This was e-mailed to me by a friend of mine. I suppose I am too young to remember SOME of these, buta few really hit home for me.
Look for the ones in bold, with my comments.
THINGS YOU DON'T HEAR ANY MORE
Be sure and refill the ice trays, we are going to have company after while.
Watch for the postman, I want to get this letter in the mail today.
Quit slamming that screen door!
(this was often followed by "use the other door" to which I'd ask why there was a door put there in the first place!!! )
Be sure to pull the windows down when you leave, it looks like it might shower -- and bring in the clothes on the line, too.
Don't forget to wind the clock before you go to bed.
Why can't you remember to roll up your pants legs? Getting them caught in the bicycle chain so many times is tearing them up.
You have torn the knees out of that pair of pants so many times there is nothing left to put a patch on.
Don't you go outside with your good school clothes on!
Hang up your Sunday School clothes, you know you need to pass them down to your brother in good condition.
(I was the youngest, so this was said to my older sister. Between those and the stuff Dad would get at garage sales I got A LOT of hand-me-downs!! With the exception of the beautiful like-new clothes that Ashleigh gave me, I refuse to wear second hand, anymore)
Go comb your hair. It looks like the rats have nested in it all night.
Be sure and pour the cream off the top of the milk when you open the new bottle. I need it for baking and Pa's coffee.
Take that empty bottle to the store with you so you won't have to pay a deposit on another one.
(This applies to beer and liquor bottles in Canada)
Put a dish towel over the cake so the flies won't get on it.
Quit jumping on the floor! I have a cake in the oven and you are going to make it fall if you don't quit!
Let me know when the Fuller Brush man comes by, I need to get a few things from him.You boys stay close by, the car may not start and I will need you to help push it offThere is a dollar in my purse, go by the service station and get five gallons of gas when you start to town.
Open the back door and see if we can get a breeze through here, it is getting hot.
(That's what Walker said to me this morning! LOL I can't wait to hear his comments. I suppose he's old enough to remember more of these than I am. tehehe)
You can walk to the store; it won't hurt you to get some exercise. Maybe you will learn to be more careful with your bicycle.
Don't sit to close to the TV it is hard on your eyes.
(That's what Dad used to say to me, but I was already legaly blind, and if I sat any further back, I wouldn't be able to see it. That damn little TV we had when I was little was only about 12 inches. Walker has a 28 inch TV in the bedroom that I can see just fine)
If you pull that stunt again, I am going to wear you out!
Don't lose that button, I will sew it back on after while.
(I've got a button here on my computer desk that needs to be sewn back onto the sleeve of my red and black satin blouse)
Wash under your neck before you come to the table, you have beads of dirt and sweat all under there.
Get out from under that sewing machine, pumping it messes up the thread!
Do you want to go get me a switch?
(I don't know about the switches, but a male relative of mine gave his wife a leather whip for Christmas in 2005. I still haven't gotten over that one.)
Be sure and fill the lamps this morning so we don't have to do that tonight in the dark.
Here, take this old magazine to the outhouse (toilet) when you go, we are almost out of paper out there.
Go out to the well and draw a bucket of water for me to wash dishes in.
Don't turn the radio on now, I want the battery to be up when the Grand Ole Opry comes on.
No! I don't have five cents for you to go to the show, do you think money grows on trees?
Eat those vegetables; they will make you big and strong like your daddy.
That dog is NOT coming in this house! I don't care how cold it is out there, dogs just don't come in the house.
(In 2000 when our little dog Penny died, Mom said she'd never have another dog in the house. A few years later Mom and Dave moved onto a farm, and got a wolf-husky pup that would not stay inside. Now Hudson lives inside with them. Yeah right, Mom!!! Becky and I still tease her about that.)
Sit still! I am trying to get your hair cut straight and you keep moving and it is getting botched up.
Hush your mouth! I don't want to hear words like that. I will wash your mouth out with soap again!
(The reason why I never heard that phrase was because Morfar taught me all the good words in Danish, so the people who would have said that to me would have no idea what I was saying!)
It is time for your system to be cleaned out, I'm going to give you a dose of Castor Oil in the morning.
If you get a spanking in school and I find out about it, you will get another one when you get home.
Quit crossing your eyes! They will get hung that way!
Soak your foot in this pan of coal oil so that cut won't get infected.
When you take your driving test don't forget your hand signals each turn. Left arm straight out the window for a left turn, and left arm bent up to the sky at the elbow for a right turn and straight down to the side of the door when you are going to stop.
(My Dad taught me a really nifty hand signal to use when someone cuts me off on the road. hahaha Anyone else know that one?)
It is "Yes, sir!" and "No, sir" to me and your elders young man, and don't you forget it!
(Walker is three years older than my parents, so I get the feeling they'll be hearing this one a lot! tehehehe)
While we are at Aunt Mary's and Uncle John's you kids eat when the adults get though and I don't want to hear "I don't like this stuff". You better keep your mouth shut and eat everything on your plate.
(I've heard THIS one before!!! Walker and I have decided if we ever have family dinners at our place, the kids are going to eat first, to make up for all those centuries of kids eating last, or at a kids table. Why not give the kids the dining room table, and make the adults sit at the little table? I've been waiting 25 years to be able to do that!!!!!)
Well, that ought to keep us remembering some of the finer things of the past, some good and some not so good, and young man if I hear you repeat one word of this I will beat the daylights out of you, do you understand that
When I read this, I just had to pass it on!!!!
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Comments: 63
I don't know why we con;t still hear some of them. Kids' hair can still look like a rat's nest! Many of us still refill ice trays. Not all kitchens are designed so that the refrigerator has a water line to connect to for using automatic ice.
Buttons still fall off and have to be sewn back. Why don't mothers tell their kids not to lose them? I've said that very thing to my DH many times!
Kids still get dirty necks when they play and sweat. I can't imagine a mother not telling her kid to wash before dinner!
Vegetables still make you strong like your daddy, and my cousins still say this to their grandchildren.
Children in the South still learn to say "Yes, sir/ma'am" and "No, sir/ma'am". It's a good habit.
I thought an advantage to the children's table, when I was a child, was that you could actually have an interesting conversation with the other kids during dinner rather than having to be seen and not heard, and having to stay seated and silent--no squirming, either--until the last adult had slowly sipped the very last drop of that endless coffee. I didn't think the children's table was such a bad thing!
Funny, but even though I'm the oldest, my younger sister was always much taller than myself, so it was up to ME to wear Marina's clothes when they did become too small for her! ;-)
Love and hugs - S.
While I agree with most (I just filled our ice tray because I love a glass of cold water on the bedside table!) I never believed in the kids table. I could never keep up with my cousins, and would rather read than play outside. They used to tease me when they were little. Now that we are all adults, we get along great, but for most of my childhood, they didn't take me seriously.
Cool about the lamps!! When something works for someone they will continue to use them.
I've gotten to like vegetables, especially the way my Mormor used to prepare them. Can't say I like the frozen ones though...
That painful stuff you refered to sounded worse than getting shot!!!!! The cure sounded worse than the problem. YOUCH!!!!! What did they do for a burnt finger?
When I burnt my finger on the stove (Walker had used the burner to light a cigarette when he coudln't find his lighter!!!) he kissed me and put some vaceline on it. Didn't hurt a bit. *grin* The way he did it, I ought to burn my finger more often.
I bet you and your sister took darn good care of those clothes.
"Quit slamming the screen door, why do you always have to slam it, no matter how much I tell you not to slam it, you keep slamming it".
Now I lived in Pa., because we lived on the hill, way up on the hill, most days it was windy.
I guess it never occured to my parents, that since it was often windy, the screen door flew shut - the wind's fault not mine.
Thanks for the Laugh ;-)
Funny stuff!
"This place is lit up like Windsor Castle!"
An original by My lovable Mum!
I heard that so many times growing up I can't even remember LOL
I've heard most of these growing up
Thanks for finding these
My favorite cake story about my Mom is this one: Mom had gotten all those expensive ingredients together (we were dirt poor) to make a couple of fruit cakes. It was getting late, so she put them in the oven and laid down figuring she would get up in just a bit to take the cakes out. She wakes up in the middle of the night, and groggy with sleep, runs into the kitchen and looks at the cakes, and with a sigh of relief, sees that the are golden brown and puts them on the counter top to cool. Next morning, my Dad went to cut one of them and just about broke the knife off. They were golden brown all right...through and through! I still chuckle about the look on her face.
thanks.
Close the door, you weren't born in a barn
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Funny, and thanks, Leah!