donnalynett

Both of mine pertain to sewing: Find a pin and pick it up,the rest the day you'll have good luck. Find a pin and leave it lay,you'll have bad luck the rest the day. The one that still haunts me is: Never start a sewing project on a Friday because you will never finish it.

DonnaFreak

One I forgot in my earlier post was one an old man who lived down the street from me for years told me. If it thunders in February, there'll be no blackberries that year.

Donna

Trisher

This isn't an old wives tale, but it keeps coming to mind... A ditty that my dad used to say...

"When God was handing out roses, I thought he said noses. So I said, make mine a big red one."

Nuff said.

Country1

Thank you all for sharing. I think this has been a fun topic. I am amazed at how many people have read or participated in this thread!
Penny

sharisews

Hard not to do, but my grandmother always said don't sew on Sunday or you will rip it out on Monday.

sweet

"Never kill a cricket in your home because another will replace it. Release the cricket alive outside."

miriam

LOL in my experience he will come right back in and bring his choir friends and sing all night.

pal

My Dad never passed a penny in the street without picking it up and saying

"Penny, penny, bring me luck -
I'm the guy that picked you up!!!!" It definitely works.......

He always considered himself the luckiest guy in the world because he said that he never had to work - He worked every day of his life with enthusiasm, taking the opportunity to learn something new each day!

Onebyone

I was raised deep southern rural. I remember these.
Drinking pickle juice will make your guts stick together.
A baby with thrush. if he looks at someone that has never seen their father, the thrush will go away.
Going barefoot in the summer you will get worms. (Kids were never playing outside without wearing shoes)

sak658

I have found this one to be true..I always mark it on the calendar...if it thunders in February...you will have a cool spell during that time in April...well it thundered Feb 20th here in Houston...and I looked on the calendar and Easter is April 20th and we always have a cool spell around Easter time...
My grandmother lived on a street and there was a train track in front of her house...she told us never sit and count the cars on a train..or someone would die in the family...remember that till this day..if I get stopped by a train...

Have heard of most of the ones posted here...break a mirror..7 years bad luck..throw salt over your left shoulder brings good luck...drop a dish rag...someone coming that's dirtier than you are..nose itches..someone's coming with a hole in their britches...never hang clothes on the line on Sunday...you'll wear dirty clothes all week.. Count the wrinkles on a new baby's thighs..can't remember the numbers but it will tell you whether your next baby will be a boy or girl...

Now about the wart...I had one to come up on my back..I took a irish potato and cut it in half...you rub the wart with the cut side of the potato...then put it back together like it was before you cut it.. and plant it under the front steps...well I planted it at the edge of my concrete front porch...had a nice potato plant come up...but in about a month the wart was gone...and that was tried on one of my kids and it worked back then also...so I fully believe in that one..