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I have told white lies, especially when given something I don't really like. I wouldn't have to heart to be rude enough to tell them so.

I told my kids to make sure
My hubby got me a vanilla sponge cake for my birthday, as I don’t like chocolate cake. I then went to my friends with children in tow, and she’d made me a birthday cake - chocolate! Cue my smallest child piping up with ‘mummy doesn’t like Chocolate cake!’ I couldn’t bear to make her feel bad so covered it with ‘of course I do, I don’t know where he’s got that idea from!’ ?

Many years ago, (40+), when our children were very young, We had a friend who knitted quite garish little jumpers for them, (kindly meant, but they were awful), Also it was a waste of her money. I'm sorry to admit that I told her that they were allergic to wool..! I did feel guilty of that. I still don't feel guilty of the Father Christmas & tooth fairy ones & the thanking for gifts that I wouldn't have chosen.

Any time to save embarrassment to another, or to alleviate stress or worry.x

Whenever necessary

I once told my daughter when she was little that her salmon fish fingers were pink because they were for girls - I told her they did blue ones for boys!

Saying you'll be away when you don't want to go to a party.

If someone asks me if I like their hair/outfit, I don't like to impose what I prefer on them

When I've been late picking someone up I've fibbed that the traffic was awful & I got stuck behind a tractor when in fact I was watching something on TV & I didn't want to miss the end.

I use to baby sit for my uncle and he always got me a taxi home. I diverted the taxi so I could go and meet my friends to go to an all night club that finished at six o'clock in the morning. We all went to a café and sat there till 9 o'clock then all went home. I told my mum I slept at my uncles as they couldn't get me a taxi. Only done this a couple of times.

I lied when I told my future husband that I liked his mother. I never did!!

I would tell a white lie in order to not hurt a friend's feelings. For example, if they had bought me a present that I just hated, but would say 'it's lovely kust what I wanted' whilst thinking I would take kt to the charity shop asap

I have told - and will tell - lots of little white lies so as not to hurt the feelings of others, often. My biggest being when my lovely half Japanese half Taiwanese daughter in law cooked us a Tofu curry - I have never eaten anything as bland in my life - but complimented her cooking like mad!

When my future daughter in law married in a huge dress in my opinion looked awful so I said lovely dress(thinking not on you)

Told work I couldn't come in as I was under the weather.Unfortunately I went out and was caught on a T.V camera.My boss saw me on the 6 O'clock news !

The worse one I’ve ever told was when I did a stint as a carer while in college. My first shift ever and so I was a bit green. One of the dear ladies suffering with dementia kept asking where her dh was. He had died some years before and I didn’t want to upset her so I told her that her dh had gone Night fishing and wouldn’t be back until morning Rather than consoling her she was even more on edge and kept saying there must be something wrong because her dh would never go anywhere without telling her. So I had to go on telling more white lies to make the first one seem plausible. I was glad when that night shift was over. I learned my lesson big time and in the future I answered I don’t know, to everything from then on.

When my children were teenagers, and very into named trainers etc, I used to buy them, but tell my husband that they cost a lot less than they did to keep the peace. In later years he informed that he knew all along this was the case!

When don't I lol

Only when I have been asked an opinion on an already completed hairstyle and I didn't want to hurt feelings.

I avoid telling any white lies and as a result I am very good at changing the subject entirely.

Pre lockdown I would struggle to keep track of how many white lies I tell in a single week and often do so when I need an excuse to avoid going somewhere or prevent someone dropping in. Since the lockdown I have not told a single one and it has taken aware the strain of my social anxiety. It’s been pleasant to kick back and not have to worry about so much and hence please myself without the stress of fibbing to prevent hurt feelings.

I was about 8, and they were choosing singers for the school choir. I so much wanted to be in it though I wasn't and never have been much of a singer, that I told my mum that I had been chosen. She was so pleased that she told her friend who lived over the back wall. However, the friend's son, a good singer, was in my class and in the choir, It didn't take long for my lie to be found out, My parents were understanding because they knew I'd lied only because I was really disappointed.

Countless times when asked what my age is !!

My husband came back from the barbers with a haircut that wasn't the best. He was stressing about it so I had to tell him it was fine. It really wasn't but luckily his hair grows quickly!!

In the lead up to Christmas I used to tell daughter that robins were watching her and report to Santa, so she had better not misbehave. I also told her that I regularly spoke to Santa on the phone and he would ask if she’d been good. I expect most parents do this?! Then in the lead up to Easter I’d be on the phone to the Easter bunny... ?