Things you assumed were normal

In my world mashed potato with salad is normal - apparently I am weird!

Washing mushrooms is kinda important because they're grown in poop. E coli and all that. Big spoon of marmite in a spag bol or cottage pie is so tasty. Think it makes the taste much deeper and meatier than Worcester sauce does.

Keeping clothes till they’ve worn through into holes.

My running leggings are older than my relationship, to the horror of my teenage daughter. She keeps trying to throw them away for me.

Grilled cheese and bacon on fish fingers.

Try it.

Jam on weetabix. Yum. And large pickled onions with roast dinners.

I can't remember putting anything out for Father Christmas when I was a child, but if we had it would have been non-alcoholic for sure - maybe just a mince pie?
DH grew up putting out beer and a mince pie but I our Father Christmas doesn't drink beer so we put out port and a mince pie, because I don't keep sherry in the house.

My mum had a thing for mini frozen pizzas, usually margherita, or cheese and ham, and a penchant for overcooking them in the microwave, so we used to smother them in coleslaw to make them more edible. I still put coleslaw on my pizza now.

Glad to see there is bovril on toast love here! I still like it more than marmite; although never ever as a drink!

I also have Bovril on toast most mornings-my whole family does. (We all have the same vintage Bovril poster up somewhere in our houses because we love it so much).
I lived abroad for a bit and couldn't get it anywhere. People had to post it out to me.

Whisky IS normal for Father Christmas!

I always thought that receiving your presents from Santa wrapped up and then stuffed into a pair of tights was normal.
I was (and still am really) a bit aghast at any other present delivery method.

I was about 9 when I realised other people didn't do this-and about 39 when I realised the tights were my parents' twist on Christmas stockings (I think?).

Anyway, Christmas Eve always finds me stuffing presents into a pair of tights each for the DD's... they love it as did I-the presents can be hard to extract which makes it more fun.

You could always tell when my mum and dad were a bit poorer-as those were one leg of the tights filled up years-when there was a bit more cash floating about we got both legs

I take my plants camping with us

I too always thought that whisky was normal for Father Christmas.

Talking about taking pets caravanning, when I was married we had a caravan, my then husband would drive down on a friday lunchtime to set up & I would pick ds up from school with his hamster in his travel cage, we had a cage at the caravan for him, never crossed my mind to put him 2 days food in his cage & leave him at home. Ds used to take him to visit friends on the site in his strawberry house.

It is just like putting gravy on fish, but nobody dies.

@herbsmokedchicken Isn't ketchup with pizza normal? I smother mine.

My ex always has ketchup with pizza. He has ketchup with pretty much everything to be fair, including roast dinners.

I had outdoor and indoor shoes at school too. Mind you we had to wear school uniform pants, so having two pairs of shoes was the least of my worries....

Indoor shoes at my school too, I've never really thought about it but I guess it was to stop the mud from the field being spread around the school.

At my DS's school they were supposed to keep wellies there to wear outside when it rained. It makes more sense. Plimsolls were for the gym, IIRC.

@coconuttelegraph

I've never seen anyone have ketchup on pizza but I do have a blob of mayo on the side to dip my crusts in. I think that stems from having a pot of garlic dip with a takeaway pizza.

Indoor shoes at my school too, I've never really thought about it but I guess it was to stop the mud from the field being spread around the school.

Ketchup with pizza isn't unusual is it? I don't often have a pizza but my dc dip theirs in ketchup. I don't know where that comes from but must be pretty mainstream or they wouldn't know about it

@Frenchw1fe I have the same argument with school every year, and I never back down. Plimsoles are like slippers and not at all good for feet. In the workplace we do not change into indoor shoes. I buy Clarke's shoes every year, fitted correctly and there is no way they are changing once in school.

The only way to have weetabix is with sugar and cold milk

We had to have indoor shoes at my grammar school in the 60s/70s. They even specified what make and style!

@sunshineskymoon indoor shoes are fine. My ds's school insisted the children wear plimsolls. I argued successfully that spending money on well fitting shoes and then making dc wear ill fitting plimsolls for most of the day was wrong.
My d's went to school in trainers and put his good shoes on inside.

@ladybee28 my 7 year old dgs always has ketchup with pizza. I watch him dunk his pizza and think why?