I Lived Like a 1940's WARTIME HOUSEWIFE for 48 HOURS!
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- čas přidán 31. 07. 2021
- Hello Darlings! I have had this video idea in my to-do list for a while now and I have finally got around to it!! I lived like a 1940's Wartime Housewife for 48 hours! I hope you enjoy this video because I had a lot of fun making it!!
Lots of love,
Sage Xx
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going to sleep at a reasonable hour: ❌ watching a lady live in the 1940’s: ✅
🤣🤣🤣🤣
me right now
Fr its 2AM😅😂
Same
Me. Right now 😂
Let’s appreciate that her man supported her throughout this entire video. He dressed up and all! Great video!
Or she would’ve let him sleep on the couch 😂
Mmmmmmm
@@nassa5367 who cares 😴
@@rachelfoust6706 can’t you take a joke 🤨
You kidding me??!???!? He hit bigger than the biggest lottery jackpot in history.
Billionaires cant buy this kind of dedication, look at Trump, Gates, Bezos.
Why would you hang out with the fellas for more than 10 minutes when you can come home to THAT?
Imagine 50 years from now when someone makes one of these videos about living life in 2020 during the COVID pandemic and they go out to stores wearing a mask and stay home to order groceries as a "novelty." Lol. Wonderful video.
order groceries and having them delivered will probably be much MORE common.
No
I doubt anybody would remember it. A bit of covid flu bug was nothing compared to WW2 they don't compare.
COVID hardly compares to WW2, but I imagine they WILL make these sorts of videos about our life right now as a novelty. Which is so funny to think about.
@@artyismybae9554 Oh, for sure. It'll be grandchildren waving at grandparents they've never met through the window of the locked-down nursing home, children wearing masks throughout whole 6-hour days at school, people in highrises playing musical instruments on the balconies to entertain the other people sitting alone in their apartments, video of Times Square and Vatican City empty, refrigeration trucks serving as morgues, billion-dollar cruise ships scuttled for scrap because it wasn't profitable to keep them afloat, global travel screeched to a total halt. The video documentaries of COVID are going to be wild.
I remember in the 70s walking to school and calling on the way for a friend of mine, she asked me into the house as she wasn't ready, I couldn't believe my eyes as I stepped in...... everything was in 40s style, wallpaper, furniture, everything in kitchen, it was so beautiful, her mum walked in the room and she was dressed in 40s, the windows even had crossed tape on them and they had a shelter at the bottom of the garden, I have never seen anything like it since and don't think I ever will again but growing up I have never forgotten just how beautiful it was.
She was proud of those times, seeing how she never wanted to change those memories. My GrandF was the same, he got shot in Iwo Jima, yet his house always was decorated in Geisha garb. He always was so appreciative of other cultures, no matter what war was transpiring.
@Drummerchick2003
8 Do you know the story of James Leininger?
This is exactly how I want to live
its better to hang the shirts upside down that way there aren't odd marks on the shoulders.. and inside out to keep the sun from fading the fabric so fast. also hang slacks from the cuffs not the waist.. . i learned the tricks from my late mother in law, they really work
THis is how i grew up! Both my parents were young during the Depression, and i learned lots of tricks from both grandmothers, one of whom was an Army Officer’s(Colonel) wife, she was known as The General.
Thankyou for that tidbits. I change way I hang my laundry now.. blessings 💜
Yep I was thinking the same while seeing her hang the clothes. I learned all that from watching my mother, and at 40 that’s how I hang my clothes to this very day, exactly as you described. I’m Portuguese and grew up in Portugal in the 80s and 90s. It’s interesting to see how some things are universal. I cringed when I saw her hang that blouse shoulders up, I could immediately see the marks that would leave. Also in my house we always reused the tea bags a couple of times. My mother does it to this very day, and she is very well off these days. We’d just consider it a waste regardless of whether one can afford more tea or not on any given moment. Same with the lights, I have grown up being taught to turn off the lights in a room when I exit it, that’s common sense _no need to be at war to know that.
My mam always says “tops for bottoms and bottoms for tops”
I do that, too! Everyone in my family does it that way (and everyone else I've seen hanging laundry here), so I always thought that's just how it's done (at least here in Germany). Never really thought about where and when that became a thing though. It just seemed logical :D
i love that james is always 100% in on these videos
Yes he’s very supportive
Me too!
Sage, I love the chickens! Are you going to get more?
Me to!
It's very sweet
I came across this video and really enjoyed it! I was raised in Canada by my Scottish WW2 vet grandparents. I was raised on these stories. Particularly, they could remember and recite for years ( into their 90s ) the size and shape of their ration book and exactly how many eggs and how much butter/sugar they were allowed each week for their family. They lived in Glasgow and when the air sirens went off, they had to secure their blackout curtains and hide under the kitchen table until the all clear sounded. When I remarked that was very scary, they would shrug and say “ it could be you or it could be the house across the street that got demolished in the bombing”. They continued to live life and occasionally attend functions but sometimes the street you walked home on determined your fate - as they parted with friends many times who took a different route home and died in a bombing. It was really inspirational the way they lived and their life long toughness and determination, they were always mindful of what they consumed and were conservative spenders and saved a lot, even in later easier years. I felt I had a little peak into their life in film by watching this video. Many thanks xo
Wow, thank you so much for sharing their story. They sound like they were amazing people 💕
Hahaha! My Nanna told me she cleaned an elderly relative house and was offered soup. She said it was creamy and delicious. When told it was sheeps brain soup she promptly ran to the garden and threw it all back up! I miss her so much. And her funny stories.
My great grandmother was born in 1914 and she told me some amazing stories. Just as you said, to conserve water, her family would take baths all in the same bath water, oldest first and youngest last! Even at the age of 90 she still conserved her bath water. One time I went into the bathroom and the tub was full and I asked her what was going on and she said she saved the bath water from the night before to water her plants! She was the best
Soap will kill your plants though? Must not be a lot in there to have no effect.
@@blu_otaku7063
Perhaps she didn't know.
Yikes
Ew
if she was born in 1914, she could have been dead, but if you were born in the mid-1900’s then i’d understand
Back in the 40’s my grandmother was in her 20’s she was a air raid warden and all 6 of her brothers went to war all 6 came back alive.
I was born in the 90’s, but this makes me feel nostalgic, for some reason…?
I guess because my grandmothers lived like this and carried some habits with them through life that I’ve been privileged to witness. ❤️
Same here ❤
Same !! I'm from east LA THOUGH
She’s so adorable…. “I like the novelty of the washboard”. It wears out quickly, hun. As someone who grew up in Cuba until I was 19, with no washing machine or any implement to assist other than our hands and elbow grease, the washboard becomes a cruel mistress quickly 😂
Fellow washboard refugee here, though I only had to use it on rare occasions when the washing machine broke down, that board is a real back breaker.
Can confirm... when I moved out from my parents home I couldn't afford a washing machine for a good 2 years and laundromats are not a common thing in my country... so hand washing my clothes was the way to go😹
I still use a washboard in 2023. My mother (1940s and 50s) had an old wringer washer. Both she and my grandmother used a washboard to get grass stains out of our play clothes and to wash their lingerie and stockings by hand.
Yes, when I lived in Colombia, I had a maid. No way I was spending all that time washing laundry by hand.
On an episode of You Can't Ask that, all the 100 year olds said the best invention in their lifetime was the washing machine. I believe them.
In my country we still have water shortages. A more efficient way to wash is to fill a bucket with warm water and use a dipper to wet your body, then you lather up and use the dipper to rinse. I've showered cleanly with 8 litres of water 😅
Yes, this is probably better and more economical 😅
Kimberley Gonzales
What's a dipper
Is it a small bowl to pour water over you.
@@luciaperdue5687 It is! Usually in the form of an old butter container 😅
I wash like that when camping 🙂
@@luciaperdue5687 a long handled bowl used when drinking from a well or bucket.
I have been a housewife for 17 years and I love it! It is such a blessing and all I ever wanted in life was to have kids and be a wife.
wow... we are total opposites. LOL
That's really sad
So long as you have a good husband and supportive friends and family, it’s great, I agree.
@Caramel said literally every man ever when a women realises she was not put on this earth just to be a wife and breeder
@@charlielove7122 some people genuinely want to be housewives? this woman sounds like she’s happy, so why be negative about it? as long as she’s happy, that’s all that matters. i’m sure this lady would respect other womens choices as well
She has enough food for the two of them. Wonder how she would stretch it if there were children. My mother was good at doing that. When there was 'no' food in the house she found some and made us a hot dinner. Amazing.
Omg girl you look so cute with your head wrap and bow being tied up ❤️😍
I respect 1940s generation of men and women
And I respect our war veterans who defended our country 🇺🇸♥️🥺
Thank you so much for your cooperative support and care of consideration..❤️
you made me almost cry .. I cant imagine my grandmothers life and I feel so greatful with all my ancestors especially women who cared families. Thanks for your videos.
Hi baby how are you doing now i hope you are really doing good you are awesome looking at you baby makes happy when I look at your picture it is beyond my imagination that a creature like you really exist like a rose you make the garden so beautiful You are a diamond to any man that have eyes to see goodness of a womanhood Baby am Ben easy going person very understandable Am a civil engineer and a contractor I work at so many places like Asia Europe and Africa I love art craft and I write music I like ideal people when I see your picture am impress I want a good woman that understand what real love is all about who will understand me and perfectly be for me So we can build our world strong enough to care for each other I want you to be mine and I hope to hear from you soonest thanks
My grandmother was a1940s housewife. She used to make juice from elderflowers picked in the field and wash whites on the stove in a big pot of hot water. My other grandmother would stock her tiny apartment with meats in the freezer, and feed refugees from the Balkan wars. I remember asking her if she’d mind this or that, and her response was always the same: “Nothing is too hard for me!” The women of this generation were incredible.
So was my grandmother. Her funeral was yesterday. Women of that era had balls of steels. Nothing like the so called feminists today. Women in those days loved men. Supported men and wanted to care for them.
@@HGCUPCAKES why do you make it a thing about men only, as if we only exist to serve you.
The only way thus was even posdible to make this hapoen for a woman is that men were real men back in the day & married their woman took care of his wife & children and made sure they had all their needs met to even be able to relax & live in their own habitat & be able to create a loving home.
Men only care about milking as much as possible from women now, without thinking they need to work together to create a loving relationship together & build a home together. It takes 2 to tango. Dont make it an anti-woman thing.
Most normal women wants narruage, family & taje care ifcthrir families. It's unf greed for more from both men & women that have ruined marriage & family.
How are you men conyributing fir a safe environment fir the wife to even be able to be in her own feminine energy, when she is firced to work as a donkey outside the home , & expected to work as a house slave also at home, without any so called help or justice from the man that it takes 2 ppl to create a family & a home.
Just think about that part how the men are easing this house wife part for their wife, what do they do to be able to let her relax & be taken care of?
@@HGCUPCAKEStoo bad they're dead huh? might have to make a time machine to go back so you stop complaining
@@murmursofgrandeur6686 do u knoe dorror knob quetipn???
What was electricity rationing then is my normal life.
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I very much enjoyed this video! Thank you for both for taking the time to create it. 😊
I loved this! I'm a housewife and we have a small homestead where we keep chickens and meat rabbits. I'm working on a garden too. My goals are to live simply and be as self reliant as possible, and I'm teaching my kids to be the same way. It's a beautiful and wholesome life. Thank you for the inspiring and enlightening video.
Instead of a shallow bath, strip-washing at a sink with a flannel would have achieved a full body 'shower' type wash and saved a heck of a lot more water per person. We had to do this at boarding school in the 1960s
Can you elaborate as to what that is? I’m genuinely curious
@@toryannasJMW It's essentially just a sponge-bath, with a strip of cloth. It's kind of similar to washing the clothes-- you have a small pitcher of soapy water, scrub yourself down with it, and then refill it with clean water and wash the soap off. I was thinking about this too when she was washing; it would be significantly more effective in getting you clean while saving water, it would have been a quarter of the water she used in the tub.
Every 1 knows a strip wash surely.??
Other people might know “strip bath” by other names too. Sponge bath, etc
@Lonely Rome I'm not ederley thanks
My Mama was 10. My grand parents 30. She explained my whole life why she didn’t get rid of anything. They didn’t waste like we do now. Loved, loved your presentation. About to watch the next. Love from the USA 🇺🇸
Things were built to last back then too, as opposed to our fast fashion and plastic junk of today.
The hair , the outfits that you made and how beautiful you looked for the 1940s. This was such a beautiful video !!!!!!
I first saw your 1950s housewife video, & this one's just as much fun to watch. Your enthusiasm for these & other projects is obvious, & your joy of life is infectious. Your spontaneous dances are proof of this.
Thanks for doing these videos & sharing them with us. :)
Aww thank you so much for your kind words!! ☺️💕
I’m so grateful to have been born in the 90s. I’m reading The Secret History of Home Economics by Danielle Dreilinger and there was a section on WWI and WWII rationing in the US and how housewives dealt with it. The ingenuity of women from that time is so incredible and inspiring. I had to close the book cause I was getting emotional remembering the stories by great grandma told me about that time before she died when I was a teenager. But there were some things she just didn’t speak of, she would go silent. I can’t imagine the shared trauma that millions around the world suddenly had to learn to live with, with ptsd research still in its infancy and mental health resources totally inaccessible for the poor.
My family is German and many states granted German-American households fewer rations during the wars, which must have been especially insulting as my great Opa still went to war for America. Other ethnicities were also treated unequally in rationing such as the Italians, Chinese, Koreans, and the Black community. The Japanese had it the worst as many were displaced and forced into camps.
My great Oma (and her mother) hand sewed quilts and clothes from flour and feed sacks cause they had no access to fabric during that time, we still have the quilts and they are worth more to me than their weight in gold.
Thank you so much for your interesting recollections.
Interesting thoughts. I am much older than you and was raised by parents who lived the experience and was surrounded in my youth by those generations. Your comments on rationing are very interesting to me as I have never heard that people in the U.S. were given different rations due to their backgrounds. What are your sources for that? I am going to look into it, you have intrigued me. Your are lucky to have known your great grandma.
I just bought the book! Thanks for the recommendation
Watch Back in Time for Dinner
Both of my grandmothers also sewed for others and their families to get through those hard times. But, we don’t have any of the quilts. Id love to find one, but so many years after the fact I really doubt it.
Love this! My grandmother was a resistance fighter in occupied France, so she didn't have a ration card (she operated under a false identity). She and the other spies relied on the black market and clandestine supply drops from England. She told us all sorts of stories, but one that sticks out is that, during one particularly lean time, her mother convinced the butcher to give her a horse's hoof, which she cleaned and boiled until the gelatin came off. That's what they ate for dinner for a few days. Slightly less dire, for quite some time the only produce available was rutabagas. She never ate another rutabaga after the war!
Kudos to the sacrifice of your extraordinary Grandmother and her family! The French Resistance has my extreme admiration!
Wow
There was no need for resistance. All you had to do was wait it out.
I mean that's fine if you have no spine but some people are different. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@LukeLovesRose You obviously have no grasp of actual history. Please learn more before speaking such patronising yet ignorant opinions.
Not sure how many times I have rewatched this video - among others of Sage's! Definitely my favorite content creator! Sage and her upbeat demeanor make any day brighter!
My step-father's mother was from that generation. I was taught so many things from her when I stayed there as a child. The war was long over, and they were not badly off, but the values stayed with them. I remember being gently scolded for taking off too much potato when peeling. Too this day, I peel potatoes carefully. She was a wonderful woman.
Is still hard to have to say bye to anyone before they go to war. Saying bye to my own father multiple times as a child and as an adult is the worst experience I would not wish it on anyone.
Very true. I've done it once for my partner and he's done it once for me. Luckily we were both relatively safe in our respective war zones but still, it's very hard to say goodbye and then not see someone for months, knowing they are somewhere potentially dangerous doing something important.
@@claremiller9979 thank you both for your sacrifice 💛
Thank you for that sacrifice many hugs💛
@@claremiller9979 so very true. Seeing a son off to war effort to me was the most difficult. Truly we are all grateful for their sacrifice.
I remember watching my mum see my brother off during Desert Storm. One of few times I ever saw my mum cry.
The air raid siren really made me tear up. I really appreciate how you went about this video, showing a glimpse of the hard times people really had to go through. It really puts things in perspective and shows how privileged I am, and how I need to realize this and be more grateful for the life I have, especially because I live in a country going through peace unlike many people in other countries today. So thank you
Go watch holocoust, here they even had orange juice.
@@Bengisuqueen you will soon be living something similar.
@@iceman06611 dont worry chicken I already live in Turkey with erdogan. So you can worry for yourself
@@Bengisuqueen I would first have to care before I worried. America deserves what America gets.
@@iceman06611 who cant deny but for me there are nice people out there too so may God protect nice ones
It’s so sweet how James participates in her videos❤️
Hi baby how are you doing now i hope you are really doing good you are awesome looking at you baby makes happy when I look at your picture it is beyond my imagination that a creature like you really exist like a rose you make the garden so beautiful You are a diamond to any man that have eyes to see goodness of a womanhood Baby am Ben easy going person very understandable Am a civil engineer and a contractor I work at so many places like Asia Europe and Africa I love art craft and I write music I like ideal people when I see your picture am impress I want a good woman that understand what real love is all about who will understand me and perfectly be for me So we can build our world strong enough to care for each other I want you to be mine and I hope to hear from you soonest thanks
@@clarkemoffy9152huh
@@clarkemoffy9152
Lol! ^ Random Nigerian.
He shoulda participated by building an actually appropriate enclosure for the chickens instead if that dreadful thing, and refused to let her cut their beautiful wings. Cutting bird wings is sinful.
My grandmother (who helped raise me) was a WWII housewife, and she passed away when I was 17 and hadn't thought to ask about that part of her life much. We're American, so no air raids, but I imagine a lot of the other things were similar. Thanks for helping me get to know how she lived, it puts a lot of my childhood into perspective.
My English mother used to trade some of her ration coupons with a neighbor. I think she traded her sugar ones for egg coupons, as she didn't like sweets. She told me about the one egg per week for adults, too. Funny, I don't remember her mentioning that her house had black-out curtains. She did talk about them, but, since she lived in Birmingham (the second-most bombed city in England), they must've used them. They had their own air raid shelter. They'd take the family cats and dogs with them. She was in school during the war, and was evacuated several times to villages (Picklenash and Little Puddleton). Later on, she was living at home with her parents, who were jewellers, and had the workshop attached to the house. One day, after an air raid, she came home from school to see a crowd around the house. A bomb had hit it. The neighbors said that they saw my Grandparents in the shop, just before the bomb hit the workshop. Luckily, they survived, as my Grandfather had a premonition about an air raid, and told Gran to get out of the workshop. Seconds later, the bomb hit it.
Wow. Amazing peice of history. I'm glad your grandparents survived . And now you are here to tell the story🧡 God bless
Wow that is a good to hear. That they survived that.
Thank you for sharing this! I was so relieved to read that your grandparents survived and it was so interesting to read about how they lived.
Thank God they survived!!
Wow!! Thanks for sharing
I love how James always goes along with these things. Very supportive :)
Hi baby how are you doing now i hope you are really doing good you are awesome looking at you baby makes happy when I look at your picture it is beyond my imagination that a creature like you really exist like a rose you make the garden so beautiful You are a diamond to any man that have eyes to see goodness of a womanhood Baby am Ben easy going person very understandable Am a civil engineer and a contractor I work at so many places like Asia Europe and Africa I love art craft and I write music I like ideal people when I see your picture am impress I want a good woman that understand what real love is all about who will understand me and perfectly be for me So we can build our world strong enough to care for each other I want you to be mine and I hope to hear from you soonest thanks
Bro chill
For heavens sakes you are being exceptionally creepy
@@clarkemoffy9152 Not one punctuation mark in that whole block. I am impressed!
@@nessamillikan6247
He probably learned his writing skill from Timothy Dexter.
Sage, thank you for all of these types of videos. I was born in the fifties, but my mother was older. This explains many of the things that she, my aunts and grandparents did that seemed silly at the time to me (a child). This is so enlightening. I have an increased respect for anyone who had to go through it and truly wonder if people of today would survive it. A lot to learn if you want to be prepared.
Imagine how much harder with a houseful of kids like so many of our grandparents had at this time.
Mama of six here - I was trying to imagine using a washboard for all our laundry! 😂 Makes me feel absolutely ridiculous letting laundry pile up when I’m blessed to have a washing machine. 😊
The Colonials set aside an entire day for washing,
The next day for ironing & mending and
an entire day for baking ❤
You've done incredible work making this video, the research, the style, the cooking/recipes, chickens, wash, gardening, & super insights into what everyday life looked like, listening to the radio, air raid, etc. Thank you for doing such a wonderful reenactment to give us a glimpse on how our grandparents looked in the 1940s & how they lived. Much appreciation!
Thanks so much! 😊
Ur missing the racism
@Opal Allen of course they lay eggs. Hens always lays eggs, rooster is only needed to fertilize the eggs. So hens lay eggs without a roosters, from those eggs babies can't be born but if you want baby chicks you need a rooster.
@@AM-jl8jv this was a video about living _48h_ as a 40's housewive doing chores in _home_ . How was rasicm part of that? 🤔 I would have understood your comment if this was a different type of video but in the context of this video it does not make sense.
@Opal Allen actually the hens will lay eggs....they just will not be fertilized to produce new chick's. The feed has the nutrients needed, but many people let them free range.
My grandma still made a few years ago this "everything inn" stew, with the leftovers from the week. She kept and passed us a lot of costums from that time, nothing went to waste... I think there are some things we could incorporate to our life's today to take care of things and not waste so much food, etc...
Most definitely, I was very fascinated by this video :) I especially loved the laundry part.
We have everything inn stew a lot in winter. My father is from Hungary. So this was normal. Also a lot of sour kraut or kapusta is common with some sausage and potato. Delicious!
Yes I agree some of these staples definitely should still be passed down and used especially to budget better
I really enjoyed all the little facts that you included. I really found it interesting about the red lipstick. I knew a lot of women wore red lipstick during this time period but I never realized that it had any significance behind it. The rationing that everyone went through during this time...what amazing, resilient people. I couldn't imagine only being allowed 1 egg per week. WOW Thank you so much for this video, I learned a lot and have a new respect for everyone who lived through this time period. I also realized that I tend to take a lot for granted. This has made me even more thankful for everything that I have.
I Love the way you seem to really enjoy each and every task!
My grandpa had to leave their house during the war, and live in a literal hole in the ground. It took them a year to built a small sauna building that housed my grandpa's family. His parents and 5 siblings during winter. The sauna building is still up at what is now our family estate. My grandpa never talked about his childhood during the Finnish wars. My grandma even had her wedding dress made from old parashute canvas even though the didn't get married until the 50's, cause there was a shortage of materials in Finland. My grandpa kept telling us how beautiful my grandma was in her wedding day until he died. We still have her dress. She left it for us incase we get married. It's almost 70 years old, but since parashutes were made to last, its still completely wearable.
Neat story! I spent a year in Finland and studied that time- it sure was hard and so many children had to leave to go to Sweden. One family i visited could see the Russian border from their window, their farm was so close to being overtaken.
That’s s great story about the wedding dress and your grandpa always remembering. It’s wonderful you still have the dress all these years later! ❤️
Yes those parachutes were made well and made to last! How amazing that her dress was made from one and that you still have it. I did historical research on a parachute factory in the US during the war. This factory was staffed by women. Employees would write notes of encouragement to the parachuting soldiers and tuck them inside.
Fabrics were rationed including the silk. No stockings were available to buy so women drew the stocking "lines" on the back of their legs.
@@AB-mx1de - wow! That’s so cool that you researched and got more information.
@@lrow5416 thank you! It was my master's thesis.
this video really reminded me of my early life with my mom. She was a housewife in the 40's and I was born in the 50's. Much of this video brought back memories of my childhood.
@None Yes, for the most part, they were happier back then. My Mother was a strong woman, she had always dreamed of marrying and having children, lots of children. She and Dad, got married, once he got back from WWII, and they raised seven of us children. My Mother made her dream come true, she was very happy being a housewife and mother. Not to say there were not hard times, there were, but, they got through it together. And, they had both lived through the dirty thirties, as children, so it took less to make people happier back then. My parents were poor growing up, they couldn't afford so much as a stick of bubble gum, they would chew the sap off of trees.
My mother and father were both born in the 30's and they both had some major "quirks" leftover from rationing and blackouts etc. We were in Ireland so, thankfully neither of then waved any family members off to war, but it left a massive scar on their psyche nonetheless. My mother would have loved this video 💕
In relation to the sharing of bath water, most people had a metal bath that they sat in front of the fire place and the little kids were dumped in together and then as they got to older kids and adults, they would have a few mins to have the room to themselves to bathe
My father, was born in 1922 and was in WW2. He always would reuse his teabags even after the war. As a child in the 60s, I would ask him why he did it and he said because it was still good for another couple cups.
These “Life of” videos are my favorite of yours!
Same here!
Same!!
Same same!
My grandfather wanted to join the military during ww2 but they wanted him here because he was a musician ,to keep people entertained as an Escape from reality. He lived in Ohio at the time.
I really enjoy these videos. Your commitment to accuracy is spot on and applaud james for being fully willing to go along with each of these experiences
I wonder if in the 1940’s people were like “I’m going to live the next 48 hours like it’s 1859”
No hate, I loved this video!
Remember the theme in Midnight in Paris? He fell from a girl from his "nostalgic" period, who wanted to go back even further in time to her "nostalgic" period?
Yeah, if you think about it, I think a lot of the Americans of this era that I know, loved camping, and roughing it, and loved trying to make do like the pioneers, (in TX we grew up wanting to learn all about how Native Americans lived, and we all wished we could really do it. I loved learning how Sam Houston really went and lived with them for awhile, and tried to respect their rights and treaties later as he got older.)
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There would be no views/likes , so i suspect it would have been just a passing thought
@@lolli2943 lol, touché!
I just absolutely love how cheerful and upbeat this lady is.
I'm not English or Australian but since finding the recipe years ago I must say Toad in a hole(which I thought was just the sausage dish) or "Eggs in a nest/basket" as I usually call it is quite the convenient lunch. And tastes good too.
I grew up in the 50’s. Obviously we didn’t have the threat of air raids and food rationing had just gone. However, many foods were still not widely available and, even if they were, we couldn’t afford them.
We didn’t have a fridge, dishwasher, washing machine, dryer and certainly no TV. Every food had to be prepared and cooked fresh (I had an uncle who worked for a company now long gone I think called Smedleys: they sold canned vegetables and I remember clearly having peas and carrots out of season).
Life was hard for my mother. She looked “dressed” every day; always in a dress or skirt, always hair done and make up applied. That was just the way it was. Same for my father; always dress trousers, shirt and tie although he would take his tie off for gardening and the such like.
So life was very different. What I think are improvements now are
- media availability has shown people they have wide, wide choices and not just to follow what their mothers did
- people, women in particular, are much freer as a result to be individuals
- health care is so much better. So many people died young, including my mother, from diseases which are now very treatable.
What is far worse is expectation. Everyone expects to have everything without earning it.
I would recommend catching crickets and grasshoppers for them, as its a great way to bond with your chickens. I've had chickens my whole life and we feed our food scrapes to them. If y'all have bad weather that little hut going over.
My dad has built so many chicken huts and pens, and we cover the whole pen top with wire so hawks, raccoons, and foxes don't get em in the night. I don't know what animals you guys have up there, but if you don't have the time, material, nor space for a full pen, then get a locked door for the hut at night.
Chickens like to kick hay in their food and water, so we keep the containers raised on short 1-2 inch concrete-like blocks, high enough that the water doesn't spill from mucky ground days, and low enough so the chicks can have easy access.
Your hut isn't quite big enough for roosting branches, so make sure they are comfy in the hay.
That's all the tips for your size of a pen I can think of right now, but you seem to be perfect with caring for them.
Our chickens are free range, and know to stay on our 5 acres after letting them out of there pen everymorning, and put themselves up before the sun sets.
P.S. I can't wait to see what color your painting the hut!
I don't know alot about chickens, and I'm not hating, but it is ok to cut their wings? Even so they can't fly.
@@t_eqq not on your own should be done by a vet because they have blood feathers that could be clipped by accident and cause a lot of bleeding if not careful they seem to be ok but still never something that should be done unless trained properly
Thus is great info!! Thanks!!👍
@@cassandradove1665 Never heard of going to the vet for that, its like a 2minute job. Yeh you need to pay attendance where to cut ofc, but its not that hard. We always only clip the last couple of feathers and they grow back rly fast.
@@t_eqq absolutely should clip their wings. You actually only need to do one wing. You clip the primary feathers. This is not dangerous afterall they malt them naturally twice a year. If you dont they could get into the road or another yard that has a dog so id say its a bit of a must to clip a wing to keep them from unnecesary suffering 😉 its just like a hair cut they dont feel it and they are not bothered
Would have been interested in seeing you go the full week with rationing.
Even today, I save my bacon drippings, compost, feed chickens, garden, etc. because my parents were born in 1940 and 1942, and the rationing, gardening, canning, darning lasted well into their childhoods, which they remembered with great detail, and instilled in their children.
That’s interesting, my grandparents were born 1939 and 1941 yet I’ve never seen any rationing behaviour on their part. They were only babies and small children during the way same as your parents would have been but it’s interesting what things people carry with them :)
I save my grease.
How fun that your husband is willing to do all of this with you. It’s really fun watching your videos and seeing how people used to live.
Without a doubt, I grinned from ear to ear when you started dancing! You’re just so adorbs Sage! What a sweet friend you’d be. I can imagine you’d be the greatest neighbor! Love you girly! 💕🙏🏻
I love this. I still have fond memories of my grandmother still doing this years later. She could somehow make a great meal from nothing which we never understood but seeing this it all makes sense now. She was always obsessed with how much you could save and never wasting anything. Thank you so much for the wonderful videos. You're inspiring me to become vintage myself.
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My grandmother would tell me bits about the war years. The women working, gas rations, food rations, tire drives, paper drives, can drives, etc. My grandfather told me little about it. In fact, he told my grandmother very little as well because it was so very painful and changed him forever. His parents were Polish immigrants who had a difficult time finding work, so he was their main support during the war. He also was a great asset to the US Army because he spoke fluent Polish. This was an asset to the Army but a huge burden on him. After making 3 different beach heads and laying the communication wire on the front lines or in enemy territory, he was brought to Poland to help with the concentration camps. We only have this information because after he died, a war buddy told us how they "bumped into each other" at a camp. He had effects for years and years after the war. He took cover once during a firework going off, had horrible & sometimes violent nightmares so my grandparents couldn't share a bed, and even in his 60's had flashbacks when we took a cruise and it was an old war ship. He was a war hero who never told anyone but lived with it scars for the rest of his life.
That generation has been often referred to as the "Greatest Generation" and surely they were. Thank you for giving me just a little info how things were over seas and possibly similar for my grandmother at home.
Thank you so MUCH for sharing his story! I read every word. 💜💜
@@elizlikethequeen thank you. I love sharing with the world how he helped saved the world, even when he didn't admit to it. His story deserves to be heard.
Your sweet Grandpa. My Grandpa was in the navy and laid com lines too. He had ptsd and he suffered from it his whole life.
It's so tragic that there was such a stigma around mental healthcare for so long. None of the men in my family who served in the war (my granddad and great uncles were all in the Navy) would talk about it, and I think they all suffered for it. Unfortunately, in the absence of actual professional help or support, my granddad took his PTSD out on his family. Who knows how different my mom's childhood might have been if PTSD had been understood and respected, not treated as some kind of moral failing.
I think most soldiers who saw action had PTSD and it was called shell shock but there was very little treatment except for rest. One of my uncles who was in Europe fighting in the Army following Gen George Patton had seen a lot of fighting and it was very traumatic because he grew up on a little farm in the Midwest. For years he would pace the floor during thunderstorms because it sounded like artillery and gunshots. He was a very gentle person and later in his life his sons took him back to see Europe and the places he had been. He said it did him a world of good to see everything so peaceful and different from how he remembered.
I appreciate what you did with this video. I especially liked what you had to say at the end. We all forget how truly fortunate we are.
I love the lifestyles of the '40s and '50s. I was born in 52 so I'm familiar with a lot of that but I wish I had been born earlier like in the late 30s or something. Good job.
I’m crying because this is connecting me to a time my grandmother lived during. Thank you so much for this.
I love that you named your chickens Maude and Mable. My great-grandmother’s middle name was Maude. In fact, the only vintage dress I own is one she made in the 50s out of raw silk my grandfather sent back from Guam. What a fun connection 😊 Loved the video
I got me some silk I got in hk spose I should do something with it
My great grandmother was named Maude Emma Hornbeck. I’m thinking Maude was a popular name back then.
My Nan was Mabel.
My grandmother's middle name was Maude and I had a Great Aunt Mabel! They were pretty popular names back then!
I’m half way through finishing Anne with an E and I’m like these type of videos because it looks so cool even though my people weren’t free.
As a historian, specifically social history I just came across this and you have a new subscriber
Love this! Concerning the bath, many people would do a sponge off at the sink with a small amount of soap. Then step in the tub and rinse off by pouring pitchers of clean water over themselves. This stretched out the allotment without anyone having share the dirty water.
I literally only shower once a week. People over shower and it makes their body need it.
great idea!
I thought they only had tin bath tubs during the war and these were filled with some boiled water and cold water.
My mom was a teen during WWII. It was so interesting watching you live the stories she shared. One of my favorite family heirlooms is the notes from the Victory Garden yields from my great grandmother’s garden. Everyone went to stay with her in the summer. Everyone shared in the weeding, watering, harvesting and canning. The canning was wickedly hot during the summer pre-air conditioning. They “did without, made do, and darned the darns.” Sadly this wasn’t too many years following the Great Depression in the US.
Yeah my grandma lived through that :(
My Mum was a teen in WWII in the north of England. When I was a child in the 1970’s she always made one teabag ‘do’ the three of us (My parents and me) and I always had ‘third dip’!
Don’t ever stop dancing in the kitchen it’s one of my fondest memories as kid and I passed it down to mine the kitchen is our most used room ❤❤❤ love this xx
Enjoyed this very much! I myself, have always believed that I was born in the wrong decade (1968). Seems to me that I should have been born in the 1920's and lived through the WW2 Era. I guess it's because I was so close to my grandparents and always heard first hand stories on how everyone lived during that time in history. Modern technology is nice at times, but do wish that everyone would "Shut down" at times to actually take a moment and realize that life does not revolve around a telephone or a computer. People get so caught up with technology, that they forget how to do day to day functions without the help of modern technology, such as actually caring on a conversation with someone and not texting them on a phone. People tend to always be in a hurry these days. Sometimes you need to slow down and realize you don't need much to make you happy. Material things are nice to have, but all one really needs in life are the basics, Faith, Food, Family, Friends, Clothing, and Shelter. I would never want to live through another terrible war, but I do wish that we could go back to a more simpler day and time. Sometimes the simpler the better in my opinion.
I so agree with you Rebecca!
I think the 90s was the last decade -before cell phones and the internet became common. As a photographer, I can recall being excited for digital cameras and technology. By 2010 I was missing the process of photograph8n* with film. However, digital is so much more convenient and wouldn’t want to give it up.
That's brilliant, in the UK Toad in the hole is a Yorkshire pudding cooked with sausages usually served with mashed potatoes peas and a thick onion gravy. It's very yummy xx
I scrolled through the comments to see if anyone corrected this lol
@@tattooedeccentric Snap me too!
And the veggie shepards pie is a Shepardess Pie!
Depends on where you are - in some places people will call the egg-in-bread 'toad in the hole', including some people in Australia where this video is from. If you look up 'toad in the hole egg recipes' you will see this kind come up. Not sure how that happened as the traditional UK kind is definitely the sausage kind!
@@olivia4904 yeah I did after watching the video. I weren't correcting her, just thought as many of her rationings etc. were based on a UK ration, so I thought she'd like to know. I was taught to bake by my Dad and Grandad (whose a trained Baker and worked in the RAF and Army for 45 years as a chef) who are their 70s and 80s respectively. So I naturally have a keen interest in vintage and Victorian recipes. Hope you had a lovely Xmas xxx
This is so fun! I love this idea!
I feel like although unnecessary nowadays, the rationing of food and electricity as well as the gardening and raising chickens would be so good for really everyone to do. It would teach us all so much, and I feel that it could save a lot of money too
I think that we all need to live this way. Not being wasteful and conserving energy. I have a garden and want to have chickens/ducks in the yard.
Kinda scary that will be necessary in the near future. This war in Europe is going to devastate farmers who'd depend on Russia for fertilizer and those countries who get grain from Ukraine and Russia.
I garden every year and process the food to last the winter, it's how I was raised.
I feel like we should be taught at least the fundamentals of keeping a garden in our yard. In the US it's not as common, though many do. My grandma always has one. I have a smal garden, but am definitely still learning.
I have a dog and a cat(that kills and eats small birds). My chicken would die.
My mom was in this Era
She passed 4 years ago.
Today is mother's day. ❤
Miss her, this video takes hokd. As I remember her lipstick, habits and frugal abilities.
Thank you
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I'm originally from Canada currently living in California ☀️☀️and you where are you from if i may ask? 😊
And of course we love your husband for being such a good sport in making this wonderful reenactment. Thoroughly enjoyed this 💛
Great video.. I think we all should live like that for 48 hrs at least once a year.. we’d all have a better appreciation for how good we have it.
Make it twice or three times a year, Michael. 😏😉
Do a WWII reenactment, you'll appreciate how good it is then. Go to sleep at 10, wake up at 5:00 to the sound of 20 tanks starting up.
Combat with 60 pounds of gear. Your boots have wood soles. The wool is making you itchy. The rifle you're carrying is very hot, you're running out of ammo, and then you have to get up and charge. It's truly terrifying, even in a reenactment, to see a column of tanks coming at you guns blazing.
Rationing is wise anyway, as these days we waste an incredible amount of food! We could surely benefit from the standard set back then. That generation continued on over the years by not wasting anything.
Very well done video. Brings back memories of my childhood in the 50s. My parents survived the Great Depression and instilled alot of valuable wisdom on to me. I did my best to pass that along to my kids and they have both been very successful in life.
I've literally did it for the last 30 yrs.
You did it for 48hrs? That's adorable.
Toad in the hole here in Britain is a dish of sausages surrounded by yorkshire pudding a true staple on our table 😋
I’m in the U.S. and I’ve always called them “eggs in a basket”. My kids still make them once in awhile. They were born in 1994 & 1998!!!
We live in such excess and ease these days. Happened so fast no one realizes how much more we had to do as humans not too long ago. Great video!
This video was so cute and incredibly well done! Although the events of WWII were unimaginably awful, but the way people were determined to continue to live their lives is admirable and one of the reasons I find the 1940s interesting. Your home looks so warm and reminds me of Peggy Carter!
Wow, that was very interesting! We take way way too much granted these days! Loved the 40's, when men and women had class.
I clicked on this video before I even read the title! But since it’s Sage’s video, I already know that I’ll love it! 🥰
Awww! 🥰 you are very sweet! Xx
I knew from an absolute history video that they blacked out windows so as not to aid enemy aircraft from potential attack and it absolutely boggles my mind that a generation had to deal with that. Like it just makes me take that generation’s problems into consideration.
But also take into account that not everyone had electric light. My nans house had three light bulbs in the entire house, one was in the hall. You were also strongly encouraged to save power by not using it. So no one had much light to block out. Everyone would be in one room, (only way to be remotely warm anyway) with one rather dim light. Often this was a kitchen/dining room type space. Not scullery where the water was, but the room where the stove was. If you had a living room and money you might sit in there, but for those with more normal budgets, the kitchen was warmer from cooking if the cooking had been done that day, so you stayed in there till bed. Rest of the house was in darkness. Of course, if you didn’t have fuel that day, or much food, you’d be cold in there too. .Not like today where people have all those horrible flat lights in the ceilings, I can’t stand those. I do miss 100w light bulbs.
@@dees3179 It really makes me as young person take into account how many great things I have, like plenty of light based on what you said above! Always be thankful I say!
Nowadays some people black out their windows because we work overnight and sleep during the day. Comes in handy. Also i hope you kept the chickens.
Fun fact: there WERE dishwashers in the 1940's! I can't recall how far back they go but there are housekeeping manuals from the 1920's that suggest use of a dishwasher to save time and labor.
Once you have hand scrubbed a pair of dirty dingy socks to make them white again you will never think that a washing machine cleans anything very well at all!
Our grandparents were tough people.
I loved the red lipstick 💄!
Thank you! 💋
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this glimpse back in time, makes you realize just how easy we have it today compared to times past! By the way, you and James are absolutely adorable!
Yorkshire tea
I was expecting this to be entertaining but woah, it was super educational as well. I loved every second of this video! I learned so much. You truly did your research and committed to this role. Great job!! 🎉
Oh, thank you so much!! 💕
Hi baby how are you doing now i hope you are really doing good you are awesome looking at you baby makes happy when I look at your picture it is beyond my imagination that a creature like you really exist like a rose you make the garden so beautiful You are a diamond to any man that have eyes to see goodness of a womanhood Baby am Ben easy going person very understandable Am a civil engineer and a contractor I work at so many places like Asia Europe and Africa I love art craft and I write music I like ideal people when I see your picture am impress I want a good woman that understand what real love is all about who will understand me and perfectly be for me So we can build our world strong enough to care for each other I want you to be mine and I hope to hear from you soonest thanks
Greetings from Kentucky. Nothing wrong with being a housewife if you can afford to stay home. These days so many women think that job is not good enough to do full time. It’s a lot of work. After 32 years working a job way from home I only have 1 job now, not 2. I am relieved that I can finally be a housewife. I enjoy making my own bread, preserving food and keeping my house clean. Cute video. Thanks.
That actually looks like a really good breakfast at the beginning, i'm noting that down
Out of all of this I could not deal with just taking 1 shower a week!! YIKES! Amazing video, I enjoyed from beginning to end. Thank you.
True story, a beautiful wartime story. My grand mum was a teenager living in Sydney Australia, my grandfather was an American sailor. The us navy ship he was on docked in Sydney. He me my grandmother and took her on a date. He was supposed to leave and the ship sunk, so he was “stuck” in Sydney. They continued dating fell in love and married. After the war they headed to the USA. My grand mum already a mother rode a ship all the way to San Fransisco. The stayed married until his death in 1995. It’s beautiful. Side note, my grand mum is still alive! She was around and can remember the opening of the Sydney harbor bridge, which she watched the celebrations from her grandfathers ferry. She has amazing stories!!
Wow! That was a great video. I very much appreciate your dedication. This was not only entertaining, but very informative. When you and your husband were listening to the news brief on the radio, I really felt that I was watching a couple during that time. You guys are a much needed breath of fresh air in this crazy world. 🙏💞
Yes they are !!!!!! X
What a lovely young lady and one of my favorite sections 14:45... mark is when the couple is sitting down to their delicious breakfast and husband is filling the cups and they do 'cheers' ♥️
You’re so lovely! I loved every bit of this!! You really make simplicity look enjoyable!
I save bacon fat. It gives more flavor than butter (raised by US southern and country grandmothers). One tip, it is strain the bacon fat into a small jar, using a small piece of cheese cloth as the strainer. It will catch the small bits of bacon meat, which could make it go rancid faster. Then some keep it out on the stove edge, but I keep it in the fridge.
I do the same with bacon grease. My great grandparents did it so we've always been raised with saving bacon grease along with everything else that could be used.
My family does the same thing with our bacon fat, but we keep ours by the stove.
I'm also from the south, Georgia, I also save bacon grease. I'm 53,,so I'm guessing I'm a bit older than u,but my mother did and grandmother. They used the old metal coffee cans,and kept it on the back on the top of the stove. They considered it extremely wasteful to throw it out.
Southern girl here and we save ours as well..keep it in an oil canister and always add a lil bit to my purple hull peas..its great for flavor
@@meredithlinzay823 its good in green beans and black eyed peas as well. Yum
This made me feel a lot better about my life and myself thank you. I was not having a very good day and it just reminds me to be grateful for the small things. This makes me miss my grandma so much there is so much that I want to ask about her life. And also, the way James looks at you is just everything you two are such sweethearts.
Hello from Eastern Canada, Sage. Being of the early boomer generation, my childhood memories are fillled with all the chores and ways of life you portrayed in your video. You did quite a good job with your research and preparation. Your house and clothes were much more colourful and bright than I recall and food was very repetitive because of the limited supplies. Same breakfast foods everyday with only Sunday perhaps having an egg and maybe a small bit of bacon for taste. Bread and biscuits in our part of Canada were the main stay of all meals. Bread baked on Saturday but maybe fresh biscuits twice a week. Potatoes and root vegetables were always quite plentiful but pretty tough and seedy by spring when leftovers would be cut up and planted for the next seasons harvest. Green vegetables were a real treat in the summer months as were the fresh fish caught by my father. Chickens were part of life as were the feisty roosters who didn’t lay eggs and chased little girls to go running into the house. They would shortly become a boiled rooster stew for Sunday dinner and several more leftover meals afterward. Wild apple trees provided tasty applesauce made with a bit of cinnamon or nutmeg for a suppertime treat or Sunday lunch. Also the jelly bag hung from a basement rafter filled with boiled hard crab apples made for a lovely bit of bright jelly during the winter months on those biscuits. Just a few childhood memories from eastern Canada. Thankfully our nights were peaceful at that time. Many thanks for your work to showcase a lifestyle from another time.
It's very enjoyable and gratifying to watch young people show interest in the lives of their grandparents and great grandparents during WWII. You did a great job explaining what you were doing and why. Now I know where some of my parents' life long habits came from -- we thought it was just from their childhoods growing up during the Great Depression!
My grandfather was a child in London during WWII. He didn’t really talk about that time in his life much. It was super interesting to get a small glimpse into what daily life looked like for him and his family.