OT: Momisms

[RadyLady]

I'm going to count to three!
If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all!
This is going to hurt me more that it hurts you!

 

[UConnChapette]

I'm going to count to three!
If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all!
This is going to hurt me more that it hurts you!

Our mothers must be related.

 

[jimazee]

"One day at a time"
"As long as you are under this roof..."
"What time did you get home?"

 

[katiecrum1992]

"Do you know how many calories that has?!"

 

[MilfordHusky]

Our mothers must be related.

I think it's one giant sisterhood.

 

[meyers7]

With my mom we could how mad she was by the number of times she went through the list of all 5 kids.

Mine would add in cousins names.

 

[ChicagoGG]

If (blank) threw herself off a building would you want to follow her then, too? (In response to "Blank can do it, why can't I).

 

[DaddyChoc]

Our mothers must be related.

I think it's one giant sisterhood.

3rdbass I always thought they were related... "different name sound the same"

 

[UConnChapette]

Just remembered another one of her favorites:

Money doesn't grow on trees you know!

 

[Dove]

"If you were sorry you wouldn't-a-dunnit!!"

"Who was in my purse?!?"

"Oh, you were gone?"

"We don't have enough money for that."

"You're so cute. Now go on now."

 

[UConnChapette]

And another just came to mind..."if you want to cry, I will give you something to cry about"

 

[RadyLady]

And another just came to mind..."if you want to cry, I will give you something to cry about"

yup

 

[Sargassoc]

"You kids! I'm going to put my head in the oven like Sylvia Plath."

and

"You kids! I'm going to put rocks in my pocket and wade into a lake like Virginia Woolf."

(Is it any wonder I'm now an English teacher?)

 

[Yukon]

"Why buy the cow, if you can get the milk for free?"
but so conversely....
"Marry in haste, regret in leisure"

Yes, I'm a woman, so Mom was always throwing these little Bon Mots out for me to digest....

 

[terif831]

Oh I forgot they most important and embarrassing. When leaving for a date. ..Keep your legs crossed!

Oh, yes she did do that.

LOL one of my mom's favorites was that the best birth control was an aspirin . . . held between your knees!

 

[terif831]

"It's just as easy to fall in love with a rich man as a poor one."

 

[katiecrum1992]

Also, 'can I have a bite/sip of your food/drink?'

 

[CTyankee]

"Nice girls don't do that." (Showing my age, I am. Caught in a dark room as a young teen with a young lady sitting on my lap.)

 

[triaddukefan]

My mother used to always ask me when i was a kid.... through high school.... " Do you eat to live.... or do you live to eat ?"

She doesnt ask me that anymore... though Im sure she still thinks that sometimes

 

[Zorro]

"Mom, why is..." "To make little boys ask questions,"
"Curiousity killed the cat."
"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride."

 

[UConnChapette]

Close the door! We aren't paying to cool/heat the outside!

 

[Zorro]

"No use crying over spilt milk."

 

[UConnChapette]

Only two more days to share your favorite - or not - sayings you heard uttered by the mouths of our moms.

"your face will freeze like that if you don't stop making that face"

 

[UConnChapette]

Mine would add in cousins names.

On a few memorable occasions, the dogs names were thrown in. You knew she was really angry when that happened!