The retro housewife

What does the Retro housewife day look like? Well, we get up, get our kids off to school, pack our hubbies a sandwich and wish them a safe drive. Then our day is OPEN? Some of us watch Oprah or the Soaps, some have a regular routine, for housewives with children our lives revolve around them and their activities, some paint do charity work...or maybe we run a home based business.

Some Retros have money, and for them running the house is comparable to running a small company, managing the staff, scheduling the projects, projecting an image of perfection to the outside world.

The best Retros understand that their purpose is to make life worth living for themselves and their families. That, no matter their income level or social status, they are the center of their families universe and the one who has the difficult task of making the most out of whatever resources are available to them.

In keeping a house, the job is to make it a home. In raising children, it is to turn out well balanced emotionally stable human beings that have the confidence and personal convictions they will need to make their way productively and happily in life. In being a wife, our job is one of support, confidante, companion, lover and best friend.

No small order, but in the end, we are the ones that make the difference in the lives of the other members of our families. Whoever coined the term "little woman" had not the slightest idea of what he spoke, for it is truly "the hand that rocks the cradle" that is an accurate depiction of our role.

We get many emails from housewives who identify with our general opinions on things, and stories about their lives and daily activities. In this section, we are highlighting the things we found in common amongst the hundreds of letters we get.

Glen Campbell - Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife lyrics

She looks in the mirror and stares at the wrinkles that weren't there yesterday
And thinks of the young man that she almost married
What would he think if he saw her this way?

She picks up her apron in little girl-fashion as something comes into her mind
Slowly starts dancing rememb'ring her girlhood
And all of the boys she had waiting in line

Oh, such are the dreams of the everyday housewife
You see ev'rywhere any time of the day
An everyday housewife who gave up the good life for me

The photograph album she takes from the closet and slowly turns the page
And carefully picks up the crumbling flower
The first one he gave her now withered with age

She closes her eyes and touches the house dress that suddenly disappears
And just for the moment she's wearing the gown
That broke all their minds back so many years

Oh, such are the dreams of the everyday housewife
You see ev'rywhere any time of the day
An everyday housewife who gave up the good life for me

Oh, such are the dreams of the everyday housewife
You see ev'rywhere any time of the day
An everyday housewife who gave up the good life for me

Oh, such are the dreams of the everyday housewife

FADE
You see ev'rywhere any time of the day
An everyday housewife...

Housewife such as a Profession!

I'm not a perfect house keeper. My home is clean, but lived in. I do keep it very clean. I sweep, vacuum and dust almost every day, but it doesn't look like a museum either.

But when this depression set in, my house, though I still swept every day, began to look like I didn't care anymore. Even my husband was troubled by it. You know I didn't go on any medication, I simply got a call from my best friend, after my hubby, bless his heart, called her out of concern.

She laid it on the line, and told me everything about my life she could only dream of having. I have a wonderful husband who loves me with a passion, would never even think of cheating on me, has never abused me, and would do anything to make me happy. I have three wonderful children, though not perfect, they do love me and I them. I have a nice home, and the ability to stay at home and take care of my family.


Ladies, you have to put yourself first. If you don't take care of you, who will?

If you don't take care of you, then you can't be there to take care of the ones you love. I use to have a career, work out, stayed healthy and fit, had a social life, took time out for a bath and a book.

Today I have a schedule again. You may think well why, you're only a house wife. Because being a house wife is like any other profession. If you want it to work you need to run it like a well oiled machine. Which includes every element I need to feel like I am functioning at my best.

Are you a perfectionist?

We live in an imperfect world, yet we are constantly given the message that everything should be perfect: our homes, our garden, our children and ourselves.

According to scientists, this obsession with perfection is one of the main causes of stress and depression nowadays – nobody ever thinks they are good enough.

But is doings things perfectly a positive thing? Some experts are not so sure.

I would like to write in my post about one example of “perfection”.
It would be about a perfect housewife.

So, she keeps her house in perfect order, thinks about everything her partner might want and makes an enormous effort to keep herself fit and fashionable.

She is always busy and is admired by everyone who knows her.

But, according to specialists in stress, the reality is that her partner is probably wishing he lived with somebody who was more relaxed and would let him put their feet up on the sofa in the evening.

How to show "I love you" to your lover?

Sometimes, it is very difficult for me to say “I love you” to my husband.

Or rather, I want to break the rules and want to express my feelings in other ways.
So, can you imagine how to do it? Well. I have found the right method.

First of all, I think when to “say” it. I’m going to prepare either a romantic dinner and show how much I love him, or, organize a lazy Saturday morning in the bed. I will follow the first variant.

In fact, I want to be the first (from us) who will show my feelings in different way. I will do it unexpectedly for him. He will be very surprised.

O-la-la. I want to see his face in such minutes, in minutes when I will say in such way about my big love to him.

But, I have a fear. The fear if he will understand me correctly. In fact, I dream about the same declaration of love, but I’m not sure if he responses the same way as me.
Generally, I think that telling somebody “I love you” is a big courage and this person merits my admiration.

So, I’m ready to show my love not saying it. Why? As you have already understood, I told him about my love long time ago and not only once. Now, I want to do it differently, in a more romantic way.

What to do? How to show my love, respect and admirer?

I’m going to fill out the fridge with his favorite beer. He will appreciate my efforts.
Then, the romantic dinner will come. Tasty dishes, my kisses and then - the bed covered with roses petals. Isn’t this a simple way to show your love?

Readers, do you have anything to say? How do you say “I love you” to your lover, not using words?

I would like to see your ideas, comments and even suggestions on the bottom of this post.

How to be a good wife?

It’s very important to be a good wife if you wish to keep your family out of problems. And doesn’t matter what kind of problems: financial or psychological.
Follow some rules and you will be over the moon.

Be confident in yourself

If he is tired or comes late from work, it doesn’t mean that he doesn’t love you anymore. If he is with you, it means that he wants to be. You will look sexy for him, even if it isn’t so.

Remember that treatment and readiness take part from the same list of characteristic “To be sexy”. Self-respect is good for marriage. Assure that your life is still fun and interesting.

Show your feelings and express your needs

Don’t wait till the moment when he will want or ask something. Take the initiative - ask him things that you need. If something is wrong - tell him and discuss about this. As you know, the problems can’t be solved by themselves.

After some time they become more difficult. Try to do it in time and you should do it calmly, clearly and directly. Some expressions work for you. “I feel bad” obliges him to ask “Why”.

Use this “I feel” often and you will see the difference.

Be realistic

As you know, there isn’t a perfect human from all over the world. Don’t expect that he is “Good”.

If both of you keep trying to have a good marriage, you will have it. Have realistic expectations. Only in this case, you will be able to attain them. Otherwise, you will feel yourself purposeless.

Accept him as he is. Don’t try to change him, because you will lose the beautiful parts which he is ready to offer you and you will never know about them.

Unarm yourself

Don’t be nag and fussy, because it can destroy a marriage. As long as the dishes are cleaned, don’t nag how much time it takes or how much your back aches.
Let him to do things as he likes.
Don’t force him to do them as you want, because it could make him angry. Concentrate your attention on important things, not small ones.

Don’t refuse him sex

Sex is an important part of life for majority men. So, offer him sex when he asks. Don’t refuse him telling him a well-known phrase “I feel seek”. Frequent refuses could say him that he isn’t good at this.

It can even change his feelings to rejection and even indignation. So, make sex as much time as he wants and he will return you this kindness in his way.

Have a fun sexual life

Discuss with him about your sexual life. What things you like more and which not. Don’t be afraid to experience something new with him. Explain him how this thing can change your sexual life.

The dark side of love

Have you ever fallen in love? If yes, it seems that you know about white and dark side of love.

In love as in war, there is one winner.

First of all, you see only the white side of love. You are happy together, he/she is interesting. We have lots of things in common.

All things are pink for you. You think that the whole world is yours. Angels fly around you. You smile. You cry. Your mood changes every second. And all these things happen because of her/him.

You are captured. You can’t breathe without her/him. Every his/her delay makes you unhappy.

Both of you eat out of the same dish. Sleep in the same bed. Sing the same song.

You listen with an open mouth all the words which come out from this mouth.

You are captured again. Captured by his/her kiss, smile, hands…

Then, he/she starts delaying. You waited him/her, but he/she didn’t come.

Dark. Dark around you. You still love him/her, in spite of the fact that you aren’t friends anymore.

Your dreams are full of his/her image. You can’t even eat because he/she isn’t near you.

She/he doesn’t take the phone when you make calls. You saw him/her with another person. Depression.

A dark, very dark depression.

“She/he doesn’t love me anymore. My life doesn’t have any sense”. These phrases are typical for people who were disappointed in love.

How are you? How do you feel today? – Somebody try to return you back.

Back to a normal life. A pink life, where there is only happiness.

Only in USA

I always visit salons to make pedicures.

I am a modern woman who tries to look after herself carefully.

It’s very important to look beautiful, even for married women.

Do you agree with me?

Recently, I have visited my sister in Virginia and I decide to visit the salon there.

It left my mouth opened. The owner of the salon has invented a new idea that increases the number of visitors. I’m speaking about a gadget that they use in their salon.

They put tiny carp called “Doctor Fish” in warm water tank in the salon. The salon’s guests put their bare feet in this tank.

Then, the fish nibbles all the dead skin. In fact, this kind of fish has no tooth, that’s why they can’t injure you.

This procedure costs $35 while the traditional pedicure costs $50.

How do you think, such investment is profitable? Yes, it is.

According to the owner, the salon is visited by 5000 persons per week and the majority of them choose the unusual method.

Did I try it? Well, yes. How can I see such thing and not try it. By the way, I am a curious person.

I’ve even taken pictures and I’m going to place them in my blog.

Now, my feet are really delicate.

Would you try such pedicures?

Have you ever seen other methods of pedicures?

Good morning, my dear!

It’s 8.00 o’clock in the morning. I woke up because of a dream. An unusual dream...

Do you want me to tell you what was the dream?

Well, it seems that I stay in bed and what about the door? The door is opened slightly.

Who is here? - I ask loudly. Hello, is anybody here?

I hear a voice: “You belong to me”, “I belong to you” … silence …

Then, he finds me… I hear him standing up from the armchair. He calls me and I follow his voice.

His voice… sounds so real and attractive. I can’t refuse him anything.

Thoughts, thoughts – they come in and go away from my mind. Sometimes, the idea appears that this person is an intruder, but who cares?

My heart is beating. I can’t feel my left hand, but we embrace each other.

We don’t speak, but we start kissing. Kissing a lot. He is good at this. Maybe he is good at other things as well.

Then, he directs me to the bed. He pushes me slightly on it and then comes himself.

Where are my clothes? I don’t know where they are. I’m naked. Wait. I see them. They are scattered all over the room.

Then…I will not write what happened next, because it makes me blush.

I will tell only that he wanted to “eat” me the whole day, but, unfortunately, both didn't have much time.

So, we wake up. I wake up also, I mean from my dream.

“Good morning” – my husband said. What a shame? My husband is next to me, but I dream of another man. Ohhh.

My husband gloats me for a long period of time and then says “You are so beautiful”.

He kisses me gently and leads out of the room, inviting me to the dinner.

He is so nice!

Next time, I will try to have a dream with my husband, not with a stranger.

Who knows?!....

Have you ever seen such pillows?

Incredible! How they could make such beautiful pillows?

Imagine, you sleep on such pillow and all your thoughts are about mobile for example.

I would like to buy these pillow, all of them.

Have you seen other designed pillows? Show me, please.

Maybe we will make a competition some day.

Why we need to buy housewife costumes?

Today is a special day. I am going to have guests.

As you know, it’s a long day for cooking, cleaning, dusting and so on. Finally, I must look sexy to amaze my guests.

How it could be? Various ideas come into my head. I am planning all my actions: which flowers will stay on the table, what kind of wine my guests will serve …

Lots, lots and lots of things I have to do and I have just a little problem. I don’t know what to wear to feel practically, because I will serve my guests and in the same time I should look sexy.

What to do? Come to me, ideas. I will use you. Oh, but I don’t have time for doing them.
Maybe, I should buy a housewife costume via Internet. It’s easy and I will have free time for another work.

Oh, it’s not easy to be a housewife or a stay at home mom. We spend much time for cooking, cleaning and so on and don’t attract attention to our appearance.

So, I will order a housewife costume via Internet. I decided to wear a retro costume. It will make me a true and correct housewife. Sounds funny! I will see how I look in such retro housewife costume after trying it on.

I have already prepared all cookies, wine, sandwiches and aperitif.


I’m waiting for my guests. There isn’t any noise in the house. It’s like the silence before the storm. All appliances from the house seem to be stopped. The silence is even in the kitchen where all gadgets worked powerfully recently.

But now, I am sitting on the armchair and wait for… I don’t know what I am waiting for but … The door’s bell sounds. Oh, my housewife costume comes.

I need only 2 minutes to put it on and look in the mirror. So beautiful and incredible. I think that I will amaze my guests not only with my food but also with my dress.

I look like a retro housewife who uses modern machines for cooking.
How clothes may change appearance of a person? I look like the Snow Maiden: beautiful, fashionable and kind.

I will order for the next time a sexy housewife costume to surprise my husband only. I imagine how he will gaze me….

How to be a good housewife?

I remember when I was a child, everyday I dreamed about adult life. I mean, about a job, to have personal money, not to depend on your parents and so on. I think that all of us had the same wishes.

What irony: now, when I have all these things, I want to be that little girl, without any worries and habitual problems.

Very often, my friends and I played games. The most favorite game was the game when you acted the part of housewives. We met our “virtual” husbands, gave them food, had some discussions and then, as it’s normal, we had children.

Have you had such games? I think that every girl have played this game while boys were playing with their little cars and were fighting with so called “not real rivals”.

Now, the things are just a little different. Most often, the husband works all day in order to support financially the family and the wife takes non-financial responsibilities.

Housewives see to the house, prepare food and take care of children (if they are).

Apparently, this life looks like a boring one, but in fact, everybody has lots of works and there isn’t time for thinking about this.

In order to be a good housewife, I will write some rules. Look here:

- Discuss with your husband about the expectations. Ask him: “What are your expectations from me as a housewife?” and vice versa tell him what you expect from him, as a husband. Don’t be afraid to discuss about responsibilities of both of you.

- Take a break. Majority of housewives think that if their status is “housewife” they should look after the house, children, cook and clean twenty four hours a day. However, if they follow such program, after some time they will get tired. It means that they will not be able to manage the house and the whole nine yards. If you feel the same, it’s time to “recharge the batteries”. Take a pause: visit a spa, do exercises, visit a fitness, go out with your best friends, talk with them about your feelings, listen their advice … Permit him to make some house works: take care of children, preparing some foods and only in this case he will respect you, because he will see how hard could be this work, maybe harder than his office work. I mean physically work.

- Be ready to listen to your husband. Generally, the working men could be divided in 2 parts: some of them, after a hard working day, prefer to sit in front of TV or read a newspaper before talking with you about his daily work, others – start to talk just after the house’s door opens. In both cases you should listen to them and support them.

- Prepare food at home. One of the most appreciate thing when we arrive home is the food which can be prepared in a delicious way. Don’t buy fast-food, buy meal and vegetables from the bazaar and prepare a delicious food at home. Your husband will appreciate that.

- Take care of yourself. I know how compressed timetable housewives have. But, you should find time to take care of yourself, because a delicious food with an ugly waitress – isn’t pleasant for anybody. Amaze him with fashionable clothes and stylish make-up. Flirt with him as much as you can. Play some games, for example when you serve him. In fact, the man likes that.