Signs Your Mum Was a 1970s Australian Mum - And What She Never Told You

She could hang a load of washing, smoke a cigarette and tell you off from forty feet away, all at the same time. There was a powder in the kitchen drawer for headaches. And there was a law that said the day she married, she lost her job. Eighteen signs your mum was a 1970s Australian mum: all three names from the back step, Thursday at the hairdresser, the Weekly on the kitchen table, a Bex and a good lie down, the Tupperware party, the Singer in the corner, Margaret Fulton on the shelf, the marriage bar, wait till your father gets home, Monday washing day, the canteen roster, seventy-five cents in the dollar, the day she went back to work, the card that came in the post, the magazine under the magazine, 5 January 1976, the endowment — and the last sign, the one she is still doing today. Every date here was checked against the ABS, the National Museum of Australia and the parliamentary record — the folklore beats carry no dates on purpose. The pictures in this video are AI-made reconstructions of the period, not photographs. Some of them made the kitchens look grubbier and older than the homes they stand for, and the comments were right to say so. ▶ WATCH NEXT Signs You Grew Up in a Housing Commission Street — 1970s Australia    • Signs You Grew Up in a Housing Commission ...   Signs You Grew Up Working Class in 1970s Australia    • Signs You Grew Up Working Class in 1970s A...   17 Things That Were Normal in 1970s Australia — Now ILLEGAL    • 17 Things That Were Normal in 1970s Austra...   There's more of this coming. Subscribe and you won't miss it. CHAPTERS 0:00 Signs your mum was one 0:33 All three names 1:16 Thursday was the hairdresser 2:06 The Weekly on the kitchen table 2:54 A cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down 3:52 The Tupperware party 4:43 The Singer in the corner 5:32 Margaret Fulton on the shelf 6:26 The day she had to resign 7:21 Wait till your father gets home 8:06 Monday was washing day 8:55 The canteen mum 9:39 Seventy-five cents in the dollar 10:31 She went back to work 11:22 The card in the post 12:12 The magazine under the magazine 13:01 The day the law let her go 13:48 The endowment 14:33 Have you eaten 15:18 Eighteen signs #AustralianNostalgia #GrowingUpAustralian #1970sAustralia #AussieMum #AussieNostalgia #OldAustralia #RetroAustralia #Australia #1970s #Nostalgia