To Wonder What AIBU would have looked like in 1951?

[MrsMontague]

I have recently bought an issue of Woman & Beauty from 1951 from a vintage site. I love things like that, I pretty much live in the past...it fascinates me!

Anyway, reading through it, some of the things are obviously a far cry from how we live to day, some very amusing in a 'cant-believe-it' way.

For example...

BE A PRETTY HOUSEWIFE
One of the prettiest aspects of being a full-time housewife is that your hours are your own, you are three times luckier than the average career wife. You, as the little keeper of the hearth, should be the prettiest girl of all. No matter how crowded your days, you have a certain freedom and privacy for doing beauty things with housework. For instance, your husband need never see you through a layer of facecream, not when you've had all day to wear it in his absence!

The article then goes on to describe how to manage a beauty regime along with the housework. There are even little diagrams demonstrating how to exercise whilst changing the bed sheets!

So what would AIBU have looked like in 1951 I wonder? Obviously if they'd have had any such thing as the internet!

'AIBU to have let DH see me in my face cream?'

AIBU to not want to speak to the vicar about my 'constant questioning of DH's authority' ?

DH has arranged a chat with the vicar after evensong.
I don't want to go.

Should I obey my DH?

ps why has DH taken to putting black marks on the level of sherry in the bottle?

I have a 1950's book of letters and advice taken from a problem page in a popular magazine. Actaully the advice given is very sensible and I agree with nearly all of it. Although none of the letters deal with issues such as sexual abuse, domestic violence, abortions or being gay. I had to laugh at the letter written by a woman asking if her husband was a bit too gay? Although of course she didn't mean it in the way people do now!

But the real AIBU questions they ask include:

1. whether they are expecting too much from their son who has been moved up a year at school who every 4 weeks seems to get over exhausted. Advice - move child to class with his own peers.

1. whether they ABU to stop their daughter wearing make up although friends do - but they think the friends are a bit "fast". Advice - understandable she wants to, but no they are not.

1. whether they ABU to stop their 17 year old daughter going to a holiday camp with friends. Advice - yes they are. But research beforehand and make sure they book in a respectable place.

AIBU to enjoy figs with my spam and for thinking that coley is better than cod in a fish pie?

AIBU to wish the women's magazines didn't refer to everyone who works as a 'career woman'? I'd love to have time to put a ribbon in my hair for when DH gets home from work, but we need the money I get from cleaning Lady Latterly's house.

AIBU to....well....not want to kiss my husband, THERE ???

There would be one because everybody would be too busy with the washing, ironing and looking pretty for their husbands.

LOL at the knitted swim suit. My sister wants made a knitted bikini and everybody had a bit of an eyefull when you jumped in the pool and realised that wool stretched in the water.

AIBU to want to buy an electric washing machine?

With six children, and the twins still in nappies, it would save me a lot of work, but dh thinks it would be an extravagance.

AIBU to splash out on cotton pants? I love my pink brushed nylon sheets - so modern! - but I think my nylon pants are causing unpleasant smells in my intimate region.

AIBU to object to my husband grasping me firmly around the waist as I was on my hands and knees painting the back step?

He held me so hard my apron came untied and then held his "Gentleman's area" rather too close to my bottom than one would expect at 3.30pm in summer when it is still broad daylight.

I defended myself with the paintbrush and he is now angry as he has Cardinal Red all over his weekend casual slacks.

He says I should have accepted his advances and not rejected him in such a spirited fashion. I feel very because he used to say he loved me for my spunk.

AIBU to think these refugees/immigrants don't deserve any rations when they have only just got here?

AIBU to think these refrigerators are just silly over-priced toys? I mean, my mother always got by with a meat-safe and the back step?

AIBU to abstain from all relations when it is my 'woman's time', and tell my husband i have a headache each night? He cannot know about such an unclean occurance but I do so hate lying...

There, there, Lizzy, your husband knows everything, even about things in world too big and scary for your pretty little head; of course he knows about the unclean occurrance, and everything else besides!

Except for the fact that you poo. That you still must hide from him.

Bump!

will someone please put me out of my misery and tell me what AIBU stands for????

Am I Being Unreasonable?

:)

Some posters on MN are firmly stuck in the 1950s.

AIBU or is my friend?
I wake at least two hours before my husband so I can shower, do my hair, put on make up and a really nice dress and high heels. You must always look your best for your husband am I right?
Mary says she doesn't worry herself about such things and her husband sees her with bed hair and morning breath too

AIBU to be slightly miffed (although of course I wouldn't show it) that my dear husband decided to entertain his boss and 8 colleagues at our home with just an hours notice?

I managed to rustle up some blackmarket chickens etc. and did a passable 7 course meal but really couldn't he have given me an extra half hour to make myself pretty? I'm sure I looked a wreck!

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