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Having been diagnosed with breast cancer and having had various side effects I have not been at my best over the last few years. Needless to say I didn’t want to tell everyone just how ill I really felt.. Immediate family got the gory details .......But others...

“ I’m doing okay. thanks , coping pretty well...”.

.....but I have been able to give my friends more accurate information since finishing treatments. They have all been happy to accept my apologies , usually with a hug and ? ?

Hate nuts but my Mother in Law bought me a massive nutty selection of chocolates for my birthday a few years ago. Told a white lie saying how delicious they'd been etc so as not to make her feel bad and now ever since I've been inundated with boxes of nutty chocolates, nutty Easter eggs etc. Husband is more than happy though as he gets to eat them all

I feel very embarassed to admit this lol but hay here it goes! When lockdown began, my mum put together a food hamper for me and my partner which included over 16 packs of biscuits!! I had said I was going to eat healthier (currently a size 12) but I tend to binge eat when I am stressed and made my way through the 16 packs as well as other sweets and chocolate in 2 days and told a white lie saying I had to throw the biscuits out because they were too tempting!

Mmm, I couldn’t possibly say !!

I forgot my sons main christmas presents one year and said Father Christmas would send them next year ... he did but my son added a whole list of other presents Father Christmas would send him

I told my Husband that I really liked the beard he has just grown when secretly I hate it

I used to tell my children that the icecream van had ran out of icecream when it came round playing music. My daughter was 10 years old when she realised, she alerted her older brother who has autism to this fact so I got away for many years without buying icecreams from the van

When my family gives me a present I don't really like I will always say I like it ..... I can't not i think that would be rude

Telling my sons that the cake they had baked for my birthday (including the odd bit of eggshell) was the best I'd ever eaten.

Yesterday my daughter asked for an ice cream off the van and I said I had no money in my purse

Aha when I told my son his hair looked great when he decided to use his clippers to shave his hair yesterday ?

Aha when I told my son that his hair look when he used his clippers on his hair yesterday ?

When people give me a present I don't really like

My 6 year old daughter said at Christmas Santa's not real I said well you won't get any gifts she stuck to it and when she came down Xmas morning no gifts. He did a treasure hunt with notes and presents to find in our house and garden it was quite tough at the end was a note say keep believing and next year will be back to normal I think she will believe when she's 17 now ha ha

Whenever we have dinners at mother's and she asks how the meal was, and I tell her it was nice.

I don't tell my children that I hide grated courgetti in their spag bol!

When I was a little girl my Nan used make me and my sister dresses. I used to say I loved them all. I don’t remember liking any of them. It made her smile though.

telling my husband the box of chocolates got eaten he didn’t know I had hidden them so I can have them all to myself

Oooh a little white lie to protect the innocent, fairly often to be honest.

When sime says do you like my new dress or other item of clothing .I say its lovely dven if its not

I told my daughter that the kebab shop was shut

I think the most common white lie at the moment is, 'It's fine, it's no trouble.' Generally to my Mum who has just remembered something she needs right after I've done her shopping!

I called in to work daily to say I had flu, it was December and no one was allowed annual leave in that month. I had gone on holiday with my boyfriend. I was 21
Never ever again the deception spoiled the holiday and I have never ever done it again.

I am always lying about my age

I told a white lie 6 days ago