A woman in Oregon decided she’d had enough of the rat race, and wanted to turn the clock back to the 1950s. Completely by choice, 30-year-old Katrina Holte now lives as a ‘1950s housewife’, cooking, cleaning and looking after her husband, while making dresses from 1950s patterns in her spare time.

Katrina even transformed her home in Hillsborough into a ‘working shrine’ to the era, fitting it out and decorating it in 1950s decor. Speaking about her new old-fashioned life, Katrina said: "I feel like I’m living how I always wanted to. It’s my dream life and my husband shares my vision. It is a lot of work. I do tons of dishes, laundry and ironing, but I love it and it’s helping to take care of my husband and that makes me really happy."

Katrina spoke about her dedication to the role, saying: "My closet is full of 1950s dresses I’ve made myself. I have 1940s-style furniture in the living room and a traditional bedroom. It’s not like it’s a museum but I do try and make it as close to the era as I can. I can feel like I was born in the wrong decade, especially when I look at everything that is happening in the world now. I feel like I belong in a nicer, more old-fashioned time. But I know everything happens for a reason and it is God’s will that I’m here now."

Knowing her house is spic and span when Lars comes home, after dinner, the couple relax, playing traditional board games like Scrabble together before watching old-fashioned shows like I Love Lucy and The Donna Reed Show.

Katrina said: "I agree with old-fashioned values, like being a housewife, taking care of your family, nurturing the people in it and keeping your house in excellent condition, so everyone feels relaxed."

A part-time seamstress for 10 years, Katrina, who sells her retro frocks across the world, said: "My new life started in September 2018, after I left my job, which was starting to wear me down. I was getting tired and I wasn’t living up to my own expectations. I spoke to my husband and told him I want to be a housewife and he said that was fine with him. It was a fantastic feeling when I quit. I can do what I want to now and run my house as I want to run it. Now I’m a full-time homemaker."

Katrina starts her day at 6.30am, when she wakes and sets out her husband’s clothes, before preparing his breakfast and making him a packed lunch. After her own breakfast she does 15 minutes of vintage exercises.

She explained: "Exercise in the 1930s to 1950s was a lot gentler. There was a lot of stretching, warming up or ‘limbering up,’ as they would say back then. We have the idea today that we have to push our bodies to the limit, but in the 1950s the attitude was simply that you had to take care of it."

The 30-year-old will then have a shower, put on a ‘full face of vintage makeup’ and dress in clothes from the era. "My entire wardrobe is 1950s, made up of dresses I have made myself from original patterns. I always try and look my best. I feel most like myself when I’m wearing a vintage-style dress" Katrina added.

After doing chores around the house like laundry and sweeping up, and taking some time to work on her dresses, Katrina will make sure dinner is ready and on the table for when her husband Lars gets home from work. When he returns, Lars does insist on hanging up his own coat, though:

"When Lars gets home he likes to hang his own coat up, which I don’t mind. I read in a 1950s book that if a man wants to hang his own coat up, you should not feel like it makes you a bad housewife."

When not in use, the television is hidden away, so as not to mess up the vintage look of the room and the couple do not watch cable or streaming channels. Katrina says Lars is ‘very appreciative’ of what she does. She explained:
" I think a man needs his wife to make him feel spoilt every once in a while. He would never expect this from me, though, it was entirely my idea to live like this. It’s always been my dream since I was a little girl. In a way, Lars is serving me, because he makes a lot more money than I do and he knows this is what I want to do in return. He works very long hours and makes my dreams come true, so I try to make his come true, too. It’s an equal partnership. I’m outspoken and I’m definitely not a repressed woman."

While she admits the era was far from perfect, 1950s values really appeal to Katrina. She explained: "The golden rule then was to do to others what you want them to do to you. No decade is perfect, definitely we had big social problems in the 50s, but the people I talk to who lived through the era say it was a time when you could leave your door unlocked and you didn’t need to worry about people breaking in.

"People today have forgotten how to talk to people they don’t agree with and they have lost all their manners. They are always in a rush, they don’t remember to say please and thank you. Nowadays people are looking out for themselves and not thinking about the people around them. All the stories I’ve read are about women borrowing dishes or butter from each other, and the neighbourhood kids all playing together. You find now neighbours will go from the car to the garage to the house and won’t speak to each other."

Katrina said she’s now looking forward to starting a family with Lars, and wants to have four children, saying she’ll definitely dress them in 50s clothes, though ‘when they get older they can make their own choices.’

SOURCE: https://www.unilad.co.uk/life/woman-quits-job-to-become-50s-housewife-because-she-thinks-husbands-should-be-spoiled/

What a better place the world will be if the aim of every woman in the world was to please and live for her man.

This Type Of Woman Is Rare. U May Have To Count Pass 2billion Women Bf U Spot One. The Man Is A One Lucky Bug, Let Me Wait And See If Tarmapretty Fit Do This For Me

Damn she’s hot!!
Dude isn’t only lucky but he’s blessed too Na double double

I see here an escapist who got tired of this 21st century brouhaha.


It's good it's working well for them. But I sha hope she won't sing a new song when a baby shows up...

Well, I like her story. but let her continue to leave in the past and forgotten era. who cares about that. That one is her decision.


Am saying yes to Technology world now. This is the best era, where there is no more stress to do thing's.

prof2007:



A part-time seamstress for 10 years, Katrina, who sells her retro frocks across the world, said: "My new life started in September 2018, after I left my job, which was starting to wear me down. I was getting tired and I wasn’t living up to my own expectations. I spoke to my husband and told him I want to be a housewife and he said that was fine with him. It was a fantastic feeling when I quit. I can do what I want to now and run my house as I want to run it. Now I’m a full-time homemaker."

Gbam.

Society has really deceived women, selling them the dream that a career would give them fulfillment, when in actual fact, the life of a modern woman is 2x harder.

Back in the day, a woman's main focus was on her home while the man had the SOLE responsibility of going out there, busting his arse to bring home the bacon. Unfortunately for today's woman, they are now plagued with having to work full time jobs whilst also having the added responsibility of trying to make and maintain a home.

Feminism is a scam and many working women are tired, exhausted and unfulfilled in their so called 'careers'.

Very good for them.

She is sure of child support and maybe the house if the man decides to go his own way tomorrow...

The system there has her covered.

Contradiction:


Gbam.

Society has really deceived women, selling them the dream that a career would give them fulfillment, when in actual fact, the life of a modern woman is 2x harder

Back in the day, a woman's main focus was on her home while the man had the SOLE responsibility of going out there, busting his arse to bring home the bacon. Unfortunately for today's woman, they are now plagued with having to work full time jobs whilst also having the added responsibility of trying to make and maintain a home.

Feminism is a scam and many working women are tired, exhausted and unfulfilled in their so called 'careers'.

Contradiction:

Your mothers are free to walk away if they can - but unfortunately many Nigerian women are unable to leave such marriages as they cannot fend for themselves otherwise. These women ( who contribute very little to the household) have no negotiating power in that marriage - so, they grow old and bitter and continue to leech of their husbands financially - then have the shameless guts to poison the gullible minds of the kids against the father.

Unfortunately, these naive kids then grow up conveniently ignoring the fact that their wonderful mother had no dignity or financial backing to be able to walk away from the so called polygamous father.

#BlameFeminism
#TheWomanMustBeAtFault

You say feminism and the idea of a working woman is a scam- then you still see housewives as leeches. Oga, which side you dey?

One person...two perspectives

genq:


Gbam.

Society has really deceived women, selling them the dream that a career would give them fulfillment, when in actual fact, the life of a modern woman is 2x harder.

Back in the day, a woman's main focus was on her home while the man had the SOLE responsibility of going out there, busting his arse to bring home the bacon. Unfortunately for today's woman, they are now plagued with having to work full time jobs whilst also having the added responsibility of trying to make and maintain a home.

Feminism is a scam and many working women are tired, exhausted and unfulfilled in their so called 'careers'.

Why are you contradicting yourself? First bolded you said plagued with having to work, meaning they have no choice cos the husband requires her to contribute for the household,

Second bolded you blame it all on feminism? How?

This woman up there decided to go 1950s cos her husband agreed with her, if he had said no, she most definitely wouldn't quit her job, same way some men prefer their wife to work than be a housewife and vice versa, it has nothing to do with feminism, it is only a mutual agreement of both parties involved.

Contradiction:


The joke's on HER really - a grown ass woman who went back to her parents house with 3 children. Lol.

Why can't she fend for herself? Its 2019 for goodness sake - should a woman's sustenance still rest on a man? What did her parents send her to school for? Where is her sense of accountability?

Now her poor aged parents are burdened with having to feed their adult girl child in addition to three extra mouths because she's proven herself irresponsible and unable to cater for herself without her husband's salary.

Such a shame.

Back in the day, a woman's main focus was on her home while the man had the SOLE responsibility of going out there, busting his arse to bring home the bacon

How do we correlate the above posts?

We must pray against every spirit of confusion.

Rationality is a strength. It isn't easy to be objective irrespective of which way a subject takes. I guess he was a feminist when he made this post or just trying to ensure the woman is at fault...as usual,

#BlameFeminism
#TheWomanMustBeAtFault

No woman in Nigeria will wish for a thing like this. This is the era of 1 man 10 wives in Nigeria, all sharing one bush meat from a stone-age pot.

Biglittlelois:



Why are you contradicting yourself? First bolded you said plagued with having to work, meaning they have no choice cos the husband requires her to contribute for the household,

Second bolded you blame it all on feminism? How?

This woman up there decided to go 1950s cos her husband agreed with her, if he had said no, she most definitely wouldn't quit her job, same way some men prefer their wife to work than be a housewife and vice versa, it has nothing to do with feminism, it is only a mutual agreement of both parties involved.

In a desperate itch to reply me, you failed to utilise your thinking faculty & obviously you are clueless on what the word 'contradiction' means.

Now let me break things down for you since you lack basic comprehension skills - FEMINISM IS A SCAM & AND HAS GOT YOU LITTLE GIRLS LOOKING STUPID OUTCHEA!

Hence why the woman referred to by OP has decided to give up the 9-5 slave life for obvious reasons.

What part of the article suggested she was working a 9-5?

Is it my eye or is someone grasping at straws?

#BlameFeminism

AntiBrutus:


We must pray against every spirit of confusion.

Rationality is a strength. It isn't easy to be objective irrespective of which way a subject takes. I guess he was a feminist when he made this post or just trying to ensure the woman is at fault...as usual,

#BlameFeminism
#TheWomanMustBeAtFault

I pity whoever takes the words of the alpha males here seriously because even they Themselves do not take their own words seriously.

This one is the real definition of Hypocrisy... me I fear who no fear them oo

virgoquin:

I pity whoever takes the words of the alpha males here seriously because even they Themselves do not take their own words seriously.

This one is the real definition of Hypocrisy... me I fear who no fear them oo

Lol. He even said it is such a shame. How is it a shame when the woman obeyed his instructions and decided to be a house wife- only for the man to go his own way. Her adviser was quick to disown her! Naso life be o, once e red, OYO

Lmao

How long will Katrina be able to sustain this 1950's model i wonder

And she plans to have four kids?
Dental, Health insurance, college tuition, etc.. All on her husband?

May the force be with you Katrina

Living out her fantasy.

Some will go inside bush and construct mini house, underground etc. When u have in-depth interview with them, they are just living out their fantasy through their spouse. When they are tired or when one party is fed up, that's the end and reality will set in.


The guy didn't marry her so she will be dressing like people of old unless otherwise so he will be fed up soon or start staying out late.

genq:




In a desperate itch to reply me, you failed to utilise your thinking faculty & obviously you are clueless on what the word 'contradiction' means.

Now let me break things down for you since you lack basic comprehension skills - FEMINISM IS A SCAM & AND HAS GOT YOU LITTLE GIRLS LOOKING STUPID OUTCHEA!

Hence why the woman referred to by OP has decided to give up the 9-5 slave life for obvious reasons.

Not everyone against your opinion is a feminist, I am only pointing out your contradictory comment, no where did the woman say she is working a 9-5 job, no where is it stated that she gave up only her career, she gave up everything 21st century and went to the 1950s, but your brain is so small it couldn't comprehend that, instead, what it made you spill out of your mouth or what to type is feminism, grow up, being a career woman doesn't mean one is a feminist, giving up a career doesn't mean she was once a feminist, what a wraped mentality you have, seems some feminists dealt with you and you are yet to recover.

missjo:
How long will Katrina be able to sustain this 1950's model i wonder

And she plans to have four kids?
Dental, Health insurance, college tuition, etc.. All on her husband?

May the force be with you Katrina

If he is the modern type, he won't last. He will bolt.

Maybe he want to suit a her for a while and they will go back to reality.

Grannies here kit up more than we young ladies.
They too have moved on

If it serves it's purpose, there is nothing wrong with it unless the other party is taken advantage of

AntiBrutus:


Lol. He even said it is such a shame. How is it a shame when the woman obeyed his instructions and decided to be a house wife- only for the man to go his own way. Her adviser was quick to disown her! Naso life be o, once e red, OYO

Anything to attack females nah....once they see this kind topics you will see them rushing like soldier ants to come and comment rubbish.

I am still saying it I pity anybody that follows the words of Alfa males here. Are these not the same people who go from thread to thread shouting on top of their voice that they want a woman who is working and financially independent... that being a full time housewife is not something women should embrace .

So what changed now

Genq, look above at AntiBrutus' comment of how you contradict yourself when it suits you, your hypocrisy stinks to high heavens, all becos you want to please your fellow wannabes here, grow up.

virgoquin:


Anything to attack females nah....once they see this kind topics you will see them rushing like soldier ants to come and comment rubbish.

I am still saying it I pity anybody that follows the words of Alfa males here. Are these not the same people who go from thread to thread shouting on top of their voice that they want a woman who is working and financially independent... that being a full time housewife is not something women should embrace .

So what changed now

#BlameFeminism
#TheWomanMustBeAtFault

Once you understand this code is programmed in them, you will understand how they operate.

You have said it all!

AntiBrutus:




#BlameFeminism
#TheWomanMustBeAtFault

You say feminism and the idea of a working woman is a scam- then you still see housewives as leeches. Oga, which side you dey?

One person...two perspectives

lol...are you minding them? Try this with most Nigerian men and you're in soup. The fact that you're even trying to secure the job sef, he'll still rub it in your face that you're lazy...not to talk of the one who willingly quitted. He'll remind her how worthless and useless she has become- to herself and the marriage. Yet they'll still feel insecure about their wives' success, or try to kill her self esteem by every means possible. In short, they're confused.

Biglittlelois:



Not everyone against your opinion is a feminist.

Where on this thread did I call anyone a feminist? You must be ret@rded.

hify9935:
lol...are you minding them? Try this with most Nigerian men and you're in soup. The fact that you're even trying to secure the job sef, he'll still rub it in your face that you're lazy...not to talk of the one who willingly quitted. He'll remind her how worthless and useless she has become- to herself and the marriage. Yet they'll still feel insecure about their wives' success, or try to kill her self esteem by every means possible. In short, they're confused.

My sister, this is the library where notes on understanding them dey. Membership na free, just come and read...make you no kill yourself by yourself

virgoquin:


Anything to attack females nah....once they see this kind topics you will see them rushing like soldier ants to come and comment rubbish.

I am still saying it I pity anybody that follows the words of Alfa males here. Are these not the same people who go from thread to thread shouting on top of their voice that they want a woman who is working and financially independent... that being a full time housewife is not something women should embrace .

So what changed now

And they'll be asking "aside sex what can she bring to the table"... Hahahaha

Not bad

AntiBrutus:


My sister, this is the library where notes on understanding them dey. Membership na free, just come and read...make you no kill yourself by yourself

lol...understand them ke? I get such time? I just marvel at the level of their hypocrisy.

genq:


- FEMINISM IS A SCAM & AND HAS GOT YOU LITTLE GIRLS LOOKING STUPID OUTCHEA!

genq:


Where on this thread did I call anyone a feminist? You must be ret@rded.

With the way you use vile words, I can only equate you with Dolts still seeking for their worth in life,

My last response to you.