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I (and hopefully other ladies of Voat) will share meaningful posts about taking care of our man, family, home, and community.

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It's the little things     (TraditionalWives)
submitted by NeedleStack to TraditionalWives 1.9 years ago (+69/-0)
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Every once in a while I'll want to bring my husband some extra cheer so I'll do little things like sew together a tiny stuffed animal and put it in front of his water glass to discover when he gets home. Or, I'll surprise him by patching the thinning elbow of his nightshirt or hang a charming framed print of mallards to brighten a room. Stuff like that.

He works hard and deals with a lot of nonsense to keep us in shampoo as they say and it makes me happy to take care of the nest so he doesn't have to lift a finger when he gets home and to show how much I appreciate him with tiny actions like I wrote above.

Take care of your sweeties and let them know how much you treasure them!
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Gf sent this little whitepill to me, I think it belongs here.     (jssocial.pw)
submitted by Broc_Liath to TraditionalWives 3.4 years ago (+66/-0)
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Wholesome beauty     (files.catbox.moe)
submitted by NeedleStack to TraditionalWives 2.1 years ago (+65/-0)
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Traditional Wives booklet [PDF]     (files.catbox.moe)
submitted by NeedleStack to TraditionalWives 3.8 years ago (+63/-0)
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https://files.catbox.moe/z7qum9.pdf

This was the original document compiled and distributed on the original Voat.
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Lace making     (files.catbox.moe)
submitted by dulcima to TraditionalWives 2 months ago (+58/-0)
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Homeschooling     (files.catbox.moe)
submitted by Valerie to TraditionalWives 1.8 years ago (+57/-0)
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My wife is not the most trad     (TraditionalWives)
submitted by Yargiyankooli to TraditionalWives 3.8 years ago (+56/-0)
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But, she tends to get criticized for not falling in line with the holocough from her “friends” who seem to think I, as her husband, am forcing her to not wear a mask or get vaxxed.

I said to her I thought it was rude that they would think she can't even think for her self, she replied "what is wrong with me just wanting to follow my husband anyway?"
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I'm so ashamed     (TraditionalWives)
submitted by Cunt to TraditionalWives 9 months ago (+49/-0)
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I'm too embarrassed to tell anyone in real life, even here until my husband told me I need to talk to someone. I might burn this account after IDK.

My husband is an alcoholic, and he was before we married. By the time I was proper red pilled I was running out of eggs and the baby rabies was my priority so I married the man I was dating without too much thought.

I thought we could move out of party mode and into family mode. I did, with just an occasional relapse into weed and/or tobacco smoking.

He had some relatively dry periods but just drank more at home then out, but out drinking got worse. I didn't want to be the nagging wife saying 'don't go out with the boys' so I never objected.

Almost always he lost something while out. Left his phone or keys or wallet at a bar or in a cab or something like that.

Saturday night he went out after work to a friend's house. He came belligerently drunk, falling over and slurring speech (! Remember this for later). He smashed through the child gate into the kitchen, taking it off.

I came out after a few minutes of him thrashing around the house. He is upset his phone is missing. I call his phone a few times and eventually the uber driver picks up, says he will return it tomorrow. My husband says he needs it tonight, uber guy says okay but is on another job, says he will bring it back as soon as he can but doesn't know when.

I don't have any cash so I have to borrow $20 from the 6 year old's wallet to thank the driver for coming back.

Husband continues to be angry/sad belligerently drunk. Has lost his glasses. Did you call my phone? When is the uber guy coming back? Tell him to come back now. Did you call my phone.

I answer a question and he repeats it a minute later.

I try to log in on the computer to find my iPhone but he has no idea of his password and is shouting insults at my followed by his birth year as suggestions. Password recovery via email is bullshit with Apple and they say it will take days if I do that.

Computer remembers his bank details so I log on there and lock his cards (!).

Had to charge my phone so it was in the bedroom and I didn't hear the uber guy ring but it was only 5 minutes ago (now its like 1:30am), call him back he's outside only he's not so I have to go walking down the street in my pajamas looking for him. Find him get the phone, thank him, give him $20 and search for my husband's glasses in uber, they're not there. Uber driver comments on how drunk my husband was.

As I'm coming up on our house I see my husband in the street and the front door was left wide open with our kids inside. He is not grateful for me getting his phone back and is just as wild about his glasses now. Throws the expensive Mamaroo baby rocker across the room and breaks it. I go to the bedroom and he grabs but I shake him off and manage to bar the door closed. He had been screaming at me, woke the 4 month old baby and still screamed at me while I was holding him. He keeps trying to come in for a while and then leaves and comes back several times looking for his glasses. Around 3am it's quiet so I go to bed and try to sleep. Don't know if I did or not. Let also not forget the baby who used to sleep all through the night is having the 4 month sleep regression and bearly sleeps at all just breastfeed almost all the night.

Sunday morning while cleaning up I find his glasses. He is still belligerently and ungrateful, now saying I should have done everything possible to stop him leaving/drinking because he went out and spent a bunch of money at "a bar". I try to pour out his cask wine and its oh no that wines not the problem. When he eventually passes out I look at his phone banking to see how much he spent at 4am because he didn't seem to be gone long. There were a few $10-20 purchases and more users and also a $1100 transfer. When looking up the name at first nothing came up but eventually I traced it to a brothel. I pack some bags and the kids and as we're getting in the car he wakes up and begs me to stay. We are really poor and have been scraping money together for groceries and the kids swimming lessons and have been putting off things like the car service.
I even started a work from home job where I had to listen to the kids cry for me for 4 hours while I made telephone calls.

I didn't even know it was a brothel at that stage but suspected it was something dodgy because how can you spend $1100 in a couple of hours on drinks and what bar accepts bank transfer? He says he was buying drinks for everybody and was going to hang himself.

So he hated me and his children that much that he wanted to die. And he hated us more then that because instead of leaving us our last $1000 he spent it on strangers. Instead of having the decency of making it look like am accident so the kids didn't know how much he hated them he wanted to hang himself and make it obvious. Instead of drunk driving into a lake and giving us some insurance money he wanted it to be an obvious suicide so we wouldn't get any life insurance money.

Every action he did says he doesn't love me or the kids. Fine I got fat and the house isn't always clean and I'm shit cook. Hate me. But why hate our beautiful children so much?

Oh and so I find out it's a brothel and he's now saying it's a strip club and he got lap dances as well as buying everyone drinks.

And these fucking kikes at the bank who hold every new payment for car repairers or swim schools or whatever actual legitimate businesses for 48 hours to check I'm not being scammed I bet those absolute kikes put that money through to the brothel straight away and we will never see that again.

I took the kids to McDonald's for a few hours and then we went to my grandmothers empty farmhouse buteverything was covered in mouse poo so when he begged me to come home I did.

He's begging for forgiveness but I don't know what to do. I want to throw up. I feel so sick that he's admitted to lap dances and even more sick that he's probably lying as it was a fucking BROTHEL not a strip club.
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Real housewives know this feeling     (files.catbox.moe)
submitted by NeedleStack to TraditionalWives 3.8 years ago (+48/-0)
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Nazi Wife     (files.catbox.moe)
submitted by Motorweed to TraditionalWives 1.7 years ago (+45/-1)
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Neat way to fold bulky socks     (files.catbox.moe)
submitted by NeedleStack to TraditionalWives 2.2 years ago (+39/-0)
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https://files.catbox.moe/mgg8wz.gif

I hope this is helpful!
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Argument against public schooling     (files.catbox.moe)
submitted by NeedleStack to TraditionalWives 5 months ago (+39/-0)
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https://files.catbox.moe/n0yo7e.jpg

As if we needed another, right?
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Reminder to all ladies here     (files.catbox.moe)
submitted by Eliack to TraditionalWives 1 month ago (+40/-3)
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1950s housewife daily schedule     (TraditionalWives)
submitted by NeedleStack to TraditionalWives 1.2 years ago (+35/-0)
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A copy and paste of a list I found on the interwebs:

1. Throw back the covers and let your bed air out.
2. Open up the blinds and windows.
3. After breakfast clean up the kitchen and eating area.
4. Gather a basket for tidying. As you tidy the home, pick up items that don’t belong in that room and add them to your basket. When you enter a new room place the items from the basket that belong in that room where they go.
5. Straighten up the living areas, pick up clutter, lightly dust, straighten pillows, and water plants.
6. Make the beds.
7. Tidy the bedroom, including a light dusting.
8. Hang up any clothes that may be about or ensure dirty ones are in the hamper.
9. Do a light tidying of the bathroom including removing and replacing used towels, refilling toilet paper and soap (as needed), and cleaning the sink area including soap dishes.
10. Wipe down kitchen work surfaces and inside the fridge and discard any old food.
11. Dispose of garbage from around the home.
12. Rinse dishcloths and hang them to dry.
13. Sweep or mop the kitchen floor.
14. Handle weekly chores that need to be done that day. (See examples below)
15. Set the table for dinner.
16. Arrange the living room for evening enjoyment with the family.
17. Do a quick sweep of the floors and ensure the entranceways are clear.
18. Clean up the eating areas after dinner and ensure all dishes are washed.
19. Set the table for breakfast.


Once a Week Chores
• Use metal polish on bathroom fixtures.
• Clean and disinfect all kitchen appliances.
• Scald and disinfect bread boxes, garbage pails, and bins.
• Replace flowers with fresh bouquets.
• Laundry (including bedding).
• Vacuuming and mopping.


Pretty standard stuff honestly.
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Chose Your Wage     (files.catbox.moe)
submitted by KCobain27 to TraditionalWives 3.6 years ago (+33/-1)
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Kindness in Marriage (the importance of being a friend to your husband)     (blog.oldfashionedmotherhood.com)
submitted by NeedleStack to TraditionalWives 3.7 years ago (+28/-0)
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New mom's husband complains about her wanting to be a "stay-at-home parent"     (archive.is)
submitted by NeedleStack to TraditionalWives 11 months ago (+27/-0)
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https://archive.is/fFxcC

Naturally, as a Slate reader, he's pretty beta. Notice he called it "stay-at-home parent" instead of "mom". They can afford to be a one income family but he's resenting her choice. He goes on to say he figures she must be suffering from mental illness or postpartum depression to feel as she does. This guy is seriously kiked.

Here's his letter in full:

I am a new father to a beautiful 10-month-old girl. My wife’s company has a generous maternity leave policy, and she has been at home with our daughter since the birth and is scheduled to go back to work just after her first birthday in January. She recently told me she doesn’t want to go back to her job and would like to be a stay-at-home parent instead. I asked her why, and she said she enjoys being a mother too much to leave our daughter to go back to work when she doesn’t need to. This is such a departure from our plans before the baby was born. She has a good job that she enjoyed before going on leave, and had always been adamant that she wanted to continue working even after becoming a mom. We met when we worked at the same company many years ago, and one of the things I was most attracted to was her ambition and tenacity. It’s really surprising to hear that her career isn’t that important to her anymore.

Honestly, I don’t want her to quit her job. She earns about the same as I do, and while we could make ends meet on my income alone, it would impact our ability to save, and we’d need to give up one of our cars and cut way back on “extras” that make life more enjoyable. I also just … don’t want a stay-at-home wife. I really admired my wife for her work ethic, and I want her to set a good example for our daughter, too. Seeing her give up like this is really disappointing.

I gently asked her if she thought her change in attitude could be related to a possible mental health issue or postpartum depression, but she didn’t take that well. She says she only cares about our daughter and that’s where all her energy needs to go right now, and that if I love her, I will let her do this. I do love my wife, and I’m not interested in divorce, but I’m seeing a whole new side of her that I just don’t like or admire. What should I do?

—Suddenly the Breadwinner
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Broken family     (files.catbox.moe)
submitted by Motorweed to TraditionalWives 3.8 years ago (+26/-0)
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So You Want Your Wife To Shoot Guns?     (www.ammoland.com)
submitted by NeedleStack to TraditionalWives 3.8 years ago (+26/-0)
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https://www.ammoland.com/2015/09/so-you-want-your-wife-to-shoot-guns/

Article written by female gun enthusiast who provides advice on getting your woman interested in firearms.
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Housewives are NOT Oppressed | 5 Myths About Being a Housewife     (www.youtube.com)
submitted by NeedleStack to TraditionalWives 1 year ago (+25/-0)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFeWx_GpRGA

The intro is a little bit cringe but this lady is a treasure and gets the joys of being a housewife. Enjoy!
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50s housewife checklist     (TraditionalWives)
submitted by NeedleStack to TraditionalWives 3.8 years ago (+25/-0)
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I found this checklist on a blog a few years ago.

The list was taken from a 50s book dedicated to new wives.

Enjoy!

1. Throw back the covers
2. Open up the blinds and windows
3. Freshen up
4. Make and serve breakfast
5. Clean up breakfast
6. Complete a 10-minute exercise regime
7. Shower, do hair and make-up, get dressed
8. Gather a basket for tidying. As the rooms of the home are tackled, pick up items that aren’t where they belong and place them in a basket. Redistribute them where they should be as you enter a new room
9. Straighten up the living and dining room, including picking up potential clutter, light dusting, fluffing / straightening pillows, and watering plants or flowers
10. Make the beds
11. Tidy the bedroom, including light dusting
12. Hang up any clothes that may be about or ensure dirty ones are in the hamper
13. Do a light tidy of the bathroom including removing and replacing used towels, refilling toilet paper and soap (if needed) and cleaning the sink and basin area including soap dishes
14. Review the menu for the current day and the next and compare it to what’s currently available in the home. Make note of anything that needs to be prepared ahead of time or marketing (shopping) that needs to get done
15. Begin long-advance preparations for dinner (such as making dessert)
16. Wipe down kitchen work surfaces and inside the fridge
17. Dispose of garbage
18. Rinse dish cloths and hang to dry
19. Sweep or mop the kitchen floor
20. Handle errands that might take you out of the home (such as marketing, volunteering, going to the post office, getting an item fixed, etc), bookkeeping, correspondence, or indulge in a hobby
21. If returning from the grocery store, wash vegetables, wrap them and put them away. Place rest of groceries or purchases in their proper place
22. Have a quick lunch.
23. Start advance food conditioning like crisping vegetables or thawing frozen foods
24. Handle weekly chore for the day
25. Set the table for dinner
26. Arrange the living room for evening enjoyment (such as your man’s newspaper or book)
27. Do a quick sweep of the floors and ensure entrance ways are clear
28. Prepare a special dish for dinner
29. Freshen up before the husband returns from work. Consider changing into something more festive if the day dress is plain
30. Set out a tray with equipment for making cocktails, should your man want to serve drinks before dinner
31. Greet husband “gayly”
32. Serve dinner
33. Clear table and wash dishes
34. Pour boiling water down the sink to ensure pipes are flushed
35. If necessary, pack the husband’s lunch for the next day. Set aside a lunch tray in the refrigerator for yourself if having leftovers
36. Set table for breakfast
37. Ensure breakfast foods are available and do any make-ahead preparations for it
38. Enjoy an evening of relaxation


Once-a-week chores:

• Use metal polish on bathroom fixtures
• Clean and disinfect all kitchen appliances
• Scald and disinfect bread boxes and garbage pails and bins
• Replace flowers with fresh bouquets

In addition, laundry should be done at least twice a week (including bedding) and floors should be mopped / vacuumed on a similar schedule.

There is also a recommendation in there to try to squeeze a 10 – 30 minute nap in the afternoon (if not because you’re actually tired but to “look more refreshed” for your man when he gets home).

Cleaning products should include baking soda, vinegar, lemon, castile soap and borax – not to mention a good deal of elbow grease. Use things like cheese cloth, rags and old newspapers instead of paper towels.

A husband shouldn’t expect to be waited on hand and foot. He is fully capable of putting away his coat when he arrives home, fetching and putting away the objects he uses and properly hanging and / or putting his clothes away after undressing. Extras like helping with the dishes after dinner are considered "courteous contributions."
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All natural cleaning products & methods (ebooks in text box)     (TraditionalWives)
submitted by NeedleStack to TraditionalWives 2.0 years ago (+25/-0)
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Here are a few cleaning books to help you wash your home and clothes with more natural ingredients:

Cleaning Hacks: Your All-Natural, Go-To Solution for Spots, Stains, Scum, and More!: https://files.catbox.moe/2gd8iu.epub

Green Housekeeping: https://files.catbox.moe/hinhg8.epub

The Organically Clean Home: https://files.catbox.moe/h1f6zd.epub

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Green Cleaning: https://files.catbox.moe/t7jb87.epub

Enjoy!
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How to make homemade liquid laundry detergent on a budget with Zote soap.     (yewtu.be)
submitted by NeedleStack to TraditionalWives 2.1 years ago (+23/-1)
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https://yewtu.be/watch?v=4Cs4ikzHgGw

Affordable method for making your own laundry detergent. The comment about making a powdered version is excellent but the lady who wrote it doesn't know about paragraphs so read at your own discretion. :)

The same commenter does say if you go with the liquid version the woman in the video demonstrates, use less water for a cleaner and better-smelling wash.
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How to hand wash dishes using bar soap     (inv.tux.pizza)
submitted by NeedleStack to TraditionalWives 10 months ago (+21/-0)
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I was worried about being the first one to see it.      (TraditionalWives)
submitted by Gowithit to TraditionalWives 2.9 years ago (+19/-0)
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That sucks , baby I watch is 8 months . I knew she was going to be soon but she crawled for the first time today. I sent the video to her mother.if the baby would have held out by one day one of parents would have been the first to see her.
Im happy the baby is finally mobile but it always makes me a little sad when I'm the first to see the milestones.