It’s time for the latest list in my series “The Top 5 ’50s Housewife Books!” This one is all about vintage books to help you become a more gracious and elegant lady. Mostly, these are the books that will help you with the 4th Pillar of Vintage homemaking — show pride in being a Mrs. […]
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Spring is here! Or close enough that many a vintage housewife is starting to consider her spring cleaning plans. So just in case you want to know how to REALLY THOROUGHLY clean a home, vintage-style, here’s the complete, step-by-step list of cleaning tasks that a 1950s housewife would have followed. As one of those vintage
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I needed a distraction this week, so I decided to revisit our old beauty routines! I never did finish posting about them, but these vintage beauty routines are my favorite. Not only can I look amazing by using them (especially with the emphasis on skincare) but I can also do something that improves my own
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Is there anything more quintessentially feminine than the 1950s housewife? Think of June Cleaver, wearing pearls, heels, and a full-skirted dress to do her housekeeping. Even Lucille Ball, whose homemaking in I Love Lucy was eccentric (to say the least!), looked and acted feminine on screen and off. So how can a modern-day vintage housewife
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If your goal is to be more feminine, then your first step to femininity is to always ask a man. Why? Because femininity is the inverse of masculinity. Unfortunately, nowadays, most women have emancipated themselves right out of their femininity. And most men are understandably wary of telling any woman — even one who asks
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Before I had kids, I skipped a lot of meals. Yeah, I know that ALL THE EXPERTS talk about how bad that kind of thing is, but I just didn’t feel like eating breakfast and lunch. But then I had kids. And you know what? APPARENTLY, KIDS NEED TO EAT LUNCH EVERY DAY. And the
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And — drumroll, please — it is time for the 2nd installment of ’50s housewife books. I had several requests for a list of vintage fiction — and there is a lot. So, I broke it down further into genre lists. This one is the trashy-novels edition! Here, for your enjoyment, are 5 of my
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I honestly love Amazon! One of my favorite things is the reproduction vintage decorations they offer. I just could not get those if it wasn’t for Amazon. And since my vintage heart loves decorating for the holidays, I am sharing my top 7 retro Halloween decorations. 1. Beistle Paper Decorations Basically, anything by Beistle, guys.
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Do you wonder which vintage books are the best use of your time and money? Me, too! In fact, one of my favorite things to do is to track down vintage books. I admit to having spent more than I should on vintage books, both good and bad! (Fortunately, my husband doesn’t scold me about
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When I was in high school, I loved old-fashioned things. I especially loved the resilient, feminine superwomen who were housewives in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. When I married, and had children, I could not understand why it was so hard for me to achieve being a modern-day ’50s housewife! I didn’t know the first
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