These days people lounge around in the bedroom, eat doritos, watch TV by the hour, kids in the bed and DOGS. I'm old. When I was growing up you made the bed and did not disturb it until bedtime. Your pajamas were folded and tucked under the pillow. You were not allowed to SIT on the bed, it would wear out the mattress. Some kids had a little desk and chair . Friends came over sit on the bedroom floor and play records. No laundry on the floor,  toys in the toy box. You put one thing away before bringing out another. My closet was about 3 feet wide. I had 3 pair of shoes, loafers for school, mary janes for church, and a pair of KEDS for in the yard. 3 dresses for school, one for church, 3 cotton (cheap) dresses for around the house (hand me downs), maybe a pair of jeans and WHITE COTTON  BLOUSE,  ironed.  On Saturdays dad and I watched cartoons, ate cereal and then we washed windows inside and out. I did all the ironing, we did dishes right away after dinner. The younger kids folded laundry. Everybody had a chore. Twice a year we did deep cleaning. Move, or rearrange furniture. We did not eat between meals, except occasionally....popcorn once in a while. No sodas except on weekends. No eating in the living room. On weekends we mowed the grass and washed the cars. I loved to wax our VW beetle, we called him Elmo. We raked up mountains of maple leaves and pine cones. I loved our chickens. I fed them, gathered eggs and watched their interesting behavior . Mom loved our flower beds and we all took care of the vegetable garden. If you drank something , even water, it was in the kitchen, kids didn't open the fridge. We had a fruit bowl and a fancy bowl for nuts.  Homemade cookies on weekends and holidays. Thanksgiving was a great event. Mom and dads friends came over and played cards. If nothing good was on TV (3 channels) we played board games.  In the summer us kids were outside most of the day. We had sandwiches, chips and koolade on the back deck. Grilled burgers on the BBQ under the chestnut tree. Dad was a naval officer and our weekend company were officers and their wives. The men wore slacks and sport shirts, and leather shoes. The women wore fitted cotton dresses and had beautifully groomed hairstyles. Beehive, flips and up do  were popular. No jeans, ot track shoes, t shirts were considered "under wear".  Jeans and t shirts were when the men were working on their hotrod car projects. I miss ice tea on the back deck and playing croquet with my grandmother. ❤❤❤

Reading was always done at night in the bed. That's how they relaxed before sleep.

My grandmother’s bedroom always looked like this—simple, neat, and nothing was kept without a reason. She used to say, “A room is easier to clean when everything has a place.” I understand that much better now.

I still live this way today for the most part.

people didn’t have the amount of clothing we have today and they didn’t have as many shoes

Layaway plans need to make a comeback.

Putting things back where they belonged would help many people today.

In many houses, the living rooms were completely closed off to kids. They were instead for "company." I can remember our neighbors having plastic slipcovers on their living room furniture. They were meant to keep the furniture clean when it wasn't in use.

Correct in every way. Very nostalgic for me as a 1950s teen. One of the first things I remember growing up is my mother forbidding us to ever play on the bed. I did not do any housework other than some dusting on Saturdays and helping to dry the dishes. Mom did it all. I didn't realize how hard she worked until I married while still in my teens and had to keep my own house and raise children. I was a real awakening!

The narrator and music sounds like hes threatening us lol

I hang out my laundry on a clothesline.
I LOVE it!  It's kinda therapeutic.

I discover I been living in the 1950s my whole life and I was born in 1989. I have made it a life style for my kids to wake up every morning change clothes, make their bed and brush their teeth and hair once they get their routine done they come to the dinning table for breakfast. I don’t allow them to go out of their room if beds are not done. I also organize my clothes is a practical manner I do not buy extras and don’t go shopping for shoes unless they break. I buy one item and try to not have multiple things of the same. Don’t decorate my house like most people do I do simple things that stay there for years. I don’t follow trends I do what is practical.

Yeah this works if you have a “family room, game or play room, household library or book nook, etc. When, like many of us today, your “home” consists of a bedroom which is physically also the living room, a kitchen you can see from that space, and a bathroom, which is the only separate room, and there are no closets, attics, or basements, it gets a lot harder “store your seasonal items,” keep everything to repurpose for cleaning, and keep nothing but sleeping items in your sleeping space

I remember the cedar chest.

Today they find dead people in their homes after 2 weeks, or months, since no one comes to anyones home anymore! So sad. Now we have to have wellness checks if mail piles up outside someones home.

Actually, my older sisters did their homework in the bedroom, in the 50's. My sister and I used the same desk, in the 60's and 70's,  to do our homework in our room, also.

I was born in 1955.  This explains my mother and her life!  She was a smart woman who had to wait on her husband and stifle her intelligence.   Our beds were made, though.

The voiceover and music make this sound like a horror film.

If it is true that only a woman still is judged by the cleanliness of her house, every bit as much as before, and no man is, it clearly isn't fair in a world where both spouses usually work. I wouldn't really say, though, that it's like that. If a couple has a messy house, I think it's seen to reflect badly on both the man and the woman.

Then, we became a nation of consumers.