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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 helped families feel more comfortable while moving around the house doing chores. -
Electric washing machine
The electric washing machine helped eliminate the long task of hand washing clothes. -
Brillo Pads
Brillo Pads helped with daily household deep cleaning. -
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
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
The refrigerator helped maintain food for days to eliminate going to the store every day. -
Penicillin
Penicillin helped the sick, adding to the lifespan of an individual if they were sick. -
Microwave Oven
Microwave ovens allowed for speedy meals, which allowed more time for other household duties. -
Tupperware
Tupperware allowed people to save leftovers. Leftovers helped save time and energy on the family. -
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
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 helped fix household items w/o having to completely replace. -
TV dinners
Tv dinners helped save money and also allowed more time for other household duties. -
Colored Kitchen appliances
Colored appliances were easier to maintain. They appeared more clean from the naked eye. -
Automatic doors
Families were able to open and close their doors even during windy conditions, while carrying groceries. -
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
People were able to print material from home. (homework, recipes, etc.) -
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
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
Helps connect multiple devices around the home for music, tv, cpu etc. -
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 allows young women to postpone being impregnated and expanding the family when they are not ready. -
Facebook
Facebook helps family and friends stay connected from home. -
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
This item helps family locate items around the house when in a rush. Especially when going to work. -
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 in households helped allow for a healthier environment, allowing for longer life span. -
wifi 2009
Wifi allowed faster network speeds for home enabling faster devices for entertainment and work from home businesses. -
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.
