"Women in 1953 would spend three hours a day doing the housework, an hour walking to and from the shops in the town centre, an hour on the shopping itself and another hour making dinner. Many had lunch to prepare, too, as many husbands came home to eat in the middle of the day.

[They spent time] walking the children to and from school, since the family car was still a rarity. The children needed playing with, too, as few families had a TV set to keep them quiet.
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Evening entertainment involved listening to the radio again, curling up with a book or playing board games. And in a less disposable age there was always plenty of darning and mending to do by the fire.
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Housewives in the 1950s enjoyed much more active sex lives than women of today, other research has found, because their time was not divided between career, childcare and socialising as it is now."