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Retro Housewife: An Attentive Wife – Day 7 Over the course of a decade, the cost of the average family home more than doubled. In 1950, homes sold for $14,500 (compared to $30,000 in 1959).

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Retro Housewife: An Attentive Wife – Day 6 In 1945, how to win and hold a husband by Kiowa Costonie advised: "remember that the average man will go as far as you let him go.

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Retro Housewife: An Attentive Wife – Day 5 The tenant wife could remind her handsome both of their wedding vows by keeping a wedding ring ashtray handy.

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Retro Housewife – An Attentive Wife Day 4 Part time, home-based businesses gave housewives a chance to earn their own and comes. When Avon launched at Avon calling campaign in 1954, more than two-thirds of Avon employees were women.

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Retro Housewife – An Attentive Wife Day 3 Women in the 1950s were often not allowed to serve on juries, make contracts (including mortgages), or established credit in their own names.

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Cleaning Check Lists

Here are the Check List for each of your rooms! As always, adjust for your home :)

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January Cleaning List

Here is the weekly cleaning list for January 2016!

Remember you can change the days as needed! I suggest getting a dry erase marker and printing a copy of this and pinning it next to the calendar. That way you know what needs to be done every week, but you can change it how ever you need to.

Happy Cleaning :)

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Retro Housewife – An Attentive Wife Day 2 TV Moms from the 1950s promoted the standard for housewives across America. June Cleaver of Leave It to Beaver and Lucille Ball of I Love Lucy where two who went about their daily routines wearing the classic ensemble: stylish high heels, dresses tight at the waist, and pearls.

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Retro Housewife: An Attentive Wife – Day 1 Unmarried men in the 1950's were often paid less than their married coworkers and had a hard time getting promotions.

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Retro Housewife: An Attentive Wife I chose Retro Housewife: A Salute to the Suburban Superhero as the January fact book because it shows the truth about how it was to be a housewife back in the 1950's.

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No One is Perfect - not even Me

No One is Perfect – not even Me

Yep, that’s correct.

I struggle with keeping a house clean with just three people living in it. Should be pretty easy, right? Husband and child at work and school during the day gives me all day to clean and prep dinner, and still take a rest.

Then when they get home, they can change, get ready for dinner, we can eat, watch TV, and then slip off to an early bed time for some much needed rest.

FAL…

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Stop Stressing over Clutter!!!

I read this article today, and I knew I had to share it.

Its more true than the sky is blue! I can’t explain how important it is for every single one of us (housewife or otherwise) to soak this in!

Please read it, Share it, and LIVE IT!

We cannot please everyone, sometimes, including ourselves. Stop setting standards that are unattainable. Be practical, and be happy.

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New Year, Old You

Here is Rule #1 for your New Year –

DON’T CHANGE YOU!!!!

Sure, there are quite a few things we all wish we could change in our life or routines. But realistically, making plans to change our lives is just not realistic, and its going to put unneeded pressure on ourselves at the beginning of a fresh start.

Want to eat right? Start now. Avoid a few things here and there. If your go-to snack at work…

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Vintage Wife vs. The Modern World

I feel the need to break down the huge differences between the lifestyle of the 1950’s and the lifestyle of the 2010’s.

While most of us Stay At Home Spouses strive to be June Clever, it just isn’t possible in 2016. Lets take a look at why.

In 1950 a men made a pretty good wage, and they were paid according to their family status. Are they married? Do they have children? If so how many?

In 1950…

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Retro Housewife Intro. pt. 4

I split the introduction into 4 parts (each one page of the introduction. I think its necessary to read the introduction to really understand the contents of the book, and where it’s coming from.

This is Page 4 –

“Lucky thing she had plenty of guidance from Nicole and the movies. To a parable sexy and chase, the proper wife and mommy needed to pay attention to the details – a dramatic sleep with…

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Retro Housewife Intro pt. 3

I split the introduction into 4 parts (each one page of the introduction. I think its necessary to read the introduction to really understand the contents of the book, and where it’s coming from.

This is Page 3 –

“Ads encouraged the retro housewife to have a personal relationship with her appliances, which were often given miraculous qualities; the word “magic” was applied to everything from…

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Retro Housewife Intro. pt. 2

I split the introduction into 4 parts (each one page of the introduction. I think its necessary to read the introduction to really understand the contents of the book, and where it’s coming from.

This is Page 2 –

“Retro Housewife is a rose tinted look back at those times, a window into a world that existed in Life Magazine layouts, advertisements for household appliances, &, to a certain degree,…

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