Gimme a break. This was obviously written by a typical, delusional, sexist, airhead male, who thought women cleaned 1950s middle class houses in 15 minutes a day.
Home Hearth, you are making outrageous lies about how little time it took women to clean the home in the 1950s! Where are you getting these times for cleaning everything?? This was no doubt written by a sexist, delusional man about how long women's work took back then for an entire household.
Monday make the bubbles fly, Tuesday see the wash gets dry. Wednesday mend with all our might, Thursday make things clean and bright. Friday bad for dust and flies, Saturday good for cakes and pies. Sunday from all tasks we’re free, after church we’ll have our tea.
Your opening sentence said a mouthful. The 1950s homemaker. Not that being a homemaker is not a hard job… It is. But it was much less complicated in the 50s when women were able to stay at home and children did not get involved in 10 different clubs and after school activities a month. My mom would not let me join more than one club at a time. If I was in Girl Scouts, I wasn’t able to do sports. That changed when I was in high school and was able to drive myself, but when I was young, she was running our motel where we lived full-time as well as raising five kids. My dad was a deputy sheriff. She was a working mother, whose husband worked around the clock sometimes. And for being a very traditional guy, my dad pitched in. He would go out and strip the sheets off the beds and bring in the dirty towels from units that had already been vacated before he left for work so she could get the laundry going before the housekeepers arrived. I don’t remember our house ever being messy. My room was sometimes messy until she threatened to throw everything away. I was a better housekeeper when I was a teacher because I had a consistent schedule with days off every week. Now I run my own business as a full-time dog trainer and Pet Sitter. My house has not been clean for the last year as I had to move out of a storage unit where I’d had things for 14 years. Some of it was stuff that I still wanted to sort through, but I didn’t have time. My house has been full of stuff ever since. Now I’m in the process of eliminating 95% of that stuff from my life for good. In May, I will move into a 26 foot RV. Hoping to start a new chapter and living in a tiny space. I will have to keep things tidy.
Wow, such a beautiful way to remember your daily responsibilities. I struggled for years to keep my house clean with young children. I finally found a method that uses a similar concept as the 1950’s rhyme. It’s the Flylady system. It has daily focus days, weekly task and monthly tasks. It has been a life changer for me. Watching these videos I learned a few more tricks that have really made a big difference. My house is spotless and I’m less tired. I just wish I had learned about these concepts when my children were young. There was no RUclips then. 😂
I am so grateful to my granny for teaching me this 15 minute routine as a newlywed homemaker, it’s so easy to keep the house “guest ready.” My weekly routine looks a little different, for example I do a load of laundry a day and order groceries online, but each day still has a dedicated purpose. I can understand many women have/want to work outside the home, but I love being a homemaker and feel blessed to have the skills to do it efficiently.
@plant495yes I have a husband and four children. The 15 minute routine is separate thing, that get done as soon as the last child has left for school. The laundry and other tasks happen over the course of the day.
No college instilled this in my family. Parents grew up as farmers, each having a minimum of 12 children. We were all taught in order to eat, you needed to work--housework, yardwork, farmwork, outside employment--WORK, responsibility, and accountabily...no pearl necklaces. If it needed doing, we were expected to do the work well and without complaining. We were taught that our work is our autograph.
After my son was born I quit work. My husband made enough to take care everything. Once in school I took a part-time job. When in school full time I went to work full time. But by then my boys help around the house. But the one thing I taught my boys as toddlers. Everything goes back where you got it when you done using it. Their toys went back in the box. Their dirty clothes in their small hamper. Shoes on shoe shelf. It becomes a habit if you start when they are toddlers.
Indeed it does! I was raised by Grandma and she was born in 1921. I didn't know they made gravy in a packet until I went to buy my own groceries for my first apartment. I thought it was a new thing. It was 2008 the year I discovered gravy packets because I was taught to cook it ALL 😆
Things got done because women were home full time. The division of labor is actually more efficient. Couples now have more income, bigger houses and newer cars, but they don’t have more time.
Unfortunately we women were made into consumers. Advertising and all tv radio advertisements doesn't help everyone because now the world cant have enough keeping up with the jones. My husband was a clean hoarder but now simple and efficient cleaning in this household.
Exactly. I never understood my friends complaining about how their husbands never do household chores. I’ll take my household chores over my husbands responsibility’s ever day and twice on Sunday’s. 😂
@lorrainepb7944 Mine - Sunday = Weekly Home Blessing Dust/Hoover/Mirrors/Sinks all rooms. Then a room a day throughout the week gets a good clean M = Kitchen T = Bathroom W = Bedroom T = Lounge/Dining F = Hall S = Catch-up on a room you missed S = Day of Rest.
Same !!! My house is spotless. Yard too. We have a bit of property and my husband mows on his riding mower. I do the edging, blowing and maintain my flower beds. I wipe down the bathrooms every day. My neighbor brought another neighbor to my house randomly, when they walked in she said, “Darn, one day I’ll come over and catch something out of place in this house.” 🤣
Not to reveal my age, but I got to go through Home Ec in school. Tought me how to cook and balance a checkbook. Few years later, I'm lucky enough to make a good living. Guess what? Kitchen still needs cleaning. It's misleading to say that a stay-at-home wife makes no money. Their expenses are covered by the one who works and I would give my right arm for it to be common to be able to afford a home on a single income again. That, for many, is no longer the case. As such household chores division should be equally shared and agreed upon.
I remember bedspreads were long enough to cover the pillows. This made bed making so much quicker. Now we have pillows everywhere. My moms home was spotless mostly because she had specific routines and less stuff.
I remember that too. I still don’t understand why people have to have 29 pillows on their bed going halfway down the bed. That seems like a lot of work.
I grew up in the late 50's into the 60's. My Mom didn't work and the house was always tidy. Weekends were spent doing family fun things. Oh, memories...
We were comfortable living off my husband's check and my being a SAHM. Until COVID hit and everything got ridiculous and we no longer could get by. I'd rather stay home. We have a 2 year old and an 8 year old. I miss the life we had. It seemed like we actually had more time together as a family and all the bills stayed paid. Now with us both working and making roughly the same amount, we're constantly broke. It makes no sense. I cut out half our needless spending. I grow 80/90 % of our food and can it up myself. We should be watching the savings grow, not stressing over paying a power bill. Things have gotten ridiculous for no reason.
I'm single and I work to support myself. I LOVE it. I used to be a traditional wife (but I still had to have a job) AND had to do EVERYTHING because my husband worked 8 hours a day. Wake up between 5 and 5:30 a.m.--depending on the weather. Feed ALL the animals twice a day--Cow, horses, pigs, chickens, goats, dogs, cats, and husband, and pack his lunch for work. Shovel the sidewalk, driveway, clean off his pickup truck in winter. Milk the goats and process it twice a day, gather the eggs, in summer--weed and water the garden, then I went to my paid job for 6 to 10 hours, depending on the day of the week. When I got home I had most of it to do again, plus cleaning stalls and chicken coop. I had one day off every two weeks, which was laundry (at laundromat) and shopping day, as well as the rest of the chores. I did ALL of the cooking and cleaning. My entire house was cleaned from top to bottom--walls, windows, floors--everything every week. I got to go to bed between 11 pm and midnight. In harvest season there was canning and freezing food from the garden. Butchering and processing pigs and chickens. Putting up feed for animals for winter (That was one thing he did help with.) And when my poor husband who had to go to go to work for 8 hours 4 or 5 days every week, and mowed the lawn once a week, was so exhausted when he got home the only thing he could do was take a shower, eat and watch tv (I hardly ever got to do that. I was on my feet all day at work AND at home. And if he had a bad day, he would beat the crap out of me as soon as I got home. He ALWAYS took my paycheck. I NEVER got a penny out of it. After 5 years, he let me have $5 twice a month. I got two new dresses and one pack of underwear in 8 years. He got a new pickup every two years, a ski boat, new motorcycles, fishing trips and hunting trips every year, guns, etc. One day he told me that when it was time for him to retire, he was divorcing me and putting me out because he worked too hard to share anything with me. This was in the 1980's. F*ck that noise. I got a divorce, went back to school, got a career. I keep my house clean because there's no one there to make messes and leave them for me to take care of. Once a week, I pay someone to pick up my mail and take the recycling in. She dusts and vacuums and mops the floors, and picks up the trash bin from the street. When I come home I do online educational units. I get enough sleep and I get enough to eat. I come and go as I please. I have friends I spend time doing fun things with. I travel. I'm HAPPY!!! This project 2025 BS is nonsense. I'm NEVER going back.
Es geht hier im Video mit Tipps nicht um geprügelte Ehefrauen sondern wie man Hausarbeit hinkriegt. Wenn Frau noch Tiere, Garten und anderes versorgen muss, ist anderer Arbeitsplan nötig
You poor bugger having a bastard of a husband, i'm very glad you are doing well now without the loser. P.s I am a disabled single mother of 4 but my eldest who is 21 no longer lives here. 3 cats, celibate 5yrs and proberbly forever now because abuse and toxicity bfs since I moved out of the childhood home aged 16yrs. I am almost 43 the mortgage will hopefully be paid of in 14yrs. Singing and Gardening are my hobbys.
I had a shit husband too. Which was hard to come to terms with, because he was generally a kind man. But instead of asking me to marry him, it would've been much more honest of him to ask me to adopt him. Almost 10 years after our divorce, I'm still working through it, and hate how my whole personality has moved so far from my true nature. I've never even dated since, because I don't want anyone to deal with my BS. That wouldn't be fair to any decent man I might meet. But the one stupid remnant of my real self still hopes to meet my 'true love'. And that's the ridiculous reality that I exist in lmao
Governments needed more income tax payers is a main reason women were propagandized to join the workforce starting around 1965. It also resulted in an increase in the overall number of consumers which increases corporate profit. Feminism was hijacked and proud homemakers were encouraged to be resentful victims. It seems like forces were at play to create destruction of the family unit or something.?
You are so right. I'm a 63 year old Englishwoman and the western governments told women that they would be more happy by being a productive part of the workforce. But it gave our governments two instead of one income taxes per family. Meanwhile women were encouraged to majority work at low income jobs and hand over their children to the state. So millions of women were working in low income jobs and paying a majority of their wages for childcare before their children were at school age. So the bulk of women around the West were working as waitresses, home carers etc, and were paying taxes to enable them to pay other women to do the jobs they would have done as part of their daily lives. Always follow the money. It's a merry go round of women who would have been happy to stay at home and raise their children being forced into the workforce so they can pay other women to look after their own children.
No it was the war woman had to go into the workforce to replace the men fighting. Remember Rosie the riveter? This then opened the doors for women to start careers that were not accepted socially before. These new options for employment and independence were what changed things.
@teessider2600 No, women entered the workforce because they wanted to or had to, because they didn't want to rely on and be controlled by men, or because the fathers of their children took off without having to pay child support back then.
No. Where did you hear this crazy claim? From a religious conservative source that wants women out of the workforce, so women will be financially dependent on men again, I suspect.
I was 12 years old in 1953. With 2 sisters and 2 brothers It took mom more than 15 minutes to clean up after breakfast. More than 10 minutes to tidy the living room. And 10 minutes to clean and tidy the bathroom, so stop exaggerating.
Come on now, Not everyone's home is identical, where is the grace?!...you get the point..when we look back on our lives, for most of us we wanted our parents time....
Schools need to bring back Home Economics. These kids don't want to learn to cook or clean or sew. They are to busy online watching videos. I see growing adults wearing wrinkled clothes to work. It looks like they got them from the bottom of the laundry basket. They don't cook at home, they order out that gets very expensive! They used to teach how to sew and the boys had to take it too. They used to teach how to manage a check account and how to save. This was in the 70's and my grandkids are learning it at home, unwillingly. I taught my kids how to do these basic skills to be able to take care of themselves.
It stopped because women didn’t work a job then they stayed home and cleaned the house. My mom had to run off the work every day and just leave everything a mess at the house and then come home to a mess.
Ladies don't hate me, but we need to get some of this back. This time get the boys involved too 😊. A well run household is almost a thing of the past. Everything disposable. Buying by the tons. Homes more a showcase than a real home that lives.
I disagree that mother‘s going to work outside the home was the right thing. People have forgotten why we were created. Our children weren’t meant to be raised by Daycare providers and spend the vast majority of their waking hours away from their parents. It’s heartbreaking. What needed to change was peoples’ attitudes that being a stay at home mom or dad was somehow not enough and looked down upon by too many people. Stay at home parents are the future of our children,
Thank you!! Finally someone believes the same as me. I sadly was raised by a feminist. Her mother enabled it. She was taught how to manage a home but was too lazy to teach me anything. Thankfully my dad’s mother taught me a few basics like cooking and sewing. I am anti feminist and I am proud to be a wife and mother. I wish my mother had taught me how to be a proper woman. Feminism has ruined us as women. We need to go back to these simpler, happier times.
@lisakrings5419 No, latch key children are into drinking, drugs, shoplifting, trouble! I know! Because I can compare working mothers to stay at home mothers who supervise homework and accompany their kids to after school activities! My friends who were the former had trouble and we who did the latter had well adjusted, responsible kids who got good jobs, got married, bought houses have families!
@lisakrings5419 hell nah, I made in spite of through willpower and hard work though. But I'll tell you what, IM NOW A FULL TIME STAY AT HOME MOM. Bc I was a latch key kid and I REFUSED to raise my kids like that. 💯
Growing up in the 70s and 80s, my mom was a stay at home mom while my dad was the one who had a job. Like mentioned in the video, she had days to do the household chores. She fixed and repaired our cloths because it was cheaper to patch a hole than buy a new pair of pants. Only in the 80s did mom get a job as a waitress to help make ends meet. Plus it didn't help that my dad's job was having issues with the union, strikes, lay offs and all that fun stuff.
i was lucky to still have home ec class when I was in jr high in the late 80's. Wasn't thrilled with it at the time but it definitely helped me as an adult.
Good content; I just have to wonder why they used an AI voice that's a male voice speaking about wiping down a countertop with the ominous tone of narrating a video about the threat of nuclear war.
:( I am overwhelmed. No wonder why I always feel behind and is because I own a 2,000sft + a basement and a garage for two cars with a big yard that could hold at least two other houses. Nothing takes 15 min to do. I spend at least 15hours a week cleaning, washing clothes, fixing things, making things for the home.
Yes and now that alot of women are working 40 hours a week outside of the home and still expected to do the same home daily cleaning, cooking, laundry etc. I'm thankful for my 5am-130pm job so I can come home, nap for a little bit and tidy the house daily in hopes of not having to do so much on the weekends and actually enjoy days off.
Thats where women really lost out, a realistic balance between household expectations and fairness and the ability to get out into the world with something other than babies and household tasks. We ended up with the burden of still having to be the household engineer and have a full time career as well. We had two full time jobs and were only paid for one.
This is exactly why so many women are choosing to stay single and go child free. The men want the benefits of the income we are bringing into the house, but they have no respect for our extra work.
I had home-ec in jr high in the 1970s. It was co-ed, but only 1 year. I remember wishing we had it longer because it seemed we barely got started. We had different classes each quarter. Cooking, Sewing, Leatherworking, Shop. Boys and girls took all 4 sections together. We didn't learn meal planning, just how to make a few basic things that could be done and eaten in an hour. One day we would watch the demo and talk about what we would do and the next day we would make it. Things like biscuits, spaghetti sauce and noodles, eggs in various ways, cookies etc. Sewing was learning to hem pants, sew on a new button, fix a simple tear, use a sewing machine etc and we made aprons and pot holders. Oddly, I don't remember much about shop, just learning to use a hammer and some other tools and making simple things with wood. We never learned cleaning or laundry details. I learned that from my mom and grandma kinda haphazardly as my mom worked and did most of her routine before we got up in the morning. Home Ec should come back and have more details than we had in the 70s. After all, one constant is everyone moves out from their parents home and has to eventually run their own. It's a very important life skill.
I had the same experience when in high school in Canada in the 1970's too. My Mum didn't really teach cleaning schedules or anything useful like that... I guess that maybe she assumed we learned it in home Ec because she did. Wrong! We knew how to do laundry, iron, vacuum, dust, do dishes, sweep and mop the floors, but no actual schedule. Once in a while tidy the dresser drawers and closet. At home I learned to make cookies and desserts. At school we made simple basics as you suggested... but I can't sew past putting on a button, hand hemming trousers or doing a straight stitch run with a machine. I can hand stitch better than use a machine, learned embroidery and cross stitch on my own as an adult. Hate cleaning but love the satifaction of the results. Work 10 hr days at a job, drive an hour each way to get there and back, then have to come home to cook, plan meals, clean, laundry, drive people places. It's such an exhausting life, you constantly feel like you are a servant. I've never been one to fall into the "product" trap, I acutally have baking soda under my kitchen sink. Still hate cleaning, I don't know why.
Does anyone remember the floor polishers for the linoleum kitchen floors. A machine that had changable disc's. The final pass was done with the buffers which was the best part. Once Mum was done we'd rip into the kitchen in our socks.... wheeeeeeeee sliding and crashing around... so fun! She'd laugh, then shoo us away.
(Either enjoy this ramble about how my Nanna did it all, or skip to the TLDR at the end.) My Nanna (born 1925, UK) did her morning routine - exercises, breakfast, quick clean, wash&dress, makeup - then walked my mum and my uncle (Boomers who got ready by themselves after breakfast) to school, and worked in the office there. If a teacher was off sick, she would also teach. At lunch time they all walked home and she made lunch for them, before walking back for the afternoon at school (/work). At 3pm they all walked back home, then mum and my uncle did their homework or chores while Nanna prepared for Grandad to come home from work; when she would have dinner on the table around 5:30pm. After dinner she would have his housecoat, slippers, pipe and the newspaper (ironed to fix the ink in) - along with a pot of tea - ready for him to read, in his armchair by the fire. Mum&my uncle would wash&dry the dishes, have a little playtime then reset their bedrooms before their night routines. Nanna would then be free to do her daily main chore (like mending) once they were asleep, while she listened to the wireless (radio). Saturdays were spent with grandad tending the garden (growing fruit&veg, herbs and flowers, mowing and weeding), while mum&my uncle were playing cricket, flying kites etc. Meanwhile, Nanna had her hair done, then went to the butcher, the baker, the newsagents, and the greengrocer. When she got home she would store everything appropriately, then set to a task like polishing brass items (both decorative ones on the mantlepiece, and functional ones like the coal scuttle & fire tools) and the shoes. Sundays meant church then a massive roast dinner with a pudding - all homemade, from scratch. She would get a headstart on it at home, while the children were still at Sunday School (kids' bible study group) for another hour after the main service, then they would walk home. Mum would help Nanna in the kitchen while my uncle got to play with his trains or build model aeroplanes etc... Naturally mum found this deeply unfair, and as a result she rebelled a la "dust if you must". When mum had us I took on all the 50s teachings from Nanna and started keeping our home in shape, when I was age 5-10, gradually taking on more, the more mum had to work (1990s). ... So anyone who says they didn't have to work, never met the ladies like my beloved Nanna, who barely stopped working! 😂 I count myself lucky that Nanna basically trained me (a Xennial) to be her replacement, so I still know and use all these skills, as well as working part-time, and caring for my son and my mum. TLDR: A good routine means it can still be done, even around work hours.
Those of us who grew up between 1965 and 1985 (GenX) know what the real problem was: Our mothers were never home and never taught us anything. We went from our mothers being invisible to their children being invisible.
So right. I think my mom must have done her routine in the morning before we got up as she always got up crazy early and cleaned up. We never needed alarm clocks because mom running the vacuum cleaner up and down the hallway and living room was loud enough to wake everyone. Then it was everyone dress and off to school and work and then come home, rush to put dinner on, eat, clean that mess up and spend an hour or 2 watching tv together or doing homework then off to bed to start it all over again. It felt like we were always rushing during the school year.
I'm a Xennial, mainly raised by my Nanna to be a 50s housewife AND do paid work. She was an incredible lady who I still miss dearly... My mum, not so much.
Actually I'm 1962, All the teachers in high school told us we were Gen X. Somewhere along the way someone misrepresented that. Boomers were the kids born to the soldiers after the war. My parents were born just before the war in 1932, so I am Gen X. My mother was home until I was 9 then my Dad passed and she had to work fulltime with 4 kids. I completely agree with you statement about invisability. Gen X has been a weird "inbetween" generation.
things seemed easier than today bc the housewivshad more time to do the basic cleaning and etc of homemaking. and i am sure alot of those woman slso had a sewing machine. maybe not an electric one. but maybe a treadle machine that was passed down from their mother grandmothers or even great grandmothers. also families lived near one another not like today. im also sure if things ot piled up with sewing or even laundry and grandma might have come over to help load and unload the wringer washer for the housewife esp if the children were super small and needed tending too. even their pota and pans were better. and dont forget abt the acuum cleaners. kirbys were and still are the best today. meals were cooked homemade and not using processed foods either. ur dinner plates were smaller so portions were smaller. u cant even buy a 7-9 inch dinner plate today except maybe on amazon and they can be pricey bc i have looked for myself. and if u were raised by a mother or even a grandmother like i was u were being taught how to do laundry starting at 2 yrs old. u used the bathroom toilet and sink? wipe down the sink with a puece of newspaper or paper towel swish the toilet with the brush and a drop of bleach or ammonia after each use. open the windows an inch each day to keep fresh air circulating the house. everyday u had chores. u learned how to sew hems and tears. and put on or fasten buttons. lots of young women ate going back to those ways of living. its all over you tube chnnels. i know bc ihave seen them. the gypsey culture women stay home take care of the hme andkids. men go to work. and they seem to be doing ok. i was a sahm hubby and i worked and felivered newspapers and sometimes did odd jobs. and yes our kids started working too at 10 hubby and i started at 7 yrs old. we had family time. and ate healthy. i cooked everything homemade. nowadays. u can make meals and desserts in crockpots. they come in all sizes and shapes. they have safer pressure cookers today than back from our grandmothers day i wish i could go back and be the housewife. again. life was simpler. we lived frugally but so much happier and yes i found ways to make money here and there hubby did too. now im a widow and have to keep working and plus do all that i used to do. and its exhausting. raisinf ur own kids and not depending on sitters is best but if u have family near u. that is a good thing too. kids can learn alot from the older generation that will last a lifetime. people r looking at ways of how the older genertio survived the great depression and the war years and the rations. from uesteryear. we def need to get back to the basica. life s way too pricey and its a big struggle to tey to survive. just my opinion ❤❤❤❤
I had an 1500 sq foot house but the house was full and heavily used. I have NO IDEA how one cares for anything larger. As it was i had a girl every other week to help me with heavy cleaning. And i had a beighbir teen every 10 days fir the lawn. Actual gardeing we did.
I was taught thus in school in the late 70’s. My grandmother and mom also ran their houses this way. I worked full time and raised two kids with this routine. It can be done. I still run my house this way.
I took home economics in the late 80 for the easy A. In the early 90's the new teachers didn't have the real skills . I was raised to be a home maker in a time where it didn't exist. These skills are helpful 😊
Not Maids, but a cleaning lady ... this was more upper middle class really. My grandparents paid for "Gloria" to come and help my mum with deep cleaning once a month. Scrubbing windows, etc.
I stayed home from my teaching career till our son was 4. I went back half time for a few years. Then full time when he was in 2nd grade. Main reason I wanted to continue to work I'll try to go home with the fries my my dad left my stay at home mom and we went straight into poverty. They have been married like 20 years. And I refuse to be a victim to that same scenario. Praise God we're celebrating our 54th wedding anniversary this year! I did have an advantage in that my mother came to live with us when our son was in kindergarten.❤
13:24 I have never seen an apron like this before! It appears to be some kind of plastic material AND it is made like a strapless evening dress! What holds it up in the front? Boning?
Growing up in the 60’s, in our neighborhood, the moms tossed the kids outside to play in the morning or the kids went to school. That’s when all the cleaning was done- and it was all morning, not 15 minutes. In the afternoons, the moms would do the grocery shopping and ironing and mending while they watched their “stories” on TV. I don’t think my mom did any deep cleaning on Saturdays, but that was the Dad’s day for washing the car and mowing the lawn.
I recall my Mum saying she and my aunt would get everything done, even dinner prepped in the morning. Then they would do things in the afternoon, sometimes she volunteered once a week at the public art gallery, meet with my Aunt or other relatives or friends on one afternoon of the week, they would meet at each others houses for tea or coffee visits. In spring through fall she would work in the garden one afternoon each week. I'm sure there were afternoons that she was doing deep cleaning or whatever. Laundry day was a full day. My Dad died young, my Mum was widowed with a one yr old, 5 yr old, 9 yr old and 12 yr old. She had to return to nursing full time, that regular hum of life changed rapidly and became organized chaos. My heart breaks for what she went through.
I work a full time work and I still operate like this. People ask me why is my place always so clean and this is why. I love the 1950s ❤ but I’m a 80s baby lol
My grandmother did all of this... while working for NYC telephones as an operator and then Nabisco. New England was expensive even then. My grandfather grew the huge veggie garden.
Aaahaha, so happy to live now😆 my husband works 100% and I work 60%. The 2 workdays less is for homemaking. I sleep till 10 and then do everything without any plan. When I'm done with housecleaning and laundry I put on my best sweatpants to go to the supermarket. At home again I do my workout and after that I call my husband to tell him that I'm tired and he should bring some dinner. Then we eat dinner in our bedroom, we both watch individual things on our phones until we go to sleep👌
schools should have age appropriate financial studies classes for 10 year olds and up, right up until Grade 12. Start with basic savings, then increase the complexity of personal finances each year.
@Marina-pz9uy Home economics isn't about making corporations richer, it teaches you about spending your money wisely & how to apply basic life skills when you get on your own.
So being chained to a job is better than being a homemaker? A job offers an income to women, true, but at the expense of to whom they are committed which is the job. Jobs/bosses require committing to that first whereas being a homemaker aligns a person's commitments to the family first. Was or is being a stay-at-home mom boring? Only if it's made to be that way. My mom was a stay-at-home mom (50s) and when we kids were old enough only occasionally worked outside the home but only for short periods (temp work) and usually to get extra money saved up for a specific purpose like new carpeting to ready the house for something like a graduation party. Mom always found plenty of interesting things to do when housework was done. She went to the library often because she loved to read and she also enjoyed learning new things whether it was via a travelogue or a magazine illustrating a new craft/skill. We all had chores as kids and adhered to Mom's schedule whether it was daily tasks or spring cleaning. It all worked and we grew up reasonably happily. Now, even breakfast at home is optional with the morning scramble to get out the door hoping to beat traffic and arrive at the job on time. The work-week is hectic especially managing children leaving weekends to catch up on cleaning, laundry, sleep and anything else left undone. Were the 50s and 60s all wonderful as a dream? No, stuff happened then just like now stuff happens but time was taken for family relationships and other interpersonal relationships/connections in the neighborhood, church, etc. that made bad stuff seem not so difficult. Today, everything seems rushed because people have to (try to) cram too much into their day much like the houses are stuffed full of too many things. It's better to focus on what's important; that way there's time for a few extras now and then.
There were many women who felt they had more to offer than just being the baby producer, nanny, cook, maid and personal sex toy. I think if you take a min to look at the mindset and behaviour towards women at that time, you would understand the unrest that many had. It's easy to use generalizations but the reality is there are always going to be women, men and other spirited persons who are very happy with the domestic life style, and those that abhor it and a multitude of persons in between who like both but appreaciate a Balance of shared responsibilities between the adult parenting partners. Or even just partners without children might prefer defined rolls or blended responsiblities.
I was blessed to be a stay-at-home mom, which is a misnomer, since you are taking or picking up kids from school or activities, but I loved it. My sister was not able to be a SOM, and she would have loved it. I have lots of respect for those who have to work outside the home. The rest of the story is that when our daughters grew up and moved,I went back to work, had a second career, retired in 2017.
I grew up in the 50s and 60s, and that wearing of pearls idea is a myth. That sprung from watching so many Leave It To Beaver episodes. Barbara Billingsly, who played the mom, wore pearls to hide a scar from neck surgery. She also wore heels, so that as the boys grew, she could remain taller than her growing children.
My Mum had pearls, they all did, because of Jacquie Kennedy setting the trend. She only wore them when going out to a function, ladies tea, the rare times she and Dad went out to a dinner party, or going to visit our Great Grandmother... or just going visiting. She didn't wear them when doing housework, grocery shopping or going to the family cottage. Though, it's important to know that the Home Ec Books instructed the young ladies to Clean themselves up, tidy their hair, make sure the house was in order and the children calm. Then to put on nice clean clothes for when the husband came home form work because he'd been working hard all day (I keep thinking of Mad Men here) and deserved a calm and fresh wife and atsmophere when he came home. You should read these books, it's very Stepford wives material.
Here was my 15-minute/day cleaning routine, in my old 1 bedroom apartment, designed in 1980 for easy cleaning. Only what I could accomplish in 15 minutes, figuring I'd eventually get to all the details in future weeks. Mon - spritz and wipe kitchen, ceiling to floor (not including floor) Tues - spritz and wipe bath Weds - mop kitchen and bath Thurs - dust open-plan living and dining room, ceiling to floor (not including floor) Fri - dust bedroom Sat - vac living room and bedroom Sun - sweep and clean up small patio. Plus 2 hours/week for laundry, and 1-2 hours/week for groceries and getting gas.
I work full time, so doing daily large housework tasks isn’t possible. Instead I try to do something to improve a room every time I walk into it. Sometimes it’s as simple as straightening the cushions on the lounge, or something bigger like sweeping the kitchen floor. I also like to reset the house before going to bed, so we wake to a fresh home.
Our cleaning cupboard in the 50s-60s wasn't at all like what was described here. There would be the dish soap, a can of Glow Coat, a can of Windex, a can of Ajax or Commet, a can of Pledge, and later on, a box of Cascade for the dishwasher. Lysol or Pinesol and Saniflush were also part of the supplies, but only a pedestal sink in the bathroom. Rags were kept in the laundry area.
GPT-4o mini In 1950, there were approximately 55 million households in the United States. Therefore, 4% of that figure would equal around 2.2 million homes that had dishwashers.
Think that I still feel the pressure of clean home. Now just retired so lots of time. When the kids were little, in sports and we were out of the house 6 nights a week.... full time work.... the pressure was massive to keep the house clean. It's a real thing... the pressure women feel
Just to clarify some conflicting information that has sprung up all over the internet: The standard for measuring a Generation is 10 - 15 yrs. It isn't about breeding age so much as being a group of persons born in the same times that share cultural and life commonalities. Boomers are the Generation of children who were born to the soldiers after WW2 when they returned settle down to domestic life. WW2 initially ended in 1945. Therefore the Boomer Generation is considered to be from 1945 - approx 1959 /60 ish. Gen X is from 1962 (some include 1961). When I was in school our teachers told us from grade 7 up to graduation that we were the begining of Gen X. In recent times the internet started to refer to Gen X as starting in 1965 (to suit some random idea, I don't know why but noticed all of a sudden there was a shift in references to the Gen X time frame.) I believe my teachers from then (in the '70's, some of who were young Boomer Adults) when they told us that those of us who were Born in 1962, that we were the beginning of Gen X. My Parents weren't soldiers of the war as they were born in 1935 and were still children. I am NOT a Boomer, my generation was distinctly different from the Boomers.
My Grandmother was working in the Army Tech 5 in WW2 engineer back then so don't ever say women weren't ALLOWED to work. One income was only taxed also back then. The government created the women workforce ramped up for revenue. Wives children could do side jobs tax free. Today the IRS taxes exchanging even food like a cup of sugar. Don't believe me look it up. I had a great depression father and a 1950s mother with a grandmother who worked even though married and she didn't need to. No excuses even for today.
@TLSUSA1 I don't think she meant women weren't allowed to work by the government. I think she may have been pointing out that back then, SOME (not all) husbands saw their wives going to work as a personal failure on their part as a provider. But during the depression, things really got rough, and it became necessary.
They took home-economics out of our schools (where I live) in the early 1990s due to funding. They kept band, sports and JROTC but got rid of things like mechanics, home economics, carpentry, and all the other ones that would prepare you for a blue collar job. I was a latchkey kid because both of my young boomer parents had to work (I’m a Xennial). Grandparents didn’t see the value of teaching us as kids to can and garden (they didn’t pass it down to my parents either). My grandparents grew flowers and peppers as a hobby garden instead of an important skill to pass down. I’m trying to teach myself and my kids via the internet but I seem to have a black thumb. 😂
High schoolers were robbed of good practical life skills when we lost home ec. It wasnt replaced with anything. There is no life skills course. My mom knew how to make her own cleaning products for pennies.
I watch this and I keep thinking how little admits to the generalized lack or respect wives received for being neat, clean and good home cooks. The generation that grew up, saw wives and mothers being treated like parasites who tucked the life out of "hard working husbands." The idea that a man needed to "leave something for the woman to do" during the day meant men, and the sons they raised often did not think it was their job to pick up after themselves, even so much as putting their own dirth clothes into a hamper. Then, there the paradigm shift in attitudes towards proper discipline of children, with stories circulating that compared telling a teenager up their room to actual physical abuse as being equally horrible parenting. My mother kept a perfectly clean home for a man who abandoned her in her 40's because he was convinced she had cost him all he ever earned, even though when she married him in my 6th year, her money management and saving earned over years of supporting her family after divorcing the husband who abandoned her with 4 children, saved her new husband from bankruptcy. Those days of spotless houses and magazine ready homes seem nostalgic only to those who never had to maintain the space where no respect was given for its beauty. I was only happy to hear the end, where the importance of every household member doing their part in modern homes was emphasized. That is what is required. Not just a system that says it is as easy as you make it seam. The belief that EVERYONE is an equal part of the continuous effort to keep things neat and clean is even more crucial. Thank you for providing this information. Even more, thank you for showing that even men and boys are part of the perpetual efforts to create a home that functions as a cohesive unit.
Well, everything didn't change overnight in every neighborhood. The 50s neighborhood accountability affected me because I had a lot of older neighbors! It still lingers since although I only had 2 years Home Ec a lot of girls opted to take in Highschool although it was optional, most still went with that idea of being homemakers. Even in a big city like the one I was born in. Also, NY is not a very progressive state I must say. I was born at the end of the 50s so I wasn't really taught those ways since I always got shooed outside by my mother. lol
Only 1 mistake. You dont make the bed right away. You have to pull the sheets back and let it air out and dry at least 15-30 min before making it. Also, the reason they dont teach this at school anymore is because schools have shifted more towards passing standardized tests and using any available time to do it as if only reading and math are valuable.
Too true! Bring back Home Ec. for ALL kids. I was one of the last years to learn it (UK 90s). ... And yes, airing out the bedclothes stops them from staying all sweaty and growing as much bacteria.
@HannahRainbow88Honestly, at this point, they need to hire us oldies who know how to do these things to teach the classes because Im afraid none of the youngins know! 😂
While I agree with the efficient way for a mother/wife to start her day and work her way through each room keeping the home clean and guest ready; this is impossible when the mother/wife has to leave the house by 7:00AM to work a full time 40 hour a week job. 😂That idea works fine if the woman doesn’t have to work but if she has to hold down a job keeping the house clean neat and tidy isn’t nearly as obtainable😅Most working moms would rather stay home to be a housewife unfortunately few households can afford it😮
It is NOW SAID, THOUGH--BEDS SHOULD NOT---BE MADE ---RIGHT AWAY IN THE MORNING- THEY NEED TO AIR. BUT I DO AGREE WITH THE REST! EXCEPT- THE "MAIN " CLEANING PERSON--NOW IS WORKING--FULL TIME!
I remember seeing that there were housewives hooked on amphetamines during this time in order to have the energy to do the housework, mind the children, and meet the expectations to socialize.
2 hours for laundry 😂 yea right. My great grandmother only passes this year. She was a 1950s house wife. Laundry was a full day ordeal unless ypu were rich and could afford one of the new in kitchen washing machines.
Nope. I'm a Woman who is a Gen Xer ( I'm almost 56) when things needed done my Parental Grandma did it, when it came to My Maternal Grandmother, my Mom and I would go to My Grandparents' house and cleaned it and their house was was Clean. Setting a day for each individual thing is actually being lazy. My Own 80 Year Old MOTHER never set aside a day for each thing, if the laundry needed done she did it, when the clothes were hanging up outside on the clothes line, she'd go into the House and vacuum, unload the dishwasher / or run the dish washer. She'd wet dust her Wood Furniture,She didn't set aside a different day for each thing. Apparently You have never heard of multi tasking. My Parents raised 6 kids and My mom's House was SPOTLESS. I'm My Parents' Daughter I'm the exact same way, if something needs done I do it, like for example, if my dishes needs done I wash them, if my Carpeting needs vacuumed I vacuum it etc. i don't dilly dally around.
School cant teach homemaking. A major part is PARENTS daily doing things. Daily dad runs the trash out or shovels fallen snow. Or if home a bit chaotic quietly rolls his sleeves to wash a dishes. DAILY. Mom says,"t eam team". And every kid stops and PUPA. DAILY a child assugned to set the table and mom says whose turn to empty the dishwasher. Daily, everyday all household contributing 10 or 15 minutes to make things comfortable for eveyone
Crazy! This is AI generated with no human input. It's like a fractured fairytale. Ask someone who lived through this time period. A tidy home was anecdotal. There are many variations on a tune. Group think is unappealing and inaccurate. People were trying to stabilize and return to normalcy after WWII. They lost friends and family. Perfect families were on TV or in movies.
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Gimme a break. This was obviously written by a typical, delusional, sexist, airhead male, who thought women cleaned 1950s middle class houses in 15 minutes a day.
Home Hearth, you are making outrageous lies about how little time it took women to clean the home in the 1950s! Where are you getting these times for cleaning everything?? This was no doubt written by a sexist, delusional man about how long women's work took back then for an entire household.
All the work you list in this video added up to more than a full day's work each day. Not 15 minutes.
Monday make the bubbles fly,
Tuesday see the wash gets dry.
Wednesday mend with all our might,
Thursday make things clean and bright.
Friday bad for dust and flies,
Saturday good for cakes and pies.
Sunday from all tasks we’re free, after church we’ll have our tea.
Your opening sentence said a mouthful. The 1950s homemaker. Not that being a homemaker is not a hard job… It is. But it was much less complicated in the 50s when women were able to stay at home and children did not get involved in 10 different clubs and after school activities a month. My mom would not let me join more than one club at a time. If I was in Girl Scouts, I wasn’t able to do sports. That changed when I was in high school and was able to drive myself, but when I was young, she was running our motel where we lived full-time as well as raising five kids. My dad was a deputy sheriff. She was a working mother, whose husband worked around the clock sometimes. And for being a very traditional guy, my dad pitched in. He would go out and strip the sheets off the beds and bring in the dirty towels from units that had already been vacated before he left for work so she could get the laundry going before the housekeepers arrived. I don’t remember our house ever being messy. My room was sometimes messy until she threatened to throw everything away.
I was a better housekeeper when I was a teacher because I had a consistent schedule with days off every week. Now I run my own business as a full-time dog trainer and Pet Sitter. My house has not been clean for the last year as I had to move out of a storage unit where I’d had things for 14 years. Some of it was stuff that I still wanted to sort through, but I didn’t have time. My house has been full of stuff ever since. Now I’m in the process of eliminating 95% of that stuff from my life for good. In May, I will move into a 26 foot RV. Hoping to start a new chapter and living in a tiny space. I will have to keep things tidy.
Wow, such a beautiful way to remember your daily responsibilities. I struggled for years to keep my house clean with young children. I finally found a method that uses a similar concept as the 1950’s rhyme. It’s the Flylady system. It has daily focus days, weekly task and monthly tasks. It has been a life changer for me. Watching these videos I learned a few more tricks that have really made a big difference. My house is spotless and I’m less tired. I just wish I had learned about these concepts when my children were young. There was no RUclips then. 😂
That’s cute. I’ve never heard that before.
I like this
@thelordismyshepherd1366 Did the FlyLady method really make it easier for you to keep your house clean while managing daily responsibilities?
I am so grateful to my granny for teaching me this 15 minute routine as a newlywed homemaker, it’s so easy to keep the house “guest ready.” My weekly routine looks a little different, for example I do a load of laundry a day and order groceries online, but each day still has a dedicated purpose. I can understand many women have/want to work outside the home, but I love being a homemaker and feel blessed to have the skills to do it efficiently.
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I envy you
Do you have a spouse? Kids? How can you do a load of laundry and put it away in 15 minutes per day, and do the grocery shopping, please?
@cjay233I do feel very blessed to be able to stay home.
@plant495yes I have a husband and four children. The 15 minute routine is separate thing, that get done as soon as the last child has left for school. The laundry and other tasks happen over the course of the day.
No college instilled this in my family.
Parents grew up as farmers, each having a minimum of 12 children. We were all taught in order to eat, you needed to work--housework, yardwork, farmwork, outside employment--WORK, responsibility, and accountabily...no pearl
necklaces.
If it needed doing, we were expected to do the work well and without complaining.
We were taught that our work is our autograph.
After my son was born I quit work. My husband made enough to take care everything. Once in school I took a part-time job. When in school full time I went to work full time. But by then my boys help around the house. But the one thing I taught my boys as toddlers. Everything goes back where you got it when you done using it. Their toys went back in the box. Their dirty clothes in their small hamper. Shoes on shoe shelf. It becomes a habit if you start when they are toddlers.
Indeed it does! I was raised by Grandma and she was born in 1921. I didn't know they made gravy in a packet until I went to buy my own groceries for my first apartment. I thought it was a new thing. It was 2008 the year I discovered gravy packets because I was taught to cook it ALL 😆
@savage.4.24 your cooking it all ….. much healthier than that processed nonsense. 👍🏻
Things got done because women were home full time. The division of labor is actually more efficient. Couples now have more income, bigger houses and newer cars, but they don’t have more time.
Unfortunately we women were made into consumers. Advertising and all tv radio advertisements doesn't help everyone because now the world cant have enough keeping up with the jones. My husband was a clean hoarder but now simple and efficient cleaning in this household.
Exactly. I never understood my friends complaining about how their husbands never do household chores. I’ll take my household chores over my husbands responsibility’s ever day and twice on Sunday’s. 😂
I love having a clean house .I clean a little every day.
I would love to hear your daily routine.
@lorrainepb7944 Mine - Sunday = Weekly Home Blessing Dust/Hoover/Mirrors/Sinks all rooms.
Then a room a day throughout the week gets a good clean
M = Kitchen T = Bathroom W = Bedroom T = Lounge/Dining F = Hall S = Catch-up on a room you missed S = Day of Rest.
Same !!! My house is spotless. Yard too. We have a bit of property and my husband mows on his riding mower. I do the edging, blowing and maintain my flower beds. I wipe down the bathrooms every day. My neighbor brought another neighbor to my house randomly, when they walked in she said, “Darn, one day I’ll come over and catch something out of place in this house.” 🤣
Not to reveal my age, but I got to go through Home Ec in school. Tought me how to cook and balance a checkbook. Few years later, I'm lucky enough to make a good living.
Guess what? Kitchen still needs cleaning.
It's misleading to say that a stay-at-home wife makes no money. Their expenses are covered by the one who works and I would give my right arm for it to be common to be able to afford a home on a single income again. That, for many, is no longer the case. As such household chores division should be equally shared and agreed upon.
I remember bedspreads were long enough to cover the pillows. This made bed making so much quicker. Now we have pillows everywhere. My moms home was spotless mostly because she had specific routines and less stuff.
I remember that too. I still don’t understand why people have to have 29 pillows on their bed going halfway down the bed. That seems like a lot of work.
@bonniegaither3994
Yes, and it adds nothing to the room!
I tried the extra pillows and decided it was too much work.
The multi pillow thingi is ridiculous. So many to put on in the morning and take off at night
Ganz recht. Heute "muss" man 6 bis 8 Kissen auf den Bett haben. Früher Bedspred/Tagesdecke und fertig
Unfortunately today usually couples both need to work in order to live and pay for today's high cost of living
I grew up in the late 50's into the 60's. My Mom didn't work and the house was always tidy. Weekends were spent doing family fun things. Oh, memories...
She worked, but not for a paycheck with her name on it! Home keeping is a labor of love.
What are the different items you do each day?
We were comfortable living off my husband's check and my being a SAHM. Until COVID hit and everything got ridiculous and we no longer could get by. I'd rather stay home. We have a 2 year old and an 8 year old. I miss the life we had. It seemed like we actually had more time together as a family and all the bills stayed paid. Now with us both working and making roughly the same amount, we're constantly broke. It makes no sense. I cut out half our needless spending. I grow 80/90 % of our food and can it up myself. We should be watching the savings grow, not stressing over paying a power bill. Things have gotten ridiculous for no reason.
My heart is with you parents who truly have to make this difficult decision ❤️.
@lisakrings5419thank you. Mine with others as well 🙏💜🙏
Move. To another state, out of city, or smaller place.
Ant okay Ben Shapiro
@anitam569already in the country in a small place. Moving to another state is not an option.
I'm single and I work to support myself. I LOVE it.
I used to be a traditional wife (but I still had to have a job) AND had to do EVERYTHING because my husband worked 8 hours a day. Wake up between 5 and 5:30 a.m.--depending on the weather. Feed ALL the animals twice a day--Cow, horses, pigs, chickens, goats, dogs, cats, and husband, and pack his lunch for work. Shovel the sidewalk, driveway, clean off his pickup truck in winter. Milk the goats and process it twice a day, gather the eggs, in summer--weed and water the garden, then I went to my paid job for 6 to 10 hours, depending on the day of the week. When I got home I had most of it to do again, plus cleaning stalls and chicken coop. I had one day off every two weeks, which was laundry (at laundromat) and shopping day, as well as the rest of the chores. I did ALL of the cooking and cleaning. My entire house was cleaned from top to bottom--walls, windows, floors--everything every week. I got to go to bed between 11 pm and midnight.
In harvest season there was canning and freezing food from the garden. Butchering and processing pigs and chickens. Putting up feed for animals for winter (That was one thing he did help with.)
And when my poor husband who had to go to go to work for 8 hours 4 or 5 days every week, and mowed the lawn once a week, was so exhausted when he got home the only thing he could do was take a shower, eat and watch tv (I hardly ever got to do that. I was on my feet all day at work AND at home. And if he had a bad day, he would beat the crap out of me as soon as I got home. He ALWAYS took my paycheck. I NEVER got a penny out of it. After 5 years, he let me have $5 twice a month. I got two new dresses and one pack of underwear in 8 years. He got a new pickup every two years, a ski boat, new motorcycles, fishing trips and hunting trips every year, guns, etc.
One day he told me that when it was time for him to retire, he was divorcing me and putting me out because he worked too hard to share anything with me.
This was in the 1980's.
F*ck that noise. I got a divorce, went back to school, got a career. I keep my house clean because there's no one there to make messes and leave them for me to take care of. Once a week, I pay someone to pick up my mail and take the recycling in. She dusts and vacuums and mops the floors, and picks up the trash bin from the street. When I come home I do online educational units. I get enough sleep and I get enough to eat. I come and go as I please. I have friends I spend time doing fun things with. I travel. I'm HAPPY!!!
This project 2025 BS is nonsense. I'm NEVER going back.
God bless you and heal your heart!!! Your truly brave...👏
Es geht hier im Video mit Tipps nicht um geprügelte Ehefrauen sondern wie man Hausarbeit hinkriegt. Wenn Frau noch Tiere, Garten und anderes versorgen muss, ist anderer Arbeitsplan nötig
You poor bugger having a bastard of a husband, i'm very glad you are doing well now without the loser. P.s I am a disabled single mother of 4 but my eldest who is 21 no longer lives here. 3 cats, celibate 5yrs and proberbly forever now because abuse and toxicity bfs since I moved out of the childhood home aged 16yrs. I am almost 43 the mortgage will hopefully be paid of in 14yrs. Singing and Gardening are my hobbys.
I had a shit husband too. Which was hard to come to terms with, because he was generally a kind man. But instead of asking me to marry him, it would've been much more honest of him to ask me to adopt him.
Almost 10 years after our divorce, I'm still working through it, and hate how my whole personality has moved so far from my true nature. I've never even dated since, because I don't want anyone to deal with my BS. That wouldn't be fair to any decent man I might meet. But the one stupid remnant of my real self still hopes to meet my 'true love'. And that's the ridiculous reality that I exist in lmao
Governments needed more income tax payers is a main reason women were propagandized to join the workforce starting around 1965. It also resulted in an increase in the overall number of consumers which increases corporate profit. Feminism was hijacked and proud homemakers were encouraged to be resentful victims. It seems like forces were at play to create destruction of the family unit or something.?
You are so right. I'm a 63 year old Englishwoman and the western governments told women that they would be more happy by being a productive part of the workforce. But it gave our governments two instead of one income taxes per family. Meanwhile women were encouraged to majority work at low income jobs and hand over their children to the state. So millions of women were working in low income jobs and paying a majority of their wages for childcare before their children were at school age. So the bulk of women around the West were working as waitresses, home carers etc, and were paying taxes to enable them to pay other women to do the jobs they would have done as part of their daily lives. Always follow the money. It's a merry go round of women who would have been happy to stay at home and raise their children being forced into the workforce so they can pay other women to look after their own children.
No it was the war woman had to go into the workforce to replace the men fighting. Remember Rosie the riveter? This then opened the doors for women to start careers that were not accepted socially before. These new options for employment and independence were what changed things.
I agree, it was all by design!
@teessider2600 No, women entered the workforce because they wanted to or had to, because they didn't want to rely on and be controlled by men, or because the fathers of their children took off without having to pay child support back then.
No. Where did you hear this crazy claim? From a religious conservative source that wants women out of the workforce, so women will be financially dependent on men again, I suspect.
AI truly is the talking dead
I was 12 years old in 1953. With 2 sisters and 2 brothers It took mom more than 15 minutes to clean up after breakfast. More than 10 minutes to tidy the living room. And 10 minutes to clean and tidy the bathroom, so stop exaggerating.
Come on now, Not everyone's home is identical, where is the grace?!...you get the point..when we look back on our lives, for most of us we wanted our parents time....
In 1974 my older sister took home economics. As a young lady, I was one of the first in my school to take wood shop and electric shop 😂
Schools need to bring back Home Economics. These kids don't want to learn to cook or clean or sew. They are to busy online watching videos. I see growing adults wearing wrinkled clothes to work. It looks like they got them from the bottom of the laundry basket. They don't cook at home, they order out that gets very expensive! They used to teach how to sew and the boys had to take it too. They used to teach how to manage a check account and how to save. This was in the 70's and my grandkids are learning it at home, unwillingly. I taught my kids how to do these basic skills to be able to take care of themselves.
I’ve accumulated to much ‘stuff’ it adds to cleaning time and stuff to clean around.
It stopped because women didn’t work a job then they stayed home and cleaned the house. My mom had to run off the work every day and just leave everything a mess at the house and then come home to a mess.
Why wasn't your father helping with the housework if your mother was bringing increased income into the household?
Ladies don't hate me, but we need to get some of this back. This time get the boys involved too 😊. A well run household is almost a thing of the past. Everything disposable. Buying by the tons. Homes more a showcase than a real home that lives.
I disagree that mother‘s going to work outside the home was the right thing. People have forgotten why we were created. Our children weren’t meant to be raised by Daycare providers and spend the vast majority of their waking hours away from their parents. It’s heartbreaking. What needed to change was peoples’ attitudes that being a stay at home mom or dad was somehow not enough and looked down upon by too many people. Stay at home parents are the future of our children,
And somehow latchkey children made it and thrived
@bonniegaither3994 did they?
Thank you!! Finally someone believes the same as me. I sadly was raised by a feminist. Her mother enabled it. She was taught how to manage a home but was too lazy to teach me anything. Thankfully my dad’s mother taught me a few basics like cooking and sewing. I am anti feminist and I am proud to be a wife and mother. I wish my mother had taught me how to be a proper woman. Feminism has ruined us as women. We need to go back to these simpler, happier times.
@lisakrings5419 No, latch key children are into drinking, drugs, shoplifting, trouble! I know! Because I can compare working mothers to stay at home mothers who supervise homework and accompany their kids to after school activities! My friends who were the former had trouble and we who did the latter had well adjusted, responsible kids who got good jobs, got married, bought houses have families!
@lisakrings5419 hell nah, I made in spite of through willpower and hard work though. But I'll tell you what, IM NOW A FULL TIME STAY AT HOME MOM. Bc I was a latch key kid and I REFUSED to raise my kids like that. 💯
Growing up in the 70s and 80s, my mom was a stay at home mom while my dad was the one who had a job. Like mentioned in the video, she had days to do the household chores. She fixed and repaired our cloths because it was cheaper to patch a hole than buy a new pair of pants. Only in the 80s did mom get a job as a waitress to help make ends meet. Plus it didn't help that my dad's job was having issues with the union, strikes, lay offs and all that fun stuff.
i was lucky to still have home ec class when I was in jr high in the late 80's. Wasn't thrilled with it at the time but it definitely helped me as an adult.
Good content; I just have to wonder why they used an AI voice that's a male voice speaking about wiping down a countertop with the ominous tone of narrating a video about the threat of nuclear war.
:( I am overwhelmed. No wonder why I always feel behind and is because I own a 2,000sft + a basement and a garage for two cars with a big yard that could hold at least two other houses. Nothing takes 15 min to do. I spend at least 15hours a week cleaning, washing clothes, fixing things, making things for the home.
Yes and now that alot of women are working 40 hours a week outside of the home and still expected to do the same home daily cleaning, cooking, laundry etc. I'm thankful for my 5am-130pm job so I can come home, nap for a little bit and tidy the house daily in hopes of not having to do so much on the weekends and actually enjoy days off.
Thats where women really lost out, a realistic balance between household expectations and fairness and the ability to get out into the world with something other than babies and household tasks. We ended up with the burden of still having to be the household engineer and have a full time career as well. We had two full time jobs and were only paid for one.
This is exactly why so many women are choosing to stay single and go child free.
The men want the benefits of the income we are bringing into the house, but they have no respect for our extra work.
I had home-ec in jr high in the 1970s. It was co-ed, but only 1 year. I remember wishing we had it longer because it seemed we barely got started. We had different classes each quarter. Cooking, Sewing, Leatherworking, Shop. Boys and girls took all 4 sections together. We didn't learn meal planning, just how to make a few basic things that could be done and eaten in an hour. One day we would watch the demo and talk about what we would do and the next day we would make it. Things like biscuits, spaghetti sauce and noodles, eggs in various ways, cookies etc. Sewing was learning to hem pants, sew on a new button, fix a simple tear, use a sewing machine etc and we made aprons and pot holders. Oddly, I don't remember much about shop, just learning to use a hammer and some other tools and making simple things with wood. We never learned cleaning or laundry details. I learned that from my mom and grandma kinda haphazardly as my mom worked and did most of her routine before we got up in the morning.
Home Ec should come back and have more details than we had in the 70s. After all, one constant is everyone moves out from their parents home and has to eventually run their own. It's a very important life skill.
I had the same experience when in high school in Canada in the 1970's too. My Mum didn't really teach cleaning schedules or anything useful like that... I guess that maybe she assumed we learned it in home Ec because she did. Wrong! We knew how to do laundry, iron, vacuum, dust, do dishes, sweep and mop the floors, but no actual schedule. Once in a while tidy the dresser drawers and closet. At home I learned to make cookies and desserts. At school we made simple basics as you suggested... but I can't sew past putting on a button, hand hemming trousers or doing a straight stitch run with a machine. I can hand stitch better than use a machine, learned embroidery and cross stitch on my own as an adult. Hate cleaning but love the satifaction of the results. Work 10 hr days at a job, drive an hour each way to get there and back, then have to come home to cook, plan meals, clean, laundry, drive people places. It's such an exhausting life, you constantly feel like you are a servant. I've never been one to fall into the "product" trap, I acutally have baking soda under my kitchen sink. Still hate cleaning, I don't know why.
My mom had a Saturday morning routine back in the ‘50s and ‘60s since she worked during the week and we kids were a park of that cleaning routine.
Unfortunately, it all went downhill when women had to work out of the home
Does anyone remember the floor polishers for the linoleum kitchen floors. A machine that had changable disc's. The final pass was done with the buffers which was the best part. Once Mum was done we'd rip into the kitchen in our socks.... wheeeeeeeee sliding and crashing around... so fun! She'd laugh, then shoo us away.
The houses themselves cooperated. Great! Now get the people to get with the program, not trashing faster than you can clean up after them
Thats because they didn't work outside the home
A lot of women worked outside the home
(Either enjoy this ramble about how my Nanna did it all, or skip to the TLDR at the end.)
My Nanna (born 1925, UK) did her morning routine - exercises, breakfast, quick clean, wash&dress, makeup - then walked my mum and my uncle (Boomers who got ready by themselves after breakfast) to school, and worked in the office there. If a teacher was off sick, she would also teach.
At lunch time they all walked home and she made lunch for them, before walking back for the afternoon at school (/work).
At 3pm they all walked back home, then mum and my uncle did their homework or chores while Nanna prepared for Grandad to come home from work; when she would have dinner on the table around 5:30pm.
After dinner she would have his housecoat, slippers, pipe and the newspaper (ironed to fix the ink in) - along with a pot of tea - ready for him to read, in his armchair by the fire. Mum&my uncle would wash&dry the dishes, have a little playtime then reset their bedrooms before their night routines. Nanna would then be free to do her daily main chore (like mending) once they were asleep, while she listened to the wireless (radio).
Saturdays were spent with grandad tending the garden (growing fruit&veg, herbs and flowers, mowing and weeding), while mum&my uncle were playing cricket, flying kites etc. Meanwhile, Nanna had her hair done, then went to the butcher, the baker, the newsagents, and the greengrocer. When she got home she would store everything appropriately, then set to a task like polishing brass items (both decorative ones on the mantlepiece, and functional ones like the coal scuttle & fire tools) and the shoes.
Sundays meant church then a massive roast dinner with a pudding - all homemade, from scratch. She would get a headstart on it at home, while the children were still at Sunday School (kids' bible study group) for another hour after the main service, then they would walk home. Mum would help Nanna in the kitchen while my uncle got to play with his trains or build model aeroplanes etc... Naturally mum found this deeply unfair, and as a result she rebelled a la "dust if you must". When mum had us I took on all the 50s teachings from Nanna and started keeping our home in shape, when I was age 5-10, gradually taking on more, the more mum had to work (1990s).
... So anyone who says they didn't have to work, never met the ladies like my beloved Nanna, who barely stopped working! 😂 I count myself lucky that Nanna basically trained me (a Xennial) to be her replacement, so I still know and use all these skills, as well as working part-time, and caring for my son and my mum.
TLDR: A good routine means it can still be done, even around work hours.
I usually get to the point they either did or didn't work outside the home,people that work have little time to bake pies,be perfectionist ect
Those of us who grew up between 1965 and 1985 (GenX) know what the real problem was: Our mothers were never home and never taught us anything. We went from our mothers being invisible to their children being invisible.
I never heard of it this way before, but you are so right 😢.
So right. I think my mom must have done her routine in the morning before we got up as she always got up crazy early and cleaned up. We never needed alarm clocks because mom running the vacuum cleaner up and down the hallway and living room was loud enough to wake everyone. Then it was everyone dress and off to school and work and then come home, rush to put dinner on, eat, clean that mess up and spend an hour or 2 watching tv together or doing homework then off to bed to start it all over again. It felt like we were always rushing during the school year.
I'm a Xennial, mainly raised by my Nanna to be a 50s housewife AND do paid work. She was an incredible lady who I still miss dearly... My mum, not so much.
@HannahRainbow88. Grandparents truly are a blessing. They fill a place in our hearts and in our lives that no one else can ❤.
Actually I'm 1962, All the teachers in high school told us we were Gen X. Somewhere along the way someone misrepresented that. Boomers were the kids born to the soldiers after the war. My parents were born just before the war in 1932, so I am Gen X. My mother was home until I was 9 then my Dad passed and she had to work fulltime with 4 kids. I completely agree with you statement about invisability. Gen X has been a weird "inbetween" generation.
I forgot all about those carpet sweepers!
We didn't have one but I loved using those at church in ulthe clasrooms.
So may good things to take away from this.
Working 40 + hours outside of the house doesn't give much time to clean every day. When you're at work by 7 am you can't be doing dishes at 9 am.
things seemed easier than today bc the housewivshad more time to do the basic cleaning and etc of homemaking. and i am sure alot of those woman slso had a sewing machine. maybe not an electric one. but maybe a treadle machine that was passed down from their mother grandmothers or even great grandmothers. also families lived near one another not like today. im also sure if things ot piled up with sewing or even laundry and grandma might have come over to help load and unload the wringer washer for the housewife esp if the children were super small and needed tending too. even their pota and pans were better. and dont forget abt the acuum cleaners. kirbys were and still are the best today. meals were cooked homemade and not using processed foods either. ur dinner plates were smaller so portions were smaller. u cant even buy a 7-9 inch dinner plate today except maybe on amazon and they can be pricey bc i have looked for myself. and if u were raised by a mother or even a grandmother like i was u were being taught how to do laundry starting at 2 yrs old. u used the bathroom toilet and sink? wipe down the sink with a puece of newspaper or paper towel swish the toilet with the brush and a drop of bleach or ammonia after each use. open the windows an inch each day to keep fresh air circulating the house. everyday u had chores. u learned how to sew hems and tears. and put on or fasten buttons. lots of young women ate going back to those ways of living. its all over you tube chnnels. i know bc ihave seen them. the gypsey culture women stay home take care of the hme andkids. men go to work. and they seem to be doing ok. i was a sahm hubby and i worked and felivered newspapers and sometimes did odd jobs. and yes our kids started working too at 10 hubby and i started at 7 yrs old. we had family time. and ate healthy. i cooked everything homemade. nowadays. u can make meals and desserts in crockpots. they come in all sizes and shapes. they have safer pressure cookers today than back from our grandmothers day i wish i could go back and be the housewife. again. life was simpler. we lived frugally but so much happier and yes i found ways to make money here and there hubby did too. now im a widow and have to keep working and plus do all that i used to do. and its exhausting. raisinf ur own kids and not depending on sitters is best but if u have family near u. that is a good thing too. kids can learn alot from the older generation that will last a lifetime. people r looking at ways of how the older genertio survived the great depression and the war years and the rations. from uesteryear. we def need to get back to the basica. life s way too pricey and its a big struggle to tey to survive. just my opinion ❤❤❤❤
I had an 1500 sq foot house but the house was full and heavily used. I have NO IDEA how one cares for anything larger. As it was i had a girl every other week to help me with heavy cleaning. And i had a beighbir teen every 10 days fir the lawn. Actual gardeing we did.
I was taught thus in school in the late 70’s. My grandmother and mom also ran their houses this way. I worked full time and raised two kids with this routine. It can be done. I still run my house this way.
I took home economics in the late 80 for the easy A. In the early 90's the new teachers didn't have the real skills . I was raised to be a home maker in a time where it didn't exist. These skills are helpful 😊
You are not mentioning--alot of people still had maids! Not all-but some had ---once or twice a week cleaning women--we did-when I was really young!
Not Maids, but a cleaning lady ... this was more upper middle class really. My grandparents paid for "Gloria" to come and help my mum with deep cleaning once a month. Scrubbing windows, etc.
I stayed home from my teaching career till our son was 4. I went back half time for a few years. Then full time when he was in 2nd grade. Main reason I wanted to continue to work I'll try to go home with the fries my my dad left my stay at home mom and we went straight into poverty. They have been married like 20 years. And I refuse to be a victim to that same scenario. Praise God we're celebrating our 54th wedding anniversary this year! I did have an advantage in that my mother came to live with us when our son was in kindergarten.❤
13:24 I have never seen an apron like this before! It appears to be some kind of plastic material AND it is made like a strapless evening dress! What holds it up in the front? Boning?
Growing up in the 60’s, in our neighborhood, the moms tossed the kids outside to play in the morning or the kids went to school. That’s when all the cleaning was done- and it was all morning, not 15 minutes. In the afternoons, the moms would do the grocery shopping and ironing and mending while they watched their “stories” on TV. I don’t think my mom did any deep cleaning on Saturdays, but that was the Dad’s day for washing the car and mowing the lawn.
I recall my Mum saying she and my aunt would get everything done, even dinner prepped in the morning. Then they would do things in the afternoon, sometimes she volunteered once a week at the public art gallery, meet with my Aunt or other relatives or friends on one afternoon of the week, they would meet at each others houses for tea or coffee visits. In spring through fall she would work in the garden one afternoon each week. I'm sure there were afternoons that she was doing deep cleaning or whatever. Laundry day was a full day. My Dad died young, my Mum was widowed with a one yr old, 5 yr old, 9 yr old and 12 yr old. She had to return to nursing full time, that regular hum of life changed rapidly and became organized chaos. My heart breaks for what she went through.
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This was very eye-opening. I agree ith you!!! We don't have home economics anymore.
I work a full time work and I still operate like this. People ask me why is my place always so clean and this is why. I love the 1950s ❤ but I’m a 80s baby lol
Who stopped? Doesn't everyone clean this way?
My grandmother did all of this... while working for NYC telephones as an operator and then Nabisco. New England was expensive even then. My grandfather grew the huge veggie garden.
Aaahaha, so happy to live now😆 my husband works 100% and I work 60%. The 2 workdays less is for homemaking. I sleep till 10 and then do everything without any plan. When I'm done with housecleaning and laundry I put on my best sweatpants to go to the supermarket. At home again I do my workout and after that I call my husband to tell him that I'm tired and he should bring some dinner. Then we eat dinner in our bedroom, we both watch individual things on our phones until we go to sleep👌
Took more than that mom did it everyday
It took way more than fifteen minutes. Those overly clean and waxed floor houses were slippery and dangerous.
It's sad home economics was removed. People need to not only know how to clean, but how to balance their budget.
schools should have age appropriate financial studies classes for 10 year olds and up, right up until Grade 12. Start with basic savings, then increase the complexity of personal finances each year.
@lenorabarnes504 That's an excellent idea.
Smart people won't make the corporations richer.
@Marina-pz9uy Home economics isn't about making corporations richer, it teaches you about spending your money wisely & how to apply basic life skills when you get on your own.
Thank you
I actually discovered that ironing linens makes them fit their space better. I.also found out that using starch makes fabrics more stain resistant.
less stuff
So being chained to a job is better than being a homemaker? A job offers an income to women, true, but at the expense of to whom they are committed which is the job. Jobs/bosses require committing to that first whereas being a homemaker aligns a person's commitments to the family first.
Was or is being a stay-at-home mom boring? Only if it's made to be that way. My mom was a stay-at-home mom (50s) and when we kids were old enough only occasionally worked outside the home but only for short periods (temp work) and usually to get extra money saved up for a specific purpose like new carpeting to ready the house for something like a graduation party. Mom always found plenty of interesting things to do when housework was done. She went to the library often because she loved to read and she also enjoyed learning new things whether it was via a travelogue or a magazine illustrating a new craft/skill. We all had chores as kids and adhered to Mom's schedule whether it was daily tasks or spring cleaning. It all worked and we grew up reasonably happily.
Now, even breakfast at home is optional with the morning scramble to get out the door hoping to beat traffic and arrive at the job on time. The work-week is hectic especially managing children leaving weekends to catch up on cleaning, laundry, sleep and anything else left undone.
Were the 50s and 60s all wonderful as a dream? No, stuff happened then just like now stuff happens but time was taken for family relationships and other interpersonal relationships/connections in the neighborhood, church, etc. that made bad stuff seem not so difficult. Today, everything seems rushed because people have to (try to) cram too much into their day much like the houses are stuffed full of too many things. It's better to focus on what's important; that way there's time for a few extras now and then.
There were many women who felt they had more to offer than just being the baby producer, nanny, cook, maid and personal sex toy. I think if you take a min to look at the mindset and behaviour towards women at that time, you would understand the unrest that many had. It's easy to use generalizations but the reality is there are always going to be women, men and other spirited persons who are very happy with the domestic life style, and those that abhor it and a multitude of persons in between who like both but appreaciate a Balance of shared responsibilities between the adult parenting partners. Or even just partners without children might prefer defined rolls or blended responsiblities.
WHY IS A MAN NARRATING THIS POST?! I want to hear from the women if that generation 😬
I was born in 1952. My mother had a career type job and was the most undomestic person I’ve ever. If she was narrating she’d tell a different story.
Its AI
I was blessed to be a stay-at-home mom, which is a misnomer, since you are taking or picking up kids from school or activities, but I loved it.
My sister was not able to be a SOM, and she would have loved it. I have lots of respect for those who have to work outside the home.
The rest of the story is that when our daughters grew up and moved,I went back to work, had a second career, retired in 2017.
I grew up in the 50s and 60s, and that wearing of pearls idea is a myth.
That sprung from watching so many Leave It To Beaver episodes.
Barbara Billingsly, who played the mom, wore pearls to hide a scar from neck surgery.
She also wore heels, so that as the boys grew, she could remain taller than her growing children.
True
My Mum had pearls, they all did, because of Jacquie Kennedy setting the trend. She only wore them when going out to a function, ladies tea, the rare times she and Dad went out to a dinner party, or going to visit our Great Grandmother... or just going visiting. She didn't wear them when doing housework, grocery shopping or going to the family cottage. Though, it's important to know that the Home Ec Books instructed the young ladies to Clean themselves up, tidy their hair, make sure the house was in order and the children calm. Then to put on nice clean clothes for when the husband came home form work because he'd been working hard all day (I keep thinking of Mad Men here) and deserved a calm and fresh wife and atsmophere when he came home.
You should read these books, it's very Stepford wives material.
Sure, AND forgot to mention a tiny little thing: Mommy's little helper
@1Baileyboy'cope' hahaha. Sure, boy, sure
Here was my 15-minute/day cleaning routine, in my old 1 bedroom apartment, designed in 1980 for easy cleaning. Only what I could accomplish in 15 minutes, figuring I'd eventually get to all the details in future weeks.
Mon - spritz and wipe kitchen, ceiling to floor (not including floor)
Tues - spritz and wipe bath
Weds - mop kitchen and bath
Thurs - dust open-plan living and dining room, ceiling to floor (not including floor)
Fri - dust bedroom
Sat - vac living room and bedroom
Sun - sweep and clean up small patio.
Plus 2 hours/week for laundry, and 1-2 hours/week for groceries and getting gas.
I work full time, so doing daily large housework tasks isn’t possible. Instead I try to do something to improve a room every time I walk into it. Sometimes it’s as simple as straightening the cushions on the lounge, or something bigger like sweeping the kitchen floor. I also like to reset the house before going to bed, so we wake to a fresh home.
And the houses were not FULL of clutter!
Our cleaning cupboard in the 50s-60s wasn't at all like what was described here. There would be the dish soap, a can of Glow Coat, a can of Windex, a can of Ajax or Commet, a can of Pledge, and later on, a box of Cascade for the dishwasher.
Lysol or Pinesol and Saniflush were also part of the supplies, but only a pedestal sink in the bathroom. Rags were kept in the laundry area.
GPT-4o mini
In 1950, there were approximately 55 million households in the United States. Therefore, 4% of that figure would equal around 2.2 million homes that had dishwashers.
Think that I still feel the pressure of clean home. Now just retired so lots of time. When the kids were little, in sports and we were out of the house 6 nights a week.... full time work.... the pressure was massive to keep the house clean. It's a real thing... the pressure women feel
it is massive... sometimes crushing
Just to clarify some conflicting information that has sprung up all over the internet: The standard for measuring a Generation is 10 - 15 yrs. It isn't about breeding age so much as being a group of persons born in the same times that share cultural and life commonalities. Boomers are the Generation of children who were born to the soldiers after WW2 when they returned settle down to domestic life. WW2 initially ended in 1945. Therefore the Boomer Generation is considered to be from 1945 - approx 1959 /60 ish. Gen X is from 1962 (some include 1961). When I was in school our teachers told us from grade 7 up to graduation that we were the begining of Gen X. In recent times the internet started to refer to Gen X as starting in 1965 (to suit some random idea, I don't know why but noticed all of a sudden there was a shift in references to the Gen X time frame.)
I believe my teachers from then (in the '70's, some of who were young Boomer Adults) when they told us that those of us who were Born in 1962, that we were the beginning of Gen X. My Parents weren't soldiers of the war as they were born in 1935 and were still children. I am NOT a Boomer, my generation was distinctly different from the Boomers.
1) Not owning a lot of crap 2) Elbow grease [ I was born in the early 1960's.]
They weren’t out working all day
Husband's back then didn't let the wives work
women back then made money on the side and only one income was taxed. I grew up in such a home in 1980s
My Grandmother was working in the Army Tech 5 in WW2 engineer back then so don't ever say women weren't ALLOWED to work. One income was only taxed also back then. The government created the women workforce ramped up for revenue. Wives children could do side jobs tax free. Today the IRS taxes exchanging even food like a cup of sugar. Don't believe me look it up. I had a great depression father and a 1950s mother with a grandmother who worked even though married and she didn't need to. No excuses even for today.
Not in my family because the religion was about her focused on the ministry my grandmother did door to door handing out flyers
@TLSUSA1 I don't think she meant women weren't allowed to work by the government. I think she may have been pointing out that back then, SOME (not all) husbands saw their wives going to work as a personal failure on their part as a provider. But during the depression, things really got rough, and it became necessary.
They took home-economics out of our schools (where I live) in the early 1990s due to funding. They kept band, sports and JROTC but got rid of things like mechanics, home economics, carpentry, and all the other ones that would prepare you for a blue collar job. I was a latchkey kid because both of my young boomer parents had to work (I’m a Xennial). Grandparents didn’t see the value of teaching us as kids to can and garden (they didn’t pass it down to my parents either). My grandparents grew flowers and peppers as a hobby garden instead of an important skill to pass down. I’m trying to teach myself and my kids via the internet but I seem to have a black thumb. 😂
لا اله الا الله وحده لاشريك له له الملك وله الحمد وهو على كل شيء قدير
High schoolers were robbed of good practical life skills when we lost home ec. It wasnt replaced with anything. There is no life skills course. My mom knew how to make her own cleaning products for pennies.
Meals and food management
I watch this and I keep thinking how little admits to the generalized lack or respect wives received for being neat, clean and good home cooks. The generation that grew up, saw wives and mothers being treated like parasites who tucked the life out of "hard working husbands." The idea that a man needed to "leave something for the woman to do" during the day meant men, and the sons they raised often did not think it was their job to pick up after themselves, even so much as putting their own dirth clothes into a hamper. Then, there the paradigm shift in attitudes towards proper discipline of children, with stories circulating that compared telling a teenager up their room to actual physical abuse as being equally horrible parenting.
My mother kept a perfectly clean home for a man who abandoned her in her 40's because he was convinced she had cost him all he ever earned, even though when she married him in my 6th year, her money management and saving earned over years of supporting her family after divorcing the husband who abandoned her with 4 children, saved her new husband from bankruptcy.
Those days of spotless houses and magazine ready homes seem nostalgic only to those who never had to maintain the space where no respect was given for its beauty.
I was only happy to hear the end, where the importance of every household member doing their part in modern homes was emphasized. That is what is required. Not just a system that says it is as easy as you make it seam. The belief that EVERYONE is an equal part of the continuous effort to keep things neat and clean is even more crucial.
Thank you for providing this information. Even more, thank you for showing that even men and boys are part of the perpetual efforts to create a home that functions as a cohesive unit.
I HAVE BEEN USING "NATURAL" CLEANING FOR SOME TIME--VINEGAR, BAKING SODA, AND OTHER NATURALS!
Well, everything didn't change overnight in every neighborhood. The 50s neighborhood accountability affected me because I had a lot of older neighbors! It still lingers since although I only had 2 years Home Ec a lot of girls opted to take in Highschool although it was optional, most still went with that idea of being homemakers. Even in a big city like the one I was born in. Also, NY is not a very progressive state I must say. I was born at the end of the 50s so I wasn't really taught those ways since I always got shooed outside by my mother. lol
They didn't have to work outside the home!
Lillian Gilbreth and her husband were briliant with time management. However she herself never claimed to be a daily cook.
Only 1 mistake. You dont make the bed right away. You have to pull the sheets back and let it air out and dry at least 15-30 min before making it.
Also, the reason they dont teach this at school anymore is because schools have shifted more towards passing standardized tests and using any available time to do it as if only reading and math are valuable.
Too true! Bring back Home Ec. for ALL kids. I was one of the last years to learn it (UK 90s).
... And yes, airing out the bedclothes stops them from staying all sweaty and growing as much bacteria.
@HannahRainbow88Honestly, at this point, they need to hire us oldies who know how to do these things to teach the classes because Im afraid none of the youngins know! 😂
@3810-dj4qz If people knew how there wouldn't be all these youtube videps on how to clean! 😄
While I agree with the efficient way for a mother/wife to start her day and work her way through each room keeping the home clean and guest ready; this is impossible when the mother/wife has to leave the house by 7:00AM to work a full time 40 hour a week job. 😂That idea works fine if the woman doesn’t have to work but if she has to hold down a job keeping the house clean neat and tidy isn’t nearly as obtainable😅Most working moms would rather stay home to be a housewife unfortunately few households can afford it😮
It would be interesting to read the old curriculum for this.
Some of it is frightening "Stepford wives" Material... I was shocked
It is NOW SAID, THOUGH--BEDS SHOULD NOT---BE MADE ---RIGHT AWAY IN THE MORNING- THEY NEED TO AIR. BUT I DO AGREE WITH THE REST! EXCEPT- THE "MAIN " CLEANING PERSON--NOW IS WORKING--FULL TIME!
I remember seeing that there were housewives hooked on amphetamines during this time in order to have the energy to do the housework, mind the children, and meet the expectations to socialize.
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@2:31 where's the lady's other leg?
I have a feeling this will be commonplace again. If you want to you want sucess.
I’ve never cleaned my bathroom in 3 minutes or less.
2 hours for laundry 😂 yea right. My great grandmother only passes this year. She was a 1950s house wife. Laundry was a full day ordeal unless ypu were rich and could afford one of the new in kitchen washing machines.
Nope. I'm a Woman who is a Gen Xer ( I'm almost 56) when things needed done my Parental Grandma did it, when it came to My Maternal Grandmother, my Mom and I would go to My Grandparents' house and cleaned it and their house was was Clean. Setting a day for each individual thing is actually being lazy. My Own 80 Year Old MOTHER never set aside a day for each thing, if the laundry needed done she did it, when the clothes were hanging up outside on the clothes line, she'd go into the House and vacuum, unload the dishwasher / or run the dish washer. She'd wet dust her Wood Furniture,She didn't set aside a different day for each thing. Apparently You have never heard of multi tasking. My Parents raised 6 kids and My mom's House was SPOTLESS. I'm My Parents' Daughter I'm the exact same way, if something needs done I do it, like for example, if my dishes needs done I wash them, if my Carpeting needs vacuumed I vacuum it etc. i don't dilly dally around.
Where can one find schedules such as those shown at 9:41 in this video?
Daily schedules, weekly schedules and seasonal schedules.
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This simply doesn't work with messy kids that make mess and don't put it away, I spend at least 1hour everyday cleaning up after my kids 😂
Bigger houses and bigger car and better quality not plastic.
Because women were home full time back then
I am single I have work to jobs to pay my bills How do you clean your hose when you have one day to do everything In?
Keyword is homemaker. They don't work corporate America.
He could have just taken the globe off and turned the light on and see which diode wasn't on
School cant teach homemaking. A major part is PARENTS daily doing things. Daily dad runs the trash out or shovels fallen snow. Or if home a bit chaotic quietly rolls his sleeves to wash a dishes. DAILY. Mom says,"t eam team". And every kid stops and PUPA. DAILY a child assugned to set the table and mom says whose turn to empty the dishwasher. Daily, everyday all household contributing 10 or 15 minutes to make things comfortable for eveyone
Crazy! This is AI generated with no human input. It's like a fractured fairytale. Ask someone who lived through this time period. A tidy home was anecdotal. There are many variations on a tune. Group think is unappealing and inaccurate. People were trying to stabilize and return to normalcy after WWII. They lost friends and family. Perfect families were on TV or in movies.