Was it harder being a housewife in the olden days?

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Just that really! I am actually so curious to see how hard housewives actually worked in the olden days (30s-70s?)

Now, we are so lucky we are able to afford things like getting a cleaner, going to work, having a washing machine, dishwasher, etc! Back then, I can't even imagine how hard it must've been for them to look after their children, handwashing clothes, housework, cooking dinner from scratch... no convenience food whatsoever.

Some people sit at home on their phones and social media all day and everything gets neglected. I really would love to see and live in them times! Seemed a lot more productive back then!

Reading some of these replies makes me realise how more environmentally friendly those "olden" days actually were.

Hate the lazy, throwaway culture that exists now and the prevalence of 'ready meals' and year round availability of fruit and veg that is flown half way across the world so we can eat tasteless asparagus from Peru all year round. What a way to live.

errr…. I can't afford a cleaner or a dishwasher and dh and I cook from scratch: you can come round and look at us if you like

but I think you overestimate the remoteness of the '70s (unless you meant the 1870s): people did have washing machines and some even had dishwashers- and cleaners were at least as affordable to that section of the population that could afford cleaners

and you could buy ready food in the olden days: fish and chips are hardly a new invention, there were pie shops and jellied eel shops in the early 20th century and tinned food came in around WW1