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Lanolin

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I never knew this was a thing till maybe a year or so ago when people suddenly started posting or maybe there was more online content about 'tradwives'

I'm never one to follow 'mommy blogs' or instagrams and don't care much for 'influencers' but it seems like men really like this idea of the 'stay at home forever' wife who makes everything from scratch even though it takes so long and buying all the materials and ingredients can be more expensive than just buying the product itself.

What are peoples thoughts on this..are you a 'tradwife' or do you consider your wife to be a 'tradwife' or your mum was a 'tradwife'.

I mean Martha Stewart is the ultimate homemaker and can do everything but she was far from the traditonal tradwife, she earned her own money had a catering business and didn't stay married.
Apparently tradwives don't work or earn money but they give up any career aspirations they may have had to stay home, breed and look after children...forever. And they do it without any help?

I don't think they are quite in the same category as 'stay at home' mothers, but could be wrong. It seems a popular thing amongst wealthy mormons who live on homesteads.

Is there such a thing as a 'Christian Lifestyle' and what does it actually look like. My thoughts are the tradwife thing is staged and fake, and also it's not really ethical to post your children online and be always filming them and exposing them on vlogs esp if they have no say over it.

I note there seems to be no internet equivalent of 'tradhusbands'
It not something I really worry over, but apparently it's ruined a lot of women's lives when their husbands leave them and they got nothing to show for it.

I like gardening. I bake sometimes. I don't sew much but I can knit. But I'm not sure I'd brag about it being the be all and end all of my life and try to have everyone read or watch me do it like an article/spread in a homes and gardens magazine. (and why would you invite photographers into your private home anyway?) Unless it's kind of done for sponsorship deals or publicity, not sure if it's healthy to follow such and make an idol of lifestyle gurus.
 
People who live in a van and poop in a bucket have millions of followers on youtube. It is no great wonder that "tradwives" can find a few viewers. Anything can be used to get those likes, shares and subscribes.

But back in my day they were called housewives or stay-at-home moms. We didn't have youtube but the position of housewife was romanticized just as much by the masses, and the reality was just as stark a contrast.

Short version: This fad is nothing new.
 
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You-tubers and instagrammers with nothing better to do then

What about watching people watching TV? Could be interesting. Couch potatoes watching couch potatoes.

Or...video gamers playing video games! But like a video game teaches you how to cook...with imaginary food. And instead of going shopping, chopping and preparing ingredients and turning the oven on, you just watch someone else pretend to do it and react.

One day I found myself watching Meghan royal chatelaine wife play house and do all these crafty things with the help of celebrity friends who needed brand exposure. That's very traditional isn't it? I wondered who was looking after her young children while she was spending hours being CEO of her kitchen. It must have been her husband. H! She really likes being on Netflix, but you can tell her husband does not.

I mean you do you. I did find out how to make a rainbow fruit platter though. Tip..use bananas as clouds.

But why is she giving away all her trade I mean trad secrets away. If all wives did this, then...it means ANYONE can learn to be a wife!
 
My household hint and handy tip I recently learned was---

When wiping things, don't do it in circles. Do it in an s shape because it catches the drips and you are wiping things clean rather than just rubbing the dirt around.

And use elbow grease. I recommend lavender scented beeswax. You can make it yourself by growing lavender in your mediterranean climatised garden, and you get the beeswax from your honey bee hives in your backyard. Then you combine the two using the boil water bath method. If you make too much by accident you can give it away or...you can sell it and start your own lucrative cottage business.

Make sure you post it on you-tube and instagram, hit subscribe and like, and then you'll get even more tips on how to do it.

I'd love a video on how to mow a lawn. I think it would be very useful to teach children that chore. They not going to learn it from their parents. Especially if you stuck with a petrol mower and haven't upgraded to automatic robo mowers yet. I mean you COULD cut it with scissors but it would take forever. Nobody's asking for a manicured lawn! It don't have to be perfect.

Your time is better spent on manicured nails. Start collecting as many nail polish colours as you can and if you get really good at it, you can open your own nail salon in your own home! If you can't stand the smell of nail polish you can just make your own with PVA glue and mix ordinary acrylic paint in it, with maybe a bit of glitter. Buy it from a $2 shop or order it from Temu. Good thing about PVA glue is after it dries it looks like gel, but if you pick at it it can peel right off. You can also use PVA glue as a face mask and it takes the blackheads right out.

Next up is dying your hair with kool-aid.
 
Lanolin said:
You-tubers and instagrammers with nothing better to do then

What about watching people watching TV? Could be interesting. Couch potatoes watching couch potatoes.

Or...video gamers playing video games! But like a video game teaches you how to cook...with imaginary food. And instead of going shopping, chopping and preparing ingredients and turning the oven on, you just watch someone else pretend to do it and react.
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They already have that. They have video games where you run a restaurant. Like, many games, made by many different studios. There are varying levels of detail - in some games you buy the food for the restaurant, set the menu, etc.

And then people make "let's play" videos of those games. So you can watch a youtube video of somebody playing a video game where you pretend to run a restaurant.

I don't think it's possible to get any closer to being a nonsentient lifeform without losing the ability to breathe and blink and stuff.
 
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Here, knock yourself out. This is a video of somebody playing Restaurant Tycoon. You can level up your ability to make different kinds of dishes, assign employees based on their strengths and do all kind of restaurant micromanaging stuff.
 
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People who live in a van and poop in a bucket have millions of followers on youtube.
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I kinda wonder what would have happened if our lifestyle had been put on screen. As a traveling singing family we spent about 20yrs on the road. I can tell stories for days! lol It was akin to running away and joining the circus. No one was doing anything quite like that, especially in Canada. Now everyone wants to live that life. lol I think our family thought we were crazy!
 
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I'd love a video on how to mow a lawn. I think it would be very useful to teach children that chore. They not going to learn it from their parents. Especially if you stuck with a petrol mower and haven't upgraded to automatic robo mowers yet. I mean you COULD cut it with scissors but it would take forever. Nobody's asking for a manicured lawn! It don't have to be perfect.
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There are a lot of youtubers out there that film their mowing and yardwork services. I remember being young and thinking the gardening shows my grandma watched were boooring but the older I get, the more interesting it is to watch someone mow and tidy up a yard. Inspires me to get out and work on my own yard. Lol.

This is one of them that I watch, on occasion. Can learn a lot about the tools needed, etc from the comments or from watching.

*Edit: video doesn't wanna show?
Its SB Mowing on youtube


And as an aside, my kids have learned to mow from me and their dad. Our 3 year old desperately wants to mow but isnt strong enough. I let him help me push the mower the other day. Lol
 
Anyway, I'm a SAHM, not a tradwife. Though I dream of us being able to homestead and I'd love to make all our food from scratch and sew our own clothes, etc I just don't have enough time in the day. I don't understand how the tradwives have time to do all that they do AND film AND edit.

If they love that life, good for them.
 
A day in the life of a trad wife

Maybe...the husbands are secret you-tubers and are the ones calling the shots. Like, I'm a gonna follow you round all day and record you while you do all the housework.

There...you missed a spot! I'll just get a close-up of that dirt.
 
Lanolin said:
A day in the life of a trad wife

Maybe...the husbands are secret you-tubers and are the ones calling the shots. Like, I'm a gonna follow you round all day and record you while you do all the housework.

There...you missed a spot! I'll just get a close-up of that dirt.
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That'd be funny but I'm pretty sure the husbands are out working.
 
Don't they have to keep an eye on what their Tradwives are up to? Thats why they are recording them!
Security cameras...all over the house!
 
I'm not sure if you're joking or not, Lanolin. Do you think trad wives are prisoners being watched by security cameras?
 
Lanolin said:
I never knew this was a thing till maybe a year or so ago when people suddenly started posting or maybe there was more online content about 'tradwives'

I'm never one to follow 'mommy blogs' or instagrams and don't care much for 'influencers' but it seems like men really like this idea of the 'stay at home forever' wife who makes everything from scratch even though it takes so long and buying all the materials and ingredients can be more expensive than just buying the product itself.

What are peoples thoughts on this..are you a 'tradwife' or do you consider your wife to be a 'tradwife' or your mum was a 'tradwife'.

I mean Martha Stewart is the ultimate homemaker and can do everything but she was far from the traditonal tradwife, she earned her own money had a catering business and didn't stay married.
Apparently tradwives don't work or earn money but they give up any career aspirations they may have had to stay home, breed and look after children...forever. And they do it without any help?

I don't think they are quite in the same category as 'stay at home' mothers, but could be wrong. It seems a popular thing amongst wealthy mormons who live on homesteads.

Is there such a thing as a 'Christian Lifestyle' and what does it actually look like. My thoughts are the tradwife thing is staged and fake, and also it's not really ethical to post your children online and be always filming them and exposing them on vlogs esp if they have no say over it.

I note there seems to be no internet equivalent of 'tradhusbands'
It not something I really worry over, but apparently it's ruined a lot of women's lives when their husbands leave them and they got nothing to show for it.

I like gardening. I bake sometimes. I don't sew much but I can knit. But I'm not sure I'd brag about it being the be all and end all of my life and try to have everyone read or watch me do it like an article/spread in a homes and gardens magazine. (and why would you invite photographers into your private home anyway?) Unless it's kind of done for sponsorship deals or publicity, not sure if it's healthy to follow such and make an idol of lifestyle gurus.
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Lanolin said:
I never knew this was a thing till maybe a year or so ago when people suddenly started posting or maybe there was more online content about 'tradwives'

I'm never one to follow 'mommy blogs' or instagrams and don't care much for 'influencers' but it seems like men really like this idea of the 'stay at home forever' wife who makes everything from scratch even though it takes so long and buying all the materials and ingredients can be more expensive than just buying the product itself.

What are peoples thoughts on this..are you a 'tradwife' or do you consider your wife to be a 'tradwife' or your mum was a 'tradwife'.

I mean Martha Stewart is the ultimate homemaker and can do everything but she was far from the traditonal tradwife, she earned her own money had a catering business and didn't stay married.
Apparently tradwives don't work or earn money but they give up any career aspirations they may have had to stay home, breed and look after children...forever. And they do it without any help?

I don't think they are quite in the same category as 'stay at home' mothers, but could be wrong. It seems a popular thing amongst wealthy mormons who live on homesteads.

Is there such a thing as a 'Christian Lifestyle' and what does it actually look like. My thoughts are the tradwife thing is staged and fake, and also it's not really ethical to post your children online and be always filming them and exposing them on vlogs esp if they have no say over it.

I note there seems to be no internet equivalent of 'tradhusbands'
It not something I really worry over, but apparently it's ruined a lot of women's lives when their husbands leave them and they got nothing to show for it.

I like gardening. I bake sometimes. I don't sew much but I can knit. But I'm not sure I'd brag about it being the be all and end all of my life and try to have everyone read or watch me do it like an article/spread in a homes and gardens magazine. (and why would you invite photographers into your private home anyway?) Unless it's kind of done for sponsorship deals or publicity, not sure if it's healthy to follow such and make an idol of lifestyle gurus.
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Trad wives stand for traditional wives and yes they are basically advertising for stay at home moms.

The idea is that focusing on your husband and your kids is a full time job and should be treated as such. I agree with that idea as well bc I think women being burnt out is resulting in the high divorce rates. A house runs like a business, but working outside it doesn't treat it as such. This is why many people have so many subscriptions and don't even realize it.

However here's where it gets....a bit wicked. Tradwives are not stay at home wives. They are "work from home" wives doing social media for finances. This is actually biblical. What they are teaching is actually not when it comes to finances.

Back in the early 1900s of course all women were stay at home moms essentially. But this was more or less to enslave women. Not being a feminist but it was a lot of pressure on men when they lost their job and if the man left the woman was in financial ruin with no skills typically. So despite this being "Christian" it's not fully biblical.

Proverbs 31 tells you the wife of noble character.

"She considers a field and buys it. Out of her earnings she plants a vineyard."

" She sees that her trading is profitable."

" She makes linen garments and sells them and supplies the merchants with sashes "

Even if some could be explained away with a spiritual meaning (as many Christians like to do) this is business advice. She's earning income.

So my takeaway is not that she's a stay at home mom not making money, nor a woman working a corporate job never at home (as the feminists love). But that she's able to do both in her own environment by wisdom.
 
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Ok you just confusing me.

The Proverbs 31 woman seems to have a wealthy husband and lots of money to have her own business. Who of us has enough money to buy a field unless we a) inherited it b) married a husband that has plenty of money to buy one.

I don't know about whether you can or should make a living off being a you-tuber. It's clickbait for ads right?

Its a modern phenomenon, the you-tube thing. Most people are doing it as hobby, not make money AFAIK.
 
How much is it to buy a field these days anyway. And where? Has to be arable land. You're in for a backbreaking life if it's not.
 
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