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my mum used to use the starving kids trick i told her 'put my dinner in envelope and send it to um then'

My mother always said. If your shoes don't fit, it shows on your face! True. Always carry enough money with you in case you need to make a phone call or get a taxi home. Bless. A secret is only a secret when you don't tell anyone. How true. Eat that up. There are starving children in the world who would love that! Truer still.

dont pull that face at me i got eyes in back of my head ( i belived her too) pride will be pinched, (when not wearing warm clothes) if you think i wont find out , i will, i swear thats one she brainwashed me with, cos it works , i can do that now with my kids,

Just remembered one my Grandma used to say if she heard girls whistling, she hated it 'Whistling women and crowing hens are neither fit for God nor Man' Also another couple Mum used to say 'You'll get a good clip round the earhole' 'Just look at your neck? there's a tide mark on it' ' You could grow taters in them ears with all the muck' ' If you don't behave, all you'll get for dinner is bread a dripping' I loved bread and dripping so don't know why she said it lol Regards Jackie

Just had lunch with both my daughters and they remembered some more things both myself and my mother have said to them: Brush your hair 100 times before bed If you pick it , it will never get better Beauty comes from within Lift up your feet when you walk or you will wear out the ground You only need 3 of everything, one on, one in the wash and one in the drawer Always put paper on a strange toilet seat Funny ha ha or funny peculiar Manners are all we have to separate us from the animals Flags were made for waving, not forks You are being educated for a career, not a job Never trust someone whose eyes are too close together Don't worry, we all have to eat a bit of dirt before we die Who's She, the cat's mother If you shave your legs now then you'll have bristles to deal with for the rest of your life

A couple that passed down were.... All fir coat and no knickers.... Don't come running to me if you break your leg (usually when climbing trees) A liars got to have a good memory Men are from earth, women are from earth...deal with it!! Anne :)))

I should make the most of that, Bec! LOL CB >|< X

The only thing my Mum used to regularly say was: 'Don't do anything I wouldn't do' Which basically gave me free reign to do ANYTHING! lol Becx

My mother used to trot out lots of those already mentioned. Some of her other ones were - If you're born in a field, it doesn't make you a horse. (She was born in Wales, but not Welsh, she said, because her parents families were from England and Scotland.) Were you born in a field? (if you left a door open) (My answer to that was 'Why, weren't you there?') There's many a slip twixt cup and lip. (I never did work that one out!) Make hay while the sun shines. (We lived in the middle of London!) There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle. Look before you leap. He who hesitates is lost. (Which seem to negate each other!) A stitch in time saves nine. 20 years ago ... (Still the same saying 10 years later!) If I knew then what I know now ... (Very annoyingly, she never finished that sentence!) Red hat - no drawers! (So why did she keep knitting me red woolly hats???) You're just like your father! (No, mother, I'm a girl!!!) You're neither use nor ornament. (A rum one, considering I look just like her!) I may be cabbage-looking, but I'm not green. (OK, so there are red cabbages!) Fat costs the same as lean! (... as I was gagging on a lump of it in my dinner) May God forgive you, because I never will. What time do you call this? (When I came home at 9.30 p m one night - I was 19!) (Said in her nightgown and curlers) I was just going to the Police station to see where you were! (I never did work out why standing, waiting for a bus home for half-an-hour was an arrestable offence!) CB >|<

I DONT KNOW WHY, but My nan used to say'' he is the best boy, in the girls, school'' wonder what she meant? Bob

My mother - 'If you don't eat your crusts your hair won't grow curly' 'That look on your face will turn the milk sour' 'If you pull a face like that the wind might change and it will stay like that for ever.' My grandmother 'I hate to see young girls standing around idle.'

'Let me just wave my magic wand, and make it appear out of no where!'

What about - You treat this house like an hotel I'm not talking about (friends name), I'm talking about you I'm not made of money Your not too old for a slap round your face Madam (when I was a belligerent teeenager!)

'I've told you a million times - don't exaggerate!' x

what about....tidy that tip of a bedroom!! i got that one alot growing up now im house proud and it really annoys my mum we she comes to my house!!

You'll feel better after a nice cup of tea. Tea, give me a b****y drink!

thought of another do you think it's the middle summer (shut that dam door)

My Mum or Dad used to say these and I still do This and Better may do this and worse will never do. Do as I say not as I do I'm the mother and what I say goes When your big enough you'll be too old. Get your feet out of the trough (When they burp) I don't want anymore back chat from you I'll only tell you once ( Usually ended up being half a dozen times though ) Looks like a flaming tornado has hit your bedroom If you don't like it then lump it. Just wait till your father gets home Up them wooden hills now. ( sent to bed) You won't be able to sit down if I get hold of you. (never did get hold of them lol) I'm sure there are heaps more, just can't get the brain working tonight. Regards Jackie

I'll give you something to cry about in a minute Wait until I get you home or wait until your father gets home!

What about.......... In my day...! When I was Young.... If we had dared........, We would have been for it! (usually about a screaming kid in the supermaret that isn't having what they want, and IT was a smake - must say I aggree that me and my brother would have been punished for a tamtrum) Your never too old to....... Were you born in a zoo (lack of manners) Mind your P's and Q's We'll never be able to take you to dine with the queen (my grandparents used it to get me and cousin to eat properly - we were 3 and 5 - but did we care? ) I want , never got! Waste not, want not you'll be lucky to get aDoll and a drum and a kick up the bum (for being gready in asking for things for chirstmas, birthdays etc..)