Sayings Our Parents Used; Do you use them now?

We were often scratching for money, so we would say bill-collector calls were always "Pay up or the kids go" meaning we'd be on the line for the debt (anyone read the "Ransom of Red Chief"? the joke would be on the bill collector.)

Dad would also say we were so poor we'd have "weenies" one night, and "weenie water soup" the next.
 

lydiag said:
We were often scratching for money, so we would say bill-collector calls were always "Pay up or the kids go" meaning we'd be on the line for the debt (anyone read the "Ransom of Red Chief"? the joke would be on the bill collector.)

Dad would also say we were so poor we'd have "weenies" one night, and "weenie water soup" the next.
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That's funny Lydia!
 
Hazy Davey said:
My Dad used to say to me, "Don't go at it like you're killing snakes." Meaning slow down, think it out, do a good job. He was the only one I've ever heard say that.
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Mine would say, "Don't run around like a chicken with it's head cut off," to mean the same thing.
 
My Grandmother had one that I think she made up. If you had something you didn't know quite what to do with or where you were going to put it, she would say, hang it on the Christmas tree. Didn't matter what time of year or what it was. My Dad also would say, it would take an act of congress to finish something. It applied to anything that was difficult to do. He also said don't take any wooden nickles.
 

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