You know you've raised your kids OS when...

Boodle

When your 5 year old pulls a £10 note out of her birthday card from great-grandparents, her eyes light up and she says "ooh yay I can keep this and buy the shopping next time we need food. Please mama, pleeeeeease?!"

Or when same child is asked by her dad which item to buy in the supermarket, says "mama would buy the cheapest one, daddy."

Or maybe that just makes me tight...

Boodle

fuddle wrote: »

when.. my 7 year old asks can she do some crochet lying in bed Subscribing - going to love this thread! Thank you

Yeah my eldest does this too! I keep meaning to get her a chunky crochet hook so she can have a play

ginnyknit

When your 32 year old son will not buy anything without checking if he can get it cheaper somewhere else and buys his Mum a case of diet coke 'cos it was on offer' :j His phone has MSE logged on permanently.

blossomhill_2

Evie74 wrote: »

Your eldest DD (7 at the time) knits a toy cat for the younger DD's birthday (then 3), including finger-knitting a tail and sewing on little buttons for eyes (secretly reinforced later by mummy - sshhhh!). I was very proud

Evie xx

I want this cat! :heartpuls

Barbeduk

When they don't understand why anyone would want a shop bought birthday cake when home made ones taste a million times better.

And when your DD points out the price difference between the own brand and the name brand marshmallows to her little brother and tells him to chose the cheaper ones (she's 9).

flutterbyuk25

Your child (me) has openly (half-jokingly!) mocked parents for years for pegging out freezer bags on the line to dry out to be re-used, parents visit child in own home for lunch one weekend and find child has freezer bags pegged out to dry!

GeorgieFTB

My 8yo DS offers to bake the brownies for my work because 'you know mine tastes better than yours mummy' and the price is the edges for himself!

I am loving this thread!!

Gx

moments_of_sanity

When you allow your 16 yr old DD to shop in John Le&is for carpet for her room and she comes home and says she found one for £9.95 a sq mtr and complains that there is no way she is paying any more for it - even though she was out with wealthy boyfriends parents!! :j

shandyclover

...DD1 is not at all worried about taking visiting Spanish BF down the road for a walk 'to check the reduced counter'.

(Spanish BF's reaction on coming home with a couple of shopping bags of treats for £2.20 'I love England!!' . Apparently no such thing as a reduced counter in Carrefour.)

Elliesmum

PixieDust wrote: »

When you take them shopping for shampoo and they go to theone they usually have, look at the price and say indignantly, "I'm not paying THAT!" and select a value one. (DD, aged 14)

oooh and when they ask you to look on Amaxon to see if the price of a book they want is cheaper online (also DD)

Fantastic - my DD (age 9) I heard saying the other day I really want one of those but I am not paying that price :rotfl:

EM xx