I have to admit, I'm a lot like my mother when it comes to my housekeeping habits. The only real difference here is that we have animals in the house.
I have to admit, I'm a lot like my mother when it comes to my housekeeping habits. The only real difference here is that we have animals in the house.
Dishes-my mom religiously washed dishes after we ate. Me, I hate dishes and they can sit in the sink for days:eek:
Laundry-my mom always ironed...everything! Jeans, handkerchifes, the works. I only iron if needed (and sometimes not then:p ).
Dogs-when I was young we had a poodle (yep, we were only allowed 1 dog). This way there was no hair laying all over. My mom would have freaked if she had to live with my 3 hairy kids!
Dusting & Vacuumning-my mom did it EVERY day. I probably dust once a month, if that. I usually just use the vacumn to vacumn the dust:o
But I do usually vacuumn every day, otherwise we'd be lost in the dog hair!
Shoes-my dad absolutely hated shoes anywhere but in the closet where they belong. Now that I have my own home I put my shoes wherever I want! Sometimes I will have 3-4 pairs strown throughout the house:p
Cars-we always had to wash the car and clean it out about 2x's a week. I'm lucky if mine gets cleaned out 2x's a year, but I do usually keep it washed, And I don't do it myself, I take it to the car wash. After all that's what they're for...right?!
Almost forgot this one:
Eating at the table-we were never allowed to eat anywhere but at the table. We always had our meals together.
But with only me & hubby, we eat in the living room in front of the tv. The table is used as a "catch all"!
I'm sure there is more, but that's all I can think of right now.
And just so you know, I'm not a nasty person, my house & car are both very tidy...just not necessarly clean:p
My mother has changed in some ways. She complains that my sister and I keep our houses too clean...:eek: :eek: and that we don't fix proper meals. (She did clean house far more when she had children at home but feels she is retired now so...oddly, my sister and I had the messiest rooms you EVER saw growing up. Kind of a role reversal.)
Her meals always have a green veg, a yellow veg, a starch, a protein, a fruit, etc.
Meals were always taken at the table, on a plate, with proper table setting. I am still that way, even if my mother isn't!
As a kid my chore was to iron hankies and pillow cases! I see the wisdom of ironing everything at once, since inevitably what I want to wear needs ironing and I don't have time. (I hate to leave the ironing board out and won't put it away until the iron is cool.)
ALOT differently, I actually can't wait to move out!!
My number one reason that I can't wait- SMOKE!!!! I *HATE* the smoke, I hate comming home to a smokey house, and having people smoking everywhere I am, in the house, in the van, going for a walk, visiting people....EVERYWHERE.
My cleaning habbits are also MUCH different, my mom thinks the house is messy when theres a few things out of place, or if the coffee table has a few things on it that doesn't belong there...ha not me! My room is messy when I can't lay anything on my desk or night tables :p
Also, yes the pets!! We have 4 lol and I know that's pretty good. But I can't wait to get my own pets(that I want), the two small dogs are basically my moms, and will not be comming with me when I move out(I think they would die without my mom lol she can't even go anywhere over night).
I can't wait to get my Rottweiler(even got the rescue picked out that Im getting him/her from ;)) And also my cats(Purebred or mixed Ragdoll or Himmy, and a black and white cat)
Ahhhhh I can't wait ;)
Thought I would point out something else.
My mom makes great food for us, and something we don't do is eat at the table, and talk. We usually just go off to our own place and eat. except, if its a special holiday.
But that something I would change.
I don't do much differently from my parents. I handle the cleaning, laundry, etc. very similarly to my mom. Pets were always cherished in our family, and they are in mine too.
My mom's meals always had: several types of vegetables, a meat, a starch, a salad, and a bread. I don't do this! My husband is lucky to get a main entree and one side dish!
My parents weren't all that strict, but they didn't have to be because of the firm boundaries they established early on. I really respect how my parents raised my sisters and I--lots of love and confidence-building, but firm with no tolerance for disrespect at the same time. If I ever have kids, I can only hope for the same.
My inlaws have lived in their beautiful home for 15 years and they have NO pictures on the walls. NO color...zip zilch nada! "A house looks cleaner without all that junk."Quote:
Originally posted by catnapper
As for other things...
I have color on my walls. And pictures. Lots of pictures. Dad thought walls and trim were supposed to be white. Nothing else. And oh-no!!! A nail hole was the biggest sin! We'd NEVER sell the house because someone put a nail hole in the drywall! :eek: Um, dad, thats what spackle is for. And touch up paint. I am always in the middle of painting SOMETHING. I love to paint and repaint something every two years to keep it fresh and clean looking. :D
My husband mentioned the other day "When we move into our new house, I don't want all this crap...All these pictures are gone. I want nothing on the walls."
Whoa! The dragon came out in Tonya on that one! I said "Let's get something clear...I know this house is brand new, but I am going to LIVE in it. Things will happen to it."
Oh I know you think its a hoot reading these, but do we get to know how your household differed from your parents too? :p :D He he he!Quote:
Originally posted by Lillycat
yep, i was right.....this is a hoot!...i think generational differences are soooooo interesting......
Quote:
PCB my mom is the exact same way with ironing. Sometimes she even hires a housekeeper just to do the ironing! I don't understand it at all.
OMG, Laura, my mom did that once too!!! She only had the housekeeper come for a few days though......then decided she didn't need her when none of us wanted a housekeeper ironing our clothes. :o
All this ironing stuff reminded me of a funny story. My mom told me when she graduated from high school, her school was holding a party for all the girls graduating. My mom LOVES sewing, and made herself a beautiful dress for the party. She said she spent days making that dress, and it was just gorgeous.
Anyway, when she finished sewing the dress, she turned on the iron with the intention of ironing it in a few minutes, and left the room to use the bathroom. When she came back a few minutes later, her dress had a HUGE hole in it......in the shape of the iron. :eek: Of course my mom was upset and cried because her hard work was RUINED!
She said she walked around the house crying, and asking everyone if they knew who did it. My mom has 6 siblings.....they are 7 in total. It had to be one of them. ;) She asked everyone, and everyone said they had no clue what happened. Then my mom noticed her youngest sister, who was 9 at the time, was missing from the house. They looked EVERYWHERE for her, and she was no where in sight. It was quite obvious that she did it and ran and hid somewhere to avoid getting in trouble.
Eventually, my mom's grandma knocked on the door and she had my aunt with her. My aunt (mom's little sister) had burnt her clothes with the iron and ran away to her grandma's house. Boy did she get in BIG trouble when she got home. :p
Ever since my mom told me that story, I consider irons evil. My mom thinks her little sister was evil, but I disagree. She's my favorite aunt. She can't be evil. The iron was evil, and irons will always be evil. He he he!
As to the dress, my mom had to buy more cloth and sew the front part all over again....all thanks to the iron.
My parents (now divorced) are very different from each other. My mom makes full home-cooked meals every night (at least when I am there!). I don't know how she does it. I wouldn't even know what to buy at the grocery store unless I have a specific recipe. Wish I did though. My dad has a unique person in many ways - he has stone Buddha statue in the front yard, hates making new friends (still best buds with his high school pals), has a tattoo of something illegal on his body...I could go on. He is also basically a sexist, at least when it came to raising his kids.That's the only thing I would really concentrate on doing differently: treating my boy and girl children the same. I was always treated a little different by my dad because I'm a girl. Nothing big - just in division of household chores (I had to do the dishes, brother had to mow the lawn, etc.) and things like that. The thing about it, though, is once you realize your parents are treating you differently than your siblings, it changes you. You think every time your brother gets away with something, it's because he's a boy (which always made me unbelievably angry). You work much much harder to be better at certain things (for me it was school) than your brother, which creates a resentment between you. I could go on...but you can imagine the possibilities. :rolleyes:
HAHAHAHA....Quote:
Originally posted by sirrahbed
:D The ironing got me giggling. My mom ironed everything! I'm talking clothes, pillowcases, sheets, even my dad's handerchiefs! I don't iron anything.
I think I have you beat on this one....
MY MOM irons her PAJAMAS.
:confused:
I think I am a little cleaner (I hope) than my mom was r.i.p. I iron once a week, not everything just about 20 items for the 4 of us. I do like the family dinner together at the table and thats how my parents were ...no tv...good manners, etc. I really think its important to do this at least a few times a week.
My parents were pretty naive about things though I think I am a lot stricter about where my kids are and what they are doing because I got away with too much. We always had 3 cats in the house but the dog was always outside.....casey is always inside.
okay, pcb, this one is for you!!! we walked home from school for lunch everyday....spent our lunchtime helping my mother do the wash for a large family....she putting it all through a wringer washer, us,. hanging it all outside on the washlines. no automatic washer, no automatic dryer. when we finished we walked back to school for the afternoon. we alllllll sat down to dinner together....we also always had a dessert after our meal. (funny what you remember eh?) we all had chores....after dinner i washed the dishes, my sister dried....no automatic dishwashers. we didnt have a t.v., so no time spent at that. we played outside after dinner/chores....hide and seek, kick the can, 4-square, jump rope, marbles, etc., etc. we did have a radio tho, and after chores/homework was done we could choose our favorite program and listen to the radio for awhile. we could read for awhile after we went to bed until lights out. i had a flashlight and continued to read long after lights out hiding w/ the flashlight reading, under the blankets......i still dearly love to read up to this day. i could go on and on, but think this is enough. raising my own children we had automatic everything..,..also t.v.....kids sooo busy playing sports dinnertime wasnt everything i wanted it to be......too many times not together. i think it is wonderful that your family honors a family dinnertime. i truly believe that is very important and at the heart of family life. BUT, all in all, i turned out alright and also, my kids turned out alright.....so what is the lesson here? (see, the schoolteacher always comes out) neither generation is really better or worse, just different......bottom line, pcb....i still think this is a great thread! Thanks!!! lillycat
I dunno Richard, my mother even irons the underwear, and has been known to iron the sheets and the facecloths, and PJ'S well that goes without saying, I think she almost irons everything in sight, watch out mum's kitty Tessa lol.:) :D
I really think Mum has too much time on her hands, she should join PT, but she won't go near a computer.:)
Wow! Your life was so different from our's! You listened the the radio in the evening? :p I surf PT when everything's done. He he he!Quote:
Originally posted by Lillycat
okay, pcb, this one is for you!!! we walked home from school for lunch everyday....spent our lunchtime helping my mother do the wash for a large family....she putting it all through a wringer washer, us,. hanging it all outside on the washlines. no automatic washer, no automatic dryer. when we finished we walked back to school for the afternoon. we alllllll sat down to dinner together....we also always had a dessert after our meal. (funny what you remember eh?) we all had chores....after dinner i washed the dishes, my sister dried....no automatic dishwashers. we didnt have a t.v., so no time spent at that. we played outside after dinner/chores....hide and seek, kick the can, 4-square, jump rope, marbles, etc., etc. we did have a radio tho, and after chores/homework was done we could choose our favorite program and listen to the radio for awhile. we could read for awhile after we went to bed until lights out. i had a flashlight and continued to read long after lights out hiding w/ the flashlight reading, under the blankets......i still dearly love to read up to this day. i could go on and on, but think this is enough. raising my own children we had automatic everything..,..also t.v.....kids sooo busy playing sports dinnertime wasnt everything i wanted it to be......too many times not together. i think it is wonderful that your family honors a family dinnertime. i truly believe that is very important and at the heart of family life. BUT, all in all, i turned out alright and also, my kids turned out alright.....so what is the lesson here? (see, the schoolteacher always comes out) neither generation is really better or worse, just different......bottom line, pcb....i still think this is a great thread! Thanks!!! lillycat
One thing is similar though. I remember my dad picking up my brother and I from school to eat lunch at home when we were very young.....in our first years of school. I don't remember why they did that, but we used to go home for lunch everyday, and then after eating, we would go back to school. My dad still comes home for lunch from work, so we even eat lunch together most of the time. Dinner is always eaten as a family though. Even if I'm not hungry and don't want to eat, I will still go and sit at the table, just to chat with the rest of the family. My mom also cooks dinner everyday, which is something I love, because my mom cooks sooooooo good! Everyone loves her cooking. A lot of my friends survive on canned food because their moms don't cook anymore. I don't think this is something I will change either. I will cook for my family. I'd want them to eat healthy, and the best way to ensure that is by making your own meals, because you know what you put in it.
Just NO IRONING! :eek::D
Pops, I am with you. The cats knocked our iron off the shelf a while ago and we went to buy a new one. I picked a purple one because all I know about irons is that purple is a nice colour ;). Shane made the final purchasing decision :DQuote:
Originally posted by popcornbird
...
Just NO IRONING! :eek::D