Do you find yourself repeating family sayings from your childhood?

Oh, the one thing I vowed never to say as a child was my future childrens entire name when I was scolding them. I do it to this day.

Even worse, some of the other phrases I said I would never use I hear my grown daughter saying to my grandchildren, so I surely carried it over and never even realized it.

You mean like "what will the neighbours think you rotten little brat, you are a constant shame and embarrassment to our family" when you are four and drop your ice cream on the lawn? Thats just one example

Nope, if I ever thot I was becoming my mother or saying things she said I would kill myself now,

Grandma though, yes, sometimes, like "never do anything you wouldnt want to see published on the front page of the newspaper" and "being drunk is no excuse, I've never seen a drunk sit on a hot stove and burn himself" and "when the wolf comes in the door, love goes out the window"

Grandma had a lot of cool sayings for things.

Yes LOL My dad used to say "The Porch lights on but nobody is home" and "She isn't playing with a full deck." "He's a few bricks short of a load" and "Between the two of them there isn't a deck of fifty two cards" I catch myself saying all those from time to time. Usually while driving or watching the news. There were others but I can't repeat them in polite company.

Yes my dad always said ,never burn any bridges, meaning no matter what especially in business keep the peace.not a funny one of course but I have tried to live by that.He also said, speaking of very cold weather, it is colder that a well diggers ass out there.Yes I say that sometimes. My grand kids say Oh my God to often and I have always said ,my stars, so now my daughter tells her boys to say what grammy says.I remember Good gravy! and ,well forever more! That's how LADIES spoke back in the day my grandmother and her friend always said these sayings.

ALL THE TIME! My mother was a Texan, they all were for generations..They've got some pretty funny sayings those Texans!

Now that I'm older and find myself saying them all the time to my son and grandkids, I often wonder how long people in my family have been saying them? Wouldn't you just love to know who first said:

"Meaner than cat dirt" or "That wind's so sharp it could cut the horns off a billy goat".

In the summer when the kids leave the door open, I ask them if they were born in a barn!

When she was mad at me, my mom used to say "I brought you into this world and I can take you out"!

A great auntie's favourite saying was "This too shall pass" and I say that ALL the time!

Yeah but what is real funny when my daughter calls up to tell me she is repeating things I said to her when she was little to her own daughter now. Hee, Hee! Calls me and tells me OH MY GOD I am sounding or saying what my mother did!! It is the old saying "what goes around comes around" again and again!

Yep, all the time I repeat my mother's adages:

When I'd play card with my kids I'd tell them: "I win-you wash the dishes. You win-you wash the dishes."

"Clean up your own mess. The maid has died and gone to heaven."

"I'm made of dirt--not money."

What's for dinner? "Only God knows now. You'll know when it lands on your plate."

Yes, a favorite aunt would reply when someone didn't care for what was for dinner, ' Eat it or wear it". She was very feisty.

I find myself saying the things my parents say , If my mom couldn't sleep , she would say she had the big eye. My husband ask me how I slept, I told him I couldn't sleep because I had the big eye, He couldn't stop laughing, evidently he never heard of that saying.