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To hate the term 'Making memories'?

144 replies

NotBigBrotherAgain · 09/06/2017 23:42

It just makes me cringe!

Someone that I know is continually hashtagging it on Facebook and Instagram. Even a walk to the local shop with her kids is #makingmemories.

AIBU?

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EnjoyYourShitCake · 09/06/2017 23:44

I once saw 'exuse the mess, we are making memories' emblazoned on a cushion. I knew instantly that I would not be friends with the buyer of said cushion.

YANBU

VanillaSugar · 09/06/2017 23:45

No. #makingmemories is usually an excuse for their child's bad behaviour.

Anyway, the sodding child won't remember the time spent playing in the woods. They'll just remember it as mum confiscating the X-Box for the afternoon.

HarrietKettleWasHere · 09/06/2017 23:45

YANBU.

Can I add 'fam-a-lam'.

Cringe.

Run4Fun · 09/06/2017 23:45

Let me guess #foreverliving #livingthedream Grin

VanillaSugar · 09/06/2017 23:46

Fam-a-lam 😂😂😂😂😂😁😁😁 what a crock of shit.

Ravenblack · 09/06/2017 23:46

It is a bit cringe and cheesy. There are a few sayings I hate too.

Think outside the box.

Step outside your comfort zone. (Usually spoken by extroverts trying to bully shy introverts into not being 'boring.' ) Hmm

At the end of the day.

As if......!

Team work makes the dream work. (always spoken by a cunt at work.)

There's many more!

Ravenblack · 09/06/2017 23:47

fam a lam? Confused

Never heard that before.

LoisWilkersonsLastNerve · 09/06/2017 23:48

Twee shite. I want my dc to have happy memories,who doesn't? But there's no need to make a big meal out of it. It's just more wankery from generation ego. Just live your life dammit. Grin

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NotBigBrotherAgain · 09/06/2017 23:48

Urgh yes I hate Fam-a-lam too!

Haha no she's not a Forever Living Bot, but I think she likes to portray that she has the perfect life.

OP posts:
CowParsleyNettle · 09/06/2017 23:48

#soblessed

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NotBigBrotherAgain · 09/06/2017 23:49

She says #blessed all the time too!

OP posts:
VanillaSugar · 09/06/2017 23:50

I think we have the same Facebook friend OP!

MommaGee · 09/06/2017 23:50

Hhm abu. I have lots of FB friends whose children have life limiting conditions. When they #makememories its very much about making memories for parents and siblings to last the years ahead

NilesCrane · 09/06/2017 23:51

YANBU!

troodiedoo · 09/06/2017 23:54

YANBU, it's similar to quality time which I hate. All time spent with family and friends is quality, it goes without saying.

See also Sunday funday. Usually to make day drinking seem more acceptable.

Pannalash · 09/06/2017 23:56

A friend posted #winningatlife that's nearly as grim.

WellThisIsShit · 09/06/2017 23:59

You are simultaneously unreasonable and not unreasonable :)

Yes to the annoying ness and smugness of FB memes and statuses.

It really makes it difficult to describe the reality of 'making memories'. When you're trying to make memories because one day, maybe soon, that's all your children might have of you.

Annoying when people steal a phrase and make you sound stupid by association. Grr.

HarrietKettleWasHere · 10/06/2017 00:00

Holibobs with the fam-a-lam Grin🤢

echt · 10/06/2017 00:03

I had to look up famalam. Not only does it not make sense, but I'm feeling the rage.

C0untDucku1a · 10/06/2017 00:04

#makingmemories annoys me too. I remember next to nothing of my childhood:'just flashes of very brief memory. Usually something embarrassing or traumatic. The children won't remember when they're adultS

BuzzKillington · 10/06/2017 00:05

YANBU - it's nauseating.

Someone round here has set up a business making schmaltzy shite for your wall. You know the stuff - modern calligraphy, utterly naff.

I see on FB she does one saying e.g. 'The xxxxx famalam. Estd 2004'

Makes me queasy in its tastelessness.

gillybeanz · 10/06/2017 00:06

I think you are sad if you have to keep posting about it, but even sadder id you can't see that walking to the shops with your kids can be making memories.
Living life is making memories.
I love making memories
YABU to not like making memories YANBU to not want to post about it.

KoolKoala07 · 10/06/2017 00:07

#goals
Family goals, boyfriend goals, body goals. You get the gist. My life isn't 'goals' but I'm pretty happy with it.

MycatsaPirate · 10/06/2017 00:14

I have friends who have children with life limiting illnesses and they are the ones who are actually making memories - for themselves and the siblings. Strangely they are the ones who don't feel the need to tell everyone and hashtag every photo with that phrase.

Unlike the ones who do. Especially the 'making memories with are family' instead of 'our'. Makes my teeth itch. Not only are you a lazy cow whose kids are filthy and you use the memories crap as an excuse not to bother but you can't spell either.

RudeDog · 10/06/2017 00:18

You can't organise what memories your child will have in the future....

One of mine is having a wee in a lay by going on holiday and then having a picnic in the car and then the dog was sick #blessed #makingmemories Grin

My main friend who does this does almost nothing with her children and makes a HUGE FB fuss because they do one thing a year - took her 9 year old to the beach for the first time - we live 20 minutes from one - 2 car family - oh the endless hashtags about family time, blessed, treats blah blah

Her children spend all their time on iPads - doesn't hashtag about that strangely