Things you don't do because your mum did

[SodaSloth]

Just for fun. Because mum did these when I was growing up: I don't peel potatoes in a bowl full of cold water. I don't buy margerine. I don't have Sunday pre-roast dinner ritual whereas she listened to The Archers then watched The Waltons before potatos would go in the oven to roast.

So many. I don't

• make grey casseroles with bits of offal floating grimly in them
• buy frozen spinach
• give in all the time to my husband's every wish and opinion
• called divorced women 'divorcees'

so many more...poor mum

•Fall asleep in the armchair in the evening.
• Only do laundry once a week
• Ignore a mess - I have to tidy up.
• Have a lie in - I just can’t seem to do it!
• Do crosswords
• Wear matching handbags and shoes!

Read out the entire phone number including dialling code when I answer the phone.
Send Christmas cards to everyone I've ever met.
Regale my children with endless tales told to me by some random person I've met on the bus.

My sister once told me that she refused to have houseplants because our mother had so many.
That's the only one I can think of - no, I tell a lie, I actively resist saying anything along the lines of "ooh, I am a lucky woman"

I don't:

Remain in a marriage in which both people are unhappy.
Phone people just to gossip about others.
Pluck my eyebrows into pencil lines.
Wear anything from Per Una.
Hit my kids when I'm angry.
Think domestic abuse is ok.
Send people gifts and cards when we don't even get on.
Put the appearance of family above real connection.
Say insensitive things and then get angry when people tell me they're hurt/ try to argue them out of their feelings.
Think the world ends at the channel islands.
Put mushrooms in bloody everything even when people have told me they're allergic.

Sadly there are probably many more things i do that she does nowadays.

Watch the soaps on TV

Iron underwear.
Consider changing lightbulbs a “man’s job.”
Let other people pick from menus for me because I “can’t be bothered reading.”

Watch Countdown and soaps. Used to bore me to tears

Constantly comment on my child's size and appearance.
Tell me a long story or piece of news about a person I didn't really know at school.
Watch soaps
Think my opinion trumps everyone else's.
Know how to throw a party (not calculating food and drink to "two each")

Iron teatowels.
Expect less of men because they’re men.
Be racist.
Victim-blame sexual assault survivors.
Expect my children to provide emotional support.
Take my pain out on my family.
Judge.

Before I do anything, I think, what would my mother do? Then I do the complete opposite! This has served me well in life. 😁

Mum always made sure that 100% of the cake mix went in the tin and never let us taste it, so now I always try some as I am mixing. There is still enough to have a decent sized cake at the end!

Speak in a foreign accent when telling people about my holiday to where ever I have been.
Make my children wait til after Christmas dinner to open their presents
Ask if I can make a suggestion..

I wasnt alloeed a drink with my meal in case it put me off my food. I used to be do thirsty. I now mske a point of having a jig of water on the table.

• Be obsessive about housework
• Iron underwear, socks and tea towels
• Be closed minded
• Be secretive
• No sense of humour
• No hobbies or interests

I don't:

tell my children that the only thing that matters is academic success.
make them stay at the table until they have finished eating
cook brussels sprouts for 3 hours
tell them that money matters more than happiness
that people living on council estates are failures

Smoke
Boil mince
Watch soaps
Shout loudly and slowly at non-English speakers - example, was introduced to a chap with an Italian name. 'We been to your country many time'. To which the bloke answered 'I should bloody hope so, love. I'm from Stoke'
Be a casual racist & homophobe
Read the Daily Mail

Some of these seem a bit mean/scornful, some make me laugh and some make me sad! I will think about mine and post!

Insist that dc's have piano lessons because I couldn't have them when I was young.

Cook stuffed lamb's hearts.

Be a martyr to the housework.

Use the terms 'living in sin' or 'confirmed bachelor'.

Believe that God will punish me if I'm wicked.

Believe that young ladies shouldn't have to work once they get married, because their husband should provide for them.

Well, there's a lot of things I don't do because my mum did them, but since this is just for fun I'll just mention:

I don't over-pronounce all French words - eg deeyoooovayyy for duvet, res-tronnnnnngg for restaurant etc.

I don't have a stove-top kettle that whistles loudly for ten minutes, piercing the eardrums of all around before I slowly go to turn it off.

I don't blame other drivers for accidents I've caused (things like crashing into low walls, reversing into posts etc)

And I don't immediately assume that everyone who has more than one drink in an evening is a raging alcoholic...

I don't have tattoos.
I kept my kids.
I got married before having my children.
I don't lie to my kids.
I don't put my dh before my kids.

No to mince boiling. I have
No clue what that’s all about. Same re margarine.

I don’t save anything ‘for best’ but that may have come down from my Nan because of the war. Same as her cupboard full of tins under the stairs.

Loads and loads! I really try not to be her!!

Blimey. Seems like I have a whole raft of siblings that I never knew about

I always try to get up rather than say 'I'm just having a little sit down' when the dc ask for something they need me to do.