1950s Housewife Life

Self-care is REALLY hard for me. All those articles telling you to do things to take care of yourself, put yourself first — I am NOPING my way right out of there. Putting myself first just doesn’t work out right for me. What DOES work is vintage beauty routines. All those 50’s housewife step-by-step lists […]

I never knew how to make my living room look clean. Of course, mostly that’s because a cluttered room NEVER looks clean. A room doesn’t look clean unless it is spacious and uncluttered. But even an uncluttered room looks dirty with dusty shelves and filth in the corners. And I just couldn’t keep anything clean.

This seems like a problem that comes up regularly during the flu season! How did the vintage housewife handle getting sick? Did she try to stay pretty? Did she keep the house clean? And how did she treat herself at home? So, to answer some of these questions, here’s how the 1950s housewife was told

Some days, you just feel like a hot mess and you are ready to give up. Now, this option is a lot more popular in the current era. When you feel like giving up, you can almost always find an expert that can give you the justification to give up right then and there. Well,

I needed a system that worked with our daily schedule. I firmly believe in schedules. Finally, I found a solution to help me organize my homeschool assignments and motivate my children, as well as my manage my homemaking. Here’s how to use checklists in your home (and homeschool) management, and still use a schedule!

A lot of you have probably seen this list of daily housekeeping tasks for a 1950s housewife. It looks like a lot. It is a lot, especially when it is all laid out, step by step. But then, even though it is a lot, it is still just for newlyweds and couples with no children.

Way back in the 1950s, women couldn’t turn to YouTube for tips on beauty, cleaning the house, or marriage. Of course, this also gave them more time to actually practice the advice that they found in books and on the radio. Often, their skill at homemaking came from the enduring, daily practice they had at getting things done . . . Here are 8 of the best things you can do to level up your housewifery.

Housekeeping is a real job — and it is a job that will quickly take over your whole life if you let it. Without organization, housework can quickly become mind-numbing, repetitive drudgery. The same tasks will keep building up and can prove to be quite daunting if left unchecked. The best way to keep your

The subject of minimalism is hot these days. We have never been inundated with so much inexpensive stuff. We have never been so bombarded with marketing that promises to make us feel better about our lives. Even in the Populuxe heyday, the mid-century era of Mad Men, we did not have as much stuff to buy,

Back when I first stumbled upon this gem some 15 years ago, it reshaped my very essence as a wife, mother, and homemaker. Though it hails from 1926, its wisdom holds true even in our modern times. When Queens Ride By “When Queens Ride By” was originally a short story, submitted to American Magazine, for