Is it common to spill food down your front?

Oh yes I always use a marker, if it's a couple of dots.

Bleach on clothes is my thing MissAdventure two identical red tops in one week! My almost 11year old GD told me to colour in the marks with felt tip pens ...and it worked,it has worked on black tops too

I too keep my apron on when I eat - yes, meal on a tray in front of the tv - otherwise I get it down my front and I haven't got a big bust!

At the holiday buffet I always avoid beetroot on my salad unless I have a dark top on

I have a 40F chest so am bound to spill food!

I like that Jane!

Does anyone else refer to ‘dinner medals’?
Or is it just my family

When I saw the title of this thread my immediate reaction was to answer "More common than to spill it down your back, I would have thought".

However, I do it too (down my front ) and usually curry or something else which stains. As for toothpaste...

Glorybee

Kamiso - ‘I have taken to putting on a pinafore before eating as I often eat sitting on the settee whilst watching tv’

I quite like that idea, although I’d probably forget to remove it when someone came to the door!

That used to be a serious offence at one time. The wife of the new headmaster answered the door wearing her pinny and became a source of local gossip. At least whilst they were gossiping about her it gave someone else a break.

I always manage to spill beans on me when we have had breakfast out such as on holiday and butter or cheese from jacket potatoes at home. I rub a little neat washing up liquid on the marks before putting the top in the wash and they usually come out. I blame my very large chest, it gets in the way even eating at a table.

If you’re named Bill and married to me yes it’s an every day occurrence, if he’s not feeding his chest it’s his nether regions. He’s not that old either!

Toothpaste is the worst, because even as you're scrubbing at it, you know it's going to resurface later on at some point.

It's happening with me lately too. And it's a darned nuisance.
So I've got a couple of old tea towels and wrap one across my front to help keep clothes clean.

I usually spill things down my front - my GC laugh about it. I'm very large-busted (G cup) so that's my excuse.

When going out with DBF he will look at me and say something like "remember we are going to ****** after lunch".
I would then usually change into a dark coloured top !!

I often wear an apron when I eat my dinner and hopefully that'll catch most spills - unless of course the food has other ideas and lands between the apron and the top.

I eat the vast majority of my meals at the table and leaning forward more helps I think. Eating with a tray on one's lap is fraught with danger, as it were.

I'd not want to eat in public wearing a pale self coloured garment. I feel safer in garments that are more the colour of food and drink. At home I have a small drawer for clean hankies and dinner cloths, and immediate access to a washing machine.

MissAdventure

I always get bleach/ cleaner on my clothes, too. Along my stomach.

That happens to me as well MissAdventure Always a wet patch after washing up too.

I can't eat gravy dinners or soup without spilling some on my top. Makes no difference if I sit at the table or eat from a tray. Time for a bib I think.

Toothpaste on nighties, tomato sauce on white tee shirts. Sometimes if I’ve worn a bibbed apron for cooking I leave it on for eating. Towards the end of my working life I usually had a nice (washable) scarfaround my neck just in case...

as a small child in school a teacher said to one little girl in front of the class, 'did you enjoy your egg for breakfast?' we didn't understand how she knew!

This is the moment that we find out how truthful the adverts are. I now wear colourful tops and plain bottoms.
This summer I had to throw out 8 of my DGD’s white t shirts as stain removers, white vinegar nor sun worked and bleach marked. However the white polos my DGSs wore washed very well.

DH is very messy, me, not so much, just sometimes.
He uses a napkin, so clothes aren’t messed up, but insists on a white linen one, even though I offered an easy care alternative. It is a pain to wash. I use Vanish first. Then it needs ironing, but I refuse to starch it.

Hang anything with tomato or curry stains out in the sun , it gets rid of them !

Put the clothing on a flat surface and pour a little cold water on the stain to soak the material. Then give it a good scrub with a Vanish soap bar. I do all my chair cushion covers like this - on all marks. Works a treat. Then put the clothes in the washing machine with powder, wash tab or whatever.
Only thing I struggle with is tomato in any form. This might take a couple of treatments to lift the stain.

Electric toothbrushes definitely need to be used before dressing!

I always get bleach/ cleaner on my clothes, too. Along my stomach.

Yes! I seem incapable of drinking tea or coffee without getting a drip on my top.