A bath after food? Or that you shouldn’t swim after a meal

I was taught that I mustn't have a long soak in a hot bath while menstruating as this would increase the blood flow. But a very quick, warm shower was okay.

Scribbles, I'd totally forgotten that one, but I was told that too!

I used to like raw cabbage and broccolli and beans but was always told they would give me tummy-ache.

Not to hold my nose when I sneezed (But mum was right on this one.)

Don't chew your pencil, you'll get lead poisoning.

I’ve walked under ladders many, many times; black cats have crossed the road in front of me quite often. At the time, think oh no ! Then I forget all about it……

Oreo

Crossstitchfan

I remember all of those! My grandmother was a stickler for them so I was brought up to believe them. I thought that now I’m old, I’d have grown out of this, but no! When my adored granddaughter bought a pram for the baby she was expecting two months later, I found myself asking her not to have it in the house until after the birth! She was quite taken aback, having never heard of this, but she asked the shop to keep it for her, and they did.
My great-grandson had a traumatic birth, but is, thankfully fine, but I did wonder, just for a second, what would have happened if she had ignored me. Common sense tells me it wouldn’t have changed anything, but………..?

There’s sense in the pram thing, a relative bought one and when she sadly miscarried had to return it.

My SIL solved this by storing the pram at my house!

The pram one, for a first baby.

What about subsequent children though?

The pram was there in the house already…

Calendargirl

The pram one, for a first baby.

What about subsequent children though?

The pram was there in the house already…

That’s a good point. I wouldn’t have the pram until the baby was home, but we used the same pram again, without a qualm. Maybe it’s not bad luck to have something already there.

*Feed a cold. Starve a fever
*Cracking your knuckles will give you arthritis
*Eating carrots gives you better eyesight

SueDonim

I had to have a bath, or rather a shower, last night after I dropped my entire bowl of strawberries and cream into my lap!

Why didn’t you just wash your clothes.😄

What a terrible waste of a bowl of strawberries and cream.

It’s not a good idea to swim or do any exercise straight after a meal. What for an hour.

That should be wait!

Apparently the government wanted to keep RADAR a secret during WW2 and so publicised the story that pilots were given lots of carrots to improve their night vision.

Bellanonna

Don’t wash your hair during a period, or am I possibly mis-remembering that?

I remember that one. My mum had this weird idea that the blood would go to my head!

Don't bring bluebells or lilac into the house, supposed to be bad luck. Nor open an umbrella indoors!!

My aunt believed if you swallowed a pip a tree would grow inside you!

Never cast a clout (ie clothing) until the may (ie hawthorn-type bush) is out (ie blossoming)

Oreo

Isn’t the French name for a dandelion pis en lis or something similar?

Close……it’s pissenlit

Don’t put shoes on the table

When I married for a third time at c. 40 I had 2 small boys aged 5 and 8. My then mother in law ( an old-fashioned Welsh Valleys woman ) moved into the house to look after them for a long weekend whilst my new husband and I went away for a long weekend.
When I return they had both had colds/ flu and m-in-law made them both go and stand out in the cold in the garden for a long time “to bring their temperatures down” !! I was furious!

It's obviously a generation thing as in my 80s and I remember each and everyone of the restrictions quoted. I'll add another, don't cut your toenails on a Friday ...

I apparently used to get a chill on my kidneys!

Bellanonna

Don’t wash your hair during a period, or am I possibly mis-remembering that?

TBH I was shocked during my German exchange trip at 16 (in the 60s) to find that the German ‘Mutti’ still believed that! My exchange girl’s younger sister had a real tantrum at the dinner table one night, because she wasn’t allowed to wash her hair. ‘I can’t bear it any longer!’

They weren’t allowed baths during periods, either. Thank goodness my own mother had never believed such old fashioned nonsense.

Sago

I apparently used to get a chill on my kidneys!

DH still has a thing about that! "Pull your top down, you'll get a chill in the kidneys."

Don’t sit too close to the TV…….you’ll get square eyes 🤪

Yah boo sucks to "don't wash your hair/ swim/have sex during periods.

I settled those periods' hash with a hysterectomy.

Nightsky2

SueDonim

I had to have a bath, or rather a shower, last night after I dropped my entire bowl of strawberries and cream into my lap!

Why didn’t you just wash your clothes.😄

What a terrible waste of a bowl of strawberries and cream.

I'd have just licked the cothes