Weird stuff our parents or grandparents said or believed (divorced, insecure, wife)

[BrassTacksGal]

Originally Posted by TracySam

Wow, I'm surprised at how many women had grandmothers who said things to them about sex and other "vaginal" things. Neither of my grandmothers would ever have spoken about such things to me! They would not even have admitted to having vaginas. Those things just weren't discussed!

Neither of my grandmothers or my mother would have used that word!

[BrassTacksGal]

Originally Posted by LoriNJ

Since Christmas is approaching, I remembered something my best friend's Italian immigrant grandmother and her American-born mother swore: When a Christmas tree falls over in the house, someone in the family is going to die that year. They both swore that it had happened numerous times in the past. Of course, they came from a large family.

I our previous house our Christmas fell over often. No matter where we put the tree it would fall over. Finally began tying the tree to something, usually the window behind it. All those times the tree fell over and no one died. Guess we dodged a bullet!

[Cindiana]

My husband told me that his dad would be given KEROSENE with sugar in it for a cough.

[bewitchyou]

don't cross your eyes or they will get stuck that way

my grandpa used to tell my dad and his two sisters growing up, that if they would good in school 5 days a week, they could skip two days and not go to school, LOL

On crossing the state line to go on our family vacation, my dad (as a fun game) on the way there would always tell everyone in the car to lift up their feet (his included) as we drive over the state line or else we will die.

my nanny used to say that if you saw the moon out in daytime it meant you were lazy.

[jamary1]

I remember the old saying about marrying someone whose last name starts with the same letter as your name:


A change of the name but of the letter,
Is a change for the worse, not for the better.

[Tracysherm]

Every single year when we'd give my grandparents our school pictures, my Pop Pop would always say "now I can put this up in the attic to scare the mice away!"

[KathrynAragon]

"Cold hands, warm heart."

"Come give me a Yankee Dime!" (a kiss)

"If you eat apple seeds, a tree will start growing in your belly."

"If you keep making that face, your face will freeze that way."

"Starve a cold, feed a fever."

[KathrynAragon]

Oh, my daughter in law is Korean and they have all sorts of superstitions about sleeping with a fan going in a room.

Like it will steal your breath or you will die -as in "death by fan." They are very serious about this.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/wo...old-worry.html

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFyLOWdXMQ...an%2BDeath.jpg

http://www.scaryforkids.com/pics/fan-death.jpg

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by Cindiana

My husband's grandfather would EAT Vapo rub to cure his congestion! My grandmother would always plant her garden by the Old Farmer's Almanac. I think it had something to do with the phases of the moon.

After mom rubbed my chest, she'd put some in my lower nostrils and a blob of it on the back of my tongue. That was the worst.

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by BrassTacksGal

I our previous house our Christmas fell over often. No matter where we put the tree it would fall over. Finally began tying the tree to something, usually the window behind it. All those times the tree fell over and no one died. Guess we dodged a bullet!

Possibly literally.