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Silly things your mother did (lighthearted)

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RaraRachael · 26/01/2021 13:44

Trying to lighten my current mood and started to think about things my mother did - and insisted that I do - as they were "the done thing" back in the day.

Turning the clothes inside out to put on the washing line in case a bird shat on them
Lining every shelf in your kitchen unit with patterned greaseproof paper
Stuffing the chicken and then sewing it up with a needle and thread

Suffice to say, I stopped these ridiculous traditions when i realised there was no valid purpose to them Grin

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Guardsman18 · 26/01/2021 14:36

Aired flannels - bloody mad!

Kilcaple · 26/01/2021 14:35

Look, my mother, whom I adore, was brought up in abject poverty in a household that didn’t even have an outdoor toilet, they just went up the field behind the house, and was taught to step down off the pavement and bless herself when the parish priest approached. Suffice to say that a lot of what she was brought up to think of as normal, from personal hygiene onward, really isn’t.

LunaNorth · 26/01/2021 14:32

Ironed tea towels.

TinkersRucksack · 26/01/2021 14:29

My mother used to use old underwear as dusters. Clean, obviously...

TinkersRucksack · 26/01/2021 14:28

Oh my god sewing up poultry!!! Thought my mother was the only one who did that...

MaMisled · 26/01/2021 13:55

If I didn't clean behind my ears, wipe my bum properly, brush my teeth etc, I'd get impetigo !!??

Shosha1 · 26/01/2021 13:54

I still line shelves! Especially the ones that hold food such as oil or treacle.

My favourite of my Mums was after ironing dry clothes, she would then but them in the airing cupboard before they went into into the wardrobes. Why!

raffle · 26/01/2021 13:51

My Mum used anything she could find in a salad, this included any fruit, (cheese egg and strawberry salad for example), any nuts or crisps (tuna salad liberally sprinkled with crushed up pickle onion monster munch). Basically anything lying around was fair game in Mum’s salad world.

Heaviestdirtyestsoul · 26/01/2021 13:50

Mostly superstitious stuff, touching wood, saluting magpies and asking after Mrs magpie, not walking under ladders, tempting fate- turning round and crossing yourself after accidentally not doing some strange superstitious thing she should have. My brothers and sisters are all throwing salt over their shoulders, not looking in cracked mirrors, never drinking out of chipped glasses or mugs, smashing crockery to prevent things happening in threes- im perfectly sane nowadays thank you Grin

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 26/01/2021 13:49

I horrify my DM by not ironing everything, including tea towels, muslin cloths for babies, and underwear, and by not colour matching my pegs.

I also fail to eat fish on Fridays and a Roast on Sundays. And... We don't have pudding every day. (The children might have yoghurt or fruit, or something from the chocolate box.)

Knittedfairies · 26/01/2021 13:46

My mum always cut Brillo pads in half; it gave me the heebie-jeebies.

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