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Years ago my the 4 year old daughter discovered her goldfish was missing so I told her he went off to visit his cousins in a faraway lake my daughter looked me straight in the eye and said "Don't be silly mummy He's dead" I

Mainly to my children to avoid tantrums when growing up ( 19 x2 and 34 now) now to Hubbie as my wardrobe expands; “ Oh this old thing, nah was hidden in back of wardrobe, forgot I had it !”

My friend dyed her hair white and it looked awful. She looked like a ghost but I had to lie and say it suited her.

When anyone asks directly about my age or weight

I have often told little white lies to my daughter but she is getting pretty smart & can tell a lie a mile off and interrogates me until I tell the truth now! That said, we had a hedgehog in our garden for a bit & she loved to say hello, then one day we found him ‘sleeping’ - the next day we had to tell her it had moved house, she just about bought it ?

Oh there’s a few when little ones are involved ... usually in the kitchen and they ask what i’m eating.... ‘nothing’ as i’m cramming in the naughty sweeties!!!

When I went into a pub and was asked if I was 18.

I, like most people, I think, tell little white lies all the time, to make people feel better about themselves.

a white lie to save hurting somebody

When my two were little I used to give them their own 'magic' pillow to stop them from having nightmares and help them get to sleep easier. It worked quite well too!

Telling the kids that no, I didn't know there were no chocolate chips left for making cakes. (Obvs I had scoffed them the previous evening, oh the shame!)

Thanking people for Christmas or birthday presents and saying they were nice even though they weren’t to my taste.

Bought silk paint which my wife doesn’t like but I do so I said I’d take it back and exchange for Matt BUT I didn’t and did the room out in silk she’s happy and none the wiser....

Hmmm, Probably when I told my sister in law that I liked a scarf she gave me, she picked an equally hideous one the next year, as I liked it so much..........I should learn to be honest!

A few years ago, I fancied a day out in London instead of going to work (not my current job) I was sat by the river opposite Big Ben when I had to phone in sick. I had to time it just right in between the chimes so as I wasn’t caught out!

So often, starting with Tooth fairy and Father Christmas

When my youngest son was little and too this day he likes raw carrots but not cooked. I used to often make carrot cake but when he asked what it was called, we called it "my dear cake", which he would eat no problem. However he is now 20 and found out a few years ago it was made of carrots, he now won't eat it.

When I’m confessing to how much chocolate I have bought at the shops ?

I told my son for years that I would turn off his room unless he tidied it.

I would then head purposefully for the fuse box, hoiking out the steps if I got that far....

It worked fine until he came home from school aged 15, harrumphing all the way...they’d just done ring mains in science.

when we were kids my mum used to take us to my grans every Friday and buy us all a choux bun from M&S we loved them and would show off once one had finished that the other was still enjoying theirs when mum and gran were chatting in the kitchen I told my brother I felt ill so if he ate his quick I would pretend I had had mine already and he could have mine too something my mum would not have allowed. He demolished his shoe bun to which I promptly replied April Fool he has never let me forget it

I remember telling a white lie to the dinner lady at school that I had an allergy to fish so that I wasn't made to eat it! I just hated the smell and taste of steamed school fish,the whole school seemed to smell of it every Friday.

Never, ok just then.

To my children and all the time.

Probably telling the children when the ice cream van plays music it means they're sold out... Always worked, till they grew up of course ?

I don’t like lying or upsetting people I did once tell a porkypie to my friend who had a new hair style didn’t look right but she loved it and so I said it was nice too