‘Manners cost nothing’, ‘Close the door, were you born in a barn?’, and ‘Eat your carrots, they’ll help you see in the dark’ are revealed as the nation’s top favourite ‘mumerisms’.
As an ode to mums and mother figures up and down the country, we wondered what our most loved mum sayings are ahead of this year’s Mother’s Day.
TOP TEN ‘MUMERISMS’:
- Manners cost nothing
- Close the door, were you born in a barn?
- Eat your carrots, they’ll help you see in the dark
- Take your coat off or you won’t feel the benefit
- If the wind changes, your face will stay like that
- Eat your greens
- I want never gets
- Put yourself in their shoes
- You’re burning the candle at both ends
- Everything works itself out
For those left feeling nostalgic, why not ditch the flowers this Mother’s Day and make their day by booking a train ticket to see them? According to new research from Railcard, that’s all she really wants anyway (21%)*.
With mums also revealing that the worst thing about Mother’s Day is not seeing their children (19%), followed closely by the idea of their kids’ spending money on them (17%), the team at Railcard has the perfect gift idea that would mean more quality time together and less time filling a basket with items that don’t mean as much.
