Things that would apall your grandmother?

[LunaMay]

Lighthearted - just missing my nanna thinking about this.

I was making a quick dinner while my mum was over and hovering about while chatting. The plan was some homemade chips and i grabbed a small knife and began peeling potatoes, next thing i get a playful slap on the shoulder and a reminder that my nan would have been appalled at me 'wasting so much potato' by not using a peeler.

Made me smile because i had that conversation with her plenty of times when she was still around. She never clicked on that i don't reuse teabags, that the clothes dryer wasn't just for emergencies, that i use fresh oil and dont have a frying pan in the cupboard with fat/oil older than me in it...

I don’t have any curtains up
I don’t make tea in a teapot
I don’t iron pants and tea towels (who does?!)

Last week I colorized a bunch of old family pictures via Photoglory and my grandma would totally hate it . She says all these manipulations make the pictures fake and once the black and white photo had been colorized it's not the real photo anymore etc. She didn't like colorized movies either!

I didn’t meet one of my Grandmothers she died when I was tiny. The one I didn’t meet was the wife number 1 of my Grandfather who also had a concubine. They fled mainland China in the 1930’s. She belonged to the last remnants of a world pre Communism. Grew up in a very formal traditional Chinese setting and had bound feet. I would imagine she wouldn’t understand my world even a tiny bit.

My grandmother is shocked that some fathers change nappies, and believes that most women are too sexually active, and unable to confidently name their child's father.

I know what I’ve done that did annoy mine and my grandfather for that matter / the fact I gave up work and had a traditional home set up. They had a very equal marriage - both worked, cared equally for their children and shared household duties etc

My Grandma wouldn't be appalled by anything I've done really as she adored me in the way that only a grandmother can. Even when I dressed strangely or listened to baffling music or wasn't religious and therefore lived in sin and didn't christen my dc. She died just before the pandemic aged 94 and she did find modern habits strange. Eating in public baffled her except for a few exceptions. She missed "motoring" down to a beauty spot and stopping by the side of the road and setting up a full lunch with crockery and cutlery. She also thought people wasted things too much and that modern women were foolish for not darning and mending. She also thought men should be served first and be given seconds. Women should eat like birds. I miss her so desperately

Buying a coffee in a shop just because you fancied one. Buying anything at all that wasn't reduced. Buying your own home with all the responsibility that entails rather than renting. Not having the first idea how to place a bet in a bookies,or bicker with a market trader for a better price or finding something and handing it in to the police instead of squirrelling it away double quick. Nan had absolutely no money as you can probably guess.

So many television channels (netflix et al not included) She loved television but only had two channels .To change the channel she would turn off the TV , plug it out then change the channel then turn it on again.She always said she was afraid it would explode ' because of the bad electrics in the house'

Modern life! "OOH it wasn't like that in our day!"
She was racist but mind, she hated everyone equally who was not Scottish!!!

One of my grannies (long gone, born pre 1900s) was appalled at the sort of flimsy little knickers I wore.
‘There’s no warmth in those!’ 😂

She once told me that she’d ditched a young man she was ‘walking out’ with, because, ‘He tried to get his hand down my placket fastener!!’ 😂

Bob Monkhouse.

Names like Wendy.

My other grandmother, any alcohol. She once had a sherry and couldn't tell me how awful it was!

@notacooldad

Eating in the street! Not even a quick packet of crisps! That apalls me to be fair!!🤣🤣🤣

Oh no, not another stealth eater!

My granny would be appalled that I don’t regularly wash my net curtains. I don’t even have net curtains (to twitch).

I married a catholic
My children are catholics
I work full time
I stopped voting Labour for a while

Literally everything about me and my life 😂 DGM is still alive and well so voices her horror regularly.
I don't iron much
I don't have curtain/cushion/bed linen or each season or change beds every 2 days
I don't hover twice a day
I don't cook from scratch and have tea on the table for dh and the dc 'getting in' (despite working full time and finishing later than dh and both of us wfh)
I'm very much for attachment parenting and the dc are definitely seen and heard!
I let dd wear her super curly (super gorgeous) hair down and natural
2.5yo ds doesn't have short back and sides... who could cut little blonde curls?!
And the worst crime imaginable- we have cats who live in the house and are allowed on the furniture 😱^^ (she once saw me feed the cat from my spoon, after I'd finished eating, and hasn't eaten anything in my house since)

Mine (a cook in service from the age of 14 until she married) would probably be horrified that her daughter (my mum) can't stand cooking and lives on microwave ready meals!

By contrast I absolutely love cooking but that gene completely bypassed my mum.

@Deathraystare

Modern life! "OOH it wasn't like that in our day!" She was racist but mind, she hated everyone equally who was not Scottish!!!

Mine is the same, dislikes everyone. anyone not from her town and people from her town equally. Heaven forbid you use any kind of 'modern' thing- I bought her a tassimo and a few packs of pods during the March 2020 lockdown thinking she'd enjoy a nice coffee when chatting with her neighbours while she couldn't go for her regularly cafe afternoons... nope. 'We never had anything like this in my day!' It was also ordered from Amazon which is obviously witchcraft and asking to get your identity stolen 🤷🏼‍♀️

'We never had anything like this in my day!'
I managed to stop my nan saying things like this. I said to her This is still your day. You are not buried yet!
It did the trick!

My Nan (still alive but lives quite far away) would be outraged that I don’t have net curtains. She would be beyond outraged that I don’t scrub skirting my skirting boards weekly (or, er, at all!).

I remember my Mum being appalled at the fact I bought ready made meat balls, and didn't make my own. I think I got the while 'I'm my day, I made my own' speech

@VeryMuchFlaggingMinty

Mine (a cook in service from the age of 14 until she married) would probably be horrified that her daughter (my mum) can't stand cooking and lives on microwave ready meals!

By contrast I absolutely love cooking but that gene completely bypassed my mum.

I was just about to say the same. Definitely genes skipping a generation! Though she would be horrified that I only rarely make pastry from scratch!

Living in sin, bikinis, anything skimpy, tattoos on women, men cooking dinners :D

Frequently asking a teenage girl how much she weighs and going - I've got scales, use those!

@DinosaursEatMan me neither! I can, but I don't.

My grandma came from near Allenheads in Northumberland - very rural. She was poor and worked hard all her life- earned her living decorating houses for years. She cooked, baked, sewed, loved her family. She had a gay brother and it was an open secret- not discussed but his friends were welcome. She bought property at a time when it was unusual (1940s) for a woman to do that. She loved Scottish country dancing, liked a drop of single malt and never asked much of life in terms of holidays- Scarborough or the Scottish borders where her mother came from. My grandad was a sailor then worked in an engineering place. He was a character and spent money very easily but was a kind, funny man.

She would have been shocked by- women with tattoos (appalled), how revealing clothes are, how idle people are, how much people expect as the norm, the cost of a loaf of bread, women not wearing a slip, buying frozen chips, that I don't keep pepper under the bed(she always did incase of a burglar 😁) the size of our house.
She would have loved DH and our DC.