I know this question has probably been asked before, but I looked back a bunch of pages and couldn't find it. So what did Carol Brady do for a living? Stay at home mom that did pta and so on?
Thanks in advance for the response :)

Nothing. Alice did everything. :rofl:

Nothing. Alice did everything. :rofl:
I always wondered about that. Why have a housekeeper if you're a stay at home Mom? :lol:

I always wondered about that. Why have a housekeeper if you're a stay at home Mom? :lol:


For comic relief!!



Yup, Carol didn't do anything for a living... being a stay-at-home Mom/homemaker is hard work, but as Irene correctly pointed out, Carol didn't even do THAT... Alice did, indeed, do it all.

We learned early in life to bring our dishes to the kitchen after a meal, and the Brady kids never even did that... after dinner in the living/dining room, or even breakfast at the kitchen table, they'd just walk away, leaving Alice to do all that stuff.

Later on, (in "The Brady Brides" series) Carol became a Real Estate Agent (I guess she's the one who found that home for Jan and Philip and Marcia and Wally). Wonder how many times Carol had to take the Real Estate exam before she passed?

That's what I was remembering, that she was a real estate agent at some point, I just didn't know when! Thanks for the help! :)

Alice didn't know how to drive, so Carol's job was to chauffer her houskeeper around on errands.

;)

Alice didn't know how to drive, so Carol's job was to chauffer her houskeeper around on errands.

;)


Great point!! :lol:

Carol was a stay at home mom

Nothing. Alice did everything. :rofl:

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Wonder how many times Carol had to take the Real Estate exam before she passed?

Only once; but Alice took the test for her.

Carol was a stay at home mom

I'm pretty sure that's a job an a half already!

...what did Carol do for a living BEFORE she married Mike, I don't know. Nothing was ever mentioned about how she supported her daughters in the pilot episode. She had to have SOME kind of job and income to feed, clothe and give Marica, Jan, and Cindy some kind of "normal" homelife...but we never find out about THAT part of her life. Only Sherwood Schwartz would know that part...

:tv:

I always assumed she moved back in with her parents after her first husband died. (I have always assumed he died). Maybe he had a big life insurance policy.

What Test did Alice take for her

Yeah, it seemed after her first marriage ended 'a few years' before her 2nd wedding, she'd moved back into her parental abode with her three daughters but had not had any kind of paying job. This, in spite of the fact, that it would later be revealed that she had gone to college.
No doubt her parents so close to retirement age who'd provided for these four all that time then thrown the Brady Wedding in their backyard were so grateful for the nonstop appreciation and efforts the Bradys made to keep them in their lives over the next four years after the honeymoon!:rolleyes:

She did a lot of community work. Save parks, stop smoking, that sort of thing.

It was the 60s/70s, when stay at home mom was still possible. Carol did the shopping sometimes, and did the cooking sometimes as well. She would also help the kids with their homework, unless it was math and Marcia, then it was Mike.

It was never shown onscreen but I believe Carol sold Wesson oil out of the garage.

I think that Carol being a stay at home mom and having help is not that abnormal if you lived in a certain income bracket.

Making a home (and not just having a house) takes a lot of work (think June Cleaver). A sit-down dinner with fresh flowers on the table and six kids wearing clean clothes with their homework done take some doing.

Then if she was going to have any time with Mike after dinner took somebody doing the dishes and it was easier to have Alice do them or have her help the kids do them.

It was status, help, and because Alice was then already a member of the family. Carol helped out at home and did charity/community work.

I dont think Carole did much but if she did,did they ever say??

Alice was a carryover from when Mike and the boys were "on their own". Wasn't there actually an episode where Carol felt kind of useless since the kids relied on Alice for everything?

She did a lot of community work. Save parks, stop smoking, that sort of thing.

She also made realistic sculptures of her husband's head.