If Mumsnet existed in the 1950s, what would be posted about?

[supersun23]

I was just wondering this....

@PeggyMitchellsCameo

I believe the woman of loose virtue lives next door lives next door to that lady with the two smashing teenage lads. You know them. Twins. Into boxing. One wears glasses. Lovely young fellas they are. Ever so polite. Reckon they’ll be going places one day.

Oh I’d love to get my two into boxing one day. One hadn’t got the brains and the other has a terrible temper.
They look up to those two lonely young men. They are so good to their mother, dress so smartly, always see them round for Sunday lunch.
Very respectable and extremely kind to some of the old dears in the manor.
Bring them up with a bit of decency and they go far.

Thank you @supersun23 It has been a fun day!

Am I the only one who is fed up with doing the weekly wash?
My MIL says I'm lucky to have a Baby Burco to help with boiling up the nappies, but it's still a major job with all the bed linen and towels. Sometimes I'm still doing the mangling at half past four!! As for getting it all dried on the line, then ironing it all, well it's a Herculean task!

Nothing seems to come up really sparkling white, I use OMO, but my NDN says I should change to DAZ, though my MIL swears by blue bags. What do you use?

As I'm pushed for time tonight, I'm trying a new type of meal, it all comes in packets in a box, and you just add water and boil it up. The one I'm making is Chinese Chow Mien.....really exotic! I hope everyone enjoys it! What are you all having for dinner?

I'm going to see Cliff Richard and the Shadows at the Hippodrome. What should I wear? I have never been to a pop concert don't know what to expect.

Not quite as far back as the 50s, but I remember all the men congregating outside Rumbelow's to watch the football on the many tellies in the window!

I love this @mumsnet can we pretty please have a 1950s section!

(There's no such thing as @mumsnet BTW)

To ask for a new board, start a thread on Site Stuff.

It depends how many children you want dear. If you want two you need to do it at least twice, and three times for 3 children.

Don't give up yet. Lie back and think of England.

Oops, sorry, you said rations! Silly me.

My DS (14) is off school today with a very nasty cough - and I've been waiting three hours now for the doctor to come. I'm so worried - should I ring the surgery again? I don't want to be a nuisance.

Any ideas on shifting an unwanted babby? I've managed to stay out of the family way since my 13 year old was born, but I've caught on and gin and going down the stairs isn't moving this one. I can't do this again.
True story, my nana tried to kill herself when all else failed, then after the baby was born and was back in a psychiatric hospital with post partum psychosis like she had before. Contraception could have saved her mental health, good psychiatric care her life in the end

Well how far away is the phone box, you dont want to be venturing out and leave him for too long

We're on the waiting list to get a phone in the house. So exciting! It's a long walk to the nearest phone box and I often have to wait for other people to finish their calls, and then sometimes it's not working. The Post Office say we could get a phone quicker if we agree to have a party line, but I don't like the idea that other people could listen in to our calls. AIBU to wait the extra year till we can get our own line?

[This will be incomprehensible to anyone under 55, I should think, but in the early 80s we waited ages to get a phone installed in our flat, and in the early 70s when my family moved into a newly built house we had to have a party line, i.e. shared with other households, for a while until the Post Office, which I think was still running the phone service then, could give us our own line.]

In the 1950s it would gave been the GPO = General Post Office

My second post arrived after two o’clock today. What is the world coming to!

That's reminded me. I'm a GPO trained telephonist! The ideal job for a well-spoken girl I was told.

Anyone here not have a refrigerator? I would love one with an ice box as it would make shopping and meal planning so much easier but DH says that our mothers managed without one and it would just make me lazy.

How many times do you think you can get away with darning socks and stockings before you give up and throw them away? Nylons are so expensive that of course I do my best to mend them as invisibly as I can, but after a bit it can fee as if there's more darn than stocking!

A refrigerator? Who are you, the Queen? I barely know anyone who has one of these new-fangled monstrosities yet!

I'm guessing you are one of the younger Mumsnetters to be having such outlandish ideas and no idea yet how to budget.

Listen to your mum - she knows what she is talking about.

My third post didn't come till nearly 8pm.

The GPO are getting very slack.

How's everyone coping in this smog?

My NDN was run over on her way to the shops.

I told my DH not to try to get to work. It's just too dangerous.

And Mr. Churchill isn't doing anything about it. My sister is a nurse in Casualty and the place is overrun with accident victims and people who can't breathe.

My husband says I was hysterical because I thought his black bowler hat needed repairing.
So I went to the doctor's and he confirmed I was indeed hysterical, and helpfully prescribed me 12 valium tablets a day. He also helpfully gave me some amphetamines to give me the energy to repair my husbands hat at home.
I'm presuming these medications are safe for long term use?

I saw this stunning dress for sale but its £2!!!

Has anyone seen a dress pattern for something similar? Ideally under 20p for the pattern.

What do you mean by '20p'

Do you mean 4 shillings?

They must be!
Doctors wouldn't prescribe them if they were dangerous, would they?

Sidenote

(On the night my father died, a helpful GP brought round 200 nitrazepam for my mother and me and my sisters. He also brought 100 amylobarbitone. He wasn't our GP, just a family friend. My mother remained addicted to nitrazepam for 22 years - until she died, in fact. And I had a big problem with benzos for many years)