michelleoc

My mom taught me (or drilled into my head, or contributed to my OCD) that I have to leave a building by the same door I came in. My friends/neighbors are all aware of this weird thing and they know that if I'm walking the dog and stop for a visit and happen to come in through the garage, don't close the garage door until I leave. My family is trying to break me of this habit. I went out through our garage door one day, was out for quite awhile visiting neighbors, and when I got home the garage door was closed. I went to the front door, rang the doorbell, and when my DS answered, sent him out to open the garage door. I have no idea why this has stuck with me, but I continue on with it!

Boston1954

I remember being told that if I got a burn on my hand, I was to put butter on it. Actually this just the opposite of what you should do. You should cover it with ice water.

My husband tells me that swallowing watermelon seeds will cause a watermelon to start growing in your stomach. ( wonder if he saw a pregnant lady as a child, and his mother told him this to answer his question.)

I have love reading these. Isn't it funny how so many have different variatios?

misseva

My mother told me that's what happened when I asked about a woman who was in the family way! (No one said the word pregnant back then) lol And I believed her. We were so innocent (or stupid) way back then. She even convinced my daughter that when she was born her ears were so long we had to hold them up on top of her head with a clothes pin and then she had surgery to make them normal. She also told me that if I drank coffee it would make my toes turn black.

sewingsuz

Don't make pickles when it is that time of the month or they won't turn out.
If you give a bowl or container back to someone that brought a dish to your house, don't give it back empty or it is bad luck. At least put some matches in the container.
Have pork and sauerkruat on new year for good luck for the new year.

sewingsuz

Will coffee when you are young really stunt your growth?

sewingsuz

If you get married the bride should have something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.

sewingsuz

Put salt on a birds wings so they can't fly.???

sewingsuz

Don't make pickles when it is that time of the month or they won't turn out.
If you give a bowl or container back to someone that brought a dish to your house, don't give it back empty or it is bad luck. At least put some matches in the container.
Have pork and sauerkruat on new year for good luck for the new year.

yonnikka

I was about 11 years old, when my mother was baking cookies one summer day, she suddenly brushed some vanilla flavoring behind my ear, with her finger. I was so shocked, because my mother was the serious kind of person most of the time. "Mother! Now I smell like a sugar cookie!" I complained... and she replied, "Well, all the boys like Sugar Cookies!" (Mother came from rural Arkansas)

yonnikka

For New Years' Day: eat black-eyed peas, for Good Luck throughout the year: The Black-eyed Pea has ONE EYE--looking straight out, reminding you to keep a straight direction, a steadfast path for your life.