do you hear the voice of a parent every time you do a certain task ?

“root vegetables start in cold water and the others in boiling water”
I repeated this just the other day!

My dear mam if she thought I looked a mess...'you look like you've been dragged through a hedge backwards 🤔

Using anything sharp, my father's words always come to mind: "Always cut towards your chum, Never cut towards your thumb"

My mother told me to iron tablecloths in the form of an "M" and napkins in the shape of an "N" - advice I rarely need these days! She also taught me that root vegetables start in cold water and the others in boiling water.

I always think of her when I have a half a grapefruit which is a bit pointy and cut off the point to give it a flat bottom to balance on!

I do actually hear her saying to anyone who starts a conversation without taking their coat off "Aren't you staying?"

At the typewriter she always did as she was taught at school: three spaces after a full stop, two after a comma. I learnt two and one, 40 years later, and always wondered when it changed.

Not a parent, but for the past 55 years, every time I dry a sharp knife, I hear the voice of my brown owl telling me to hold the blade away from your hand.

Ha, I just told my grandson at Christmas dinner "your eyes are bigger than your stomach", a saying that my mother used to say. He couldn't finish his plate that he had piled high.

Oh yes, I often hear my stepfather saying 'lights on all over the house !! as I wearily turn off said lights! Also, 'Don't go empty handed '(upstairs, but WE live in a bungalow!) My mother? 'Ignoring it won't make it go away' (illness!) 'Chins must be kept up at all times! Wrap up warm darling, you don't want to catch cold. This was said to me till my mother died and I was over 40! Oh, and 'Don't put it down, put it away!' I do miss them.

My Dad - 'f h b' - meaning 'family hold back' when visitors arrived unexpectedly so we had to stretch a meal further than intended.

Yes, a mixture of positive and negative:

the former have served me well ("do as you would be done by" "if its worth doing it's worth doing well" and her general belief that if something is wrong in society one must right the wrong - and it can be done, and that we are all equal and never let people put you down social class wise, "speak up and tell the truth" -

the latter, not so well "You're your own worst enemy" "chin up, darling" (unsuitable as was saying "pull yourself together" to a depressive), "you're over sensitive" and thinking she knew me better than I did.

Mainly, my father, his work was to do with safety and he applied it to his home as well.
Cold before hot water in a sink etc, always turn pan handles towards the worktops, DH often forgets that one with dire results.
The one that kept me going was,' The man who never made a mistake, never made anything".
My mother was the clean underwear one, I still can't wear anything twice. Once when on holiday we realised I had forgotten DDs knickers. They had listened to granny as well, I had to go into a very old-fashioned Drapery shop in Scotland and ask for 14 pairs of knickers, which were promptly binned when we got home.

When I’m driving I hear my Dad’s voice quite often. If there’s a bend I hear him say “slow up for the bend, now accelerate out of it”. In a tight spot he would tell me to “stop and let the other person do the driving”. If there is some idiot tail driving I hear “ let him go by.”

My Dad used to say’were you born in a barn’ if we left a door open. Mum always insisted on clean undies for church, any appointments and when we had visitors coming,- just in case- of what I’m not sure!.but I do always check everything is as it should be on these occasions- just in case!

I hear my Mum saying "your head will never save your legs" when I go up or come downstairs without something that needed to be taken up or down.

My Dad when I say to the cat "you make a better door than a window" :-)

My driving instructor (from way too many years ago) saying "red light never stopped a lorry" when I'm at certain traffic lights.

My Gran when I'm really angry and say "Blithering Heck" at times when I want to use some real profanity but it's not a good place to do so. I use it as it was her worsts bad language, bless her.

FannyCornforth

TV related.
If the continuity announcer says,

‘Coming up next… (insert title of disapproved of program - probably on ITV)’

I hear the voice of my mom briskly saying,

‘Not in this house it isn’t!’

😂😂😂

We say that although I can't remember my Mum saying it.

My Mum had a proverb (cliche?) for every occasion, all designed to keep us positive and optimistic!!

And - "Are you wearing a vest? You'll catch your death of cold"

Yes, sadly nothing positive.

I also sometimes hear her voice shouting my name which jolts me out of falling asleep

FannyCornforth

TV related.
If the continuity announcer says,

‘Coming up next… (insert title of disapproved of program - probably on ITV)’

I hear the voice of my mom briskly saying,

‘Not in this house it isn’t!’

Nit my mum but the other day in hairdresser that daft song came on “it’s the most wonderful time of the year…” We both said “ it really isn’t….!!

I am occasionally reminded of the odd saying my mum would have, but I always swore that if I heard her voice coming out of my mouth, that would be the end of things!

My Mum always did her washing on a Monday and despaired at me for not doing the same. Whenever I put the washing machine on and it isn't a Monday I see her disapproving face.

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well. (As I do jobs badly, because I didn't think they were worth doing in the first place)

HowVeryDareYou

I don't hear the voice, but every time I pass a mirror, a much fatter version of my late mum is looking at me

It's my grandmothers (both of them) who take it in turns to look out of mirrors and shop windows at me!

Scrubbing my back door step one day and finding it hard to remove a green water stain with the scrubbing brush, I clearly heard Mrs. L saying "Use a chookie stane, lassie"

She maintained to her dying day, and, apparently, long after it as well that a stone door step should be scoured with a small pebble.= a chookie stane in Scots.

Mrs L. "helped with the housework" no one would have affronted her by calling her a cleaner or a charwoman and she contributed just as much in the way of love and guidence to my sister and me as children as our parents did.

Apart from Mrs L. I also hear my paternal grandmother describing things left on the floor as being hung on the highest peg in the house, and Aunt Isa (any Scot of my age had at least one Aunt Isa, so she is completely anonymous even when named,) saying "Tak' your coat off, so ye feel the good of it when ye gae oot agin."

My lovely grandmother's quite voice.💜
'Caw canny lass, caw canny'.
(Always serves as a useful reminder in certain situations)

Oh yes, definitely. I hear both parents but mostly my mum. Lots of good advice and thoughts, though some now are less relevant. A favourite of mine and my sister's is: "you could make it for less!" when looking at clothes in shops.

Not my parents but there are certain things that make me think of dear departed friends. When I make a cup of green tea I hear my friend telling me not to boil the water because her Chinese students advised her about that. My parents didn’t have a phone but I can still hear friends voices on the phone. Especially one friend whose telephone message was ‘we’ll call you back….but only if we like you’.

When I use a tip inherited from my lovely Mum I can almost see her looking in disbelief that I had even listened to her and actually absorbed what she had said. Wonderful and generates a mutually warm and living smile (along with a delightfully knowing wink!) every time. Magic.......