The Good Housewife "In Her Kitchen" (1949) 

Hahaha I still call it an ice box too, sometimes!

We called it an ice box. We were still using it in the late 70's.

You do know it's possible to put modern amenities inside old buildings? I grew up in a house that was built in the 30s and we didn't have as ice bucket as a fridge.

@@alanduncan1980 my parents didn’t have the money for upgrades and they were immigrants from Poland and didn’t care about upgrades. Everything in the house was from 1928. I grew up in the house and it was 900 sq ft. In West Hollywood. Very trendy area now and expensive (1000.00 per sq ft. To start) but the high crime is stilll their so nightly helicopters searching for criminals who would jump our fence and run throughout our backyard to get to another street with four cops chasing them . it was comical. Four kids and two adults and a wayward teen friend here and there living in this little house. My parents paid 13K in 1963. We sold it for one million in 2016 and it was completely flipped. All new appliances, electricity, bathroom, floor, my dads bedroom is now the kitchen and the kitchen is now a second bathroom. Didn’t do anything with the two bedrooom but put in new windows. Flipper removed all the Spanish iron work and put in giant wood planks around the front of the house. I think for privacy. It’s an ugly house now. 😢

You to! My people... How are you

And the rest of your house looks like it was hit by a bomb, but that kitchen though.. it's immaculate.

Right? It was just getting interesting. .

He takes his liberties, it's NSFW.

I completely agree!

Funny how you just assume they have part 2.

@@alanduncan1980 Hilarious, Alan!

Sad your aunt experienced that. I experienced the opposite: nearly all (except one out of 10) women I know that are wifes, mums and housekeepers are so happy, calm, fun to be with, gentle, feminine and have this happiness around them while most women that work are more easily annoyed and dont have that special feminity around them, I adore so much. These women dont say anything but watching them makes me wishing I had that too. I would give up my career immediately to become a wife, mum and housekeeper 😍

Exactly. We let ourselves fall into that, not our partner. The issue is ageism in the workforce and everyone at that age have skills under their belt, we can all use the skills we have. But marriage/divorce is a private matter. Separate issue with various factors. When the matter is to provide for oneself when single, only oneself can do so.

Sad for your aunt, but I can't connect your story to a video about storing food

Be a reasonably intelligent person and you will never have difficulty finding a job and being able to support yourself if needed. There’s nothing wrong with being a housewife. Housewives have more time for intellectual pursuits, connections through volunteer work, and having fulfilling hobbies. You can listen to a lot of podcasts while nursing babies and baking bread. And even as a housewife that doesn’t mean you don’t do anything. Read Proverbs 31. And it’s just a fact that if two people come together in unity by prayer to God who is only good and greater than themselves they have less than a 1% chance of divorce. That’s a statistical fact, feel free to look it up and be blessed if you follow that narrow and rewarding path. Biblically, Scripture says God desires the earth to be filled and also the command both before and after the flood to be fruitful and multiply. My point in saying that is no husband should demand that a woman doesn’t have children. Actually another statistical fact that might be interesting to look up is the percentage of men that force women to abort. It’s awfully high and we can agree forcing women to abort is never right. Not saying that’s how children were prevented, but statistically just not wanting a child at that point in time makes “ convenience” or “birth control” the number one sited reason for abortion. Personally, I’m the result of rape and I love my life, I don’t understand how so many reject the blessing that children are. I now care for my mother, she stroked in 2021. Who would care for her if she never had kids? Government funded nursing homes are not family.

And then what happened? I want to know everything.

bmviss Exactly right when the film was getting good!

I've seen it at the BFI, he uses the cold water and flowerpots method to make a fridge.

Snap 🤣 like come on don’t cut it off 🤦🏼‍♀️

Cold stone shelf, meat safe and daily shopping. X

Its technically an ice box. Ice was placed in and the door was airtight .

My Dad never had a fridge till 1980 lol

Mommie-Kins, food was stored in an ice box. It had two shelves plus the bottom floor/case. Ice blocks from the ice man were delivered weekly and placed on the bottom floor. Food was put inside, and the door was shut. The ice man either placed the ice inside the ice box for you, or left it on the porch steps, and you brought it in. He used ice tongs. Left the truck parked on the street. 1946-1950.\

@@usacookie8288 Not everyone had an ice box even. If you were hard up, you couldn't afford to buy ice and in the poor areas in cities (in the UK at least) the iceman didn't exist. But if you had money to buy the type of food which needed to be kept cool, you bought it on the same day you were going to cook it and eat it.

You can actually smoke or can meat if you don’t eat it fresh. Unwashed farm eggs Do not need to be refrigerated in the same way that store-bought, bleached, and radiated American eggs have to be refrigerated. you can also pickle eggs and there’s all sorts of things that used to be done to keep food fresh. Packing your potatoes and carrots in dirt in your basement was another trick. Never put onions with potatoes. Buy things like apples that can last months in a root cellar and a year if waxed. Turning cabbage into sauerkraut with salt or berries into jam with sugar were all ways to preserve.

Most people didn’t have a refrigerator then, and they had a much healthier diet!

Plenty of foods do not need a refrigerator, but it would be a bit limiting

Around that time a lot of people would have at least had an ice box instead

But they didn't shop for a whole week at a time then. Many women were stay at home house wives even if they didn't have children as firms didn't employ married women. Part of their daily routine would have been shopping for that day's fresh food. Shopping at small shops you could buy just what you needed, none of this problem of prepacked meat in the wrong multiples for your family or fish in packs of two when there are five of you.

😂😂😂 she was about to say, forget the Script

Shaz Zahs why? Me too

Ugh. Same 😣 I'd genuinely love to be a housewife.

Same here.

peep game, I'm black, I aint trying to go back to the 50s. But whats wrong with having June Clever housewife.

@@rabbster7 I am a housewife in 2020. It is possible in this day and age. It just takes some sacrifices. Living in a smaller home/apartment, driving used cars or sometimes even sharing a car, cooking at home most of the time, and maybe even looking to live in a lower cost of living state. It takes a lot of creativity and being really good with living on a budget, but it is possible to do!

Yes -- washable/reusable sheets.. comparable to the extra thick PVC clear shower curtain liners we use today.

@@CarmindyOnlineHmm, washable and reusable plastic sheets...so interesting. Seems like we should have them now instead of all disposable.

Fruits are usually best on the counter

God forbid the lower classes have their own opinions, right?

Bull.

Yes it should be 💖

I agree:)

Agreed!

Very true

Or, they could do both. 🤣

Don't you think we need more Joans of Arc and Deborahs today? They can do both.

TF?!?!?!?

If you’re gonna comment like at least make sure your spelling is correct🤣🤣

Sure. But first buy me a diamond ring and a house.

Transatlantic accent, used in films that were intended to be used in both America and Great Britan so that neither side found the accent unusual.

@@sharronneedles6721 interesting!

You do it.

I agree. 💖

Too bad live with it

Ye

And why is that?

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You know you secretly like it.

Not secretly haha very openly. I thought it was beautiful

Women still do know their place, in the same place as men. This whole "women in the kitchen" thing was thought up in the late 40s because men returning from war found out that their wives had taken their job. Women can work just as well as men, it not better.

When men used to cheat on their wives and domestic abuse was still rampant. Truly a "high quality" men every women should aspire to have.

@@sharronneedles6721 THIS!!!!

Yet when women become chefs they still face sexism