How to Survive Life in the Suburbs

Real Housewives?

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I caught a little of one of those “Real Housewives Shows” last night.
You know the Real Housewives of Atlanta, The Real Housewives of the O.C. Yeah right.

It was like a car wreck!

I could not look away.

In what warped world did these women become “Real Housewives”??

Without an ounce of exaggeration I will tell you these poor hard done by women had Personal Chefs, Estate Managers, Personal Shoe Shoppers, Party Planners for their daughters 11th birthday party’s, make up artists and hair stylists in their homes and a Personal Assistant.

These are not real housewives.

Real housewives cook for their own families….or at least know how to order in.

They manage their own houses…or boss around their hubbies and kids.

They buy their own shoes. Sometimes with a girlfriend, but often alone and in a rush.

Plan the birthday party’s for their kids, exhaust ourselves and love it.

Real Housewives do our own make up and wash our own hair. (when we have time)

We get our hands dirty.

We fund raise. We run bake sales and car washes.


We have split ends and chipped nail polish.


We run our car down to the E.

We pay the bills, just in time.

We sneak cookies before dinner and sometimes…… we can’t wait for bedtimes.

We know what we signed up for.

We are blessed and love almost every minute of it!

These are the things that make Me a Real Housewife and I just know that here, in the real world, I am not alone.

    • Comments

    1. Well, I am single so I am a houseperson, but yes, tv surely exaggerates what it takes to run life successfully. I feel this way when I watch Sex and the City. What a joke! Who has time for all that drinking and dating?? And always has a clean house and new clothes and food in the kitchen?

      I still have to clean house and do laundry, buy food, pay bills, plan parties for friends, spend time with my family, buy gifts, take care of my car and keep things running smoothly, all on my own. Without any emotional or financial support at home. I have yet to see a tv show that represents this accurately for a single person, either.

    2. I love that show because you are right — it’s a trainwreck and I sit there and pass judgement and get to be all kinds of bitchy that I try not to be in real life. So it helps me get the bitch out so to speak. You should have seen me during Housewives of New Jersey. I was cursing at the tv with an accent.

      Those shows really bring out the best.

    3. So true girl! I saw a trailer for one of those shows and was all, wha? huh?

      Other than survivor and dancing with the stars, and maybe that home makeover show, I am so sick of people like that being on TV. gag.

    4. I can’t look away from the Real Housewives of NY. Some of them aren’t wives or mothers, go figure. What I love most is that with all their money and social standing they still seem to be unhappy. I would love to have a camera crew follow me around for a season so people could see what a real housewife is like. No one would watch but it would still be fun.

    8. The word real just makes the whole thing offensive. I think it is the outrageous irony that makes us look, stare, watch regularly and talk about it on our blogs.

    13. I was thinking about this just the other day. I am addicted to those shows. That would be my “fantasy world”. I however am the regular “Real Housewife” that you are talking about here. I clean my own house, cook my own food, decorate myself. I was driving to the craft store in the next town over to get wreaths and bows for the outside of our house while I was thinking this. I was thinking they need to do a real show about us housewives. But then again we’d probably be too boring doing all of our cleaning and cooking and grocery shopping LOL

    14. I couldn’t agree with you more!! I don’t have cable, so I’ve never seen any of the “Housewives” shows, except, of course, for Desperate Housewives, which is my obsession. But, like Menopausal said, we KNOW that’s fiction!! I’ve seen enough snippets of these obnoxious women on talk shows, etc. to know that I’d like to smack ’em upside their heads!!

    15. My 28 yr old got me started when the Real Housewives of New Jersey were on. I haven’t watch any of the others. “Real Housewives with a shit load of money” is what it should be called.