One of my grandmothers died before I was born. The other one lived very far away, so I seldom saw her. So my grandma-isms came to me indirectly through my mother.
- Never leave the house without enough money to get home on your own.
- (If I scowled) Don't scowl, your face will freeze that way!
- Don't leave the house with wet hair.
- If you share a family recipe, don't share the whole recipe. Hold back an ingredient or change the amounts of your spices or something. (My grandmother took her borscht recipe to her grave. Fine by me - I hate borscht!)
- If there is a rosemary plant in the garden, and it flourishes, the woman of the house is in charge. If it is sick or dies, the man is in charge. (I make sure to keep my rosemary carefully tended, and it is indeed flourishing!
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