Living like a 1950s housewife for the day
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- I followed a 1950s housewife daily schedule and it was very interesting...what should I try next!?
Hope you enjoyed!
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Really enjoyed this video Grace, it brought back many memories. I wasn't a 1950s housewife. I was born in the early 1960s. When I married and had my eldest daughter in the 80s, we couldn't afford a washing machine, so I used to do all of our washing by hand - even dirty nappies! I used to boil them in a massive pot. We bought our first 'twin-tub' washing machine when our daughter was a year old, and back then that was amazing. We didn't get our first automatic washing machine until my eldest daughter was 4. When baby number two came along, I really noticed the difference - When we first got it, I used to sit and watch the washing going around in the drum. 🥰
My mum tells me she used to do the same thing. She said at the time it was the equivalent to watching TV 😅
Mmm
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that was great. be a bit different w a hubby and kids much more to do.
Grace lives in England? does she answer her fans? and I had named my dog Grace Ann Marie and then a long last name but call her Gracie, the names my 2 grandmothers, my Mom the last name a combination of my Dad" last name and another dog I had who was named after my Dad.
That's pretty funny!!! My grandmother was a "50s Housewife" (she NEVER wore trousers, I think she didn't have any until the late 1970s) and her day went like this:
Her husband got up at 4 or 5 AM and made his own breakfast to go to work as a logger (and later, owner/operator of his little rural sawmill). I think she may have gotten up near the same time and ate a b'fast her husband had made ... then she drove 30 miles to her job as a school teacher (mostly 3rd grade for the bulk of her 45 year career). She got home around 6 PM each evening and her husband, who got off at 2 PM, had already made dinner! On the weekends they both cleaned the house, did the laundry (with an electric wringer washing machine) tended the garden or went out driving around doing fun activities.
I think they may have been unusual ... my grandmother almost ALWAYS drove the car (she loved to drive FAST) when they went out and, as a full-time working woman, she had a lot of autonomy.
They lived far out in the country where they couldn't even see lights of neighboring houses at night. They usually had two HUGE gardens and large flower gardens near the house. Some of my most cherished childhood memories was helping my grandmother pick flowers and put them in Mason jars full of water, load them in the trunk of her car and then going with my grandparents on Memorial Day weekend to clean and decorate graves of loved ones at several rural cemeteries .... we'd have picnic lunches and, if we saw a particularly good stand of wild blackberries, my grandmother always carried containers in the car so we could pick berries for pies or jams.
I loved reading this!
Me too! 😍
@@NinaZ0mbie thanks so much! I think they were kind of an anomaly for the 50s ... they lived on 400 acres, my grandmother worked full-time pretty much her whole adult life (it was her identity) and my grandfather had lots of hobbies to keep him busy - he was not educated much past the 8th grade, but he was a VERY smart man. When I was in college he wrote letters to me with the most adorable, grammatical misspellings ... I'd never laugh, he wrote things as they sounded to him and I loved it. He taught himself fruit tree grafting, he was always making some kind of Rube Goldberg-type machine (he built a food dryer/dehydrator out of an old refrigerator!) and as a former army baker in Siberia during WWI, he loved to bake - especially perfecting all kinds of bread. Papa's "Pancake Suppers" were legendary in our family and all the cousins would crowd into their tiny house for them.
They were married in around 1920 and had an infant son pretty quickly ... but he died shortly and they never had another baby, so they just figured they couldn't ... they adopted a daughter, had a foster son and daughter who were their children their whole lives, and opened their home to many, many kids who needed a place to stay or to learn how to live "the country life," including my grandfather's youngest brother --- they LOVED children.
When they were in their 40s - surprise! My mom was born and they spoiled her rotten ... she had her own horse, they bought her cars several times and catered to her since she was their miracle child. When Mom married my dad who was in the Air Force and they were stationed in Guam, my grandparents even shipped my mom's '57 Ford Coupe to the island for her and sent them an Oregon Christmas tree in the mail every year they lived there. They held a family "mail-in Baby Shower" for me when I was born ... having the actual shower at my grandparents' house and packaging up all the baby gifts to send to Guam.
I think most people have interesting stories about their families ... but while mine looks pretty tame and ordinary on the surface, it's made up of some pretty unique, spectacular people ... I'm really glad I came to know them.
@@susanb5058 thanks so much ... it was wonderful for me to think back about people I loved so much.
@@SherryAnnOfTheWest ❤️
I swear, cleaning always either takes way LESS time than I expect or way MORE time than I expect and no where in between. It always feels so good afterwards but for some reason I still always hate it while I’m doing it.
Exactly!
Loved this video! Not sure if you’ve watched BBC’s “Back in time for dinner” but you should do your own version of that, with the food and outfits🥰
I loved that show but I always wondered how they got their houses back to the way they were before as they literally ripped their kitchen out to put in an old style one! My favourite series was the one where the mum looked permanently p’d off as she was working in the house from dawn til dusk but the dad was EXTRA enthusiastic about everything as he got the fun stuff to do 🤣
I freaking lovedddddd that show! Such a fun idea
@@Kelsbels15 that's exactly what happened in the Australian version...hmmm
@@daisylarson4936 You have such a pretty name! Also I didn’t know there was an Australian version! I’d love to watch that! I guess the mums got the rough end of the stick during that era!
@@Kelsbels15 haa it's a fake name as I'm a foster carer and everything online is fake including my age. In reality I'm 20 years older.
This is my favourite type of video you do, entertaining & educational! PS I have started drinking hot water at work (as I was drinking FAR too much black coffee) and you are right - it’s so refreshing, warming and I feel like it’s made a difference to my skin! x
I started last year too, thanks to Grace, especially in the winter. So comforting and makes me drink more water and less tea.
I love your time period videos!! Your world war 2 ration video was the reason I became obsessed with your channel! I'm currently a dressmaking and textiles student and would love to make you a custom period outfit if you're ever interested:) your videos are so fun and lovely Grace! Xxx
Oh that would be so cool!!
Yes same! I came to her channel because of the WWII ration videos and just stayed to hang out for it all :)
@@tarahankins5566 me too! :)
with the broken mug you can cut off the rests of the handle and use it as a plant pot or for brushes or something (considering it was one of your favourite mugs 😉)
Yes!!! The first video I ever watched of yours was the 1950s diet for a week. I've rewatched your decade-inspired videos so many times!!!
That was one of my first videos as well!
Hi Grace. I love the video! Maybe you can 1950 grocery shopping list or you can do recipes from 50s as well, that would be awesome!
if you like vintage vids and recipes go watch sage lilleyman she has 3 series of vintage recipes :D
@@kayleighkimberley7783 Thanks. Yes I love watching Sage videos as well:)
I was born in 1969, grew up in the 70's and 80's......53 now.
D0idn't have a washing machine at home so all the clothes were had washed and we had a spin dryer that we plugged in to spin the washing to get the excess water out of the clothes, washing up bowel under the spout obviously lol......then hung the washing outside.
The bedding and towels were taken down the launderette every week to be washed and stuck in the dryers.......
Most meals were cooked at home and to this day I prep my veggies either the night before (when I worked full time) or first thing in the morning....save so much time.
And I still use a hand brush to sweep the stairs down......gets them so much cleaner!
That transition at 17:23 has given me life omgg, grack you're the best
I’ve always aired out the bed like that and people react as if I’m crazy. Love to have some back-up on that!
The old videos on TH-cam from that on home making have taught so many little tricks! Like leaving the dinner plate in the oven to keep food warm. Might be obvious to others but not to me haha. Loved the video
Grace! If you haven't already chucked it out, use the broken floral mug as a little plant pot or somewhere for your pens and pencils or a pot for holding things. Just put the broken bit at the back where you can't see it. That's what I do when I break one of my favourite cups.
Banksy looked so pretty today 😍
THESE TYPES OF VIDS ARE MY EXACT NICHE!!! Pls pls pls make this a series! Love you Grack!
Honestly, prepping your vegetables earlier in the day works great. I do this for my mom, who is the cook in our family, on the days she has to work, and it saves her a lot of time. I'm not sure why but I find these "living like a 1950's housewife" videos quite relaxing.
An amazing video by grace. I just love it when you recreate different things or moments from different eras
Love watching things like this I really enjoyed a program on a while ago where families lived in different decades and worked in shops etc please do more videos 🙂
Brilliant video Grace! Thank you for always making me smile 😊 xx
This was a great video Grace! Loved it so much. It was really cool to see what the actual routine would be, coupled with your great research of course. Amazing! Would love to see more like this.
I absolutely love when you do time period videos! You are so awesome at it! When I was in hospital a couple of years ago, I loved it when you ate foods from the 40’s etc! You were consulting your grandparents on it! I loved it!
You are so creative! Literally love you and your content so much, brings me so much happinessss and also a sense of calmness!
Keep being you Grace
Omggg I love these videos! I loved your day in the life of a Victorian so I’m really happy you’re doing this one! Can you do a video about living like a medieval person, would be so fun to watch
I'll have to find that one!
I loved this video! There’s something so satisfying about watching you potter about and get housework done lol. Thanks for all your hard work!
I really looooooove these kinds of videos!!
I love these types of videos. My favs were the ones where you did the dinner parties from the different decaades. Please do more of these I love them!!
Yes please to more videos from this era Grace. Fab video as always xx
Love the colours in your quilt. I still brush my stairs, by the way.
I found this video so interesting and informative, I’d love to see more videos about this era!
Fun video Grace. I remember my Mom ironing on Monday evenings. What a long day for her
These decade videos are my absolute favorite! More please! 💕
You're so creative with your video ideas, I love
Would love to see the original, daily to do list. Thank you for making your video. Fun to watch!
I’m absolutely obsessed with these kinds of videos!! Please do more!!! ❤️
Ahhh I really enjoyed this video. Find this sort of thing so interesting. I also loved your quilt. Looking forward to seeing it on your bed x
I love seeing you in these videos! I think I first found your channel through your “5 days of…” series where you’d eat like someone from a certain time period, so seeing you doing it again makes me so happy 🥰
I absolutely LOVE doing my dinner prep work earlier in the day. Sometimes even a day or two in advance. I like to chop up soup and stew veggies and freeze them until I’m ready to use. It works so well!
Depending on how wet the laundry still was- ironing it damp will finish drying it and the steam from the moisture will help you the ironing process!
Also, can you imagine doing all that with kids in tow!?!
I'm intrigued where that day's routine came from. I was a 1950s child in postwar Britain and remember well my mother's routine. She never did all those tasks on the same day! Monday was washday. The evening meal was leftovers from Sunday lunch. In summer it would be cold slices of meat, boiled potatoes and salad. In colder weather it was a thick soup with bread. Pudding was also what was left from Sunday. As she always made a steamed pudding or a fruit pie we would have that cold with evaporated milk on it. In summer she made fruit flans. These were sponge cases with fruit laid out and then jelly added and the evaporated milk.
Tuesday was ironing day and also a thorough kitchen cleaning after the combination of weekend cooking and washday. Wednesday was floors first, then dusting, and things like washing window sills inside and out. In the afternoon she would "nip down the shops" to top up anything we needed. Thursday was bedrooms day, and change the sheets. Friday was the main shopping day. We didn't have a car so my mum used an early version of a shopping trolley. It was made out of wicker-work, looked like as round laundry basket and was mounted on two little solid wheels. It had one straight handle to pull it along.
Saturday was baking day! Mum made all our cakes, puddings and sometimes bread too. She would make a fruit cake which would be eaten up slice by slice throughout the week. Sunday was the rest day. All that happened was Sunday lunch and bath time in the evening. When I was a child we didn't have a bathroom and our toilet was outside. We used to have our baths in a galvanised steel hip bath in front of the fire. In between that routine, my mother made most of our (the children's) clothes, her own clothes and knitwear for the whole family. She also grew veggies in our tiny garden as best she could.
The housewife's diet during the day on this "routine" was also a bit odd. My mother never had a breakfast like that and neither my aunts or grandmothers! Oranges were very expensive and would not have been wasted on breakfast. They were used in making a desert or eaten as a treat. And never a whole one to oneself! Breakfast for Mum was a slice of bread and jam, or bread and dripping. Lunch for Mum was whatever was needing to be eaten up before it went "off" (we didn't have a fridge until 1968). We always had a milky drink at bedtime, either just plain hot milk with a little sugar or Ovaltine. We always knew when money was tight because the first thing to disappear was the Ovaltine! For all that spareness, I would not swap my childhood with what children have today. We were poor but we were blessed.
Aaaaaah I love this sort of video from you! It’s exactly like the videos you did when I first found you!
This is so fun!! I'd love more videos about this time period, especially if it involves dressing up 🥰
Absolutely loved it! Fun fact, I found your channel because I had just watched the 'Back in Time for Dinner,' series and wanted to see if there was any more on YT.... you had similar videos that popped up as a suggestion. 😊
Such a fun video, very interesting to see how people used to live! I had an idea for the little tiny jug, you could make that into a Christmas ornament just by tying a string through it. :)
I loved this video! Plese do more like this Grace 😊
Love your video grace its brilliant all the years that you do looks great
17:24 I love warming our plates! Individual plates and serving dishes. We have a large toaster oven, so I go between the toaster oven and our full oven to warm plates with whichever is available. I'll keep the plated food warm this way too for just the right moment to come. I figured this out when I was taught to keep a sheet pan in the warm-yet-safe-to-touch-oven to fill-up with pancakes as you make them. ✨🥞🍓🌿
loved the video , it reminded me of your videos about dinners and diets throughout the years ( which is how I found your channel)
I absolutely love this!!
That comment at the start about putting on makeup so your husband doesn't see a "different face" is crazy, different times back then
I love these kind of videos, I really enjoyed it x
Loved this video. I first discovered your channel years ago when you did the eating 1950s food video. I think more historical daily routine videos would be brilliant to watch
Nothing like saving at least a lot of time 🤣🤣🤣 love you Grack x
Loved the video, these types of videos are my thing! I've been saying that thing about the bed for years, I always air it out, it feels much nicer too.
Hahaha that hop over to the oven was the best.
This was so interesting and fun to watch would love to see more like this!
Great video. Def do more and add the clothing and more to the day.Love the historical dives.
Our bedroom in the fifties had linoleum floor that had to be mopped and polished also we had a fire that needed cleaning and because of the fire there was alot more dust we also had rugs that where taken outside and beaten
Omg we sneezed at the same time!! 😂😂😂 I loved this video
This was such a joy to watch
I would love to see more videos from this era! This was really well done!
I love your vlogs so much! You always hear people talking about how certain vloggers are their comfort watch… but it’s so true!! Every video feels like I’ve just had a phone call with a friend 🥰 I feel like if we’d have met irl we would 100% be friends
I thoroughly enjoyed this. Please continue this series. Wishing instead of a thumbs up, I could give you a 100%. That steak dinner is still one of my family’s favorites.
Great video Germaine!
I heard about the ”airing” trick for your covers when I was a kid and used it as an excuse so that I wouldn’t have to make my bed😂
absolutely loved this video, would defiantly like to see more like this xx
Nice! I love how inquisitive you are.. Great Video...really enjoyed it!
Yes! Continue with this!
We had a washing machine. And a wash board for smaller clothes to wash.
Great video idea Grack! Consistently good content 👌. Would be fun if you even dressed up like the people of those times !
Bet your mum and dad loved you doing this video 🤣🤣 they’ll be getting you to do one for each decade!
This video reminds me of the first video that I found of you. The video was about wartime food and that’s the first video that made me subscribe as I was scrawling through TH-cam one day and found you!
Hi Grace love love loved this video, would really instresting to see 1960s, 1970s housewife routine and see how different there are . Xx
I am first! I love your videos Grace! ❤
Great video Grace. 1950s housewife would listen to the radio whilst knitting or sewing (for the house, husband or children, usually) and go to bed around 10-10.30pm.
I like this!
Could you find ration books for different time periods and try to stick to the rationed amounts for a week?
Also, that mince "steak" was probably cheaper than having a proper steak, so it could be a regular midweek meal. There was another similar dish around the same time which was just fried mince and onions served with new potatoes and veg. Cheap, nutritious food that they've tried to make more interesting within the limitations of the time.
OMG I loved this.
The premise reminded me of that tv show (from the 90’s) where they lived life like it was the 1900’s, such nostalgic vibes ❤️
I’d love to see you do a week in the life of different decades/or a weekend, it would be so cool
After working full-time for 3 years (post-uni) I would love to have this lifestyle for a bit 😂 loved the video grace ❤
You wouldn't, trust me. You do not want to go back to times when women were confined to the home and were the property of their husbands.
@@SimonTmte Like all men are? How do you think people survive these days? Or is it only an issue when women choose to work?
@@SimonTmte but at least you get $$ doing so
I used to brush the carpet in the early 90s (i was a child then 😄) and if your front garden had not been clean one of the neighbours would come around and check on you, because they would think you are unwell or something is wrong.... Really miss those days.... Especially the whole neighborhood kids just playing outside all day....
I found your channel years ago with your eating like in the xx decade for a day so this is a nice throwback
This video was so interesting to me, I work with the elderly population, who were mostly in their 20s in the 1950's, and it's so intriguing to see that some of the mannerisms they have were a traditional thing! Amazing, unique content as always 👏🥰
These are the videos I subscribed for... more of this content please
Great video, as always. Do you think you'll make more quilts? This one came out beautiful. BTW, one of the reasons Salisbury steak was popular was because ground beef was less expensive than steak. Many housewives were quite frugal with their household budgets.
My grandmother always used to prep her veg in the morning 😆. So organised
I'm a housewife (not a sahm, don't have kids), semi by choice and semi out of necessity, because I immigrated to a new country in the middle of 2020 with 2 looming very strict lockdowns, and there were so many things they made those of us that came in on a family/souse visa do in that first year, that I told my partner that I was tired like seriously tired, I had worked full-time nonstop since I was 17 pretty much and I just needed a break, and since we have quite a bit of savings and since my partner made a decent amount for us to live, we did not live above our means at all and still don't really, but we are comfortable for just the 2 of us and we aren't in debt (well, except now we have a mortgage, but we got in just before the housing prices went up so our mortgage is less than what most are paying for rent for the same amount of space, we are lucky). But yeah, I asked my partner if it was ok if I just didn't work for a while, like taking an extended sabbatical, I also had to start really learning the language too on top of all the immigration appointments. What I didn't know was how much work it takes to be a house-person, you do a good portion, like 70-90% of the domestic duties if not all (cleaning, cooking, laundry) , all the shopping (we also don't have a car so it can be a real chore to do this, we get larger grocery items if we can delivered for this reason), all the other errands like going to the pharmacy and the post, it's a fucking chore, and it's unpaid, and in basically most countries there is no pension program for it because you aren't earning any physical income to pay into the system, and in this country I'm in death is considered the same as divorce legally so the surviving spouse only gets half of the dead spouse's pension while the other half goes to the closest blood relatives (I really hate the blood relatives thing, like what if you have "found family" and have nothing to do with your blood relatives because they are assholes), this system was to protect any children a couple might have, but what if you don't have any kids. And all the years I worked before don't count for pension in the country because I wasn't a citizen of this country when I was working so no country agreements made don't exist for me retroactively even if I did gain citizenship............Anyways, long story short, life as a house-person is hard work, it's unpaid and there are no set hours so you could basically be doing stuff all day maybe, sometimes it's thankless but that's only if the other people that live in the household don't give a shit (we make a habit of thanking each other for doing the mundane thankless work no matter what it is), my partner does help me out but it's definitely not 50/50. Some of the good things to come out of it are that I'm able to make plans with people anytime I want since I don't have any work responsibilities, I can go take the daytime language classes , I can go for walks and go to the pool to do laps whenever I want, and if my anxiety kicks in badly I can stay home and focus on my mental health (which has gotten worse since moving here). We also save money because we don't have to hire a cook or a cleaning person and we don't go out to eat as much (many people I know here where both partners work realized they couldn't work full-time and take care of the domestic stuff so they pay to have someone come in once a week to do cleaning and maybe laundry, it is a luxury, I will admit that).
But given all of this, I would never in any way want to be a housewife from the 1950s, hahahahahhhahaaha, not at all, I have a lot more freedom in how I take care of my household and I get to set the boundaries and things I want to do, and if I can only manage 3 or 4 hours of it, I can stop, but 1950s housewives had way too many social pressures on what they had to do how they looked things they had to do in the community whether they wanted to or not all, all with a smile on their face and a home cooked dinner on the table when the husband got home, on top of having technology that wasn't as advanced as it is now. And for a lot of them back then it wasn't really a choice it was more of a societal expectation. I feel like it's much different when it's legitimately chosen and chosen soberly knowing full well it's going to be hard and unpaid, and having talked with your partner and/or household to be thankful and not have certain expectations and to help out if necessary or when they can.
Banksy is so flippinggggggg cute!
I loved this video, and indeed trying to do it in the apt dress style would be a nice follow up video.
I find a "Dont care about the unsubstantial attacks you receive" vibe in this video and the joy maintained very useful !
Love this ❤️
Grace, you are so precious! 😊
Something about deep cleaning the bathroom then prepping food doesn't sit right with me 😟. like you said prepping earlier makes sense and working from cleanest to dirtiest chore. Either way this was very interesting and calming to watch!
Needed this video after an awful day ❣
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I LOOKED UP AT THE TV WHEN YOU WERE EATING TRIFLE AND CHLOE WAS IN THE BACKGROUND W/ THE GOOVES AND LIGHT SHIRT ON AND I FULL ON THOUGHT THERE WAS TWO GRACES BAHAHA
I love being so early to grackles videos! I love you grace thanks for always being a night shining light in a dark world❤️❤️
I love this...Please do lots more. Thank you. T x
I also love your new duvet
Trifle is one of the best desserts! But that might be because my Nan used to make it for us so it has nostalgia value.