The Good Wife Guide: 19 Rules for Keeping a Happy Husband

by Ladies' Homemaker Monthly

Be all the wife he needs! A tongue-in-cheek look at how the values and traditional family roles in the 1950s seem oh, so strange now. A man's home is his castle, and as such, he should be treated like a king! This fun, retro volume shows wives how to keep his royal highness happy. When he returns home from his demanding job, a man rightfully deserves a bit of pampering. A happy smile, a warm kiss, and a pair of cozy slippers are just the start. Here are all the secrets for helping him feel comfortable and The Good Wife is a great and humorous gift for brides-to-be or happily married wives, for Valentine's Day, and bridal showers and bachelorette parties.

Genres: Humor, Nonfiction

42 pages, Board Book

First published November 1, 2007

Reviews

[Barbara stevens · Rating 5 out of 5]

Now if I get married I will know how to be a good wife.

[Evi Graham · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm clearly failing on the wife front...

[VBergen · Rating 1 out of 5]

I got this book for my birthday because I like vintage dresses, old photos, and few traditions. I didn't get angry, I just asked if we could send it back because it didn't fit what I have read about the old times, like being frugal, thrifty. This book says that it is not right to reheat leftovers and other stuff that at least make raise an eyebrow. My husband said it is supposed to be funny, just humor, exaggerating the past, but I didn't find it funny at all. The photos are nice, though, but it is stealing a future good book's space in the library :-/

[India Lavoyce · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think most people miss that this book is categorized as “Humor”. It was hilarious. I have a dark sense of humor and I can appreciate works like this that may cause others offense. It was based off of an old home journal for women, but this is purely for entertainment purposes today 😂😂 . Read it with that in mind.

[Cassandra Moody · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was not what I expected, as I accidentally purchased it when looking for a different book by the same title. I read this one once it came in though, and it is a cute, novelty for the right person. This book definitely made me giggle, and I have just the person to hand it on to as a gift. 😊

[Jamie Wang · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hilariously sexist.

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very informative book for how to keep your hubby happy - 50's style. This was originally written in the 50's, I believe, and it shows. Some of it is useful, some just makes you say, "Whaaa.....????"

[LinBee · Rating 2 out of 5]

I know this was a thing, a real thing at one time. But oh...

[Rae]

Infuriating, unrealistic, and friggin’ hilarious.

[Nux · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not really sure what to make of the text. If it is meant to be a joke, it's sad to think that these kind of things are what the magazines that women were pretty much confined to back then. If it is meant to be serious and for real (I guess back then it was), then I'd throw this into a pile of rubbish & burn it. So backward and condescending. Can you believe that one of the sentence even advice that you as a wife "Shouldn't be too opinionated & knowledgeable"??? Geez!
Having said that, the font and pictures are fun enough, the kind of kitsch that I like. So the book looses a lot of stars due to the text but gets two stars just for the merit of the pictures & font.

[Stephanne Stacey · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is so hard to rate. If I took it seriously, and placed it in it's proper time context I would probably rate it four, possibly five stars. It would have been helpful if I really wanted to be a perfect housewife. If I took it seriously, but in our current time my rating would be two. No woman should do those things unless she wanted to for herself, not to appease a man or culture that would not appreciate the sacrifice she made, or worse expected that sacrifice as her station in life. However, I choose to rate it as the humorous jab it was meant to be when given as a gift from my beloved sister.

I giggled all through the 19 rules. Well played sis, well played.

[Domini · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very amusing, especially if you like kitschy '50s stuff.

[Krystal]

Read with sarcasm.

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not very realistic. Funny how expectations have changed since the writing.

[Maggie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Are they serious? I hope this is a joke book, if so its funny, if not I sure am glad I didn't live back in those days!!

[Alexandra Loves To Read · Rating 5 out of 5]

The perfect coffee table book for your feminist best friend!

[Smiley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Incredibly amusing.