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I ran across an interesting ‘exchange column’ ad posted by a housewife in the sixties:
This woman was obviously going through tough times, trying to adjust to the realities of life as a housewife back then and also having a husband that was gone a lot.
She tried to fill out her days by starting recipe collections and finding old spoons, or a copper tea pot if she was really lucky. I wonder what ever happened to her and what the rest of her story was?
(Btw this was found over at Velma’s Retro Clip Art And Images, which is an awesome site. Check it out if you’re into 50′s-60′s type stuff.)
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As I first started reading the above, I thought it was you describing yourself! (I just woke up.) Nice blog!
Hi Sabina,
Thank you :). And yeah I really feel for that woman in the ad, I wonder if things ever got better for her…
“Spoons! Those damned spoons!”, she thought as she buried her foot in the floorboard. What she wouldn’t give to be bored and lonely again.
Oh, sorry – this wasn’t a hint memoir, was it? I noticed that the very second I hit “submit”.
Krudler,
Lol!! I can’t stop laughing at your ending to that woman’s story it’s freaking awesome. Who cares if the main post wasn’t a hint memoir, yours worked really well :).
I’m hoping someone traded her some Early American furniture, she kept it, went on Antiques Roadshow, and the Keno brothers appraised it for half a million dollars.
Aww that’s a great ending to the story!