Silly things your mother did (lighthearted)

I do this 😂😂😂 I’m in my 30’s🙈🙈

My DM irons everything. I iron nothing

Silliest thing she did? Tried to bring me up believing that men were superior - women should provide for their needs, men will always lead, they can do no wrong. Hmmmmmph.

Most old wives tales have some logic. Ironing kills bacteria.
walking under ladders, things drop on your head.

Putting a couple of tea spoons of granulated sugar into Coca Cola to take the fizz out

Will never forget the day I came home from school to find my mother scrubbing the sofa upholstery with two full loaves of bread, one in each hand.

It was to get the dust out of the grooves, apparently.

She'd make me drink a full glass of milk before school on days when I had a test or an exam–I'd go in feeling bloated and sick but calcium is good for the brain, didn't you know?

And then she was always catching animals - whether they needed catching or not There was often a hedgehog, or a squirrel, or a bird in the house, because she'd seen it and decided it needed to be rescued – even if it was perfectly healthy.

She once caught a hedgehog the way you catch a bug – with a big Tupperware over the top and then a piece of cardboard slid underneath...

Lined the shelves with grease proof paper 😂😂 in the first lockdown I lined every shelf with sticky back plastic .

Not my mum but DH’s also irons pants and Tea towels. I find this really strange and pointless.
My own mum has a normal accent which she uses day to day but when she’s on the phone to her best friend she reverts to a hilariously common accent and dumbs her vocabulary down. If she’s speaking to anyone of a higher class she’ll use a posh accent. It makes me laugh but I wouldn’t change her!

Heaviestdirtyestsoul
drinking out of chipped cups is a no no bacteria can get in your mouth. Apparently can cause tooth loss. Or so my mam said

We had the old underwear as dusters and cloths. Thought it was only us!! Lol

Sohelpmedog
Robert Carrier recipie cards?!! My mum had loads lol...

Had to make sure we got every seed out of a pepper as they are poisonous.
Ironed everything even bras
Each day of the week was a set meal same week in week out
Hair wash was a Sunday night only thing and hair drier had to be left out for 1 hour to cool down or house would burn down.
Iron again had to go on draining board for an hour to cool before putting away to prevent fire.
TV off and unplugged to prevent fire
Thinking about it she had a real fear of house burning down!
I was not allowed to kiss bf goodnight in his car when he dropped me off as neighbours would see.

Wow id completely forgotten till thisthread but we had to watch BBC programmes esp on sat morn as ITV, Tiswas ext were 'common'. Also my mum tried ti insist that tampons wouldgive you cancer and if you were a virgin you wouldn't be able to use them anyway?!!! Bonkers....Yes to fruit in salad, sultanas and bananas...esp grated carrot in orange jelly...very continental actually. Lol

Being taught how to use a dustpan and brush on the stair carpet. Sweep top step onto one below... sweep top 2 steps dirt onto one below. So some dirt was painstakingly brushed off every stairs. Bonkers!

i do this

My mum washed every Monday without fail, come rain/ snow or sunshine she always had 2 full washing lines out . She washed all our clothes towels and bedding etc, it took every her about 3 hours to get it all done . Wash, mangle into sink, rinse, mangle again then spinner.
She never had automatic washer but did have a twin tub eventually 🤦‍♀️

Growing up my mum used old underwear as dusters.
She never made gravy just used oxtail soup . Even on our Sunday dinners

My mum didn’t allow my sisters to wash their hair when they had their period. I’ve no idea why 🤷‍♀️. My dad said if I gave the dog bread it would give him “dropsy” and the classic if you go out without a coat you will catch a cold. Alarmingly so many people still believe that one

There sort of is a logic to ironing everything, especially knickers.
I was born in Southern Africa, and when back in UK Mother would still iron knickers. At that time (50’s, 60’s) there was a fly which used to lay eggs on the gusset part of knickers, which could hatch into a larvae which would eat flesh in that delicate area. If you ironed the crotch it killed the eggs.
Apologies if you are eating your supper!

My mum still salutes magpies (I don’t but I do ask about the wife 😂🤦🏻‍♀️) she’s been trying to teach my 3 year old DC to do it too

When I was little (late 80’s/early 90’s) we always had half an oyster shell in the kitchen cupboard for people to use instead of an ashtray - god knows why I can’t remember any of her friends who actually smoked 🤷🏻‍♀️
And I’d say 80% of her cooking was jar based, I remember my best friend being insanely jealous of our chicken chaseur & rice (everything came with rice) tea one night because her mum had made Shepard’s pie 😂😂😂

[quote Sohelpmedog]@Fuckingcrustybread something like this? My mum collected recipe cards, I’ve got several sets, can’t bring myself to Chuck them, I know she spent a fortune on them[/quote]
My mum had that at one point. The favourite ones always covered in grease marks and bits of food 😂

Oh and my mum would always say ‘she/he must need the money’ if a once well known actor suddenly started doing TV adverts. Examples - Michael Parkinson
Babs Windsor (that Bingo one she did)

Not my mum and not weird but the older lady neighbour at our first home came out and showed me how to hang my washing on the line properly!
She was ace.

My mum had a ridiculous way of slicing runner beans: she'd place the bean against her fingertip and cut towards it. Because she always managed to avoid slicing into her finger (God alone knows how), she ignored my protests that it was dangerous and insisted that I must slice beans the same way as she did. Needless to say, I cut myself the first time I tried it. Even then, she refused to acknowledge that it was a stupid way of cutting beans, saying that I'd only cut myself because it was my first time, and that I'd be fine once I'd had more practice!