what does your MUM regard as normal household practice that you DONT

[WilliamGray]

washing rice

turnign matresses

[maidamess]

Has anyone mentioned the chipped teacup permanently in the fridge , full of questionable dripping?

[BetteNoire]

Thumping sofa cushions and straightening throws every half an hour.

Holding fast to the belief that my father is incapable of getting off his arse and doing anything for himself.

Wiping down the tops of her kitchen cupboards every other day.

Keeping jam jars - she never uses them, but she keeps them in a wicker basket in the garage. Some of them are older than me.

[Countingthegreyhairs]

are you my long-lost sister Maidamess????

[bythepowerofgreyskull]

mum has fridge full of leftovers and cups of dripping, hard knobs of old cheese.

the main household practice that I don't do is get changed do my hair and put my makeup on before DH comes home.
She does it every night, has done for the last 40 years.

[maidamess]

bythepower, Ithink that getting changed thing is sweet.

counting, I think our Mums must be equally nuts. I could write a book on mine.

If she ever buys an ornament from one of her (rare) holidays, she will put it on the mantle, with the little information booklet about the person who made it, or the shop that sold it, underneath it, poking out.

'For reference'

[DisplacementActivity]

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[deeeja]

My mother washes down doors and skirting boards every Sunday, it is why I joined a sunday hockey club in my teens. She also washes the windows on the same day, drove me mad living at home.
She changes the sheets every day, and pillow cases every day. She wipes the bathroom after every use, fgs, it gets wet, it is a bathroom!

[WilliamGray]

aaaaaaaaargh at " for refernece"

Fil gets Finnish glassware made by Ittala see here for the logoand keeps the I logo sticker on it.
if oyu tyr and peel it off your glass they get most hoity.

they are not design freaks, their decor consists of textrued wallpaper, a blush pink sofa and paintings of deer in glomy scottish woods

[WilliamGray]

aaaaaaaaargh at " for refernece"

Fil gets Finnish glassware made by Ittala see here for the logoand keeps the I logo sticker on it.
if oyu tyr and peel it off your glass they get most hoity.

they are not design freaks, their decor consists of textrued wallpaper, a blush pink sofa and paintings of deer in glomy scottish woods

[jamescagney]

hoovering the garage walls, i kid you not. using Dad's underpants (not old, but current in his collection in a 1970's brown geometric acyrilicy way) to dust the tiny wine table that cost £5 from Tesco's that wobbled if you put a match on it.
Washing a chipped french china couple every week (cost £1) on the mantelpiece that was her pride and joy despite her hatred of ornaments.
Bleaching the wooden stairs and wrought iron banister every Saturday.
allowing my sister to eat bacon and cabbage that the dog had licked and rejected!
scything the lawn - oh they made them tough!

[WilliamGray]

oddly thesy use THESE as wine glasses
thats fil int eh pic

[mistypeaks]

oooh they're funky.

[WilliamGray]

yes they are bit NOT good for wine.
adn NO good with ancient stickers on them

and FIL is obsessed wiht giving peopel kithcen roll
if oyu have a slice of cake there its NOT on a plate its on kithcen roll

[mistypeaks]

Oh no. I hate being given food to eat off a kitchen roll or paper napkin. Makes me gag. Little bits of paper stuck to food . . .

[Shoshe]

I think I must be some of your mothers'

[lazarou]

HI Marsha!

[StealthPolarBear]

Cleaning the bathroom every day
"Sets the breakfast table every night before going to bed." - yes she does this too, down to putting a tea spoon of coffee in dad's mug
Washing eevrything, windows, skirting boards, doors, insides of cupboards, I upset her when we moved as she realised I didn't own a bucket "How do you wash your skirting boards" "errrr I run the hoover over them, does that count?"

[TheDevilWearsPrimark]

mmj - I sort of do that.
In our house it looks ( and feels) cold in winter with the usual wooden blinds so I put curtains up instead. But the wooden blinds look great in summer.

[dweezle]

Last time M&D moved house I helped them pack and found herbs and spices in kitchen with prices in d not p on them - i.e. cinnamon, 6 1/2d.

[GetOrfMoiLand]

lol at pic of WilliamGray's 'fil'.

Some examples of my mum's hoovering madness

• gets on her hands and knees to hoover. She never uses the attachments, just uses the curtain hoovering attachment to hoover the floor. The upright attachments are 'not to be trusted'

• hoovers twice a day. The whole house.

• when going away for more than a night, last thing she does is hoover herself out of the house, to make sure it is clean on her return (she nearly breaks her neck falling over said hoover left just inside the front door, but never mind)

• constantly complains about this endless hoovering activity. She hates hoovering (apparently). It is the 'bane of her life'. Well stop f*ing hoovering then!

• always complains also that the hoover is rubbish and never picks anything up, constantly needs emptying etc. When I suggested she buy a dyson she had apoplexy - 'Oh I couldn't possibly get rid of Henry!'.

Nuts

[DrNortherner]

Paying out day - a day in town paying council tax/gas/electric etc, she refuses to use direct debits!

Washing down the carpet on the stairs

Ironing pants

When putting shopping away she crosses off each item on the receipt to check they haven't cahrged her for something extra.......

[noddyholder]

peeling everything
bleaching everything

[GetOrfMoiLand]

Other mystery mother purchases:

Epsom salts (what is it? What does it do?)

Soda crystals for washing her whites.

Pop socks (lolol)

Shake and vac (yes, really)

Vim (don't know if you can still buy this stuff, but there must be about 4 tins of it under the sink)

Bounce tumble drier sheets

[TheDevilWearsPrimark]

Oh yes, not my mum, but my nan had a fit about 'direct payments' for her pension, she doesn't trust banks with anything and always walks to the post office to pay her bills.

[TheDevilWearsPrimark]

That should read 'did' , how easy your mind slips.