A Guide for New Wives (circa 1955)

[Pfeifcat]

This is an actual 1955 Good Housekeeping article.



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[kallista]

WOW..think about dinner the day before??? TonyB gets upset with me when I call from the car and ask what he wants me to make once I get home, so that I can stop and pick up any last minute things I need from the store. He thinks it's too early to be thinking about what to eat that night.

[KemCam2]

...All the while knowing he can not survive without you and at the right time you will use that to your advantage!

Honey, I need diamonds, lots of them, or I'm leaving you...
Honey, I need the newest Coach bag, pick it up on your way home from work tomorrow, or I'm leaving you...
Honey, Nordstrom is having a sale, drive me, give me your credit card and sit in the car with the kids while I shop, or I'm leaving you...

Honey, _____________________________________, ___________________________, or I'm leaving you...

You fill in the blanks!

[Pfeifcat]

Kencam - That?s a total violation of the Guide.

See Rule: ?Don?t greet him with complaints and problems?.

[KemCam2]

It's none of the above. It is simple blackmail. And if he wasn't so damn helpless and needy it would never have to happen! ;)

[Willis]

Speaking up for the ladies:

He didn't like the casserole

And he didn't like my cake.

He said my biscuits were too hard...

Not like his mother used to make.


I didn't perk the coffee right

He didn't like the stew,

I didn't mend his socks

The way his mother used to do.


I pondered for an answer

I was looking for a clue.

Then I turned around and smacked the **** out of him...


Like his MOMMA used to do.

[derricksonb]

"Honey, _____________________________________, ___________________________, or I'm leaving you..."

There's the door. Feel free to use it. But since you have neither a job nor means of supporting yourself or the children they should stay with me in my home which I paid for until such a time that you are financially stable enough to provide for their well being. In the meantime worry not about their well being for they will be taken excellent care of by their new Mommy. She should be here in about fifteen minutes to relieve you of your duties. So if you do decide to use the door make sure that the handle doesn't hit you in the ass on the way out.

[Chutney Daftcraft]

BEST LINE: "Be a little more gay and more interesting for him."

MODERN TRANSLATION: Let him watch you and a pretty friend getting into some hot lesbo action.

The rest of this whole thing is DISTURBING!

What man wrote this magazine article?

[Pfeifcat]

It was probably made up by someone, but sure sounds like the script right out of the Stepford Wives.

[Mommyof3]

I think my Mother n Law must have wrote that ......she was married back in 1955, she lives by these rules....suggested them to me even...I laughed for the whole first year of my marriage!!!

[Nanuk]

Anyone want to pitch in with me for a grant to get a time machine built?

And there ain't nothing wrong with Stepford wives... not one thing. Just gotta keep 'em on their meds, that's all.

[hillbilly]

"The good wife's guide" was written during a time when the women used something called "Momma's little helper". It's no wonder given the expectations of a wife. Anybody want to guess what "Momma's little helper" was?

[Pfeifcat]

Vodka

[kittylover]

valium or prozac.... I also believe a Beatle's song made reference to mother's little helpers...LOL..What

[Chutney Daftcraft]

Mama's little helper was most likely Valium or Percocet. At least those were my grandmother's little helpers.

I LOVE this guide. Do you have any idea how many of my friends I've passed this on to? Both of them LOVED it!
I have more than 2 - that's a joke
Especially the last 2. I fully believe a good wife ALWAYS KNOWS HER PLACE. It's in the kitchen, and the oven's dinging...

[shadowplay]

It's the Rolling Stones "Mother's Little Helper" and it just shows that guide's results. lol

What a drag it is getting old
Kids are different today,
I hear ev?ry mother say
Mother needs something today to calm her down
And though she?s not really ill
There?s a little yellow pill
She goes running for the shelter of a mother?s little helper
And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day

Things are different today,
I hear ev?ry mother say
Cooking fresh food for a husband?s just a drag
So she buys an instant cake and she burns her frozen steak
And goes running for the shelter of a mother?s little helper
And two help her on her way, get her through her busy day

Doctor please, some more of these
Outside the door, she took four more
What a drag it is getting old

Men just aren?t the same today
I hear ev?ry mother say
They just don?t appreciate that you get tired
They?re so hard to satisfy, you can tranquilize your mind
So go running for the shelter of a mother?s little helper
And four help you through the night, help to minimize your plight

Doctor please, some more of these
Outside the door, she took four more
What a drag it is getting old

Life?s just much too hard today,
I hear ev?ry mother say
The pusuit of happiness just seems a bore
And if you take more of those, you will get an overdose
No more running for the shelter of a mother?s little helper
They just helped you on your way, through your busy dying day

[KemCam2]

holy funny to sad...