Cleaning like a 1950s Housewife - a day in the life of a 1950s mother

What you did to the bathroom is absolutely gorgeous 😍 cute decorations my dream bathroom 😊 also johnny cash in the towel cabinet was adorable and too cute for words. So glad you're back and sharing ❤

This video was so encouraging! My grandma alway's got herself fixed up showered & had oat's on the stove. Before she passed she told me not to let myself go, I see girl's back then were really well groomed & fixed up. I think I'm going to try this routine. I think it is so beautiful thank you for sharing!! God bless you & your beautiful family!!

This video just popped up on my feed and I loved seeing your homemaking routine. Seeing that baby wake up was absolutely adorable. Sweet morning cuddles. Loved reading the comments and routines of others back then. All of it was heartwarming. ❤

I don't know how households in the 1950s could survive without the wife working. Not all vintage husbands had office jobs, many were blue collar workers who didn't earn much. My mom was a housewife in 1960s and 1970s, but she didn't do things systematically like the woman in the video. My mom always wore jeans. She never wore an apron, and never a scarf unless she went outside.

I find it interesting that there's absolutely no time in the schedule to spend with kids. No play time with the kids. No developmental time with kids. Just send them outside.

You're very pretty. What is the color of your lipstick? I love it!! It looks great on you!! Thank you for sharing!! Your babies are adorable🌹🥀Who watches your children while you clean and make sure they don't get into any harmful cleaning items.

Oh to be a housewife in the 1950s.

I was a working mother of 2 and somehow everything got done -- and my house was NEVER as messy as this one was. I was also a stay at home mother for 6 years -- it was by far the easiest life.

My Mother would have thought she was on a wonderful vacation if this was how she spent her days. She worked a 9 hour job with about 2 hours total drive there and back. Then she had to do everything in the house at night. Plus sometimes she had a night job too. We had home cooked meals every night, clean, ironed clothes and a spotless house. She worked very hard and I appreciate everything she did back then.

awwwww Freya is such a little helper 😍🥺😭

What a loving mama! So inspirational.

Keeping baby in your bed already got this off to the wrong start before the day even began. It will lead to a spoiled and coddled youngster who will adjust with difficulty to independence later on.

You woke up a sleeping baby…..no no no no!

Housewives should get paid, seriously, it's a killing job if you take it seriously. (Your baby waking up melted my heart ❤❤❤)

Most moms now are frantically getting the kids ready for school and herself for work. Times have certainly changed. So much more is expected of mothers today.

Nice apron! Is there a dishcloth sewn in directly? Brilliant

Boiling pepper water does it actually work.for spiders.

I usuall jump to when the toaster pops up.😊New to your chanal. God bless love you video.

Wonderful old house and decor!

I was born in 61' and would have given anything to be a real 50's wife and mother. Tho the girdle and pearls just for him was too much, LOL! But who knows?, maybe it did help marriages?

Awesome job, lady! I’m a stay at home mom Gen Xer, and my kids are almost grown now. Raised by a feminist mom, I had ZERO schedule or plan, and I was definitely totally disheveled. I love how the new young moms are keeping these secrets alive of how to run an orderly house and home. What a treasure.

Not sure how a double bed works for two adults AND a baby?

if you want to be a 50s housewife your baby needs cloth diapers....

The dinner you prepared looked delicious!

The only laundry hack that worked for me when my children were young was to do laundry every day and put it away immediately or make it a priority before bed to put it away. The other thing I tried was laundry every day all day. That meant having the machines running all day on a certain days of the week. Because small children generate so much laundry they have multiple changes during the day when they spill and play outside. Also they have bibs, linens, stuffed toys, and usually more clothes than adults. Their linens and clothes need changing more often than adults during the day.
Then multiply that by 3-4 kids. This is why you are so tired. So the solution lies in thinking before you buy another cute outfit for them and more soft toys is that those items are tomorrow's laundry.

This just popped up in my recommended section and it did not disappoint!!!! Cutest cleaning video I have ever seen 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

i like your vibe!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Seems like a wholesome way to live imho - thanks for sharing!

Great video! I love your channel! The ring your wearing while cutting the tomatoes is so lovely!

❤🎉Fantastic idea and execution of it❤❤❤❤❤

As a millennial, you are told to be a girl boss, a salary woman, get that bread. Man, maybe all I want is a beautiful life such as yours. I am so lucky my boyfriend says you are his ideal type of woman! 😊

I am retired and live by myself. My two cats got old and passed away. I have no one to blame for my cluttered house but myself. Thank you for teaching me about the 50's housewife. You are motivating me to purge and unclutter my home, as well as creating a simple makeup routine.

I love this channel so much <3

Where is the link to the routines??

Were these things down every day? I mean, I know, if you dust every day, then you house will never be dusty, but wow. I feel like I need more info 😂

I have never identified with a baby more in my life 😂 they're the late riser in a family of morning people 😂

lil baby butt in the air!

Seems like a sad depressing life.

Brush your teeth before you eat breakfast? I just found that odd. I would hate to drink coffee right after I brushed my teeth with that minty taste in my mouth, and wouldn't eating after brushing just defeat the purpose of brushing? Sorry, I'm kind of vain about my teeth, so that stuck out to me.

Your hairstyle looks beautiful!

They. Didn't. Have. This. Stuff. To. Clean. With. This. In. 19 50

This. Is. Stuid

You forgot to wake up and pray first

My bro-in law duct taped his 2 boys to the wall when they wouldn't listen. Hahaha

I'm sorry for sounding naive but I didn't know back then they cleaned their own house

Boy does this bring back memories. I am 70 years old and was the only girl with 8 brothers so I was the only "mother's helper". I learned to sweep and vacuum before I went to school at 5 years old. As my mother had this many children, it meant she was pregnant/post partum for a DECADE and had only so much energy. Kids were vitally important to household management.

Happily, she insisted that a pair of brothers do the dinner dishes (one to wash, one to dry and put away) while mother and I put away any leftovers. But pre-meal prep was just for the ladies of the house so mother cooked while I stirred, mixed, and tossed as needed. I also cleaned the pots and pans (we had two of each). I did the table setting even as a small child.

Laundry Day: in the basement was a pile of dirty clothes that towered over me (I used to climb on it like a mountain) and mother would select what was to be washed. Bed linens were ALWAYS on the menu. Once they were cleaned, we hauled them to the backyard clothes line where I had to stand, at her side, holding a cloth bag of clothes pins.

My poor mother was terrified of bees (a generic reference to any insect with wings) so when they were attracted to our sweet smelling laundry, she would suddenly start screeching and running around our very large property as the sheet billowed behind her. Naturally, I too ran behind her creating a sort of harmonic shriek that alerted the neighbors to our entertaining routine.

Everything else was just as you described. She always wore a "house dress" with the proper foundation garments plus Dr. Scholl's white leather nurse's shoes and white ankle socks. Every night she'd slather on the Pond's Cold Cream and put her hair in pin curls topped with a hair net. She dyed her own hair as well as cut it.

My brothers were quite lucky that only a rotating pair of them were responsible for the nightly dinner dishes but they had men chores to do like raking leaves and shoveling snow. They also assisted my dad in washing the car on weekends. Truth to tell, I was always jealous of their men's work because all of them participated and hilarity was a regular feature of the work.

DAD'S World: my father would have to commute over an hour to get to work and even longer to get home in rush hour traffic. He worked in the city but believed kids needed fresh air and space to explore. Even now, I'm amazed at his sacrifice. As he walked in the door, he always removed his fedora and overcoat and then put them away very carefully. He changed in to "blue jeans" but simply wore his undershirt (in warm weather) just as all the dad's in the hood did.

Dinner HAD TO BE ready as he rolled in or he'd pace like a lion at the zoo before feeding time. He found his brood of children endlessly entertaining and we were a bunch of "cut-ups" (low ranked comedians) who eagerly reported any funny thing that had happened in the neighborhood. He ate efficiently and was always first to leave the table.

Time for his household chores. He would set up his "work station" outside with a cheapo woven folding chair plus a small plastic table. Mother would bring him a hot cup of tea with his cigarettes and ashtray. Time for the lawn. He loved fine weather and would often bring out small household items that need repair to fix while he kept an eye out for our safety.

Everyone in the area knew every other person in the area. If the weather was especially good during the summer, he'd suddenly suggest a ride to the local beach on a popular lake. Before he'd finished talking, there'd be a riot of rushing to get suited up and race to get in the car. As he drove slowly up the street, he'd call out to any kid he saw and they'd dash into the house for permission and bathing stuff. With a car that often had more than a dozen people in it, he'd make everyone wait as he methodically tapped each exiting kid on the head and count out loud. Same routine when it was time to go home. He would plunge into the water and swim for a few minutes. Then it was overwatch time as he scanned the crowd to insure safety for us all.

All the kids in the neighborhood would play in our yard because when the ice cream man came jingling along in his colorful truck, my dad would keep buying cones until every kid in the line up had one. There wasn't ever a single time my dad had to discipline a kid. Who would be so foolish as to bite the hand that fed them a creamsicle?!

I loved our growing up. As a family we had many problems especially financial trouble periodically. But we were never bored and we learned to get along. My parents didn't even like each other most of the time. But all eight brothers chose wives for life. And I'm coming up on 46 years of wedded bliss with my beloved. There's so much that could be learned from this era and I'm beyond bliss that I learned that a home IS a castle. I love being the queen of mine. Thanks for reminding me!

They didn’t have ceramic topped stoves then.

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