While I think that this writer has her head up her arse when she talks about current SAHM, her description of motherhood in the 60s is quite accurate when I think about my mother's life at that time.
In the 60's we doidn't have central heating and my mother would have to light the fire most days unless it had 'stayed in' banked up at night. She would have to bring the coal in from the shed at the bottom of the garden.
We didn't have a fridge or a freezer until the mid 70's so shoping was done every day. She did cook from scratch,m but the meals were basic and no exceptions were made if you didn't like it, it was eat it or leave it time.
We started off with a boiler and a mangle, has a twin tub....god what a luxurty that was but when I broke we couldn't afford to fix it and washing was done in a large enamel bowl on top of the cooker (thinking about the risk of this with kids around is making me feel ill!). Doing the washing was bloody hard work, but we didn't wear things just once and then expect it washed as we do now. Washing was not done in the laundrette, there wasn't one where we lived!
I'm sure that people did have labour saving devices in the 60s, but my mother wasn't so lucky. And far from being 'bohemian, my mother would have given her eye teeth for such help, she was just poor!
And just to add to the 'Hovis ad' feeling of this posting , we didn't have a loo in the house (it was at the bottom of the garden) until I was about 12! But we were lucky, I had friends who still used a tin bath in the late 70s!
'And you tell young folks today, and they just don't believe you.'
PS my Grandmother never had any electricty in her house at all, and had a tin bath.