Honestly, I'm so traditional in some senses (I do dishes by hand and still am the one who primarily puts dinner on the table), I thought I'd do "better." Hm.
Still, "better" than the two results already posted.
Minus 7 for me. I took the quiz as "the husband" and answered as I thought he would and "he" scored a 14--still poor! I thought the traits for men were just as hilarious as the women's!
"Puts her cold feet on husband at night to warm them."
YOU BET I DO.
(Is red nail polish a plus or a minus? How about blue nail polish?)
I got:
-7
As a 1930s wife, I am
Very Poor (Failure)
Not at all surprising. Though I think partially I got so bad because I didn't check anything having to do with children, because we don't have children. Also he's still just my fiance, which probably makes me fail this test on principle for having lived in sin before marriage!
re: The men's version - "Tries to keep wife equipped with modern labor-saving devices." Well, he bought me an ipad... so yes? He also got Very Poor (Failure.)
6 Very Poor Failure! Bah!! I'm off to cook something with garlic in it, while wearing my pyjamas and smoking dope! I might even have a gin and tonic with that!
I think I win, got a 7 . Hmm or maybe that means I lose? I think I got brownie points for stuff like asking his opinion, only thing is that they did not ask if he does the same for me . I am starting to think that my SO would have scored higher than me on the test, I mean I have no clue how to darn and stuff and I garlic.
Probably would have been a *bit* higher if we had children and I could have gotten some redemption points there...but I'm perfectly happy being in the negatives, thankyouverymuch.
JD took it and got +7 and when he took it as me, he/I got -15! I either did the best or the worst, I'm not sure!
ETA: This reminds me of the Good Wife's Guide-anyone else seen that? It was in Good Housekeeping back eons ago, before it was even called Good Housekeeping. We got a copy and laminated it-was on the refrigerator for a while. JD highlighted ones he thought most important, hahahaha, and used to raise his eyebrows and say "Ohhh now honey, remember rule number 4" or whatever.
JD said basically if you were a "sonofabitch" and made your wife do everything, you were a good '30's husband. And if you were a subject/slave to your husband you were a good 1930's wife. He just said "which you are not" to me. hahaha.
Too funny that we are all failing miserably by 1930's standards! I need to make my husband take this, but the questions where I failed were along the lines of cooking in pajamas and garlic--seriously, I could not exist without garlic.
I thought I was going to do well because I checked off the manicure one. I do my husbands feet regularly. He claims he cant reach them...better I do them than they look like talons.
I don't know about the scoring of this little test. I answered truthfully and came out with a -3. Then I went back and selected all of the "good" wifely answers, and only got a 9. Still a failure.
Is it even possible to get a high score??? Or, am I that clueless as to what makes a good 30's style wife?