Do you do things just because your Mum did?

Any

I peel mushrooms sometimes. Depends what kind and how they look.

I grate eggs for egg mayo sandwich. That is the way I was taught. My OH thinks it is hilarious, but it is much finer result, now he sometimes does it too!

Any

escortg3 wrote: »

put salt in a boiled egg after every mouthful.

I do this!!!:rotfl:I don't like it without.

Ruby_woo

What a lovely thread.

Don't wash on good Friday

Air the clothes well

Clean little and often, not one huge clean

Use comfort fabric conditioner

I could go on...

Ruby_woo

Sunday night used to be bath and hair wash. Then stand in front of the fire while she put my eczema cream on, cleaned my ears and cut my nails

bestpud

escortg3 wrote: »

ok i have a few:) they are not all good ones i may add.

Never do housework on new years day as what ever you do that day you will do all year.

pack your grocery in lots of seperate bags ie. fridge, tins, freezer, bread, bathroom etc never mix items up.

always have a boiled kettle ( waste of money i know)

put salt in a boiled egg after every mouthful.

never dunk biscuits.

Use neat bleach on kitchen worktops leaving white marks on some of my best tops.

Those are another two things my mum does but I don't!

Interesting thread this!

LutonGirl

Wipe the tops of tins before opening them. She was convinced dirt went inside the tin as you opened it if not wiped.

An hour after she died I found a letter she wrote to my sister and I. The PS was "don't forget to wipe the bl00dy tins". It made us laugh and guess what, I always wipe a tin.

Tiglath

My Mum has also always been obssessed with pulling out plugs every night (except the fridge-freezer obviously). I'm beginning to think she was right, given the cost of keeping things on standby, but she never had a fraction of the electrical items a typical household has today - she had a cooker, twin-tub, TV, kettle and immersion heater, and that was it.

DH and I got a second freezer as we had one when I was growing up to be filled with stuff grown on the allotment; we seemed to eat runner beans every day for years when I was a kid. In the years when I manage to grow stuff, we chop and store it as well.

It would never occur to me to buy pastry; I always make my own, as Mum and Nan did, half fat to flour. I've gone back to childhood foods as well - plain meat, spuds and veg, for the most part, with the occasional home-made pudding. My sister was so pleased when she found oldfashioned lidded tupperware for boiling jam and treacle puds that she bought me one as well; it's so nostalgic.

We both make trifle the way we had it as a kid - Swiss roll, chopped bananas and hot custard. I always do roast potatoes in beef dripping. Certain breakfast cereals have to be had with hot milk and some with cold; I found it so strange when a friend had hot milk on her Rice Krispies.

One habit I wish I'd continued was to always ensure the washing-up is done and put away before bedtime - can't seem to nail that one. On the plus side, we don't automatically have the TV on at 6.00 and off at 10.00 every single night, as my parents.

Possibly the most consistent habit I learned from my Mum was never say no to a cat needing a home.

stir_crazy

I do have a couple of things, like the level of cleaning our houses get for example (we both like the lived in look:o), put plastic bags on our heads when dying our hair.

But I'm nothing like DH, who wont do anything unless his mum's done it first (or sister). This year he told me to ask his mum where she gets her turkey for chistmas and I have to cook meals in the same way that she does. Maybe I missed something when we were dating.....:rotfl:

balletshoes

ibizafan wrote: »

My mum always said that you should never hang washing out overnight, so I never have either! Has anyone got any other examples?

No, I generally do the opposite of what my Mum does . The only traditions that I carry on in my house are the Christmas traditions my Mum did with us when we were kids.

j.e.j.

no, I think I'm more like my mum's mum. Must have skipped a generation!

Btw I like to wash, wipe and peel mushrooms before I use them, too.