeling so much shame. What happened to us?
This is not reality at all.
@@cjok8367 right?!😂😩
SAME 😂😂😂 I felt like shoot I don't clean enough
I love those 50's dresses!!! So flattering.
With those big flowing skirts. I found them very attractive. But now, it's leggings everywhere, bouncing cellulite
on display. Sigh....... Bring back the 50s, at lease this aspect of it. Liked the cars, too.
@@mtntime1 So true. The clothes were sexy in a very classy way.
I agree. And her hair is absolutely beautiful.
They are comfy I bought one for a project and then bought 2 more but I dont wear the other stuff lol
My mother was a 50's housewife. She was the Martha Stewart of her day. She had so much energy. She was the best mother ever.
Seeing this makes me realize that being a housewife in the 1950's was a profession along it's own!!!! Hats off to all the women who endured it. So much work! Makes me grateful to be a woman in modern society.
my mom would dry mop the hardwood floors. then mop them. then the next day would dry mop again to make sure they were clean. THEN, she would take paste wax and paste wax the living room floor on her hands and knees. then go back & buff them with a towel on her hands and knees. no joke.
@Peter Evans no she passed away sometime ago. But up until her late 70's, she was going strong.
@Peter Evans Whoo nelly yeah!
Yep
@Shruti Tripathy so are the men 🤠
My great grandfather used to yell at me about needing to “learn how to cook, clean, and sew!!” I was like, what is there to learn? Apparently quite a lot 😭 shout out to all the hard working women out there 🙏
He was interested in your future
To be fair I think both genders should know how and also how to work on broken things around the house and car. And yes I'm saying men should know how to sew, it's a good thing to know
can't learn that crap in school
@@GabrielleHayes1921 men should work mostly they are biological stronger than us to handle hard work compared to women we need rest days. Our generation women can do whatever they want but studies show women are so stressed and tired because we can’t run away from nature and biology we chosed to challenge it and we have to many social problems nowadays and life is more complicated.
Yell at you? Sounds like he was kinda mean! 😉
My mom was the queen of clean and carried on with most of her 1950's housewife responsibilities her entire life. But...she always took a break in the afternoon to watch the soap operas. I loved watching this video - you did a great job :)
My mom must have been her twin! Never forget the soap operas!
Guiding Light. My mom and granny never missed an episode.
Being at home with my child was hands down the best years of my life.
Housewives and stay at home mothers are magical.
My Grandmother wore a girdle like that every day. She said that it made her feel secure and all ‘tucked in’ and didn’t understand how women could go about their day with everything ‘hanging out’. It was a challenge in the 90’s to try and find more girdles for her. She passed away 17 years ago yesterday, she was an amazing woman.
My maternal grandmother had severe osteoporosis weighing only 98 pounds fully clothed. She never suffered from it as she always wore a girdle that reached to under her bra band. She'd stopped wearing heels. Grams instead wore quarter inch heels these really nice suede shoes that were quite expensive for the time about $50 a pair and definitely the Keds tennis shoes. she never suffered from the osteoporosis until she was told by her brassiere fitter for her new mastectomy bra (because she didn't have a rebuild like they do now). The fitter stated grams didn't need a girdle she was so tiny and thin, even though she'd 4 children and was one who'd moved from corsets to girdles. All her lifetime her body had been supported by this type of garment. She was now in her 70s!
Well, going without that girdle allowed her back and her ribcage to shatter when she leaned over to tie her tennis shoes! Her girdles design and length had held her body together! We had to spend months visiting her in the hospital then rehab center she begged us to take her home and we did. she was one of these people who becomes dementia it's called hospitalization dementia she honestly thought she was on the QE2 going across the pond to England's to visit the family in Scotland and going with her dead husband who died in 1948!
Upon returning home she was immediately fitted for a modern therapy girdle.. We sometimes wondered how many other women fell apart once their family told them oh you don't need that anymore or refuse to help them find a girdle once they stopped being sold in the stores?
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@@valiantsfelinesmccarty6678 do you think her body was supported by it that she got weak? maybe odd question I know they say you can get a weak back from it
We do SPANX now. More comfy. And I agree.. I can't stand to let it "all hang out' even when I'm at home in a house dress. I wear my spanx. There is a comfort in it. Glad it's not those old girdles or corsets though!
I wish we went back do girdles and slips. I see women in dresses today that clearly need a slip and a girdle.
@@sancraft1 totally agree ! But I want the same quality that they had back then! Spanx and even bras are not the same quality as back then... bullet bras are truly amazing I just wish it was without the bullet lol less pointy but unlike today's bra it separates instead of just shoving boobs up.. and therefore making one look more slender.. instead of a uniboob..
The big thing that changed is how neighbours no longer get together. Stay at home mums used to take a break and visit each other for a quick chat a couple of times a week. Always ready to help out by sharing things if one of them was running out - sugar, flour, etc. Dads used to go to the local pub and meet their friends. We were poor and didn't have much but I never felt we lacked anything that we really needed. Most people were slim because food was fresh, not processed and most people walked or cycled to work. Women had few labour saving devices and most men did manual work. The income divide was much narrower than today. Nowadays some people have much more disposable income than others and it seems to have made us more individualistic, more materialistic and less community minded. Sharing common hardship brings people together.
Unfortunately these days your neighbors very well may be the killer. People come in go in communities. So sad.
My dad never went to the pub, but in the summer he/we sat outside and kibitzed with our neighbors. He did have a semi-regular card night at one of the men's houses.
My parents always had dinner parties, my mom had tea with the ladies, and my dad had pool night with the guys where they came over for billiards.
But that stuff just stresses me out! Whenever we have people over for dinner, I spend a month stressing about it and dreading it, then for the actual dinner I have to fake my way through it with layers of deodorant and pray that I don’t get nervous diarrhea while company is over. As soon as they leave, I collapse onto the sofa and sleep for a few hours. I have no idea how people can enjoy it. Corona lock down has been so stress free. I don’t have to constantly make up excuses for not getting together with people. Do people actually enjoy getting together? I only do it out of obligation.
I meet up with moms I went to nursing school with, pretty much daily. Such a blessing that so many of us stay home now and have each other. Restrictions where I am aren’t as severe as other places.
@Xray Paul somehow I don’t think Amy Coney Barrett is a liberal feminist and yet she has a job. So did Sarah Palin and any number of conservative women so it’s not liberal feminism that changed things only.
I’m telling you this was way more entertaining than anything on tv!❤
I'm 67 I still live like this. Of course not in the US. Not an easy life but very fulfilling! I cook everything from scratch, sweep and mop my floors, scrub most of the laundry by hand before putting it in the washer, do all dishes by hand...no dishwasher appliance. Water all my plants and flowers everyday plus I take care of my very disabled daughter (physically and mentally) used to have some help before but since the pandemic no help from outside at all. Alot of work but I still find time to excercise every morning before dawn as I need to keep (and build) my strenght. I guess the key is to be grateful for the many blessings I have.
I do most of this too, but still seeing it like this makes me tired! I think we just get used to doing it every day and don’t realize how exhausting it truly is. I will admit to not doing actual daily exercise but three grandsons are here everyday so playing with them counts for something 😉
@@mskerriboberri thanks for taking the time to reply. And you're right about your grandsons! Mine only comes once every one or two weeks and I end up exhausted. He is in the 'terrible twos', so I can't imagine handling 3 kids at once every day!!! Bet you burn more calories than I! Take care and sending regards from Guatemala.
Edit: the name on the Chat refers to a French painter I love but I'm for sure a Grandma!
Iam in the same boat iam 32 single mam to two girls and a carer to my mentally sick mam its exhausting both physically and mentally but it's also really rewarding when you see a clean house and happy kids lol
@@eggfluffington5408 Hi! I commend you for having such a positive attitude. The right attitude lessen the load incredibly. I have a heavy load up my shoulders but my 70 y/o husband and my other special needs daughter are a blessing to me. I couldn't do it without their help. Keep up your spirits. Your girls will grow up and will be a tremendous source of support and help. Sorry to hear about your mom. Will pray for you.
@Claude...LORD bless you! I have a question for you though, what does living in the US have to do with anything? I live in the US, and a live alone senior and I have a daily cleaning, chores and errands schedule. Just curious is all.
Can you imagine trying to do this with KIDS?! JESUS 1950s mom's were superheroes
And with 15 kids like my grandmother did, she was always so sweet too, she deserved much better.
@@camilagenevieve3390 my goodness did all of our grandparents just start going at it every year lol? Whats going on?! 😂
@@madashell7224, thanks for the idea. Mwahaha! I'm gonna have my daughter help as soon as she's old enough to talk. Of course, I'll make her feel like a big girl since she'll be doing big girl things. 🤭
my Mom did with 6 kids. She had a routine. She did not do it all in one day. But she also did not have a washer machine like today. it was a wringer style and alot of work, no dishwasher, no fancy vacume cleaners. My father had a push mower and no snow blowers. We also had our chores to do on cleaning day. You had to eat what she made. No special meals for picky eaters. You ate what she cooked or you must not be hungry LOL
@@madashell7224 You could’ve had the best of both worlds in my family! I not only got to be the oldest of 6 kids (2 girls and then the 3 boys-in that order) and do the milking of 50 cows and all the feeding of the calves, chickens, pigs, etc. plus the mowing o the 1 1/2 acres of grass with a push mower, throw the hay bales off the field, on to the wagon, then unload on to the hay elevator in to the top of the barn (the haymow). Then, it was usually time to head back out to the barn at 5 to milk the cows again. Mom also had to have my help with my 5 siblings, weeding the garden, cleaning the house, harvesting the garden and on and on and on...while my 3 little brothers never had to want for a thing but to be waited on and cleaned up after as they took off with the car ( dad worked over the road construction so they got away with murder) for several days while nary a scolding from their ever protective mother who thought that the boys were to be boys, out joy riding, smoking substances, and then having a hot meal waiting for them upon their arrival home no matter the hour or length of time they had been gone. Arthritis is a wonderful friend to a hard working woman, all the payback for misogyny in your own damn household growing up and fully supported by your own mother! To this day, us 3 girls keep up our homes and yards while that same sentiment cannot be equated to the 3 “boys” for that is what they forever will be to my mom. I’m so glad the 1950’s are history for the sake of women.
I love this. I was a child in the 50s, and I remember every single thing that you’re doing. I don’t think people realize that “stay at home moms“ really were busy. I raise seven kids, and got a job when the littlest ones were in kindergarten. (Two sets of twins). When I finally began my Career outside the home, I couldn’t believe what a breeze it was. It was actually a hard job, working for protective services with children. But compared to being a stay at home mom, I loved it. I have to add, that I really loved being a stay at home mom. I couldn’t have loved it more.
The blouse was too big so she “quickly put it on the sewing machine and sewed in a few darts.” Seriously, Sage, you are my inspiration. I can’t even darn a sock with a hand needle and thread without feeling like a total backwoods loser. 😢😂😂
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This oddly gives me motivation to do house chores
Same!
Me too!
Sudden urge to empty and fill the dishwasher!
I come back to this video every time I get lazy and need motivation to do chores
Same, I paused the video to clean my house 😂
Who just got this randomly in there recommended?
I did. It was weak. Nobody was vegan in the '50s. She based it on TV's fantasy '50s family, not real life.
@@larryrogers9217 nobody is a vegan in this video.
@@larryrogers9217 My Mom turned vegan in her late teens. (1924-2018) I am fairly certain she was Preventions magazine's first subscriber!!
Yah me
Me, but I liked it💁🏽♀️
My mother never came out of the bedroom in her robe, she was always dressed. My dad never came to the table in a T shirt, he was always dressed except for his tie and suit jacket. My mother's exercise was housework and taking care of 8 kids
My mam tells me stories like this, from the late eighties when she was with my dad. My ganda never came out in a robe or anything he was always fully clothed, even when he was sick in his latter years. My mam told me how he only started to come downstairs in his knickers and top after my dad moved in when they were married. My mam was fully on so embarrassed
Do you think that you would have preferred this way or would you have preferred a more casual lifestyle? No hate, I’m just super curious.
your mom was a rockstar I appreciate women of that era
I NEVER saw my step grandmother without her makeup on or in a pair of slacks, always a skirt suit I think I may have seen her in a pair of garden shoes buut they were definitely kept in the shed away from eyes. Apart from that she always wore black 1 inch patent leather heels.
Her hair could double as a crash helmet it was so thick with hair spray.
I love this!
You pull off that vintage look impeccably well! It's like you're actually from that time.
There's a reason why every 50s housewife had house slippers. Shoes were worn when going out or having guests or during honeymoon stage of marriage
Also, I highly doubt they wore such fancy dresses for housework, even with an apron. That t-shirt dress she wore towards the end of the week was probably more what they wore during the housework bits every day, and then changed into the nicer dresses for going shopping or having company over, and when the family came home. Definitely no on the pencil skirts for housework (though I did like that denim one!), as that would have been way too impractical.
That's what I was just about to say. Mum had house dresses and shoes, and going out dresses and shoes. But I must say, my mum ALWAYS had her hair and makeup looking like this.
In my house we wear slippers or house shoes inside, and save the others for going out! It’s more hygienic, keeps the floors clean, and the feet aerated and comfy!
@@felisd yes. My mom was a 50s housewife. She had house dresses like a cotton robe with snaps.
@@felisd My mom wore a house dress. Kmart sold them when I was a kid.
Something my grandma used to say about chores:
Skip one day, you'll notice. Skip two days, your family will notice. Skip three days, your visitors will notice.
I don't stick to these rules but I do understand what she meant.
My grandma too
Wonderful words of wisdom.
So so true.
Wise words
Skip a year and no one would notice
The job gets infinitely more difficult with babies and little children around.
Yes I was thinking that. In 2020 I do that every day with 3 kids (including a 1 year old baby) and I also work a part time from home in the computer.
Was thinking the same thing lying next to my 8 month old so he sleep bcuz he’s taking reflux med and has insomnia at the moment from the meds so he only sleep if I’m next to him 😩 i do love cuddling with him but it’s been a hard week like this hope he’ll be better in a few days
Yes!! I have to do that in two hours while my baby naps and then that’s all for today! Haha
@@SusiesTips Yes like when you want to vacuum and you pick all their crap up and put them away get the vacuum out then they trash the room just to be difficult.
@@ContoseFadas. I was the same! It gets better :)
You are a fantastic cook, I’m so proud of you young lady. You brought back so many lovely memories for me as a child of the 1950s! All of the 1950s as I was born in 1950. I am so into making clothes from vintage patterns now. The dresses made a woman look feminine back then. Thank you for a beautiful video.
No wonder moms always sent the kids out to play all day, imaging doing all theses chores with kids running around too! What a nightmare lol!
That’s what my mom did. Or I’d play by myself or with my brother or sister. My mom never sat down and played with us. Parents didn’t play with there kids or schedule everything for their kids. Kids were kids and adults were adults. Most of the time it was two separate worlds. This was 60’s and 70’s.
I grew up in the 80s where the whole family had a chore list. This was a rude awakening for my MIL as I had to retrain her son that the wife doesn't do everything, but is a joint effort by the entire household.
19 years later, I now have her on a joint schedule with the household. She realized now how much easier it is.
Lol I agree 💯🤣
It also taught kids to be creative, to be their own self-contained entertainment, to not be afraid of being outside - even in a yard - and to be independent. It shaped their whole development and the role of the mother was different. They played with each other and it helped shaped community and society
Yeah back before technology became a big thing
Not gonna lie, this was really interesting and very enjoyable to watch. It has actually given me wonderful ideas for food to try and how important being with family is
Awh! I’m so happy to have inspired you!
Really nice video -- thank you for sharing. A couple of words, however-- I cannot speak for Australia, but I grew up in the 1950s in the United States and I never heard of anyone (except TV moms) doing housework in girdles and heels. Ouch! Housewives wore mostly housedresses, ( a cheaper, plainer dress that could be repeatedly laundered but was not worn outside the home) Some women on my block wore slacks - especially when they were tending to their gardens. Nobody but Donna Reed and June Cleaver wore heels and perls while they did housework. And everyone worked hard -- not just the wife. Almost every child I grew up with had a list of household chores they had to complete. We did the dusting.
One of the things that marked this period was that there was an orderliness in the society (it had both good and bad implications) Activities dictated your wardrobe. I would never wear my play clothes (or slacks) to school nor would I wear my school clothes to church. My mother worked hard around the house all day, but by the time my Dad came home from work, she had changed into a pretty dress (with an apron) and made up her face (with her bright red lipstick) and had done her hair. We all sat down to the dinner she had prepared. (When I was older, I helped)
At dinner we talked to each other. This was not a barbaric time as some people seem to have assumed. It was a different time.
That was just adorable! Now we know why our grand daddies were so spoiled! But those women were determined to make their men feel loved and appreciated because they had been through hell in the war. Those ladies had a different perspective.
I never thought of it like that, but your so right! It’s sad that modern Hollywood made women of that period look like slaves. Growing up I loved and despised that era because I thought these gorgeous women were being taken advantage of by their husbands. I’m very glad I came across your comment! Many blessings 😊
You’re right that sitting down to dinner together as a family is still so important and now it needs to be said without phones....time to catch up with each other.
Amen to no phones at the dinner table
I wish we could still dress like this and have our homes this way without it being weird today
Do it anyway. It’s your home.
You could. It's all about confidence.
Who said it would be weird? I think its awesome
All of this actually made sense
Idk about doing it all in heels though 😂
My grandmother was a housewife in the 50s, she would get fully dressed like you but wear her slippers around the house and only wear heels when she went out
My grandmother told me that 'heels' wore worn out or if you had company over (and when husband came home) but for most of the day at home, a pair of flats were worn. Also, Aprons were worn all day while at home doing housework (or a type of house dress was worn if you weren't expecting company) and taken off when going out, when company was over (or you put on a pretty half-apron). And no woman left the house without heels and earrings. Both of my grandmothers loved talking about "The Good Old Days"
I am 82 and I still don't leave the house without makeup and earrings on and hair looking just fine. I loathe scruffy women and those dreadful women in Walmart make me cringe. You'd have to drag me kicking and screaming into one.
No wonder my grandmother can't stop cleaning..even to this day. Shes 77 and lives on her own. She would do her lawns, get on the roof to blow off the roof, clean, cook and so much more. Ive learned so much for her. My husband is lucky
I remember my mom doing housework to the early Beatles ,8 days a week, was the song. She would pick up my sister and I and dance around the house still doing housework. Love that memory.
We listened to the Beatles too, on housecleaning days on the weekends! Dad out doing yard work and Mom, my sister and I cleaning the house, listening to "records on the Hi-Fi"!
@@madashell7224 his brain must’ve forgotten its alright 😊
@@judeflowers2813 my parents were just a bit older...my dad called the Beatles "ya-ya music" ..She loves you yeah, yeah, yeah.. lol lol lol
They preferred Frank Sinatra
There are actually plenty of good things to learn from the 50'es. For me personally, I like that they took so much pride in their home, and in their appearance. Just those two things alone makes you feel so much better about yourself, and because these areas are not neglected, they are not constantly draining your energy in the back of your head. So you have the mental energy to be social (because you are not embarrassed to let people in, or to let others see you), and to do creative hobbies (because you don't have a super long to do list weighing your down). And waking up to a clean house just an amazing feeling.
Love this advice!! Thank you!!!
Now scruffy women actually take their children to school in the jim jams (pyjamas). Bone idle and spend half the moaning and groaning about how much they have to do.
There were some really beautiful elements of this routine that I'd like to implement i.e. cooking homemade meals, and getting dressed up everyday- even when staying home, it makes the day seem purposeful. Also love that you weren't using your mobile this week!
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Agreed! In my relationship, my partner (female) works full time and I'm (NB male) in graduate school so we joke that I'm the "house spouse" because I'm at home studying a lot and have the time to take care of the house/daily chores. It's not a strict 50/50 split, my partner helps with cooking some nights and I usually have a part time job to help with added income. Anyway, I usually just wear my pajamas to do chores, but it really feels motivating to put together a "look" even if you're not going outside at all.
So basically I think I found out I’m a 50’s housewife at heart 😂 I love my home clean, to the detail, I enjoy workouts at home, I cook. At least twice a day from scratch, bake, I plan everything, can’t sit still, I even have vintage aprons. Love this video so much!!! Thank you!
How do you have time to go to work?
@@nicoletrammell3792 I’m insane, I do it around school and work, have five cats too 😬 but honestly when the semester and work gets too much I let my house go for a bit and just focus on those and cooking. It helps I’m in school part time too and right now the semester ended. I was working part time but now I work full time but it’s from home, so it’s easier to cook or keep things clean and care for the kitties.
@@Wishfull171 where the trad girls be at though? Can’t even find one in this era of liberal degeneracy.
This is the same thing modern housewives do. We do certain things on certain days and we have a list for each day. We are organized and we plan ahead.
Yes minus wanting to go to school online because I don't think they had time to do so
I honestly think people had smaller homes and lived a more “minimal” lifestyle, which most likely helped with the maintenance of stuff.🤷🏻♀️
Completely agree! I was a kid in the 70's & 80's and we still didn't have as much stuff. Also when you bought a mixer it was a quality product and lasted you 30+ yes.
I think so too, my grandparents were young in the 50's and they live minimally today which I think is an indicator of how they lived back then.
Yes the houses were smaller, and the ones from the 40's were very small
Agreed. But then again, many people did not have either a vacuum or a washing machine (or even electricity) which in turn would have added more working hours. At least in Germany, but maybe we were a bit behind... 😏
@@Panbaneesha In America you definately had electricity if you lived in a town. Now if you lived what we would now call off grid you probably didnt even have running water!
I was born in the 50's grew up in the 60's, I miss the petticoats, you only had the slips but the ladies wore tulle petticoats with stiletto shoes which made a special sound as they walked, I still have a crop top my mum wore over her thin to the mid calf slacks with little slits on the side, glasses they wore swooped up the side and had reflective glass decorated around the edges. I miss the lady days of gloves and hats, hankies and patent leather shoes. aprons when we cooked, gadgets to curl our hair. Oh. how I miss the slower pace, I wish I could have taken film of our daily life, you did a very good job. Thank you.
Id miss that too i don't blame you
It's sure better than the leggings of today, in my opinion.
I love that with you being a vegetarian and still making meat for your husband. It shows the ability for the 50's housewife to be flexible for dietary needs when cooking. I loved this video, please do more!
Uh... no. Moms were not short order cooks then. You ate what she made or had nothing. Vegetarianism was not a thing, except in India and the occasional individual who would have been considered odd.
@@iamblackthorne Rude, I was just making a positive comment.
@@maemaebakesyoutube Sorry.
@@iamblackthorne Except it absolutley was
@@maemaebakesyoutubenot rude may be she is saying the truth
This is my day LOL! Minus the heels, the girdle, and the dress LOL. I do take breaks in between. I love being “old-fashioned“ and I’m very blessed to live the life of a housewife.
You are indeed blessed.
Honestly, thank you for what you do in the house, I tried and I almost passed out at the end of the day LOL!
Me too ! Except today I am taking a nap lol . Long week!
Honestly, same. I want to be a housewife when I’m older.
I love cleaning, I love cooking and taking care of kids. People think I’m crazy but I really like taking care of myself and other people!
Right now I’m going to go to college to become a teacher!
@@irislutwen.stanley4360 I worked before children, between children, and after. Now, retired and back to the housewife role again. Loved all my roles, and hubby loves being spoiled lol xx
The 1950’s fashions were really flattering to a woman. I’d like to see some of those styles or a variation of them come back - have always loved the shoes from the ‘30’s to the ‘50’s.
I loved those shoes also and they were probably more comfortable because they were made well and all leather.
I couldn't agree more. Women looked so nice in those dresses. Now it's leggings everywhere. Yucchh.
@@mtntime1 yes the skin tight leggings lol or anything that shows off a lot of skin. What happened to elegance, or saving some mystery ☺️
Just dress like that if u like it lol Not everyone likes this style and you don't need to put people down just to feel like you are "above" them
Everyone always looked put together and tidy. Nobody was out in public in pajamas or icky yoga pants you can see their cellulite through. 🤢 People had class and self-respect and I wish we could go back to that.
My Mom didn't wear heels to clean the house. She also wore a house dress and an apron when she cleaned. She put better clothes on and fresh lipstick before my Dad came home from work. Other than that, a lot of the routine was very much like that. She also had kids to take care of. Diapers on the clothes line and a basket of clothes to iron.
I love this video. If only life could be this simple and worry free. Beautiful job Sage and James.
It can be if you choose to live this life.
According to my nana, 50s housewives did all this- but no one did it in heels. Barefoot at home unless it was too cold
This. In the 1950's, my grandmother didn't like to wear shoes in the house. She went barefoot. (Granted, they lived in Florida, so it was usually warm!) She also had a plain house dress that she wore for daily work with an apron. She had two house dresses and would air them out rather than wash each time. Her nice dress was for church. There were four kids, plus my great-grandmother living with them. Plus she worked outside the home once my youngest aunt was old enough to start school!
But my nana did everything in heels-even tending her flower beds.
@@greaselighting101 my gran did everything in slippers or sandals unless she was going out, then she’d wear heels. We also live in New England so it’s too cold to be barefoot on a hard floor for most of the year.
@@greaselighting101 My mother (she's in her 70's) wears heels to do EVERYTHING. She said she's so accustomed to wearing heels that when she doesn't wear them it feels like she's falling over backwards.
My mom said that too. She said women only wore heels to do housework on “Leave It to Beaver”.
I loved being a stay at home wife and mother. It was society that made me feel that it wasnt enough and I needed to work outside the home.
Right
That’s sad that society made you feel that way. I think being a stay at home wife and mother is admirable. The most important job in the world. ❤️
And now it's the desirable thing to do again.
@@MegaWeegee64 women started to grow a brsin again lol
I feel the same way. Society makes you feel like an underachiever or tell you that you're "oppressed." Imo, if I have to be tired after working all day, I'd rather it be from taking care of my loved ones rather than from making someone else rich.
Props to my grandmother (RIP) to wearing heels, and being a 1950s housewife.
My great grandfather is 97, and alive and doing well. He is a navy veteran, he served in WWII, was stationed in Australia, where he met my grandmother, and brought her over to the states. At 97, he can still drive, live by himself, and still helps at the church. I can't wait to ask him some questions about the 1950s lifestyle. I know that during the great depression (1929-1939) that his family had a coal and ice business in East St. Louis. That's how they survived.
How is he now if you don’t mind me asking?
I love the 1950's fashion! It's just so modest.
Wow!! Women used to do all of this and STILL get cheated on with the office secretary!
Implying they weren't banging the milk man
@@gat3wood I would’ve, but it would have been another housewife instead. I mean, gotta get it somehow.
They had house slippers and house dresses for style and comfort while at home.
I love house dresses
totally. my mom was a 50s housewife and they had house slippers and house dresses so their nice clothes were saved for outside chores and not messed up in all the cleaning and cooking. just like an art smock. also hair would have been in curlers until 10 minutes before dad got home. that's when lipstick went on too.
Bo, ypu are supposed to think it was a bad thing
I agree. They certainly wouldnt have been doing the chores in such a smart dress and shoes!
Right! That's what I was thinking. What she was wearing the last day seemed the most authentic for doing home stuff like chores. Then dress up when you leave the house. But idk.
Makes me appreciate my sweet Mom even more! She passed away earlier year. She married in 1949, was married for 70 years and raised 11 children. She didn’t work outside the home until I (her youngest) was in school. But she always volunteered at school and church....and she always looked beautiful while doing it. I miss her so much! 😇💕
❤️ Happy Christmas 💖🎄
@@mariasofola7577 thank you! You too! 🎄🎅🏼
You just made me realize why my grandma used to set the table at night lol it was for breakfast! I somehow never realized, I always thought it was weird to just leave the cups and silverware out when no one was going to eat that late. Gives some nice insight as to what her routine might have been like when she was younger :)
As above, even now I lay the breakfast things out before I go to bed, plus a quick tidy e.g. plump up cushions and fold up newspapers. I also made sure that most of the children's toys were tidied up and put away before my husband came home from work.
I lived like this in the late 1960's- 1970's married to a part-time farmer. Life was hard we were semi poor & I was young & devoted to raise a family & be his mate in life. Although, life was hard i learned alot & not all memories are bad. I gained, knowledge, skills and self respect for myself because I personally grew, I loved life & my family. So having a good & healthy routine & ck list of chores for the wk is not bad it kept me focused. I learned to be grateful & to appreciate what I had & didn't have. I have never forgotten & many years has pass but I never lost my nerve to face challenges in life or give up because it was hard. I looked into a mirror one day and seen i become a wonderful & beautiful woman wife & mother . Nothing can replace that.
You welcome Ariel Williams. I'm glad you seen my comment it in a humble light it really made me appreciate life so much more. Today I thank the Lord & my Parents for Ioving me enough to allow me to grow. I have great admiration for those ( like Sage & many others)who look back on the ages of time and see a quality of life one can make for themselves. Cheers!
No that’s not right. You’re making it look too simple. The 50’s vacuum weighed 40 pounds. 😂
I had one of those. I remember pulling with all my might to get that thing to move. My arms were so sore. Changing out the bag on the back held by the spring, it pinched like crazy. Those things were pure evil.
Yesss...THE ELECTROLUX KILLER!
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The Kirby was a monster. No wonder poor mom had a spinal fusion at 32 yrs old.
Lol!
After all that cleaning, I would kick everyone out of the house so it would stay spotless.
😂😂😂
😂 I just lold
Yes 🤣😂🤣
That's why kids back then were always told to sit still and be quiet and "don't touch that" or "leave that alone". That's the voice of an exasperated housewife.
For real
Wow, that was amazing. The memories of my grandmother and my mother. They were also traditional wives, but with a career it’s so beautiful to see this.
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My mother was a housewife in the 50's. She wore shorts, pants and comfortable shoes to do the work. She wiped wallpaper walls with dough on a ladder. Painted woodwork, planted gardens.
Wearing dresses and heels were for TV housewives.
You forgot a very important task, ironing! They ironed even the towels and having well ironed clothes was n1 priority.
My mom said that if a another woman sees your man in a wrinkled shirt she will steal him away.
yes, and curtains , table cloths and bedding...
@@mrsaye499 ; Curtains & bedding? Damn! My gran never did that. Curtains were for the dry cleaners (once every other month & vacuumed with the hose attachment on the old tank vacuum in between times). Bedding didn’t really need ironing - just proper folding before putting the clean extras away. Now shirts, suits, pants, skirts, and handkerchiefs, on the other hand, those all had to be pressed & ironed yeah. Most coats & jackets went to the dry cleaners though, along with certain suits & dresses. She also helped with the bookkeeping for their shoe store, which she mostly did at home after Grandpa Doug brought her the ledger & receipts for the day. They actually had their desk for that & the bill paying in their living room, across from the sofa & coffee table. That always seemed a little weird & awkward to me. 🤷🏻♀️💜👡👢👞👟🥾💜🤷🏻♂️
Very important back then, yes it was. But, I guess she & her husband don’t have anything that would actually need ironing. Virtually everything these days is “permanent press”, except for tee shirts, and nobody irons those - not even in the 1950s. They were mostly considered part of men’s undergarments back then so, no one would see them. Well, maybe somebody who was really super finicky about their clothes might have their tee shirts ironed. But, most folks probably didn’t. 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♂️
Wait... why would you iron towels? Towels don’t get wrinkled if you just fold them up & put them away. Or, did someone among your family elders use very thin towels? I suppose towels of a thinner fabric might need it? 😯❓😯 🤷🏻♀️
My mother was a 50’s homemaker. She kept an immaculate house and was very proper in every way, but she did not wear makeup, girdle or high heeled shoes around the house while she did housework. I’m sure that saved a lot of time. She fixed up to the nines when going out, but at home it was strictly her work dresses and flats. Thanks for making the video. It was fun to watch.
I make big meals and then use the leftovers for other meals throughout the week. I add a variety in between each day to add variety
aww BEAUTIFUL!!!
..wow nice to hear, brings back so many memories I truly miss miss DO MISS those days (-',
you know that’s how 50s house wives felt, exhausted and over it 😂🥺 “no I didn’t change into a dinner dress Arthur, just eat the meatloaf”😒
p.s your shoe flying off had me ctfu! bloopers at the end are everything! 😂🥰
Some of them were probably like that, and some of them were probably so hard on themselves, like apologizing for not being able to do it effortlessly (your way is better for the mental health!)
No DV was unhear of a man could beat his wife to death an nothing was said
@@mommiefields5128 the joke flew over your head faster than the fucking Luftwaffe
@@mommiefields5128 That's not true.
I was a kid in the 1950s and my Mom never wore a girdle as a regular part of the day. They were hot, restrictive and uncomfortable. Stockings were silk and very easily snagged even after just one wearing, so you saved them for church, meetings in public, eating out, or parties. She also did not wear fancy dresses like yours during the week. That is a party dress. She had house dresses (all were 100% cotton and all needed to be steam ironed), and she also wore tops and bottoms, like blouses and wrap-around skirts that were made of two fabrics so they were reversible. In summer she would wear the same things but the skirts were mostly gathered and were quite cool to wear. There were few knit fabrics then. Gathered skirts with matching tops were made of striped, floral, plaid or gingham fabrics, to give the look of a one piece dress. She never wore pants, slacks or shorts until maybe the 1960s except in forest activities like hiking. I NEVER saw either of my grandmothers in pants of any kind. As a stay at home mom, my Mother made all my school dresses and skirts. She would sometimes buy my school blouses because those were more time consuming to sew. She would then sew A-line or gathered skirts to coordinate. She would also knit sweaters for me for school. I also wore woolen skirts in winter to school with knee socks or in HS by 1966, tall boots. We had to change into shoes once at school, and keep the boots in our locker. We girls were not allowed to wear jeans or pants to school. Besides clothing, she did all the cooking except for Saturday noon when Dad did the cooking, and she did all the laundry, hung it outdoors to dry, and ironed or folded it all. She did all the cleaning, often did weeding or gardening out doors, did all the canning and freezing of veggies from our garden. Plus raising three kids, she was a very energetic and organized person so she could carve out some time to sew or knit for relaxation. As the only girl child, I learned to iron very early in life and still enjoy it though I have very few items that need it. My Mother might have whipped on some lipstick, but never wore make-up, perfume or jewelry in her daily home routine. Shoes were comfortable and NO high heels. In summer Mom and I both wore huaraches or sneakers. Living in a northern climate, we wore leather shoes in winter -- I wore saddle shoes in the '50s, loafers in the '60s. She would wear low heeled shoes in winter, or lace up leather shoes around the house. She wore those thin rubber shoe covers in winter, or winter boots that were just above the ankle, with heavy winter socks when she did the marketing or went to organization meetings. We were Pennsylvania German and so ate meat and vegetables and very few other ethic dishes, not even spaghetti or chow mein or fajitas. NONE of that, and even few restaurants serving food from different ethnicities. She made most food from scratch, eventually by the 1960's she would make cake mixes. Being a housekeeper and Mom in those days was not for the faint hearted. She got so much exercise just working around the house that she didn't do exercises in front of the TV. We had four channels on TV. That was IT! She originally had a washer with a ringer attachment, and then she hung the wet laundry in the basement in inclement weather or outdoors in sunny weather, winter and summer. She had an electric clothes dryer but rarely used it b/c it was costly in those days to operate. Eventually she got a washer that actually had cycles it would go through so it was automatic and you didn't have to stand over it all morning. She had a vacuum and electric linoleum cleaner with dual brush heads. No other cleaning machinery.
Thank you for such an in-depth description! That's very cool to hear about. I am 16 now, and I'm sure my life has been very different from yours. While I wouldn't want to live in another time, it's still very interesting to hear how much things have changed and how much I take for granted in my life. I am very glad that I have lived the way I have, but sometimes I do wish that we could bring back certain elements from the past. I envy the slowness and order of it all, and how everyone always seemed be present in the moment. I feel like people were happier then and less stressed about their lives. Everybody seemed to have everything figured out. But still, I am grateful for the freedom and opportunities I have in the modern era, and I wouldn't trade my life for the world.
@@the_sky_is_blue4939 It is interesting that at 16 you are interested in such things. Let's see. My Mom is now 100. BUT when SHE was sixteen it was 1936 and war loomed in the horizon. She hung out with a bunch of girls from her church. They would go to youth meetings at church and would go for LONG walks on country roads on weekends that would last all afternoon and often end up at one of the girls' homes where they would have hot dogs or something fun like that. As war came, food became rationed. She was in her early 20s and had graduated from high school. She had been on the track team as a relay race runner and took part in local and county school meets. She completed a secretarial course in Reading, the nearest city. When war came, she became an airplane spotter. (This was in SE Pennsylvania near Reading, PA). She went to a particular tall building in the countryside that had a good view from it's roof. She would watch for any airplane and compare its silhouette on a military chart of silhouettes, and then call in any to a central location that looked suspicious. (They looked for German planes and bombers....). I still have her official spotter pin and woolen, embroidered arm band. I also have leftover ration books. All foods were rationed like flour, sugar, butter, meats of all kinds. If you wanted lots of sugar to make jelly or jam you had to request that specially or use coupons from friends. You grew your own fruit and vegetables and canned or dried as much as you could for winter storage. Freezers in the home weren't common yet. You kept chickens in the back yard for a source of eggs. Now as for me, I was born in 1951 and my, but this was an exciting time to be a teen in the late 1960s. I lived in a small college town in PA. There was the JFK assassination in 1963. I was 12. I remember my parents drove us to a nearby city, Reading, to walk around as other people did too. I remember a department store window had removed its usual mannequins and draped a blue velvet drape over the background, with a framed portrait of Kennedy on an easel. I was in the middle school library in study hall when it was announced over the loudspeaker that the president was dead. We didn't know which one they meant b/c at that time a few former presidents were aged and still alive. So we went back to our homerooms and school was immediately dismissed. And then came the assassinations of MLK, Jr. and Bobbie Kennedy. Those were horrible and shocking. My grandparents died during these years too which added to the tumult. Our family got a weekly magazine called Life, which was very popular and influential. It used top quality photos taken by famous photographers to illustrate the news stories of the week. I remember a particular photo of Black people marching for civil rights. They were being chased and harassed by police using fire hoses and German shepherds. The force of the water on the people virtually knocked them over. It made me angry to see people who were marching peacefully treated so cruelly. Now you know why the Black Lives Matter movement has such deep and distant echoes. The entire civil rights era was photographed and presented in Life and its rival, Look magazine, both large format (like about 12 x 14" at least) so the pictures had real impact. And let's see, there was the flower child and hippie movement and surfers. The Beach boys surfer craze caused us all to wear our hair long, parted in the middle, and ironed flat. We used spray on bleach called Sun-in that worked with the sunshine to give our hair blonde highlights. I embroidered a pair of green jeans and wore them proudly until I outgrew them. I made myself a dark brown suede vest with long fringes to which I attached plastic pony beads. When I walked the fringes swayed and clicked on a very satisfying way. I taught myself to play the guitar because folk music was extremely popular with Peter, Paul and Mary, the Kingston Trio (we had at least 15 of their LP albums), Pete Seeger and Joan Baez. I still have my journal book in which I wrote down the lyrics to all the folk songs I knew -- several hundred. I graduated from HS (head of the yearbook staff, I was an art student too), and then went to the local college in my hometown and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, then I went to Penn State and got a Master of Education in Art. My Mother never got to college, she went to secretarial school where she met my Dad. She wrote to him all through the war and I think they came to an understanding that each thought the other was very special. We still have Dad's letters home to his parents, as he went from Africa to Sardinia, into France and finally after the war, into Germany. He loaded bombs on bombers and cleaned the guns on them so they would operate without jamming up. In the Sahara, blowing sand was an enemy of those guns, jamming them up. When he came home from the War in late 1945, they dated and were then married in 1946. I met my husband at Penn State and we married in 1975. As you grow up you can imagine what those two eras were like, read more about them, see if Google has Life magazine copies you can read online, investigate hippies and flower children and aircraft spotters! One of those might make a good essay or even a term paper if they still make you do those.
@@virginiasoskin9082 Wow! You have so many cool stories! Thank you so much for all of this. I have always been interested in history and how regular people lived throughout time. Even though it wasn't very long ago you were my age, things have changed so much in that short period of time. I think a lot has stayed the same though. I still spend time with my friends and we go over to each others houses and go on walks like you said your mom did. It's interesting to see how history so often repeats itself, like with the Civil Rights Movement in the 60s and the Black Lives Matter Movement now. I am looking forward to growing up and collecting stories from my life that I will be able to tell people about in the future. I really am so grateful to you for taking the time to tell me all of this information. It is very fascinating and puts a lot into perspective.
@@the_sky_is_blue4939 You are living through a very unique time right now with COVID. The last time a pandemic hit the USA was in 1918 with a killer flu that, on top of all the war dead in WWI, was just the worst thing that could happen especially for those in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany whose homes and livelihoods had been destroyed (the misery wasn't over b/c then came the Great Depression and WWII!). I hope you are keeping newpaper clippings of the COVID events. Or if you haven't been doing that start now as the vaccine rolls out. Make a scrapbook with the clippings, with your own photos of what you look like now, drawings, poems or music lyrics you write yourself, your favorite foods, books, movies, singers and so on. Your kids and grandkids will find that endlessly interesting because it will be a snapshot of you and your country (USA?) at 16. I have a music newsletter my Dad and his army buddies created. In it, they talk about how they love big band music and anyone who doesn't like it really isn't welcome to their club! They talk about Bing Crosby being their favorite singer, and that that newcomer, Frank Sinatra, isn't as good as Bing! This is hilarious, because Sinatra had a long and successful career where Bing was at the height of his popularity (see White Christmas!) and after 1950 was pretty much on the way out while Sinatra got very popular (screaming girls at his concerts!). So Bing slowly receded as Frank soared. And then came rock and roll with Elvis by the time I was old enough to remember -- 1955 or so. We had a TV by the time Elvis came on the very popular Ed Sullivan TV variety show (you had "arrived" if you got in Ed's show), and Elvis was singing and they only showed him from the waist up because his gyrating hips were considered wayyy too sexy. I looked at him and I asked my Mom, "what's wrong with him?" (He would sneer and twist his body as he sang.) My Mom said, "he has ants in his pants." I thought how awful it must be to have ants crawling around inside your pants. I took her literally of course, being just about age 5.
As I may have mentioned, my Mom is 100 and still has a pretty good memory so I can ask her about things that happened in her childhood to her, her family and relatives. I will often wonder about something and ask her about it and she can tell me some really good old stories. People are people, and those long ago loved one another just as much as we do now, and losing a child, which was a much more common event then than now, hurt for a long time. People suffered a lot more back then, due to lack of good medicines and vaccines. Mom talked about how she was quarantined at home with some illness like measles but she wasn't very sick and was not in bed. So her Mom put her and her older sister to work spring cleaning! Imagine that. I can just hear Grandmom saying, "well if you feel all right then get off your keister and get busy scrubbing the floors." In those days everyone worked to help out around the house and kids babysat and delivered papers and mowed lawns to make money to contribute to the family. Mom's father was a pork butcher and he had stands at several farmer's markets which he went to each Friday and Saturday all year round. Mom and her older sister would often go help and learned how to measure out pounds of bacon and sausage, and make change. Mom said that one time it was snowing on the way home as the sun set and the truck did have windshield wipers but you had to operate them from the inside of the truck cabin by hand. She said her arm really ached moving them back and forth to keep the windshield clear enough for Grandpa to see to drive. Grandma kept a truck patch of vegetables and Mother and her sister helped plant, weed, harvest and can that food. When I was a kid, my Dad had a fairly large garden out back in our yard. He would come home from his office job, eat dinner and then work in the garden til sunset. We were expected to help plant, weed, hoe, harvest and process the food. We had two large sour cherry trees and we would help pit the cherries. That was juicy messy work. Mom would put them in freezer boxes to freeze to make pies, cobblers and fruit salads in winter. I can remember shelling peas (easy), lima beans (harder because the shells were thicker and watery so you fingers got all ridgy), and corn (husking it) and then Mom would parboil it and cut it off in long strips, and pack it into freezer containers. All this frozen stuff would last up til about March and then they would have to rely on canned vegetables which we kind of thought were a treat though most kids turn up their noses at canned peas. Ha, ha. Gosh, I go down memory lane and can't stop. I bet your relatives have lots of good stories to tell. Ask them how they lived through events in their own lives and see how far back they can remember. For me, one spectacular event was the first moon landing in, what, 1969? The year of my HS graduation. We sat in the living room on a hot summer night watching it on TV. We didn't know if the astronauts or the lander would sink way deep into the moon dust or what. It was also not a "given" that the lander would eventually take off as planned and return the astronauts to their space craft above the lunar surface. They could have been marooned on the moon and died there. That was suspenseful and exciting to watch history being made. It was black and white, dimly lit, but we COULD see it and then the following week LIFE magazine had very sharp, clear photos of the moon landing. That was really cool. Anything else you want to know about? Just ask.
@@virginiasoskin9082 That is a good idea to make a scrapbook. It would be very cool to look back on. I want you to know that I always have the biggest smile on my face when I am reading your comments. I love them so much. My grandparents are in their 70s now, and they have some stories, but they don't talk about when they were younger much. We were watching old videos from when they were first married last night, and from when my aunt and mom were born. They were very funny. There was no sound, but they were telling me about what was happening in each video. I sometimes ask them about things they did when they were younger or events they lived through, and it's always very interesting to hear their stories. I really love history, especially hearing about regular people's lives throughout history. I think stories like yours help people to relate more to people living in the past. You have made me realize that people have always been the same, all throughout history. Sure, new things have been invented, people have developed new ways of life, but we are all the same. Thank you for helping me to see that. I think I am going to ask my grandparents for more stories. I want to hear about them because yours are so interesting. If you have anything else to say I would love to hear it. No pressure, but you are very good at writing and storytelling and I really like hearing everything you have to say, even if I have no idea who you are lol.
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My mom wore flats to do housework in the 50's. Also save the girdle for going out. Not necessary at home. Boy, do I ever remember how a girdle felt at the end of the day. Kudos to you for making it through.