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Just a housewife…

February 18, 2014 By Deanna Piercy 6 Comments

Have you seen this episode of The Donna Reed Show? I must admit that I often sympathize with Donna’s frustration about being thought of as “just a housewife”. I can tell myself that it’s an important job and a high calling and oftentimes I am even convinced. But the truth of the matter is that…

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Filed Under: Dee's Life, Home & Garden, Homemaking Tagged With: 50s housewife, Donna Reed, homemaker, housewife, self esteem, The Donna Reed Show

Blame it on Lucy

February 15, 2014 By Deanna Piercy 8 Comments

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One look at my kitchen and you won’t be surprised to learn that I do indeed “love Lucy”. And not just Lucy, but the style of the 1950s in general. The clothes, the cars and of course, the kitchens!   This post may contain affiliate links and as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying…

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Filed Under: Dee's Life, Home & Garden, Homemaking, Vintage Tagged With: 50s, 50s housewife, housewife, I Love Lucy, kitchen, RetrohousewifeGoesGreen, Vintage

1950s Housewife

June 7, 2012 By Deanna Piercy 13 Comments

Last week my daughter who blogs at Retrohousewife Goes Green shared a blog with me, Jen But Never Jenn. A couple of years ago Jen had undertaken a two-week experiment of living like a typical 1950s housewife. I spent the better part of two days reading all the entries (she ended up doing a second…

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Filed Under: Home & Garden, Homemaking, Television Tagged With: 50s housewife, Bewitched, Domestic Diva, Father Knows Best, I Love Lucy, Leave it to Beaver, Mad Men, The Donna Reed Show

Homemaking is back in style

November 2, 2011 By Deanna Piercy 6 Comments

The other day I read this post by Jamie Lee Curtis in which she muses about how she became a woman who is “obsessed with making gourmet food, organically grown, artisanally produced as (she) plays Words With Friends…this generation’s Coffee Klatch…”. She’s certainly not the first to make the observation that there seems to be…

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Filed Under: Home & Garden, Homemaking Tagged With: 50s housewife, homemaking, June Cleaver, women's movement

My day as a 1950s housewife…

October 20, 2010 By Deanna Piercy 5 Comments

While searching for a Leave it to Beaver video clip to share this past Monday, I found myself thinking about what it was like to be a 1950s housewife.  I realize that what we saw on television was an idealized view – I’m sure that most housewives didn’t always vacuum in high heels and pearls. …

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Filed Under: Dee's Life, Home & Garden, Homemaking Tagged With: 50s housewife, Donna Reed, experiment, Leave it to Beaver

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