Is There Any Of Our Ladies Who Would Like To Live As A 1940's Housewife?

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6162813/Woman-DITCHES-modern-life-train-1940s-housewife-dresses-one-daily-work.html

[spathiphyllum]

Why just the ladies?

I wouldn't mind it..

[ummmm]

Nope. Not a hope in hell.

[Jordyboy9]

Like spath I would love to but only if I knew what I know now

[cassa333]

No. I’m too lazy to do housework. In fact I’m sitting here doing this not putting the washing on the line while waiting for a cleaner to turn up to see if she can fit us in.... One has turned us down already for being toooooo untidy.

[jackthehat]

No.
She's 24 and nesting.....
Reality will kick in soon enough.
I haven't seen many pictures of women of that era in my family sporting a nose-piercing, either.

[maggiebee]

Oh yeh - give her six months at the most.

[anotheoldgit]

You are missing those days, when you would fix your hair, make-up your face, don a nice new lace 'piny' and wait for your hard working hubby to return from the office, so that you could pour him out a drink of his favourite tipple.

[Rockrose]

No thanks I wouldn’t want to be treated as a second class citizen.

[Spicerack]

They'm too lazy, aog.
Our fault for spoiling them. ;-)

[Mamyalynne]

They appear to be living in a fantasy world of their own, over made up , a myriad of brooches and pins on her blouse - as long as they are having fun and harming no one then good luck to them.

I'm too set in my ways to time travel now.

[retrocop]

I doubt a house keeper and a garage mechanic would afford an electric Singer sewing machine on 1940s wages.
My mother didn't have an electric singer until late 50's and my wife knocked up her wedding dress and two bridesmaids dresses on her hand cranked Jones machine in the Nurses quarters in the mid 70's.

[AuntLydia]

I would not mind being a housewife, I've been one for years bringing up four children but I could not deal with housework without all the mod cons.

[retrocop]

I think it is refreshing and commendable to take on these type of challenges. I also have some wartime cook books and it took a lot more ingenuity to assemble something edible and nourishing from what was on ration and how long a little had to last. One of my favourite books is "We'll Eat Again"by Margaret Pattern. Some modern young women think it's smart or clever to claim they couldn't boil an egg or water. They must be illiterate,

[Tilly2]

No. My grandmothers were both worn out by the time they were 45. Life was hard in those days especially with copious amounts of children to tend to.

[ummmm]

My dad was a construction worker and just listeing to my mum explaining how she had to wash his clothes in the bath. She worked as well!!

[Mamyalynne]

AOG, and others of course - some of these programmes were a good watch - as it included the whole family it was interesting to see the reactions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_in_Time_for...

[Bazile]

The novelty will soon wear off

[david small]

The Morris minor isn’t that old. I had a 1958 one, it had a split window screen. A right rust bucket.i spent a lot on it and it failed seven consecutive MOTs. I sold it to the last mechanic for £2 and caught a bus home. This was in the late 60s.

[AuntLydia]

Retrocop, I have that cookbook, they certainly knew how to make do and create things with leftovers. I remember at school learning how to make rissoles by mincing leftover cooked meat from sunday and mixing with left over mash ,coating in stale breadcrumbs and frying in dripping - sounds hideous tasted lovely!

My daughter in law is going back to work soon, after maternity leave, and is not looking forward to it. She has a really good job and they need the money for the huge mortgage they have to pay for their modest home. She loves it being a 'housewife' looking after the children but its not a privilege many women can afford to do these days.

[naomi24]

Not me!!