Do you still follow old routines your parents did years ago ??

My AC and GC are puzzled as to why we have potatoes with virtually every meal. It's how we were brought up.

I don’t have a routine really. I can’t remember my Mum having much of a routine either but she was always busy doing something.

I do find though that when I am doing certain jobs, say, cleaning a brass kettle, I think of my Mum with all her brass set out on newspaper and polishing it. We had a brass knob on the front door and she loved to see that polished.

Not quite on topic but similar.

We used to gently tease my mum and dad for their nightly routine of setting up for the next morning! Mum preparing half grapefruits sprinkled with sugar and laying table etc. Dad preparing breakfast in bed tea tray and making bedtime cocoa!!

Not long ago DH and I got the giggles when we realised that we have developed , without even realising, a nightly habit of laying the tray for next mornings drinks, getting out breakfast cereal , bowls etc!!

So we have followed without even realising we are!! 🤣

Mum didn't work until we were older so her household routines were based on her being at home. I worked full time so I created my own routine. Housework was done at the weekend, washings twice a week. I have stuck to that, even now I'm retired.

We normally clean the house together on Fridays and I always change the bed as part of that. I don’t remember my mother having a cleaning day, although she might have before she went back to work. After that I think both mum and dad did it one evening, although because mum worked in a school, she did extra cleaning in school holidays.
Again before mum went back to work she always baked on Fridays, and I often bake at the weekend too. Mum did market day on Fridays and shopped at the supermarket or other shops on Thursdays, but I shop whenever I feel like it. I also do laundry whenever I think there’s enough for a load, whereas mum always washed at the weekends. However my mother’s routines changed after her retirement just as mine have done.

I remember my dad taking us to the sweet shop with our ration cards, buying our sweets in triangle bags. Saturday treat with dad!

No.
Only some traditional Christmas things.

I don't actually remember "days" for different things - I do know my mother got the washer (with the mangle on top) out probably weekly but if I had to guess I might say it was often a Thursday..
My (more comfortably-off) uncle bought us an automatic washer in the late 60s I think. So wash day was "whenever" after that.
We also used the launderette, did hand-washing (several times a week, garment by garment), and because Mum had one branch of a dry cleaning franchise we had things dry-cleaned too.

I don't remember "cleaning" days or "bed changing" days or "baking" days.

We had an Aga so my father (who loved to cook) was regularly baking (and icing) cakes - for us, for gifts, for birthdays of friends... he may whip up a cake before work or at 10pm or whenever he thought about it.
Mum liked eating them (but rarely baked). She did all the pickles/chutneys/cordials/sloe gin etc.

I think my childhood was not at all driven by the days of the week (other than school and work) to be honest - and my adult life hasn't been either.

I wonder how old these routines (very similar to my childhood household), actually are?
Presumably our Mothers were 'taught' by their Mothers ad infinitum.
Interesting to think on.

Your childhood sounds idyllic. I have just realised that I don't really have a routine at all. I must just bumble along acting on impulse.