Happy Monday all, I took a little break last week to enjoy my birthday and work through a flare up, when the body is on strike its hard for me to give my best or function. On today’s blog I thought we could lighten things up and maybe have a laugh or two. Did your mom or grandma ever tell you old wive’s tales when you were a kid. Or anyone in your life tell you things that bordered the line of ridiculous, but you believed them anyway? Today with the help of my readers I’m going to list and talk about these tall tales that we were told. Some that work and even the ones that are just laughable.
We will start with mine:
1. If you eat all your vegetables, you’ll get big boobs (totally a lie) but I believed it lol 2. If you stick that bottom lip out any further the poopy bird is going to come shit on it. 3. Corn starch and egg whites for diaper rash (works everytime) 4. Coffee will stunt your growth 5. Cracking your knuckles is bad for you 6. An apple a day will keep the doctor away 7. Always wash your roast chickens and turkey in a salt bath before putting in the oven. 8. Toothpaste gets rid of hickeys 9. Putting a piece of bread in your brown sugar container keeps it moist. (Works) 10. If your nose is itchy your going to kiss a fool 11. If your left palm is itchy your coming into money and if your right palm is itchy then your going to lose money.
I took to Facebook to get friends to share some from their childhoods as well and here we go:
1. Not to shower or bath during a thunderstorm because you could get electrocuted. 2. If you pick your nose, your head would cave in. 3. If you step on a crack, you break your mother’s back. 4. Quit crossing your eyes or they will get stuck like that. 5. Eat your carrots or you will go blind.
6. Don’t walk bare foot in the house, especially during thunderstorms. 7. Eating strawberries while pregnant will cause your baby to have a strawberry birthmark. Having heartburn while pregnant means your baby will have a full head of hair. 8. If you go out with wet hair you will catch a cold. 9. If you break a mirror it’s seven years bad luck 10. Opening an umbrella in the house is bad luck.
11. Cold milk on a sunburn helps take the heat away. 12. Mustard plaster wrap to relieve your cold. 13. Dip a small piece of bread in milk, then tape or band-aid it to your face over a pimple, it dries it up and it clears up quicker. 14. Rub a wart with a potato then bury it and the wart will disappear. 15. Drinking black coffee will put hair on your chest.
Writing this particular post, I felt very nostalgic. Taking a trip down memory lane remembering the silly nonsense our parents told us and our young minds took quite literally. And we tell our children the same things, at least I know I’ve told mine a few of these and then instantly thought good lord I sound like my mother. I did go on Google as well just to see what other ones I could find but we’ll be here all day lol. What a black hole I fell into. Thank you to everyone that submitted their old wive’s tales in. I hope you took a trip down memory lane too and it made you smile. They may be silly, but it won’t stop me from telling my kids and hopefully one day they will tell their children, remember what grandma used to say and chuckle. Till next time.
Love a nostalgic Magnolia x
*** All images were courtesy of Pinterest and not mine. Credit should be given where it’s due.
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