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

[kvalidir]

Great way of crimping your hair :) x

[Mamyalynne]

...and my right ear lobe.

[kvalidir]

Thhwwwww, brothers are great aren't they? :)

[Purist]

Disappointed to see her using a mobile phone, Instagram and the nose piercing. If she wants to be authentic she has to let go of modern technology. All being said though, rather her than me.

[anotheoldgit]

Eleena

/// I bought a metal mop bucket recently, I was fed up with the plastic ones bending when you wring the mop out. ///

I think you need to explain to the younger ones, what a mop is. :0)

But there's proof that some ancient gadgets were far superior to the modern ones.

[Everhelpful]

Not all of us worked in an Office,aog,many had Manual work.!!

[sanmac]

I didn't see a coal-scuttle pictured anywhere. Anyway, I wonder if she gets up in the morning; lights the fire; holds a large sheet of news-paper across the fire-place to create a draught; and once the fire is going lets go of the paper so that it flamingly roars up the chimney:)

[kvalidir]

I have animals I definitely know what a mop is :)
We also have open fires and a solid fuel Aga, so I chop wood as well. we're not all completely hopeless honest ( just the townies ;-)

[shaneystar2]

Those mangles used to wreak havoc on the rubber buttons of your liberty bodice:)
No thanks ,not for me. I wonder if they have a tin bath bath in front of the fire once a week or go up the back yard to the privy and use Izal toilet paper.I bet they don't :)

[anotheoldgit]

Everhelpful

/// Not all of us worked in an Office,aog,many had Manual
work.!! ///

Yes I know Everhelpful, it was the general scenario , "Mr Brown goes of to town on the 8-21", complete with bowler hat, umbrella and the Times under his arm.

Didn't see much of the real 'workers' in their Bib and Brace, Boiler Suit or Warehouse coat, off to work on their trusty push bikes.

[anotheoldgit]

shaneystar2

Izal toilet paper, in the outside loo, what was wrong with bits of newspaper hanging on a piece of string?

[albaqwerty]

pigtails, mangles and brothers?

Now I know why my mum kept my hair short :-))

No thanks to living as a 1940's housewife.

[hereIam]

No way, I'd miss my mod. cons.

[margarettom]

Absolutely no!! I always enjoyed working ( not a natural housewife) and I would hate to have to rely on someone else for everything. If I had been a 1940's housewife, I wouldn't be alive today anyway, as the drugs needed to deal with my chronic illness were not available then.

[anotheoldgit]

Could this be why more old people are Brexit, because they have and are prepared to accept the hardships that we are constantly told we will have to endure when we throw off the chains of the EU?

[anotheoldgit]

margarettom

I don't know what your chronic illness is, but perhaps if you had been a 1940s housewife you would not have had your illness?

Just saying, because there seems more illnesses around these days than there ever was in the 1940s.

[jno]

that may be because people live longer, aog?

[margarettom]

Sorry AOG, had to go out.
I have eosinophiliac asthma. My mother got it in late middle age and died within 10 years of diagnosis in the 1960's. I have had it 45 years and am still going strong. Thanks to modern inhalers and prednisolone in particular.