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| Post# 734103 2/9/2014 at 20:06 (3,721 days old) by Lightedcontrols () | ||
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...what it was like to be a housewife in the 1950's! (I think I put this in the right place since the appliances are of the 50's) CLICK HERE TO GO TO Lightedcontrols's LINK | ||
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Post# 734115 , Reply# 1 2/9/2014 at 20:29 (3,721 days old) by hydralique  (Los Angeles) |
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LMAO! This is just hysterical, and I want that house! I would promise to never, ever mop with a handbag too . . .
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Post# 734117 , Reply# 2 2/9/2014 at 20:44 (3,721 days old) by washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i) |
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Handbag?! | ||
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Post# 734135 , Reply# 3 2/9/2014 at 21:35 (3,721 days old) by cuffs054 (MONTICELLO, GA) |
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I don't think my Mother would be amused! After all where is her pre-lunch cocktail? | ||
| Post# 734184 , Reply# 6 2/10/2014 at 05:57 (3,720 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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RE Cooking! I still dont own a microwave, and use very few packaged mixes. | ||
| Post# 734185 , Reply# 7 2/10/2014 at 06:06 (3,720 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
A Hollywood Housewife Spoke:
I remember seeing a 1980s TV interview with the late Barbara Billingsley, who of course played TVs ultimate mom, June Cleaver, on Leave it to Beaver.
The interviewer (Oprah, if memory serves) asked her about all that perfection, and if she felt that was maybe a little unfair to real-world housewives. Billingsley responded that YES it was unfair, because on a sitcom set, there are dozens of people making everything look perfect before the cameras roll; the actors actually do none of it. She went on to say that she hoped no one had ever judged herself by June Cleaver's standards - that other people had styled her hair, pressed the dresses, made the piecrusts, and all the rest of it. This post was last edited 02/10/2014 at 06:23 | ||
| Post# 734188 , Reply# 8 2/10/2014 at 06:42 (3,720 days old) by NYCWriter () | ||
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My Mom ... ... also says she personally knows of no housewife in the '50s or '60s who ever did housework in a dress, hose, and heels. | ||
| Post# 734215 , Reply# 10 2/10/2014 at 09:24 (3,720 days old) by frontloaderfan (Merrimac valley, MA) | ||
We never had a microwave until the early '90s. My grandmother, who lived with us, did not trust them and refused to have one in the house. She did all her own canning when things were in season. A friend of my mother still used a wringer washer on her porch until the mid-eighties. I'm "only" 41 and even I remember when a lot of the mod-cons we have today were unheard of even thirty years ago..
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