The History of Management

  • Vacuum

    Vacuum

    The invention of the vacuum helped families manage their time while cleaning. Instead of cleaning on hand or knees the vacuumed saved time.
  • Air condition

    Air condition

    Air condition helped families feel more comfortable while moving around the house doing chores.
  • Electric washing machine

    Electric washing machine

    The electric washing machine helped eliminate the long task of hand washing clothes.
  • Brillo Pads

    Brillo Pads

    Brillo Pads helped with daily household deep cleaning.
  • Band-aid

    Band-aid

    When a person in the house hurt themselves (especially children) band-aids allowed a person to wrap that area and continue with household tasks.
  • Frozen Food

    Frozen Food

    The concept of frozen food allowed the cooks of the house to cook in large quantity, or buy in large quantity and still preserve food. It also made it convenient for working mothers to cook fast meals.
  • Refrigerator

    Refrigerator

    The refrigerator helped maintain food for days to eliminate going to the store every day.
  • Penicillin

    Penicillin

    Penicillin helped the sick, adding to the lifespan of an individual if they were sick.
  • Microwave Oven

    Microwave Oven

    Microwave ovens allowed for speedy meals, which allowed more time for other household duties.
  • Tupperware

    Tupperware

    Tupperware allowed people to save leftovers. Leftovers helped save time and energy on the family.
  • Telephone answering machine

    Telephone answering machine

    If a family was not home and they missed an important call they would still be able to receive the message. Helped save time instead of waiting by the phone for hours.
  • Credit Card

    Credit Card

    The credit card allowed families to purchase household items and daily necessities even if they did not have the cash at that moment.
  • Super Glue

    Super Glue

    Super glue helped fix household items w/o having to completely replace.
  • TV dinners

    TV dinners

    Tv dinners helped save money and also allowed more time for other household duties.
  • Colored Kitchen appliances

    Colored Kitchen appliances

    Colored appliances were easier to maintain. They appeared more clean from the naked eye.
  • Automatic doors

    Automatic doors

    Families were able to open and close their doors even during windy conditions, while carrying groceries.
  • Picture Phone

    Picture Phone

    This allowed the caller to screen phone calls, which helped families to decide if they had enough time to answer a phone call based on the priority level of who was calling.
  • Ink Jet printer

    Ink Jet printer

    People were able to print material from home. (homework, recipes, etc.)
  • Mobile Phone

    Mobile Phone

    The mobile phone allowed people to answer the phone when away running errands. It also helped if the home phone line was tied up. Alternate method of communication.
  • Internet

    Internet

    The internet people to complete research from home, shop from home etc. It made life easier if a family did not have a vehicle.
  • Bluetooth

    Bluetooth

    Helps connect multiple devices around the home for music, tv, cpu etc.
  • Hybrid cars

    Hybrid cars

    Hybrid cars help the environment and the health of the family while also saving on gas prices. Thus leaving more money for other household items.
  • Birth Control Patch

    Birth Control Patch

    Birth Control allows young women to postpone being impregnated and expanding the family when they are not ready.
  • Facebook

    Facebook

    Facebook helps family and friends stay connected from home.
  • YouTube

    YouTube

    Families are able to learn how to DIY any and everything from simply watching videos from YouTube. This helps develop many skills individually.
  • Finder of the Lost Gloves

    Finder of the Lost Gloves

    This item helps family locate items around the house when in a rush. Especially when going to work.
  • Amazon Kindle

    Amazon Kindle

    The Kindle allows mothers to download books to read to the children instead of collecting clutter on a book shelf.
  • Going green

    Going green

    Going green in households helped allow for a healthier environment, allowing for longer life span.
  • wifi 2009

    wifi 2009

    Wifi allowed faster network speeds for home enabling faster devices for entertainment and work from home businesses.
  • Home design

    Home design

    Family house designs are moving toward an open concept, to allow a more functional space to communicate while cooking, eating at the table and watching tv.