>>>Oh well you all had maids back then anyway! :-)
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>>Maybe you did. We sure didn't. To be exact, at one point in my childhood, we did have a woman named Margaret who came about once a week to clean house. Other than that, we never had any household help.
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>We did!? Why in many of the old B&W sit-coms from back in the 50s and 60s, and films, the guy went out to work, pipe in mouth, the "little lady" stayed home, with her pinny on, and the coloured maid came in :-) Tom & Jerry's household always had a maid (well a fat behind and stockings down at her ankles was all we saw of her!)
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I don't know why the sitcoms looked like that, but my life didn't look much like those sitcoms. For one thing, in my neighborhood, not everyone was white. I can't remember any family in my neighborhood that had full-time help.

Tamar