Very interesting video!💗 Definitely very different from today. I may need to incorporate this in my house

I love mid century modern mommy! Another blog/community I thoroughly recommend is Retro housewife goes green - same ideas/vibe with loads of tips, advice and recipes! I started following both a few years back and I'm so surprised one has cropped up in a recommended video 😁

I just got an original edition of Betty Crocker recipe book from 1950 and there are tips on everything you mentioned in this video! “Greet your husband gayly at the door” and my favorite “make sure to observe interesting or funny things throughout your day so you can converse with your husband about them over dinner” and there is a drawing of a housewife pointing to a cat stuck in a tree laughing hysterically 😂

2:17 ...best and most important advice - organize and plan for storage FROM THE BEGINNING. No one taught me this, and I bounced through homes as a child, so I never witnessed it. I learned this the hard way and am recovering from over a decade of disorganization and confusion. Proudly self taught and eager to save anyone from what I put myself and my family through.

I own 3 of Jennifer L. Scott's books!

I love this kind of stuff, i am into the 1940s ww11 British, but anything vintage. In the early 70s I remember being pulled from my desk in first grade and was given a good swat, I don't recall what i did, just that i was embarrassed by it. To be a 50s house wife to me would have to have been busier than today, as they had to do it all with not a lot of help from any conveniences we have today, I'm pretty poor so i may understand better than a person "spoiled" with todays technology lol. Love your vids

I loved this so much! I’m going to “save” this video for inspiration and motivation. Thank you.

Thank you! This was so very good!

1950 ‘s housewives had well dusted furniture clean windows clean curtains cooking well set tables desserts and flower beds and of course dishes laundry floors when the housewife started working out side the home these areas got forgotten no time left or energy first the windows flower beds dusting dessert setting the table cleaning floors cooking laundry probably in that order

While quite a bit of this sounds like "How to be a 'Stepford Wife' in 7 Easy Steps", I do agree with how the kids were raised & being 'Gen X', this is how we were raised & I miss it.

I remember the lists...those darn lists drove us crazy...now i wish i had learned what they were really teaching ..i remember the last thing you wanted was to be yelled at by a neighbor...it always meant another yelling from your parents...the last thing my mother always did before my father came in frome work was to put on lipstick & Jean Nate'

Oh yes this is me still ❤

Cute video - I loved it ! : ) My favorite color to this day is Light Pink or Dusty Rose ''but'' I don't think I could 'put that' on my husband [ie] having Pink appliances etc ! [cute/sweet/light/calm but cheery lol] I live this way [85% of it] & agree with all of it 'except' I don't change my clothes that many times per day ! : ) I have subbed : ) I'm more of an introvert but def. help bake, donate etc whenever asked & thoroughly enjoy baking for neighbors. Thank-you for your time & creativity in making this ... I'm looking forward to seeing more of your videos : ) Hope you're having a Nice Weekend & before you know it, you'll be at 1,000 Subs ! : ) Take Care, Cindy : )

I love this video! So helpful. Thank you. Beautifully done. Just discovered this on KZfaq TV. I am definitely subscribing! ❤

If you read a swedish Household book for housewife - you would laugh. My mother was housekeeper in first year of the fiftees and later half housewife. It inhered all her Brooks But also bought more myself. It seems to differe in same aspekts But how much clearing g it was, every week take out carpet and dust them. Scrubbng floor many times in a week. Very little about looks and appeatence. Maybe that is more an amerikan thing. About kids more about upbringing and how to take care of them if they got sick. Interesting to see and hear about the difference.

Sometimes, I think it would be better to go back to the family unit. Dad goes to work, and Mom manages the home. It seemed like people were happier. I know my Mom was at home and managed everything. My Dad did not tell her how to run it. It worked like clock work. Children were well taught by both parents. The children today are unbelievable at home and in public. But, I have to say it is up to the parents to train their children the correct way.

Marie Kondo said that in 2011. Since then she has married and had children. She went back on everything she said. 😂

EWW. My mom was a 50's housewife, and this doesn't apply to her.

Puttihg marriage ahead of children is absolutely wrong.

I am very interested in this topic. However the INSTITUTIONAL & personal _abuse, neglect, & CSA_ that went on in the 50s is nothing that decent humans should seek to recreate. Vile. Take it from a former-child AND a good, decent Mother .