I Am a Trad Wife and I Love It

My grandparents grew up during the Great Depression. My grandmother was a trad wife.

It was a different time. She was up every morning at 6 am, making my grandfather’s coffee, bacon and eggs. They lived on a farm and he needed fuel to work. He was a WWII vet and a very hardworker, growing acres of corn, potatoes, raspberries and more. He was a mason, a hunter, and a builder. They had a natural spring under their property for water, which pumped through a well. My grandfather would regularly hunt deer for food.

My grandfather maintained over 30 acres, carving paths through the wild upstate NY woods. My grandmother kept the home, raised three children, and cooked three square meals everyday.

She sewed a lot of their own clothing, gardened, cleaned and cooked. They lived on a mountain and didn’t have a lot of money to go into town to socialize.

Her socializing was her family who lived on either side of the mountain. She had friends in town she saw when she can. But her focus was making her husband happy.

She was a true worker bee. She was much more high energy than me.

And she definitely was not spoiled, at all. She wore her clothing until it wore out and she rarely went shopping, except for groceries. She was very, very thrifty. A lot of her habits were the same as her mother, who was born in the 1890's.

It was a very old-fashioned lifestyle but one that I miss. I miss how happy they were even over simple things. I now envy the self-reliance they had. They would have done very well in an apocalyptic society.

But now, there is a new trad wife trend. But they are not like the women of old. They are pampered 20 and 30 somethings, staying home and making a home.

What is a trad wife? A woman who wants to live a traditional, 1950’s life. The trad label, short for traditional, indicates a wife who’s dedicated to staying home, raising kids, and…