Things your parents owned that you swore you wouldn't. And now you do.

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Coasters. Oh the shame!!!!

Hairy legs 🙈

One of those window scraper things. My Dad used to infuriate my sister and I by coming into our room at sparrows fart at weekends (probably about 9am), saying sarcastically "it's been a lovely day" and proceeding whistle jauntily while scraping the condensation off the window. Minus the sarcasm and jauntiness I do the same thing now - can't help myself

WHat else is gravy served in if you're having a meal which isn't plated in the kitchen?

@hansgrueber I've had it served to me in a plastic jug before

A husband who changes in to pyjamas as soon as he gets in from work!

A sensible family car. I always thought I’d be a cool little sports car kind of person. Last year I bought a Volvo like a proper boring grown up. Just like my parents did

@hansgrueber A lot of people on MN seem to dump gravy on the table in a pyrex measuring jug or plastic jug, thus denying the glory of the gravy boat. Then again- I don't make roasts so mine is used more for sauces. That hasn't stopped DM giving me a hopeful packet of Compton's Gravy Salts though- sonething else I swore never to own.

I've never got the coaster sneeriness. They save the furniture!

Big pants

Absolutely true on both gravy boat and coaster issues! Gravy boats are practical. Mine looks nice, too. Coasters are essential! I don't want all the furniture covered in rings. A sneery poster from another thread asked me why I bothered - they just put old magazines on surfaces! Classy.

Picture frames. As a teenager I thought they were SO BOURGEOIS and it was much better to slap a poster on the wall - but.. they protect my lovely expensive prints!

And yes to garden centres. A nice display of geraniums in the summer that I prepare in the spring and fret over the varieties [blush.]

At least I'm 50+ - long ago a friend got his first professional job and his own place, and decided to start doing the garden. Not long after that he proudly told me he was planning "a nice bit of summer colour". Then looked stricken as he realised he had turned into his dad. He was 26!

I don't have a gravy boat though because I associate them with the mind-numbing horror of formal christmas dinner when I was growing up. And I hope I never see the appeal of my mum's ecco boots.

Butter dish,
love em. Real butter that doesn't destroy the bread.

I love real butter in a lovely China dish with a lid!

Mine was introduced to the kindle

Took awhile for her to work it but she loved the bloody thing. Daughter was given it upon her death she daughter that is didn’t change the account on it for a good 18 months and read the books she’d already bought on it which made me smile

Crystal glasses that are only taken out of the cupboard on very special occasions.

My mum bought me them and I LOVE them. Just to look at mind you, not to drink from!

Oh christ I've also just remembered that me and my mum lovingly share her Bero book which is falling to bits.

This book actually belonged to my grandma and I'd save it in a house fire without hesitation!

Strange the things we hold on to.

A button jar and a sewing tin! Didn't exactly buy them sort of just accumulated them over my years of getting gradually duller 😂

Thanks @VinylDetective I try to, been a worrying year as I'm sure you understand.

Meanwhile she's harder to get hold of than dd!

I must admit to a laugh out loud moment recently when I was browsing one of dds favourite "modern" sites for Xmas gifts and came upon an item described as "button through sweater with complimenting camisole knitted top" - a twinset! They'd gone to extraordinary lengths to avoid describing it as such!

Mending box - containing buttons, zips (I haven't quite reached the point of removing buttons and zips from clothes I'm about to throw out as she does), thread and needles (and she keeps 2 needles "ready threaded" with black and white thread for quick repairs), iron on patches etc

but I am the person they alway ask for addresses when they CBA to surf through months worth of WhatsApp chat or Uber receipts to find them!

Why aren't they recording addresses against their contacts in their contact app? That's what I do and I'm sure many others - much easier to update too.

My mum is pretty good at keeping up with the times especially tech - she's currently still thrashing the grandkids at various x box games! Was the first in the family to get herself a kindle and extolled it's virtues when she took it on a cruise with dad as if meant she could take "thousands of books to ward off the boredom of his moaning!"

Dad meanwhile barely manages a text and is all chuffed with himself if he manages to use "lol" correctly! He's not even got a smart phone which he maintains he has no need of (bedridden very poorly) but there are many apps which me mum and my siblings think would interest him and would be useful to him but he's pretty stubborn and resistant. He does love his smart speaker though. Mum says it gives him "somebody" else to moan at! Which gives her a slight reprieve.

Flannelette sheets, my dd lives them too. They are warmer.

I have a heated serving serving stand with 4 different compartments. I love it I cook the meal and pop potatoes and veg in server and if anyone wants seconds it is still hot.

I have and use a pressure cooker too. Speeds up cooking times.

I have an original Gplan table and chairs that I bought it on eBay because kids scratched my other one to pieces. It shines up so well when it is polished too. My Mum had one all through my childhood.

I have a massive bone china dinner and tea and coffee set for 12 settings, with cream tea 3 tier cake plates. I used to keep them in China cabinet but now I enjoy sitting and drinking tea out of bone china cup and using teapot, milk jug and China tray too. I seem to recall calling my Mum a pretensious snob when she used hers when I was a wayward teen.

Worst of all I sometimes hear myself saying to my children something my Mum used to say to me.

Pressure cooker
Thermos
A blanket on the sofa for evenings

@Graphista- my phone doesn't have an address feature in contacts (I just tried to add someone to check). Or if so, I couldn't find it so it's hardly easy to access and use. Presumably my friends are in the same position, or they just don't know they can do that or use addresses infrequently so they don't bother recording them. I just think they should get address books! I actually like having a physical address book separate from my phone, too. Just in case!

Address book for numbers my mobile phone fried in the rain, left it on the garden table. Oh what a nightmare. I jotted down all the numbers in a book when I got them back, not all I may add, still missing one friend who I have now lost touch with. 😭

My dad used to take a coffee filter with papers and ground coffee into work because he couldn't bear the machine and instant coffee available. I thought that was the most pretentious thing ever. I was doing the same thing by the time I was 35. I also carry a little stash of herb teabags with me on those occasions when I can't carry my coffee paraphanalia.

Huge knickers

Cringe at modern music

My mum has an aluminium gigantic circular serving tray which has the signs of the Zodiac in a small circle in the middle from the 1950s....always thought it was very ugly....darn if I didn't find one at a charity shop on the entire other side of the US as to where my mother has lived her whole life...of course I had to purchase it for $3.99.! So now we have twin unusual zodiac aluminium gigantic trays. Turns out my aunt in the Midwestern part of the US has one also! The thing is so large I have to store it under the sofa in the lounge