Gosh!!! I sure was married too late!!!

[GreatOwl]

It is hard to believe that this existed.

http://www.robinsweb.com/humor/good_wife.html

[LouiseVargas]

I can vouch for the fact that it did exist before women's liberation. He and I both worked full time. He drove the car my mother bought. I rode the bus ... pregnant. After getting home, I had to cook, serve, wash dishes while he was busy reading Time Magazine. I also had to clean the house, wash clothes and iron them while he was busy with his hobbies. It was so unfair. I was really happy when we divorced.

[GreatOwl]

In the 50's I was doing all those things after I got home from school.  My mother worked 6 days a week.  I can remember doing the wash, fixing some of the basic things for dinner, having to dust and vacuum the house every single day.  Who does that these days?  I could never figure that one out.  We lived in a 2 bedroom lower apartment.  In the winter I remember having to pour water into the trays that were built into the radiator covers.  I did the wash and hung the clothes on the back porch to dry, even in the winter.  Sometimes they hung in the basement.  I had dishpan hands by the time I was 12.  I remember being on my hands and knees scrubbing the kitchen floor once a week.

My fondest memory was getting the iron grinder out and stuffing baloney into it along with pickles and shelled peanuts to make a sandwich spread.  We were allowed only one glass of milk at night because it was so expensive.  As a treat I could get one 5 cent coke a week, usually on Friday evening.

[snoopy]

It is hard to believe that this existed.

http://www.robinsweb.com/humor/good_wife.html

This isn't how it's done today?  lol  Seriously I did it like this until about 10 years ago.  That's how momma did it afterall.  I even use to iron blue jeans.  Till I got a life that is. lol  I'm still kindof old school, but thankfully times they have a changed. lol

Wow!!

[SunnyinTX]

It is hard to believe that this existed.

http://www.robinsweb.com/humor/good_wife.html

Oh mercy that brings back some memories....I stood on a stool and ironed sheets!!!  eeerrrrr that was a L O N G time ago

[GreatOwl]

Yup, I can remember that also.  Not only sheets but I ironed hankerchiefs, kitchen towels, Bath towels.  Just about anything that was straight was left to me.  My mom did the shirts and difficult stuff.  I must have been around 8 at the time.  I remember we had a mangle for a couple of months on trial.  That was a neat machine.