Posted on 12/24/2023 4:13:41 AM PST by cutty
Women were working “men’s jobs” in the 1940s. Looks like she and many here forgot about all the Rosie the Riveters.
GOOD FOR YOU!
Girls like you make this planet a much better place.
My wife and my daughter are stay-at-home moms, and I'm so very proud of them both.
The job is very hard, if done right, -- especially with young ones.
It has to be incredibly rewarding, too. Especially as we grow older.
Got bless you!
I'm glad the couple chose to live this was and wish them the best.
She’s partway there. Now start having kids instead of waiting until she’s 45 to decide she wants to be a mom.
She’s going to drive the democrats and other leftist critters up the wall after they spent so many years renaming all forms of normal lift sexist racist homophobe even speaking English white supremacy.
She’s going to drive the democrats and other leftist critters up the wall after they spent so many years renaming all forms of normal life sexist racist homophobe even speaking English white supremacy.
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More power to them. Although, I think you can be modern and be traditional at the same time.
Yes, putting your cosplay choices all over TikTok or Instagram is a new “tradition.”
They’ll be happier, in my opinion, if they just live their life instead of making it a show. Hasn’t anyone learned a lesson from the Duggars?
I prefer the 1540s but to each their own. Back then my family owned their own land but didn’t have the responsibilities of the nobility.
Those were the days.
Sounds great! But there was also plenty to do at night (people had electric lights since the 10s and 20s, and radios, and before that, lanterns and candles)—knitting, sewing, mending, preserving food, sweeping, churning, reading the Bible, that sort of thing.
They also had plenty of books and magazines by the 40s, as well as agitator washers with wringers. I remember my grandmother's Reader's Digests, women's magazines, needlework magazines, devotional pamphlets, and well-worn Bible (I still have it), plus an assortment of gadgets for drying clothes to minimize ironing like aluminum-frame trouser stretchers and wooden frames with tack points all around for stretching lace curtains to dry. She was raised on a farm, and no one could beat her home cooking, plus large-quantity cooking for church suppers. She also drove a black Ford automobile and one of the joys of my childhood was accompanying her to the grocery or the streetside markets in the city.
My grandfather had a workshop in the basement in which he made all kinds of household objects for his grown offspring and toys for his grandchildren. I decorate my wooden dollhouse that he made in the late 40s every year for Christmas.
It was a modest, decent way of life. Home, family, church. Work and school on the side.
It was a modest, decent way of life. Home, family, church. Work and school on the side.
I grew up with traditional family structure. No mothers complained. They didn’t want to go climb power poles risking their lives to keep the electricity running for the city or emptying trash cans every morning. Put these girls in a REAL job, and not some BS comfy make work job in an air conditioned office and watch how fast they would want to have a husband take care of them and the kids.
Plus..... the cost of living allowed a single earner to cover all the bills.
Hopefully pay the trend takes off.
I don’t think that is what she is referring to
It is a wonderful thing to do. Happiest time of life.
She’s going back to the calling of her genes, her nature.
She’ll be much happier and have a more fullfilled life than following the siren song of the feminazis, who require her to deny and loathe her own reality.
I wish her well.
“minimum for a self-sustaining farm.”
Depends on the climate. That’s the size of my place. But I only get a good 5 months of growing season. The chickens help but chicken and eggs gets pretty boring after a while.
However with my friends and neighbors we all have hundreds of acres all producing our own meats and veggies. I must say I do enjoy just going to the Costco a few towns away and stocking up on canned goods and the convenience of the grocery store.
Because she was scratching meals up from almost nothing, washing clothes with buckets and washboard, sewing clothes...subsistence.
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