When you were a child did your parents yell at you for not closing the door when it was cold outside?

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Larry67

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Silly question? Probably, but I think it says something about the values that you grew up with.
Do you have respect for what people have earned? I grew up around people who had lived
during the great depression. When I see our society today, I think that I may have awoken on
the wrong planet.
 

fuzzybuddy said:
Yup, got the " were you raised in a barn" speech. Along with the " not paying to heat the neighborhood" speech. "Close the damn door" also worked. And apparently, I was never able to shut the fridge door fast enough. I won't even mention leaving a room with the light still on..
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Do you still close both doors quickly?
 
We weren't yelled at, but by example we were taught to shut off the lights when leaving a room, something I still do, and other Depression Homilies. "See a penny pick it up and all day long you'll have good luck; see a penny let it lay then bad luck will come your way." To my own embarrassment, I still usually pick up those filthy things!
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Yup, got the " were you raised in a barn" speech. Along with the " not paying to heat the neighborhood" speech. "Close the damn door" also worked. And apparently, I was never able to shut the fridge door fast enough. I won't even mention leaving a room with the light still on..
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Reminds me of when I was little and watched Saturday morning cartoons.. if I left the room for a few minutes, my brother immediately walked in and turned off the t.v.
Didn't those old-fashioned televisions take more power to turn off and on than to have left them on in the first place??
 
JaniceM said:
Reminds me of when I was little and watched Saturday morning cartoons.. if I left the room for a few minutes, my brother immediately walked in and turned off the t.v.
Didn't those old-fashioned televisions take more power to turn off and on than to have left them on in the first place??
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My thoughts exactly. Any electricians out there?
 
JaniceM said:
Didn't those old-fashioned televisions take more power to turn off and on than to have left them on in the first place??
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Seems they did.
I remember our old Hoffman making a weird noise when shutting if off.
And watching the picture shrivel into a dot
Then 'blip' and the dot was gone
Rather fascinating

Doesn't take much for me

I can watch those floppy air guys for hours
 
Gary O' said:
Seems they did.
I remember our old Hoffman making a weird noise when shutting if off.
And watching the picture shrivel into a dot
Then 'blip' and the dot was gone
Rather fascinating

Doesn't take much for me

I can watch those floppy air guys for hours
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...and how long it took to warm up. "GET THE TELEVISION WARMED UP! MILTON BERLE IS ON IN FIVE MINUTES!"
 
yep...we also got 'were you born in a barn'' when it came to the doors.. but that was because there was heating in only the livingroom and nowhere else, so it was expected to keep the doors closed ... @JaniceM , you were lucky to be out of the room when the Tv was turned off.. if we were watching something on Tv and my father entered and he didn't want to watch it,he would just turn it off.. he wasn't going to pay for something for others to enjoy.
 
hollydolly said:
yep...we also got 'were you born in a barn'' when it came to the doors.. but that was because there was heating in only the livingroom and nowhere else, so it was expected to keep the doors closed ... @JaniceM , you were lucky to be out of the room when the Tv was turned off.. if we were watching something on Tv and my father entered and he didn't want to watch it,he would just turn it off.. he wasn't going to pay for something for others to enjoy.
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Geez that sucks :(
 
my mom always sad in or out if we were talking at the door if it was a smidge open.

I heard my son- in law say "close the window i am not heating the neighborhood"
after we had to open a kitchen window as he burnt something on Thanksgiving . I was chuckling for hours over that.
 
All of the above!

Then there was the lecture about listening to the car radio when the engine was off!

Change your clothes, hang up your towel, wipe out the bathtub, clean your plate, get off the phone, don’t let the water run, you’re not going out looking like that.

I became my parents when I started to yell at the cat or dog to make up its mind to come in or go out on cold winter mornings.

IMO those little parental public service announcements did more good than harm.
 
My father in law used to tell his family to "put the wood in the hole' but in our house the back door was never shut - it was propped permanently open to let the two little dogs to go in and out as they pleased. The front door was also wide open when we were at home and the windows were also to allow air into the house and only closed during driving rain.

When we went on holidays there was always a hunt for the key to the back door so that the house could be locked up while we were away.
 
Warrigal said:
My father in law used to tell his family to "put the wood in the hole' but in our house the back door was never shut - it was propped permanently open to let the two little dogs to go in and out as they pleased. The front door was also wide open when we were at home and the windows were also to allow air into the house and only closed during driving rain.

When we went on holidays there was always a hunt for the key to the back door so that the house could be locked up while we were away.
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yes that's a very Northern English saying... usually pronounced similar t... Put th'wood in th'ole.
 
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