Have you got OS friends?

Sarahsaver

Of course we all have on here, 'virtual' friends, but are your personal friends OS at all?
I will start by saying I am SO lucky to know a wonderful group of people who think its perfectly normal to cook everything from scratch, and we swap recipes and hints, knit, sew, swop kids clothes etc. and are always on the lookout to save money.
I do have friends who are not like this too, the sort who think I was near certifiable for making a battenburg :rolleyes:
It's so much easier when you are around people who you can be 'out' with!

nursemolly

no most of my friends are not os. but they always want to try some of my home cooked goodies.
especially my banoffi pie and home made onion bhajiis and spicy lamb samosas, and did i mention my home made ice cream. and they also comment on my sparkly house thanks to star drops......
oooohhh am i sooo wonderful.

thriftlady_2

Not really, even my Mum who I always used to think of as OS has got less and less so recently. Most of my friends think I am some kind of domestic goddess/earth mother. The weird thing is I find myself apologising for it, I say 'well, I've got nothing better to do'.Thank goodness for everyone here, reminds me that I'm not alone.

Queenie

Yes and it's lovely to swap ideas/tips/ways and means

Jazzy_B

No, most of my friends do minimal cooking, and claim to be unable to sew on buttons or mend anything.
I tend to keep quiet because I used to be daft enough to volunteer to do their stuff too and bake stuff for them.
It doesn't bother me though , as I can always pick the brains of older relatives.
My one bugbear is fruit picking. We have loads in our garden, and whilst people are very grateful to receive anything I've picked, they are very reluctant to fill a bowl themselves .

QueenB.

No i think i have just the one friend who is alittle OS and my MIL is quite OS but other than that i am a lone voice in a sea of moderness.

I too get the odd strange look friends and i am also called an earth mother, sometimes its meant as a bit of an insult, but i just smile and say thankyou. Afterall what more important thing is there than trying your hardest to be the best mother/parent/person you can be (and believe me i am not what you could call the naturally maternal type:rolleyes: )

I think today many people have become both selfish and out of practice. The main thing most of my friends say is that they don't have the time, or getting a take away is just easier, but i always reply in the time it takes for the take away to arrive you could have cooked a HM meal:rolleyes:

I am also a feminist yet get told by my friends that i can't be if i am so OS, which is just rubbish:mad:

I am glad i can come on here and find so many who feel that it is perfectly normal to do as i do and to find so mant great tips

Chipps

It's a big fat NO from me, too. In fact I've given up confessing to do these things! That's why I spend time on here.... where I'm relatively normal!

justin138

I'm a sad case - I haven't any friends at all, OS or not I'm just not normal enough to have a friend

MoJo

I have older friends who are OS - family friends - but my friends think I'm a bit weird and witchy, always brewing up potions & lotions, knowing the properties of plants and all that stuff - I do nothing to discourage their views, after all, one day I may need to put a hex on them

justin138

Would you think I'm weird?
I have no t.v., I have 18 cats, I am vegan, I married a man 18 years younger than me, I can't walk far, in pain, ipso facto people see me as a boring old f@rt, I have no interest in "fashion", I prefer ethical shopping, I decided not to have children, AND I still smoke. Who'd want ME as a friend?

Jo

liz545

I have a few friends who like to cook, but in more of a foodie way than being OS. Luckily, my sister, who I live with, is pretty OS too, so we compete with each other! We're both getting quite hooked on MSE generally, and we're working on things like R&R and try me frees. My boyfriend did tease me a bit about it, but that stopped after I cooked him a tesco finest steak that I'd got on R&R