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I find I can get out of any white lies by turning the question back on the person who is asking.

I nearly always tell the truth but it makes for a more bumpy ride through life.

People don't like it.

Well yes I have but only to spare someone's feelings a bit like Naomishaw.

I told my children I used to be a skateboarding champion, when they asked me to show them some tricks I told them I was not allowed. Because I was so good the skate board company made me sign a contract to promise I would never do it again as it wasn't fair on other people. They believed me for years.

When DS2 rabbit died I knew he would be devastated so I told him that the rabbit had gone to live with his friends in the field and he was really happy. Very recently I mentioned at a family gathering about the trauma of the rabbit dying. DS2 said you said he went to live with his friends in the field.. DS is now 32...

I try to tell the truth, but surely sometimes a white lie is kinder. For instance, my daughter doesn’t have huge confidence in her body. Better to say ‘you look lovely’ (Which she does) or ‘your bum does look a bit big in that’?

The best one was when my mother in law was coming over just after i had my son and i wanted her to think i was super efficient .The kitchen was a mess so i put all the washing up in the oven.We were sitting there she complemented me on how tidy the house was especially the kitchen with a new baby to look after.I smugly replied on it easy don't even feel tired sat there taking her praise.When she said you just sit there i will put this cake in the oven i have made to warm up.As i had my baby on my lap i couldn't jump up.The next thing she was standing over me saying I can't appear to be able to put it in as the oven full of washing up.I just said Oh that were it went.She laughed i laughed and that white lie broke the ice with me and my mother in law and we often talked and laugh about it

My white lies are in the excuses I make to not do something or to leave a visit. I must lead a very interesting and busy life for some people. I am enjoying the lock down , No lies for four whole weeks.

Actually white lied the other day, knock at the door parcel left and the delivery man run before I could yell 'This isn't the right address '
Luckily found a phone number and phoned to say your parcel is here you need to pick it up.
Anyway no word waited until 8pm and sent a text. He replied will be arround tomorrow to collect will text before coming.
I mean who did he think he was with this big parcel in my porch and him living 3 minutes away!
So I white lied and said 'Its not a good idea, work shifts can't say if I'll be in tomorrow so you need to come now' And he did but I'm not back at work until next week.

Sometimes when trying to be encouraging and not critical for example, of a musical performance.

When I was given a CD (that had been opened) for a Christmas present. I thanked her and said I was looking forward to playing it even after she said she had bought it for herself but didn't like it so thought it would be a good gift for me. Never did play it.

As with many others my white lie is saying how lovely for a gift or raffle prize that I have not use or desire for.

I was brought up to say how lovely a present was to the giver. I’m afraid I still do the very same. I don’t like hurting people’s feelings. At least the charity shops benefit from the offending gifts!!!

I told my children that the sweets at the tills were only empty boxes to advertise the products and you couldn’t buy them.!!

I told my daughter that I was pleased to received the theatre tickets she gave me for my birthday- but I really didn't think it was my cup of tea.
However, I took myself off and really enjoyed it - perhapse she knows me better than I know myself!

Told my daughter when she was 4 that her rabbit had run away to join its friends on the farm when it had died.

The last time I told a white lie is when my son and his partner came back from Hong Kong and brought me a wall hanging with Pandas on it! So not my type of thing! I had no idea where to put it but it now hangs in the corner of the room I use as an office. I have been de cluttering whilst self isolating and I keep wondering if I could slip it into one of the charity shops bags? However my son was so proud that he had brought me something he thought I would love that I may have to wait a few years before it disappears!

Like a lot of gransnetters I alaways tell present givers I liked their gifts at christmas etc and then put them away until a suitable time has elapsed before taking them to a charity shop

I used to tell my children that when the ice-cream man plays his tune it means he's run out of ice-cream!

I forgot to put a coin from the tooth fairy under my sons pillow. When he shouted that she hadn’t been I shouted back up the stairs that she’d broken a wing and had left it on the bottom step because she couldn’t get upstairs (whilst rummaging through my pockets for a coin!) He believed it too!!

Only when I felt obligated to do to save someone from either finding out something they should'nt or so as to save a situation from becoming worse and only if it helped in any case

Sadly my mum had dementia and if she asked where my step dad was we said he'd died ( he died 33 years ago). This was so painful for her as she was reliving the loss all over again. In the end we'd say hed just gone for a walk and she was happy with that. A lie yes but no more hurt.

I do this when I don’t want to hurt someone. I don’t tell my mother-in-law truth of my husband’s feeling towards her.

I used to tell white lies to friends when they asked if I liked what they were wearing. Sometimes it is better to not hurt feelings even if what they are wearing is not to your own taste

Whenever my wife asks me what her hair looks like because whatever answer I give she almost always disagrees with me! I tell her this but it still doesn't stop her asking!

I used to tell my children that the dentist could look into their mouth and down into their belly to make sure they had eaten fruit and vegetables.