UPDATE: The winner is…Linda Rhoden!
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If you hang out on TikTok or Instagram, you have to have seen the latest fashion/lifestyle trend: Trad Wifes. Don’t know what those are? They are influencers who have rich husbands so they can cosplay a country-farm lifestyle—but fashionably. If they are mucking out horse stalls, they’re wearing white linen dresses. If they have a Sunday dinner for the fam, it’s served outside with crystal wine glasses, and the family looks perfect. Believe me, I’m not knocking the aesthetic—it’s lovely, but I do have to wonder whether the husband is demanding fresh-from-scratch meals and a wife who can’t work because she has to maintain all the perfection. To me, it’s weird.
The 10-year-old loves the fashion and would love to mimic them, but then she watches their outdoor table settings and says, “Ew. First fly and I’m outta there.”
If they have chickens, ducks, and geese, who cleans up after them? They stink! We know! You’ll be wearing red-neck fashion—blue jean cutoffs, a wifebeater, and muck boots to clean out the coop.
Their yards and pastures are all so perfect, there is no way on God’s green earth, they are maintaining it all themselves.
Anyway, I am feeling a little grouchy. I have my appointment with the oncologist on Monday, and this morning, I woke up with the flu-like symptoms my daughter and the girls brought back with them from Virginia—fever, muscle aches, more nausea. I’m waiting for the vomiting. Oh, joy.
For the chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card, tell me whether you’ve been following these Trad Wifes, living this cottagecore aesthetic, and which ones you enjoy.
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I used to live the Martha Stewart lifestyle (showing my age here)… that aesthetic is great for pics, but unsustainable. Sending healing vibes so maybe you’re spared the vomiting at least 🙁
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I hope you feel better soon. I do not even know what Trad Wifes are.
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Never heard of them before now (thank God!) What are they? 21st century June Cleavers?
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I have never heard of them. Hope you get better 🙏
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I am not on Tik Tok much so I haven’t seen them
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Nope! Have not seen this trend. From what you have shown us, I have no desire to see more of it. Guess there is a reason I don’t do the TikTok or Instagram thing. Facebook is more than I want to tolerate. I too am suffering this a bug. No fun! Hope you feel better soon.
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I hope you feel better soon!
Never heard of Trad Wives before today…
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I have not heard of them. Hope you feel better soon!
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Do not follow this. Looks like Stepford Farmwives. Hang in there!
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Hope you get to feeling better soon!
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haven’t heard of them
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Fell better
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Those haven’t popped up in my FB feed – I’ll have to try to take a look .
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I don’t follow any of the Trad Wives. I like the traditional lifestyle so I watch a lot of the Homesteader content. I have learned so much from them!
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Hell no, I lived on a horse farm growing up and there is no way that I would want to keep up with something like that! More power to em but really?! Get a life, a real one. 🙂
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I hope you feel better soon,