Just remember,there were no (this is before,during and just after WW2):~
Microwaves
Fridges (except for the well off)
Washing Machines
Most people had no car,we had to use a bus or walk.
Holidays were one week(paid).
Mobile Phones,in fact we didn't have a phone until 1960!
TV
VHS/DVD
Life was hardest for the housewife,stuck at home,cleaning with primitive aids,and washing by hand(or in a copper).The weekly wash could (and did) take up all of Monday,and THEN she had to cook a meal(made fresh) for family and Husband.
Good Old Days it wasn't,well not to me looking back from here.