Is the powder room dying on it's feet.

[Louise Anne]

For what it's worth I not going to post photos of my house either as also needs some attention, it's still basically still original 1950's but with a lot of modern clutter around it.
not something I want to share in public.
some days i think it should look better modern then I think it's nice still stuck back in the 50's.

I do like seeing what others have around them and admire them.

 

[sheeplady]

I've got to say, I love all this female solidarity around having a messy house.

 

[Louise Anne]

I've got to say, I love all this female solidarity around having a messy house.

There is not enought time to dust when there clothes to buy/ look at

 

[LizzieMaine]

I hired one of the kids from work to come over a few weeks ago and clean out my garage -- best fifty bucks I ever spent, it was that bad -- and she promises to come back and see what she can do about my house. She's young, but she knows how to curry favor with her boss.

 

[Lenore]

As for skinny jeans, I just think of them as support hose for kids.

I think this just made my Monday...


As far as the house keeping, I might be one of the only people in the world that enjoys it. Especially if my husband and daughter are out of the house and I can turn up some music and just go to town.. Might be the manic in me that just needs SOMETHING to do sometimes.

 

[Amy Jeanne]

I love cleaning, too, and I am trying my best to ignore my husband's mess at the moment...lol He's going away for a year next week and I have been stepping over all this while he sorts everything out!

It is dusty in this area and there are dog hairs everywhere. No point in cleaning, though, until he packs up and leaves!

 

[Lenore]

When my husband deployed (and redeployed), we had a room in our house that looked like that.... I stayed out of it until after he was gone, and for a good three weeks after he got home!

 

[Oh lala!]

As far as I'm concerned I wish I could participate more but it's difficult to write in English.

Lenore and Amy Jeanne my fiancé is in the army too, we live in a small house so there is not enough space for his military stuff but we'll move next year and I hope he'll have a room just for him and his stuff (and a room for me with my clothes, my sewing machine etc.)

 

[Lenore]

As far as I'm concerned I wish I could participate more but it's difficult to write in English.

Your English is much better than my French (And I studied for 5 years!) Post away!

 

[fortworthgal]

I enjoy cleaning & housekeeping as well, especially when I'm home alone! My idea of a great day off work is sleeping in a little bit, having some coffee, and then cleaning the entire house. Totally weird, but I love the after-effects so much. Cleaning is one of those instant gratification things for me.

 

[Oh lala!]

Lenore aw, you're nice

I enjoy housekeeping too. I think about being a housewife when I have children but most of my friends think that I'm crazy...

 

[lolly_loisides]

Anybody who tries to bully anybody in here *will* feel the hammer of retribution. Without exception we Bartenders have a pretty low tolerance for that type of thing,and we won't stand for it.

It's a pity not all bartenders feel the same way as you Lizzie Maine. What's going on in The General Decline in Standards thread at the moment is a perfect example of why a lot of women don't like to post outside of the Ladies Lounge & indeed why they stop posting on this forum altogether. Silly statements are one thing, but when they are supported by a bartender.....

 

[LizzieMaine]

It has come to my attention.

 

[Louise Anne]

It's a pity not all bartenders feel the same way as you Lizzie Maine. What's going on in The General Decline in Standards thread at the moment is a perfect example of why a lot of women don't like to post outside of the Ladies Lounge & indeed why they stop posting on this forum altogether. Silly statements are one thing, but when they are supported by a bartender.....

I think I said that before, every time I have posted outside the powder room I been hit on, once it was over somthing I had not said and got told off by a bartender for it until i asked them to find the ofending post which was of course not there. I just posted about what can happen in foums in general over on another forum, I think people take forums too seriously when it come to peoples opinions, often there no right or wong just a opinion.
I also sent the owner of that forum a message saying it was "out of control" he did not say it was not, he knows it it lol.

 

[crwritt]

In all honesty, a lot of the more interesting and active members have all stopped posting here because their styles were indirectly put down somewhere on this forum. I know a lot of the gals on Facebook who have tattoos, maybe a funky hair colour, don't really dress authentically vintage (I actually fit this description!)....but do have a deep, genuine love and knowledge of the era who felt maybe they weren't welcome here because they didn't fit the rigid mold. So they stopped posting. Just because someone has tattoos, or even a BAGEL HEAD lol, doesn't mean their passions are any less amazing than those who authentically live like it's 1942 (with a computer, of course )

My son's pal gets a Bagel Head when he gets angry. He cant help it, His blood pressure rises and it just happens. Funny thing to witness, when it happens naturally. You don't want to be in his path, though.

 

[Lady Day]

I would actually have to disagree with Amy Jeanne's above post quoted by Crwitt.

A lot of people left because life got ahold of them, they branched into their own brand (blog/FB page,etc), or they choose not to follow the FL rules. TONS of gals here have tats, don't follow vintage 100% or just like to lurk. If someone is asking for facts on something, and someone gives them, and they are corrected because they were wrong, that's not talking about them.

I seem to recall an entire forum sprang up dedicated to people talking about this forum, myself as part of the fodder. Yet a lot of those ladies still contribute here, and are welcome to do so. People talk about people. Fine, but (and this is for everyone) if you think comments are too harsh, let Lizzie or I know. Send a PM, talk with us.

We are here for all of you.

 

[Louise Anne]

I do not think I bother posting on the F/L again it seams to me now be a total waist of time it seams that a attitude prevails is that the F/L is always 100% right all the time and what any one says get knocked down and no one takes any thing on board.
Is the powder room dying on it's feet.? No! not yet

 

[Lady Day]

I genuinely dont understand what you mean.
Are you saying my voicing an opinion that does not agree with the comment above is a concession to being 'always right' or 'always wrong'?

Please clarify. I want to understand what you mean.

 

[tuppence]

I think it's unfortunate that many seem to associate "participation" with "pictures," a perspective that tends to leave out those who don't have a whole lot of stuff to show off, or those who just don't feel inclined to take a lot of pictures. *Discussion* of pictures, to me, is just as important as showing the pictures themselves -- and so is discussion without pictures.

Some of the best discussions we've ever had in the PR -- I'm thinking of things like the Birth Control thread -- had few or no illustrations at all. That was also an example of an excellent discussion of a controversial topic where people expressed different points of view without giving the backs of their hands to people who disagreed. More threads like that would really fulfill the PR's potential as a place where the various aspects of women's lives in the Era weren't just appreciated but also analyzed.

I'd post lots of pretty pics, but I find the whole process here is too hard for me.

 

[Louise Anne]

There is a big reluctance to accept there is something wrong with this forum, instead there seams to be a culture of every one ( as a whole) here is in the right and an individual is always wrong.

That's different from been down right offensive

If I say that I am offended by some post or view/opinion, the board as a whole seam to think that becuse the majority are not offended by then the individual by default cannot be offended with this comment either.

A forum cannot be run just for the individual but it is possible to accept that they have a right to a different view than the majority
instead of saying there "nothing been said to offend you"

In 2006 when I joined like many other some even earlier than me there was really no other place to talk about vintage , here or nothing.
today things have changed now with many blog's and social networks a lot of people just decide to move away and set up something that serves there purpose better and do not have to put up with stuff.

Times change things change and I think that's why we seeing the board a lot quite , face book and blog's are full of vintage chatter but in small groups so there still the some level of interest if you look.

There is more interest in keeping the board clean and tidy than saying what can we do to improve the forum and attract people so they want to join in!