DAY IN THE LIFE OF A 1960'S HOUSEWIFE

[@justinewhite-hadley3138]

It's so funny to think of kids playing outdoors as a rare thing. I grew up country living and "playing dirt" was what you did! Mud pies, cars and trucks in dirt roads etc. Kids can make up anything, anywhere. The beauty of childhood creativity is such a treasure. I'm glad they played wi th acorns and had fun! This was a cute video hun!

[@toaters]

I was born in the 80's and cheese and pineapple on cocktail sticks were a regular at children's birthday parties. I still like it! Nostalgia I guess. I remember some mums would wrap up half a melon in tin foil before putting the sticks in and make a hedgehog face out of some glacé cherries?! Good times ;) x

[@crazycleaningmamavlogs]

Jacksons walking is ADORABLE! Absolutely loved this collab, so fun :)

[@mrsemilynorris]

He's the cutest - looks like he's on stilts ha ha ha Thank you so much for watching xx

[@Margar02]

Emily Norris the wide stance for balance.... Like a cowboy who just got off a long ride, haha!

[@rosemarygrabowski5834]

I loved Jackson's outfit for the day! And your husband's face when you offered him the "starter"---priceless! LOL

[@laurametheny1008]

I was born in 1960 so this was really fun. And kind of eye opening and memory inducing! There were 5 kids in my fam. I was the oldest and I had 4 bros. Just lost my oldest bro last month to a long horrible surgery mistake. It is so nostalgic and bittersweet hearing about that era! We DID spend most of our time outside. We got in trouble too lol! Hiding in the corn fields and climbing on the roofs of the house and garage....fishing for crawdads and biking all over. Very different nowadays. Sadly more and more unsafe for the innocents of this world. Thankyou! You did a lovely job!😍

[@rihamadam7436]

I still wash my dishes by hands

[@debystark2796]

riham Adam me too 🤣

[@asmacooking2332]

Mee too

[@rsilva2652]

riham Adam me four lol! 🙈 i have a dishwasher but havn't even used it once! 😊

[@rihamadam7436]

I can't deal with whole load unloading thing😩😩😩

[@rihamadam7436]

I can't deal with whole load unloading thing😩😩😩

[@HairTwoHeels]

FABULOUS job! Yea the grapefruit/cheese/pineapple thing would've been weird for me too haha

[@mrsemilynorris]

So random ha ha ha. Thanks for collabing with me on this! xx

[@helenkoulouridis8001]

You would have pineapple/cheese at party’s that is what I remember and it was great. I was in small school then. Beginning of wonderful times. Lenna Uk xxx

[@green_willowtree]

Would you be willing to go back farther? 1920’s-30’s-40’s?

[@kolodzejrobert1]

Ofcourse Merdily S.

[@dare2horsecrazy]

She should

[@Thetaramonique]

This is such an awesome series idea! Love your videos Emily! 💙💙💙I literally laughed so hard at the "sophisticated starter" lolol

[@mrsemilynorris]

So random right!? Thank you so much for watching xx

[@rsilva2652]

GIRL! You are killing it with these videos!! I LOVE em! 👍💜

[@mrsemilynorris]

Thank you so much for watching, SO GLAD YOU LIKED IT xx

[@jlynnc9559]

We had freezers and refrigerators in the 60s. Mom dreaded the grocery store and only went once a week. We had morning cartoons but no movies to plug in.

[@Jessica1983269]

Ahh I love this so fun! Love Bits of Paradis such a lovely family! The kids attention thing is crazy! Xxxx

[@mrsemilynorris]

They are the sweetest family! Thank you so much for watching! xx

[@EmmeChatterton]

As a historian I love these videos so much, you've done such a lovely job of bringing it to life!

[@mrsemilynorris]

Aw thank you Emme - I so want to study history now! Thank you so much for watching! xx

[@ellimarie5769]

Great video! You were so relaxed ☺. But I allways thinks how funny it is when people say they missed their tumble dryer and dish washer. I still don't have it 😣🤣😉

[@anastasiaraisborough228]

‘Hi I’m in my pyjamas’ 👋🏼 😂 thanks Emily I love this little housewife in time series. Thankyou! Xx

[@ariannapflederer]

You did such a great job! I have to agree on that grapefruit starter being a bit strange haha. It looked neat though! It was so fun doing this collab with you :)

[@mrsemilynorris]

Thanks Arianna, Thank you so much for collabing!! xx

[@hannahbrant8393]

I love these decade videos! There's certain bits I'd love like having a permanently clean home but I think you'd still find me with my pjs at the end of the day! 🤷‍♀️ Would love to see more x

[@mrsemilynorris]

Thank you so much for watching Hannah ! xx

[@elizabethfontenot6682]

Love love love these videos!!! The housewife role other than the fashion seemed very similar to the 50s, but a little more focus on the family/kids. Love it! Keep doing this please!

[@staceybee123]

I am LOVING this series Emily! It's so interesting. Loved it when Jackson threw the bacon! X

[@mrsemilynorris]

I love making them! Thank you so much for watching! xx

[@melanieb8594]

I literally laughed out loud on my train ride home from work when Jackson through his bacon across the room! This was a super funny video along with Caleb knocking the camera with his tooth brush and you and your hubby enjoying the pineapple cheese thing! 😂

[@melanieb8594]

*threw

[@Multipastasalad]

Goodness, I was recently in a musical set in the 60s and redoing that beehive every night was insane! (Dry shampoo and hairspray help immensely but washing it out is torture) These videos are so lovely, please keep making them!

[@Multipastasalad]

Also I love the amount of research you put into your videos! It definitely makes them so much more interesting.

[@ClioI]

After I watched the 1950s one I was hoping you would do more, and here it is! Loved it! Hope you'll film even more x

[@mrsemilynorris]

Yay so glad you liked it. Thank you so much for watching! xx

[@tobyfischr]

Such a great video, really enjoyed watching. Can't believe women used to try and sleep sitting up to keep their hair from coming down! 😂

[@Layla_Charlie]

Love love love your channel !!! Watching it while my toddler is asleep and you’re inspiring me xx

[@TheLifeofBridget]

OMG I just found your 1950's housewife video and this pops up! I love it! I'm hitting that subscribe button as soon as I am done writing this. 💖

[@mrsemilynorris]

Yay thank you so much for subscribing xx

[@kellymurray2482]

Love these videos and love Calebs little chat! Matts face at the grapefruit 🤣🤣🤣

[@mrsemilynorris]

He's too funny! Thank you so much for watching! xx

[@alexiskatsianis8023]

hahaha matt's face when you showed him the grapefruit. priceless!

[@mrsemilynorris]

Ha ha ha! Thank you so much for watching xx

[@charissajohnson5174]

I absolutely adore your videos , and this little series is so fun !!

[@Tiffany-tv6mm]

I'm loving these videos girl ☀️ ❤️!! Your channel is amazing! I'd love the see the 70s, 80s, and 90s from you too 😊 these are so much fun ☀️

[@florenceread8786]

Cheese and pineapple is the best oh my god 😍 we always had it at parties when I was younger (I’m only 15 so it’s still around now!) xxx

[@mrsemilynorris]

Everyone seemed to love it! Thank you so much for watching xx

[@jadeconnolly2414]

We always added a little silverskin pickled onion on the end. Balanced it out more. The vinegar cure through the sweet pineapple and stodgy cheese 👍

[@juliejames1293]

this was lovely. you played the part so well, and your children are beautifulx

[@mrsemilynorris]

Thank you that is so kind of you.Thank you for watching xx

[@carlyboote1155]

Great video, really enjoyed watching! Matts face 😂😂 xxx

[@mrsemilynorris]

Thank you so much for watching xx

[@KellyDJW]

These are actually really interesting! Love the little facts! Hoping you’ll do the 70,80 and 90’s as Well 😬😁

[@mrsemilynorris]

I loved researching it! Thank you so much for watching! xx

[@michellesewell3227]

Come home from work and it's the first video I watch from my subscription box ✌🏻💓 love these videos Emily xxxx

[@mrsemilynorris]

Yay! Thank you so much for watching! xx

[@LeticiaAGentil]

Dear Emily, hello from Brazil. I love your videos!!! I'm a first time mum, my baby is now 45 days old and your tips were really helpful, so thank you very much. I would like to give you a tip, if I may: in this video (and in the 50's video as well) I realized that you wash your dishes with the faucet open and the water running. It may be because you are used to put everything in the dishwasher. If you wash them by hand with the water running, not only you will waste a lot of clean water, but also your water bill will became extremely expensive. To avoid wasting water (our most important natural resource) you should clean one of the dishes (preferably a bowl), fill it with water and splash a little bit of water on all the other dishes inside the sink. Then, with the faucet closed, you should put soap on your sponge and scrub all the dishes; if the sponge would get dry, you would make it wet by dipping it in the water filled bowl. After you would scrub all the dishes, you would wash all of them at once. Like that you can save galons and galons of water. To make it easier to clean, always start with the cleaner dishes (like cups and glasses) and leave the dirtier dishes (the grease ones like pans and plates) for later. English is not my first language, so I ask for you forgiveness of an y gross mistakes. Thank you for your videos

[@bitsofparadis]

I just loved this!! You made the best 1960's housewife! Thank you SO MUCH for doing this collab with me! xx

[@mrsemilynorris]

I had so much fun! Thanks for collabing :-) xx

[@dianawest3976]

Really enjoyed your 1960’s version of being a housewife- I was interested to hear that in the UK you had to shop every day! My mom was a “housewife” then, in the US, and we did eventually get a dishwasher ☺️ but I had to dry dishes as a rule...it was great being a teen then, the music etc., ...your family is adorable, -can’t wait to see all the videos! 😍‼️

[@nataliatjr]

What a fun video! I enjoyed watching it very much. It seems you had so much fun doing a research and living a day in 1960s :-)

[@WTFjessa]

I hope you keep up this series! love watching these.

[@mrsemilynorris]

I will :-) I love it. Thank you so much for watching! xx

[@AlexisKnibbs]

My mum made spaghetti for her first husband. She had never seen garlic before so put the whole clove in the middle of the dish. That's why I love the sixties. Ha, ha! Xxx

[@mrsemilynorris]

That's so cute! Thank you so much for watching! xx

[@jacqueline8559]

My husband made spaghetti and added 5 full garlic. I could smell them down the road, haha. As a nurse, I went to work next day, with it running down my pores, as I didn't want to offe d him so tried to eat it. My ward wouldn't have me, I was sent to help on 2 others, rejected by both, as I stunk. I got to go home early to detox, lol

[@fionaroche8924]

Loved he 1950s videos just as much as this !! Really creative 💜😘

[@mrsemilynorris]

Thank you so much Fiona xx

[@ericanicole5022]

I loved seeing this. I don't have cleaning schedules because I do it all in one day everyday. I have been doing that for 23 yrs. lol. I also have never owned a dishwasher so I have grown up doing dishes by hand and we still don't own a dishwasher. Your children are just adorable. Congrats on Jackson walking (I realize how late I am to this party, lol) I miss my kids being little, this year they are graduating High School.

[@shirleypianosounds]

I guessed from when you had yout 1950s hairstyle done and the apron that you would do a 1950s style video and love the sixties theme. Love watching your vlogs x

[@VictoriasRoses]

I remember my mom and her friends in the 60s since I was little. They all went to the hairdresser each week to do their bouffant. People dressed up more. My mom said it was a rule they had to wear dresses to school. So a lot of women wore dresses not jeans. They all got married younger too. Twiggy was in vogue. I remember my dad had his black Elvis hair still. Later he had the 70s Elvis hair. Lol 😊. I love the early 60s more. I loved your video. I just found your channel. ❤️💕❤️

[@mrsemilynorris]

Aw thank you so much - I should've gone to the salon - I could not perfect my bouffant!

[@Nogames2281]

Yes up til my Grannie got a horrible debilitating disease she had a hair appt every week and always had nails done n jewelery on to me she was and still remain a beautiful glamorous Grannie. I take more after her she always was dressed to the 9's and smelled of Coco channel #5 i miss her and watching this makes me think of her.

[@victoriawest2557]

I have been loving these videos. What a fun idea and you pull it off so well! Appreciate your creativity.

[@katie_ellison]

I honestly love these videos Em. I hope you are going to do every decade up until now. x

[@mrsemilynorris]

I'll definitely carry on I want to do the 80's! xx

[@crazycleaningmamavlogs]

LOL at matt's face with the fruit

[@mrsemilynorris]

Too funny! Thank you so much for watching xx

[@chlocrandon2998]

Jackson throwing that bacon was so funny. Love these types of videos. Can't believe how good jacksons walking is

[@mrsemilynorris]

I know he's getting so good now! Thank you so much for watching! xx

[@KM-ib6lc]

These videos are so good! So different! Caleb is so funny! X

[@mrsemilynorris]

Yay so glad you like them xx

[@AbujaYummyMummy]

Just seen this today and I loved this, I enjoyed the 1950s one as well, looking forward to the 1970's one as well. Let me just add that your videos are so refreshing 😃

[@stilltlrforlife]

That miniskirt was really nice, I really liked it, could easily see it warn today. Mary Poppins is still one of my favorite movies, huge Dick Van Dyke fan here.

[@joannathrockmorton2179]

Hands down my favorite part was matts reaction to seeing the grapefruit thing 🤣🤣🤣 and baby jax in his baby clothes. 😍😍

[@NaptimeNigella]

I love learning about it as much as you do! It's so interesting!!

[@mrsemilynorris]

I love it too - I want to do history now xx

[@JessicaNicoleFaust]

Ok so to start, PLEASE DO THE 70'S!!! This was just so interesting and now that I'm older it made me want to ask my Grandmother (who is now passed) what it was like back then because she had her children in the 50's & 60's. I love Elle, but the other two ladies I am not familiar with so I'm going to check all 3 out now! Loved this Emily! Thanks for doing these videos (50's & 60's) it can't be easy LOL xoxo!

[@mrsemilynorris]

I will definitely do the 70s I love researching it all. Thank you so much for watching! xx

[@JessicaNicoleFaust]

Awesome!!! So excited, you’re so great at it!

[@mindyrigney9195]

So cute!! You should to the 1920s! I think of Downton Abbey 😍

[@mrsemilynorris]

OMG can you imagine!? I wonder if I'd even be allowed heating ha ha. Thank you so much for watching xx

[@mindyrigney9195]

Emily Norris haha I didn't think about the heating but I'm sure they had radiators back then 😬 off to do some research!

[@devonwyszynski9492]

Yesss!!

[@comom2055]

Yes!!!

[@kateamara9874]

I was in a 350 yo cottage in Wales, no heat and that was a throw back day in the life....love this aspect of life video.

[@cnyapule5860]

I loooove your Videos. You put so much effort on getting your videos on point. It shows how u love what you do.

[@carolsedgwick5749]

Really enjoying your videos. I knew Europe had smaller freezers, but didn't know they didn't have them in the 60's -- I grew up in the 50s & 60s and we had a freezer compartment in the top of the freezer. The milkman used to deliver and occasionally we could talk Mom into letting us get ice cream. Frozen food wasn't as ubiquitous as it is now and I grew up on canned peas or fresh peas; I can still remember the first time we had frozen peas cooked for dinner!

[@femke6313]

I remember we kind of did the starter thing once at home as well. We scooped out half of a watermelon for the fruit punch and stacked saté sticks with lots of fruit (strawberry, Apple, mandarins) and sticks with veg (cherry tomatoes, cucumber, tiny slices of radish) and my mum drew the face of a porcupine on one side and that's what she served our guests visiting for my 5th birthday. It really reminded me of your starter

[@zoeirvine93]

Hi Emily, I'm enjoying your time period videos. I find them very interesting to watch and finding out what was expected of a woman in that time. Keep up the great work. :)

[@zoeb7035]

Caleb is hilarious... "pie face" it's being the 2nd child. My son is just like him so cheeky yet so cute with it x

[@belladigitalworld]

Love these vids!! Wow Emily and Jackson’s Clip of him walking was adorable. Xxx

[@donnaclark3514]

Great video loved cheese & pinapple grew up with seeing this at most family parties,i still love it 😂😁😄

[@lucyb1286]

So glad you’ve done another! Loved the last one!

[@mrsemilynorris]

Yay! Thank you so much for watching! xx

[@AMuslimMiss]

lol at Jackson throwing the bacon 😂

[@mrsemilynorris]

I love that bit! Bless him xx

[@bridgieoh9326]

Quite shocking! He wasted a delicious piece of pork. 😳🤯😂

[@kayxlee]

Love these videos! Our dishwasher is broke at the moment and I hate washing the pots! 😂🙈 xx

[@BrettandJordan]

You do so good on these videos!! Great Job and thanks for the history!!

[@mrsemilynorris]

Thank you so much for watching! xx

[@ShayleeOfficial]

You have the cutest family!! So glad we were able to collaborate! It was great getting to know you better! :)

[@Jacelyn5440]

The 1960's I remember well. There was so much "free love", hippies, the "fashion", etc. etc. that even though I was that age, I never did like it. I never wanted to be that way. And, I never was. :) To each his own. But, yes, in the U.S. we had the same kinds of things you talked about. Thanks, again, for the video!

[@marriedmumoftwo1450]

Loved this, I loved the 1950's one as well 😊 a 1970's one would be fun to watch too! X

[@lizhentges31]

The grapefruit creation was definitely the funniest part of this video! lol!!

[@nicholelivesay3828]

Love theses videos and loved your sweet boy talking about his school day!

[@Mama4d8]

Great idea , very enjoyable. We had a dishwasher in 1965, pads that fit inside powder compacts instead of brushes, huge refrigerator freezer, TV. To get the poofy hair you had to use a ton of shellac/hairspray. The Hoovers weighed at least 50 pounds. Ah, memory lane.

[@sarahp4663]

My Nan always has cheese and pineapple at parties. I have to admit I quite like it! 😂. Great video xxx

[@mrsemilynorris]

My boys loved it! Thank you so much for watching! xx

[@debrawilliams8841]

Loved the video!! My middle son heard Caleb talking. He asked to see him and I told my him he was the same age. Then he said, "can we go to their's house?" I told him no because you guys live in England and he replied, "then we'll have to drive really fast". 😂 We're in the northwest corner of the US. I said if we ever take a trip to the UK, I'll try and set up a play date. 😉 Haha!!

[@mrsemilynorris]

Aw that is so adorable! Welcome anytime! xx

[@kateybernal2295]

This lady right here! She got one em homes that no matter how much u try to mess it up it still looks clean!!! And!!!! Shes so preeeeetttty!💕👍🏻

[@southerngrace7895]

I love it!! And the at the boys just made do with acorns and a bowl. My favorite was having a dinner after the kids went to bed. Reminds me of the tv show Bewitched

[@darkangelw8472]

I just love the 60s fashion. A 44 year old mod girl here :). Born in 1976, we had a good life, being outside a lot. Will save up for a record player and collect vinyls

[@rebekahfox2896]

Love this!!!! Keep doing these kind great fun!

[@mrsemilynorris]

Thanks Rebekah. Thank you so much for watching! xx

[@lisadixon8983]

Loving these decade DITL videos, Emily. I was born in 1980 and remember food on cocktail sticks, stuck in to a fruit, usually a piece of hotdog sausage, a pickled onion and a cube of cheese. Oh please continue doing the other decades. xx - side note; how adorable is Jackson, walking? 😍👶🏼💙

[@sarahm340]

You have done a great job with these videos! Yes please keep going with the 70's and on!

[@Judy122550]

I was a teenager during the sixties. I am surprised you all did not have pasta before this sixties. I just took it for granite every one did. Love these blogs you are doing very interesting you have made them thank you

[@xostargirl-se7ju]

Awesome love both videos esp as I did 1960s in year 3 and it's nice to recap because I'm now year 7

[@mrsemilynorris]

Thank you so much for watching! xx

[@prisheyzeas]

Your husband with kids made me speechless... It was so beautiful. I literally cried out, of love. ♥ ♥

[@joh3728]

Hi Emily, I used to love cheese & pineapple, you face was a picture when you tried it. Great video, thankyou for all your hard work 😊

[@mrsemilynorris]

Ha ha so weird to me! Thank you so much for watching! xx

[@KellyMetcalfVlogs]

Yes defo do the next decade! Love these videos. We used to have pineapple and cheese at parties! I found it so funny when Jackson threw the bacon across the room lol X

[@mrsemilynorris]

Hee hee the boys loved it! Thank you so much for watching! xx

[@mrs.alimouse]

This video was so much fun! I love this series!

[@tashahollman1427]

I love your videos so much, you can tell how you always put so much effort into them! Xx

[@kimberlycurrie9251]

Love these videos!! What about a Christmas edition for these decades?? Or other special holidays as well

[@DizzyBuggyNen]

I really love this series! So fun!

[@mrsemilynorris]

Thank you so much Amber! xx

[@SimplyMel]

Really enjoying your channel! My mum used to make the pineapple and cheese sticks for birthday parties - she'd use an orange to hold them. I love them - time for a comeback I reckon! 😆🍍🧀

[@alygazkidd]

Love these videos!!! Hopeing for the 70s 80s 90s & 00s xxx

[@sarahwhite7505]

Cheese and pineapple on a cocktail stick are a staple at every buffet up north! Some times a pickled onion on there too 😂 great video Emily xx

[@mrsemilynorris]

Ooh pickled onion too! Thank you so much for watching xx

[@ninawinstanley7976]

Sarah White and some cocktails sausages for good measure haha!

[@zoepaterson8785]

Great video Emily! I'm so thankful to the women before me that have made it acceptable for me to work or not look perfect for my husbands return from work, kids bathed and in pjs straight away, cleaning 40 hours a week etc. Thank you women of the past! Xx

[@mrsemilynorris]

OMg me too! Really makes me happy to live in 2017! Thank you so much for watching! xx

[@cookwithibbi]

Had to watch Jackson throwing the bacon twice hahahah so cute

[@pamelastephens739]

You are so sweet! As a Cdn girl it’s neat to hear you lived here at one time!

[@jyotisuri1957]

Loved it 👍🏼yes please, so a 1970's and 1980's next xx

[@monica_30]

Wow this video was posted 3 years ago! It would be so cool if you could recreate these videos but for 2000's and 2010's... 🥰

[@rosearthur983]

I like this one too! You still look nice even though you had a smaller beehive hairstyle! Enjoyed watching all the expressions on your faces while eating the pineapple & cheese stuck in a grapefruit! Lol!

[@ailsau8995]

I am 56 years old and I was a child of the 60's. I played with Lego, Sindy dolls, a Sooty glove puppet, a dolls house, dolls and a dolls pram. Toys were very directed at each sex and I was unusual that I had Lego as it was considered a boys toy. My Mum was a housewife until I was 10 then she went back out to work. I started school in 1965 and would walk a mile each way, we didn't have a car (we lived in rural South Wales then so a poor bus service even then!). Mum would clean the house in the mornings, she had set days for set things i.e washing on a Monday, ironing on a Tuesday etc. Food was ordered and then delivered by the shop. When I was a baby Mum would take me out for a walk in my big Silver Cross pram each afternoon if the weather was OK. I seem to remember spending a lot of time indoors otherwise when we lived in Wales. When we went back to Sheffield I played out all the time with my friends. We ate meat, veg and potatoes, puddings and cakes. In the 1970's we started eating rice, quiche and things like that. I didn't start eating things like pasta and pizza until I was a housewife in the 1980's. When Mum went back to work I would let myself into the house and get my own snack and wait until my parents got in for tea. I spent the school holidays with my Grans.

[@DiaryOfTheMillerFamily]

Your videos ideas are fabulous!! 💚💛❤️💙