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

Many of us were told that eating crusts would give us curly hair, but my Dad told us that eating crusts would give us a hairy chest. That would have successfully stopped me eating crusts for life had l not liked them. Sadly, despite a lifetime of crust eating, my hair is still stubbornly straight but, thankfully, I can also report that my chest is follically challenged.

Don’t sit on a cold step - you’ll get haemorrhoids 😫

A slice of fruit loaf once caused me a very, very bad tummy. 😩

TillyWhiz

My MIL disapproved of us having slices of freshly baked fruit cake whilst it was still warm. It would give us bad tummies.

What's the difference between that and a hot fruit sponge pudding?

I remember that one!
They just didn't want us to eat it 😀

My MIL disapproved of us having slices of freshly baked fruit cake whilst it was still warm. It would give us bad tummies.

What's the difference between that and a hot fruit sponge pudding?

Astitchintime

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

Accompanied by “if you read too much you’ll ruin your eyes!”

lainieb56

Don't sit on a table or.youll never get married.
I sat on a few. Got married twice. Also divorced twice so maybe something there lol

I’d love to know how that one came about, how would sitting on a table be a factor?

Don't sit on a table or.youll never get married.
I sat on a few. Got married twice. Also divorced twice so maybe something there lol

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

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

I settled those periods' hash with a hysterectomy.

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

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."

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.

I apparently used to get a chill on my kidneys!

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 ...

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!

Don’t put shoes on the table

Oreo

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

Close……it’s pissenlit

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

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

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

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!

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.

That should be wait!

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