OMG yes... busted my head acting a fool... mama said I might need stiches and I started crying... "Shut up before I give you some more"... dang really😂😂😂
I’m a lil late but I love my mama & I couldn’t resist: 1) “You got McDonald’s money?” 2) “If you can “huh” you can hear!” 3) “You want somethin to cry bout?!” Kids today could never! 🤣🤣🤣
“Y’all ain’t gon keep coming in and out of this house! IN OR OUT!” “Answer that phone/door, if it’s Suzy tell ‘em I’m not here” *later that same day…* “I don’t know where you got all this lying from! It ain’t that hard to tell the truth! Right or wrong?!” And last but not least, “ FIX YOUR FACE!”
When I was silly enough to ask my father about going somewhere because " everybody's gonna be there". My father said: "EVERBODY'S NOT gonna be there--cause you're NOT gonna be there!!!" Took me a while to figure out how to ask a better question and get a better answer.
I'm 62 and one thing I am glad we old folks finally did away with was calling adult cousins "Cud'n' so-&-so". Sounds sooooo country. But I still don't believe in kids first-naming grown folks.
Growing up in the 80's in South Africa, SOUTH AFRICA, we were told that there were kids in Ethiopia who would wish to have the food that our moms piled on our plates. I'd love to know what moms in Ethiopia told their kids.
When the Royal Dansk Butter Cookie tin can you get around Christmas now has needle and thread, buttons of all colors and crochet needles instead of cookies!!!
I'm arab and I grew up just like this lmao. Especially the reusing the containers and plastic bags. Don't forget the mom stare if we were trying to start something in a store and being asked if we wanted to "go back to the car" or "go to the bathroom"
Told to my white God daughter when she was about five, cutting up the the grocery store, "Do it again and I'll beat your ass til it was black as mine!" She stopped, eyes wide as saucers, blinked a few times then straightened right up. No problems after that. LOL *I don't believe in corporal punishment, but she didn't know that. 🤣
These 2 that I also used on my sons….: ‘Don’t let your mouth write a check your butt can’t cash.’ ‘You bet not make me have to come in there.’ And whenever they talked about something being really early in the day they’d say, ‘Fo day in the morning’. Took me a long time to figure it out. 😂
So we ain’t gon’ mention Vick’s vapor rub, switches from the tree outside, or cleaning the whole house on Saturday morning with Motown’s greatest hits playing in the background.
Yes to Motown on Saturday mornings! Also my mom's mom made her eat a spoonful of Vicks after she had also rubbed it on her. She also made her eat drops of kerosene on a spoon full of sugar.
We always got the "you better not ask me for nothing" speech before we went inside the grocery store 😂.... And when we got in trouble, it was "quit all that crying before I give you something to cry about" while we were getting a whooping 😂🤣
I was waiting for this one, stop crying before I give you something to cry about LOL. On the other hand my mother seem like she would get mad if we didn't cry, so we 'squoze' (yes I said it) our eyes tight til a tear or two came out, then she would stop. LMBO
I believe those rules are passed down via genetics and the whispers of the ancestors guiding us. Let me find out Sistah Harriet Tubman up in Heaven STILL trying to save us from butt whuppings. 🤣😂
There's no words to explain how hard that, "Get out my mouth!" hit...I mean, my heart stopped & I froze 'cause I had to remind myself that I'm in my room & Mama ain't in here 🤣😂😅
Omg this was great! I was raised by a German grandma and an English grandfather and SO many if these things were said in our super pasty white house! This brought back such great memories of my family.
GURL! That catalog was EVERYTHING! I wanted Barbie doll and her dream house and car. There was no black Barbie back then and my Moma wasn’t buying none of it
Ok....i cried when she talked about not being able to laugh or smile while sick! I could hear my mama saying.." I guess you feel alright now, since you in here laughing."
Yes!! Get up and go clean and don't ask to go outside and play since you feeling better Matter of fact, go to school and get your homework so you don't get behind in your studies since you feeling better
Batteries in the freezer, aluminum foil on the tv antenna, the smell of Pine-Sol in the kitchen and bathroom, not EVER sitting in the living room (don’t even pass through the living room), etc 🤣😂
I'm Mexican American raised in South Central, 1960s and 70s! CHECK to ALL of these. So so funny! There doesn't seem to be much difference in how you and I were raised. I laughed when my black friends would tell me their moms would make them use water in their cereal when the milk ran out cuz my mom did that...and you better eat it!! I am now subscribed, thank you for your ALL wonderful content! ❤
That "don't open this door for nobody" was a trigger for me lol. "everybody that need to get in this house got a key so if anyone is knocking/ringing the doorbell they don't need to be in here" lol
Here’s one: “when we go to Ms. So and so’s house don’t ask for anything to eat or drink. If she offers you something you say no thank you.” So many times I wanted to say yes but I knew the assignment and I followed through 😂.
Oh my gosh yes!!! And be as hungry and thirsty like a dog especially if they cooking something good too! Oh and what about this; “ Don’t touch my walls, you’ll get em dirty!” Or how about that one decorated room in the home that nobody could go into! 😂
Don't ever embarrass parents by acting up in public and we couldn't touch ANYTHING merchandise related whenever we were shopping with them at stores for fear of it breaking or the store thinking we stolen it.
SIS. I DREADED Saturday morning for YEARS. The MOMENT Earth Wind and Fire started...?? *peeks from under blanket, deep sigh* Might as well get up. 🥴🙄 I still can't sleep through the smell of pine sol to this DAY. 🤣
I struggle with depressing and times are very hard for me right now going through some major issues with this pandemic. So your video gave me so much laughter and hope that we can laugh in these tough times . Thank you !! New subscriber right here !
My dad would give us a $20 bill to walk to the mall (because he wasn't going to waste his gas dropping us off those few miles) & go to the movies + get lunch & then say, "bring me my change". 😳 Change??? There are 5 of us! 🤣 And my dad put cocoa butter on EVERYTHING to "fix" it: You burn yourself? Cocoa butter! Scraped your knee? Cocoa butter! Cut your finger? Cocoa butter! Splinter? Pull it out, then cocoa butter! 🤣🤣🤣
The most famous statement: “I brought you in this world. I’ll take you out!” We all know what that meant! Someone got smart out of their league. You made me smile & laugh. Ain’t that just like all moms!!! Brings back memories. Almost let’s me know what’s missing in these generation of kids!!!
Oh the trama of getting your hair pressed with that hot comb 😩. Talkin bout "Ain't nobody burned you" or "That's just the heat" or popping you with that comb or brush
When it's time to get your hair done you went to the kitchen, not the bathroom, and prepared to get ON the counter at the sink and also had to sit in front of the stove but wasn't going to be cooking anything, except your ear if you let it go or moved! 🤣 Also Summers were spent going outside and "gettin' wet" by the sprinklers (basically only because the grass needed some water or your cousins had spent the night and your momma needed a break so y'all had to go outside and she was feeling generous.) Going shopping for school clothes, what you got for Christmas was winter and Easter.... and that was it!
When you get to the grocery store don't look at nothing don't touch nothing don't ask me for nothing lol 🤣🤣🤣 and if you roll over my heels with that cart one more again I'm going to tear that ass up
"By the time I get home, this house better be clean! " "Come back in this house one more time and you gone stay in" "Don't go eat over nobody else like I don't feed my kids!" 😂
“Close them blinds you lettin my air out!” “Gone outside, grown folks talkin” “If you hungry you better eat what I cooked, unless you got some MacDonald’s money!” “Tell ya lil frein it’s time to go home” “Baby who yo peoples/kinfolk?”
"I ain't one of your lil' friends" "gone ova there and wrench it off" "don't be runnin' in and out my house - either ya'll inside or outside" "ya'll smell like outdoors"
5. Auntie had a room in her house that was covered from top to bottom with clear plastic....it looked like it was frozen in time! Us kids weren't allowed to even look at that room from the hallway! Lol! That room was for "Comp-nay"! 😆
💀. My grandma’s house was a plastic museum. But now with kids, I see why. If you value your furniture, you will protect it from guests and kids. Everybody can’t sit on your couch.
"You ain't leaving this table til all your food is eaten" "Quit slamming my door" "You got McDonald's money"? "Take those clothes off when you come home from school before you go outside and play" "Close my door. You don't live in no barn" "This house betta be clean when I before I get home"
Playing outside all day and scared to come in for water... Why? Because I'd be told "you know what, it's time for you to come in anyway". So I drank out of the water hose in the backyard. 💦 😂😂😂😂 Best water ever!
Yes! And the classic punishment was that you couldn’t go outside and play. Now, you almost have to bribe a child to put the video game remote down and go play outside! Smh
@@blackbutterfly8338 jumping rope, riding bikes, hopscotch, Jack's etc. We LIVED for outdoor fun! Work to play was the motto in our house. Kids today are too soft because they do nothing but play video games and peruse social media ALL DAY!
I’m a 23 year old South African 🇿🇦 and this and so much more has made me realize how the black community is so similar worldwide 😂 no matter the country, the culture or the religion , black folks gonna be black 😂 wouldn’t change it for the world though ✌🏽
Im coloured from Cape Town and almost everything she said was like ... Is this my mother 😅🙈 a lady in the comment section was saying her mum collects margarine containers to reuse in the house.... I was like mine collects ice cream tubs 😅🙈
@@RI......... 😂 you see? We've been sustainable and recycling even before or was a thing. I just repurposed a glass coffee container into a jam jar to drink out 😂 my mama is rubbing off on me lol
@@MsRamington I collected ice cream tubs, too. Came in handy for all sorts of purposes.😆 I just recently stopped after the last kid got married and left home and I don't buy tub container ice cream anymore. 😊
Nobody had caller ID in the early 80s, so during the summer, we stayed at home by ourselves. Mama said “don’t answer this phone while I’m at work. I’ll call u at 11:30 and imma let the phone ring 1 time and hang up. Then I’ll call right back…..that’s how you know it’s me”. She kept us safe and made sure her & daddy didn’t get in trouble for leaving us at home by ourselves all day! Black folks kids didn’t know nothing about summer camp!
@jada marie Yes,Yes,Yes me too. I remember, it was a friday night and my mom let me spend the night at the girl's house I went to the same babysitters with, my Dad came home and asked "Where's Karen" sure nuff my dad came and got me and took me home.
My mama and me pull into a store parking lot circa mid 1980s and the conversation goes like this: "When we get in this store don't ask for nothing. I ain't getting nothing but what's on this list. Don't touch nothing cuz you ain't got no money. And keep your behind where I can see you. I betta NOT have to come find you!" Love you Ma❤️️
Yup, don't ask for nothing, don'twant for something because you ain't nothing in there today! Try me and see what happens. The next time she went to the store I would have to stay home because I didn't listen. These kids nowadays don't know true parenting like the old school parents.
You are home by sundown. I moved oceans away. I still get home by Sun down. Now for people from east Africa, the suns goes down between 6-7. Canadian winters, it’s 4:00PM sun down. 😩
"Whos' week is it to do the dishes, you are your sister" "But Ma, it's 3 o clock in the morning" " I don't care, somebody betta get down stairs and do them dishes"
#SpeakOnIt Got one of those early AM greetings. Had the nerve to say "what" as one does in the midst of confusion, and got a whooping with a hanger.... and STILL had to do those dishes.
Literally just had this conversation with my 13 year old. Talking about "oh, I was tired. I wanted to go to bed." I told her go ahead. Any other time she wants to stay up. But on her week to do the dishes she's tired. She was like no. I said when I get up at 2 am I'll be sure to wake you up.
"I'm full as a tick." Turns off the whole house in the thunderstorm so we could hear the Lord do his work. "I don't care what everyone else is doing. I ain't their mama! " "In or out." "If everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you do it too? " (Before going in a church or store) "Don't you get in here and embarrass me! Act like you got some sense! " Spaghetti in the fridge at all times. Baked chicken and collard greens in the fridge at all times. "Turn that water off! " "Turn my lights off. "
Scenario 1: You're in a different room. Mom calls your name. You answer, Yes. No response. You again answer, Yes, but a bit louder this time. No response until you physically go to where mom is in the house/apartment. Scenario 2: You're in a different room, playing or whatever. Your mom calls you. You run to her location. She is sitting somewhere near a tv and asks you to hand her the remote that close by.
Saturdays were for: Getting hair washed/pressed, going downtown or to the shopping center (buying stockings for church, etc.). Gospel music (vinyl or 8-tracks) playing, so we knew the next day is Sunday - as we cleaned up the house, did laundry and hung it on the line. Parents cooked for Sunday dinner, so it would already be done for after church.
My mixed daughter born in Europe got her first black American friend this year. After spending time with her she said... mom I need more black in my life. Then said thank you for raising me black .... I didn't know how to take that... lol
Plastic grocery bags are also trash bags, shower caps, umbrellas, and lunch bags 😂😂
Yes lol
@@qianabrown3443 I just saw where she said it in the video too lol
To this day I do not own a shower cap lol
Suitcases too 😆🤣
Oh we forgot deep conditioning cap 🤣🤣🤣
The stove overhead light was the night light at grandma's. Period.
Yesssss!!!!
Still is for me.
That stove light was like the North Star for us hungry cousins wanting a snack. Granny house was the only safe place to enter a kitchen at night.
@@wisewittyandpretty4210 me too😂 and And I'm just 25
Omg, yes! To this day, I still have mine on.
"Keep cryin'. I'm gonna give you something to cry about."
I’m a white woman and I heard this many times. Lol Heck, I even used it on MY kids. 😂😂
Classic
Famous words in a black house! 🤣😂
OMG yes... busted my head acting a fool... mama said I might need stiches and I started crying... "Shut up before I give you some more"... dang really😂😂😂
That was my mother, all day!😂
I’m a lil late but I love my mama & I couldn’t resist:
1) “You got McDonald’s money?”
2) “If you can “huh” you can hear!”
3) “You want somethin to cry bout?!”
Kids today could never! 🤣🤣🤣
A loaf of sliced bread wasn’t just sliced bread. It was hot dog and hamburger buns, too!
Lol, yep!
Girl I had to tell my kids this all the time. And they looked at me stupid. Lol
What's a bun? 🤣🤣😆😆🤣😆😆
I have not eaten a hotdog/hamburger on sliced bread since the day I left my parents house. I won't even eat a patty melt.
@@jsroper87 😂
“Turn them lights off! You don’t pay no bills around here!!”
I still use this one with my child who loves to turn on every light in the house.
I tell my husband that lights don't grow on trees!
Yessssss! 😂😂😂😂
"You ARE a bill!" 🤣🤣gets em every time
I use that with my child 😂
“Y’all ain’t gon keep coming in and out of this house! IN OR OUT!”
“Answer that phone/door, if it’s Suzy tell ‘em I’m not here”
*later that same day…*
“I don’t know where you got all this lying from! It ain’t that hard to tell the truth! Right or wrong?!”
And last but not least, “ FIX YOUR FACE!”
🗣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😅😁😅 IM HOLLERING ..
I'm dead bruh🤣🤣🤣🤣
Looool, that last part.
Fix our face OR IT WILL STAY THAT WAY FOR EVER!
Yes! I was just thinking that one.."you're not going to keep running in and out of this house!"
When I was silly enough to ask my father about going somewhere because " everybody's gonna be there". My father said: "EVERBODY'S NOT gonna be there--cause you're NOT gonna be there!!!" Took me a while to figure out how to ask a better question and get a better answer.
“Take a bath, you smell like outside”.
“I’m not one of your lil friends”
“Fix your face”. Just some of my mother’s favorite quotes 🤣
That’s the one, that 2nd one! Lol
I use those quotes now on my own kids😂😂
Oh my gosh....”fix yo face” was THE saying my mom used
🤣🤣🤣🤣
yeah and my mom would add, "before I fix it for you"
You and adults aren't on a first name basis. It's Miss and Mr. regardless. Periodt.
Yes!!!!🙌🏾
Yes ma'am.....my son calls my BFF (his godmomma) Aunt, along with the rest of my friends....if not that, then Miss So and So....LMAO
To this day.
Yes!!!!!
I'm 62 and one thing I am glad we old folks finally did away with was calling adult cousins "Cud'n' so-&-so". Sounds sooooo country. But I still don't believe in kids first-naming grown folks.
If you walk into a room without speaking, especially to your elders, you may get your head knocked off.
Oh yes.
You may as well put in a request for your favorite flowers at your funeral if you entered a room and not speak..😂
Best believe if you don't speak when you regain consciousness, you getting knocked out again.
PERIODT and I’m the same way with my kids
Oh, heads definitely will be rolling!
Growing up in the 80's in South Africa, SOUTH AFRICA, we were told that there were kids in Ethiopia who would wish to have the food that our moms piled on our plates. I'd love to know what moms in Ethiopia told their kids.
I’m in my 60s; we had to eat all of our food because the starving children in Biafra would love to have the food we had.
YESSS😂😂😂😂
When the Royal Dansk Butter Cookie tin can you get around Christmas now has needle and thread, buttons of all colors and crochet needles instead of cookies!!!
Literally had NO IDEA those things actually had cookies in them originally until my early 20s O.O
😂😁Absolutely...still have one to this day!
Yes ! I still have my moms can with her sewing supplies in it. 😂
😭😭😭😭😭
Yep! Hahaha!
It ALWAYS amazes me how so many black households across the country can relate without being related!!! I LOVE US!!!! ❤
I love y’all 😂😂💙❤️💙❤️💙
Yasssss!!!!
❤️
No no no! You mean ACROSS THE WORLD! I'm from South America and my moma did alllll a thissss!
Sis it’s like it was a black household book that parents followed like better homes and gardens for black ppl aka decent house and outside 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Take a nap is also affectionately known as, "Go lay down!" 😴😂
That's what I tell my daughter now...Ma, my throat hurts...go lay down!
I'm arab and I grew up just like this lmao. Especially the reusing the containers and plastic bags.
Don't forget the mom stare if we were trying to start something in a store and being asked if we wanted to "go back to the car" or "go to the bathroom"
WOW 🙌🏾
Truth.💯
OMG ....THE DEATH STARE....we just called it "The Look"!!
We were terrified to get home!! 😂😂
"Be in this house when the street lights come on." "Does your mother know you came down here to play?....Let me call her."
You took mines. Lol!
@@shwanagarner3966 LOL!
Yessssssssss!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤎🤎🤎🤎
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂Yes, tell everything!!!
My mom use to blink 3 porch light....on...and don't let her blink it the 3rd time....😂😂😂
If you ever heard the words “I’m gone beat the black off you.”
Told to my white God daughter when she was about five, cutting up the the grocery store, "Do it again and I'll beat your ass til it was black as mine!" She stopped, eyes wide as saucers, blinked a few times then straightened right up. No problems after that. LOL *I don't believe in corporal punishment, but she didn't know that. 🤣
Or "bust yo head to the white meat"..🤣
If you were young playing outside and thirsty, there was the water hose.
Took me back with this one!
Yup 😂😂 gotta let it run a few seconds so it can get cold 😂😂
Yup
These 2 that I also used on my sons….:
‘Don’t let your mouth write a check your butt can’t cash.’
‘You bet not make me have to come in there.’
And whenever they talked about something being really early in the day they’d say, ‘Fo day in the morning’. Took me a long time to figure it out. 😂
Yes! My co-worker who grew up in Michigan said they nicknamed the egg delivery man "Fo' Day" because he made his delivery rounds before dawn. 😄
So we ain’t gon’ mention Vick’s vapor rub, switches from the tree outside, or cleaning the whole house on Saturday morning with Motown’s greatest hits playing in the background.
Saturday morning clean to Motown! Yeeeesss!
I hated that Vicks rub. Mama would put it on our chests and backs. Sometimes even under our nose.
Getting flashbacks from "go get a switch".
The panic. The fear. ☠💀
My mom called it Vicks sas.
Yes to Motown on Saturday mornings! Also my mom's mom made her eat a spoonful of Vicks after she had also rubbed it on her. She also made her eat drops of kerosene on a spoon full of sugar.
“Why are there 2 boxes of cereal open?”
“You smell like outside”
“Why is my front door open, we not heating up the world.”
That cereal stuff irks my soul. Kids can’t ever eat out of and finish one box before trying to crack into the next one. Nobody wants stale cereal.
"You smell like outside"....memories. I haven't heard that in forever. I'm in the 45 and over crew😉
You smell like outside 😂😂😂
Ohhh! To this day in my own house, I get scared having more than one box of cereal open!
@@calisahardy4845 no lie lol sometimes I have to remind myself "I'm an adult now, I can do what I want."
The look without saying a word.
💙🤍💙
💯
Thats the scariest look
With the clinched top lip. 🥴You knew to straighten up and quick! 😂
Man that was terrifying 🤣
When she gave you that “look,” DANGER!
Lol that Country Crock butter container had everything BUT butter in it 🤣🤣🤣
Right!💯🤣
Right!!!
Absolutely! 😂👍
Collards, soup, potato salad, butter beans and corn!!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I promise you that’s when they made “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter”.
My mom was famous for saying, "If you embarrass me, I'm going to embarrass you no matter where we are." I learned quick
When someone stared and didnt speak.. "Well hello to you too, you can speak! Didnt nobody sleep with you last night!!"
Mine always said "act a fool at school and I'll beat your at school".
My mom always said, "IF you show out in Macy's, I'm gonna show out at Macy's." I tried her one time, never did it again.
My momma always said "wherever my wagon breaks down is where I'm gon' fix it"
Yuuupp and raising my babies the same way. They best not embarrass me
"When we get in this store don't touch nothing and don't ask for nothing."
There was aways that one sibling though. 🤣
😂😂😂
And u just look at em like u soo stupid when that smack comes
You betta preach it up in here, JessSyd89!!! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
How we all had the same childhood 🤣🤣
I was that sibling 🤣🤣
The smell of Pine-Sol and EWF playing on the record player on Saturday mornings!
Al Green ..four tops...mop n glow hardwood floors
We always got the "you better not ask me for nothing" speech before we went inside the grocery store 😂.... And when we got in trouble, it was "quit all that crying before I give you something to cry about" while we were getting a whooping 😂🤣
And if you KEPT crying, you'll be alright as long as......
My mom gave it to me and I gave it to my son...yasssss!!!!
Gdm. @ Only me, Is 💯 percent Correct, so far I agree with U &
Most of the other comments as well. Lol 😀😆😆😂😂😂
I was waiting for this one, stop crying before I give you something to cry about LOL. On the other hand my mother seem like she would get mad if we didn't cry, so we 'squoze' (yes I said it) our eyes tight til a tear or two came out, then she would stop. LMBO
Just gave it to my own kids YESTERDAY, don't be asking for all this stuff. We in here for 1 thang 😂
We didn't eat everybody's cooking.🤣🤣
OMG!! Yes!! That was so effective to the point where, I still live by that credo to this day!!😂😂
I know right. 😄😄😄😄
And we didn’t stay at everybody’s house.
Facts.!! N still don't. "I'm good" lol😂
RIGHT. "Y'all gon eat now , you know we don't eat these folks food. You just say "no thank you", you hear?" -My Mom 🥰
How were black parents communicating these rules across the US without the internet? Some kind of secret manual or something 🤣🤣🤣
The world even cuz im in London and 100% relate lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I believe those rules are passed down via genetics and the whispers of the ancestors guiding us. Let me find out Sistah Harriet Tubman up in Heaven STILL trying to save us from butt whuppings. 🤣😂
The village drums travel far and wide!
Black Americans have a culture too lol
There's no words to explain how hard that, "Get out my mouth!" hit...I mean, my heart stopped & I froze 'cause I had to remind myself that I'm in my room & Mama ain't in here 🤣😂😅
“Don’t go over them people house eating like you don’t have no food at home.” 😂🤣😂
Don't forget girl, don't worry about people talking about you, they talked about Jesus Christ and He died for our sins!
YES!
Yes 🙌🏽
And she be one of the ones talking bad about you to her friends
Yes Chile!
Beautiful 😍 I absolutely love this one.
When your parents' entire inner thoughts and conversations can be done in a look, whether it's across a room or across a church🤔
From the choir stand!!! And don't let the other kids see your momma too!!!!
Still can send my grown daughters a look across the room to this very day!🤣🤣🤣
Everything I did ran up the light bill. My bedroom door was not to be closed for ANY reason!
When it starts lightning and thundering everything and everyone be still and quiet.
And you better not be on the phone.
All lights off as well no appliances lol
Sis stop playing with me 😭😭😭 it JUST stopped lightening so I picked my phone up finally 🤣🤣🤣
@@AnastasiaBeaverhousn 😂😂
. . . & no running water (e.g. baths, showers, . . .) The Lord was doing his work.
2 Crisco cans, one for fish grease the other for anything else fried!
My grandmother yes
🤣🤣🤣
Yep! And that fish grease had a bit of cornmeal in it 😂
FACTS!!!!!!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
As an African, I'm here to confirm that we never wished for ketchup, LOLOL!
😂😂🥰
Thank for clarifying this mystery 🤣
I am weak!
NEVER!!!😂😂😂
@Adaobi 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Now you tell me!!!!! I’m in my 60’s!!! 🤣🤣🤣
“You need something to do?” my mom if I ever looked like I was bored. Being bored was not allowed.
"Close that door, you letting all my air out".
My father in a nutshell.
"You bet not be out there eating and drinking after nobody!"
Yes!
And if you from Mississippi, "you better use the bathroom fo'you go." Folks could work roots on you if you use the bathroom at they house.
"Your eyes are bigger than your stomach"
"stay out of grown folks business"
"hey is for horses"
Going through the comments. I was just thinking to myself I don't see "Your eyes are bigger than your stomach" 😂😂😂😂😂.
🤣 my second mom used to call it "Long eyed!" Referring to your eyes being bigger than your stomach! 😂
Also, "A hard head makes a soft behind"
Omg this was great! I was raised by a German grandma and an English grandfather and SO many if these things were said in our super pasty white house! This brought back such great memories of my family.
At Christmas, you got the Sears catalog to circle what you want, even though you weren't getting half of what you circled
👍
Yes!!!
I always circled the life size Barbie Dream House and never got it😂
RIGHT 🤣🤣🤣
GURL! That catalog was EVERYTHING! I wanted Barbie doll and her dream house and car. There was no black Barbie back then and my Moma wasn’t buying none of it
That was the best! That was the dream 😂
Ok....i cried when she talked about not being able to laugh or smile while sick! I could hear my mama saying.." I guess you feel alright now, since you in here laughing."
That's funny as hell!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yes!! Get up and go clean and don't ask to go outside and play since you feeling better
Matter of fact, go to school and get your homework so you don't get behind in your studies since you feeling better
🤣 Our momma’s are something else
I was crying laughing!!! I say that to my children too. I am my mother now.
Batteries in the freezer, aluminum foil on the tv antenna, the smell of Pine-Sol in the kitchen and bathroom, not EVER sitting in the living room (don’t even pass through the living room), etc 🤣😂
@Black Butterfly… Amen💀😂🤣😂🤣. True
The living room was for the Christmas tree. The dining room was used three times a year: Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter.
I STILL don't sit in the "front room" 😅
And my grannie & auntie had the plastic covers on the living room couch & chair.
@@friendlyvibes5363 my thighs always stuck to the plastic… That’s why you are not to sit on the couch!
I'm Mexican American raised in South Central, 1960s and 70s! CHECK to ALL of these. So so funny! There doesn't seem to be much difference in how you and I were raised. I laughed when my black friends would tell me their moms would make them use water in their cereal when the milk ran out cuz my mom did that...and you better eat it!! I am now subscribed, thank you for your ALL wonderful content! ❤
That "don't open this door for nobody" was a trigger for me lol. "everybody that need to get in this house got a key so if anyone is knocking/ringing the doorbell they don't need to be in here" lol
Exactly
Haha!!!! Everybody that’s supposed to be in here has a key!!!! I hit my kids with that one!!! 😂😂😂
Sis!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Same!
Facts… 🤣🤣🤣
"Betta not cry or I'll give you something to cry about!" - post whoopin'
Also "dats yo ass" - pre whoopin
Here’s one: “when we go to Ms. So and so’s house don’t ask for anything to eat or drink. If she offers you something you say no thank you.” So many times I wanted to say yes but I knew the assignment and I followed through 😂.
🤣🤣 oh yessir!
Oh my gosh yes!!! And be as hungry and thirsty like a dog especially if they cooking something good too! Oh and what about this; “ Don’t touch my walls, you’ll get em dirty!” Or how about that one decorated room in the home that nobody could go into! 😂
🤣😂….the assignment….🤣😂
Yessss, and you be so hungry; but they tell you “you betta not be acting hungry like I don’t feed you”
😆😆
Don't ever embarrass parents by acting up in public and we couldn't touch ANYTHING merchandise related whenever we were shopping with them at stores for fear of it breaking or the store thinking we stolen it.
"I don't care what your little friends do but (fill in the blank). I'm not they momma, I'm your momma!"🤣
I say this to my daughters all the time.
I have to use that this week 🤣
I think I'm gone change little to "lil" and your to "yo". Lol. I say that to my kids with my subtle changes 😅
That line!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
When you’re crying and they say “better stop all that crying or imma give you something to cry about”
Omygosh Shanea yessssss that one 👆🏾👆🏾
Or when they're spanking you, but still telling you to stop crying. 🥴Ummmm, I will, as soon as you stop spanking me! 🤣
You know what the phrase “your daddy was not a glassmaker” means.
Hahaha! Move from in front of the TV! 🤣👍
Ohhhh I didn't know that one.
Told my son that the other day when he was standing in front of the TV! 😂😂
Sit your behind down...we can't see through you!
Can't see through you Chile, get from in front of the ( MY) tv!
We knew the “staintion” cord was a multi-purpose tool.
"Mom, my stomach hurts."
"Your stomach hurt? Have you drank some Ginger Ale?"
Girl, yes!!! That was the answer every single time - my mom kept Canada Dry Ginger Ale in the house at all times.
Yep, " ginjail" was the cure all! 🤣
@@andimurray2896 Yes ma'am, and still to this day we keep some stocked in the fridge 😂
We swear by Ginger Ale 😂😂😂
Yes! Ginger ale and saltines
If you heard “I’ll slap you in the middle of next week” if you woke up to Gospel or Motown Hits on Saturday morning to clean the house.
I been to kingdom come plenty of times
@@latashawalker49 Me Too 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@darrinjohnson9412 🥰🥰
Yes Lawd!! I remember ALL OF THAT!!!
Thats why im 35..and have no problem blaring..The Bee Gees or Heatwave right now..
EVERY Saturday morning when you heard that stereo blaring mama's R&B, that means she's cleaning and you need to get up and come help!😂
Move on your own! Otherwise lights get turned on, curtains get opened and now I have a list for u! 😂
….and then, come Sunday morning, church music would be blaring from the portable radio in her room, meaning get up and get ready for morning service!😀
SIS. I DREADED Saturday morning for YEARS. The MOMENT Earth Wind and Fire started...??
*peeks from under blanket, deep sigh* Might as well get up. 🥴🙄 I still can't sleep through the smell of pine sol to this DAY. 🤣
Yes my mom did this every Saturday played her new cd’s she bought that Friday night before!
Amen
I struggle with depressing and times are very hard for me right now going through some major issues with this pandemic. So your video gave me so much laughter and hope that we can laugh in these tough times . Thank you !! New subscriber right here !
Wishing things will get better for you💚
My dad would give us a $20 bill to walk to the mall (because he wasn't going to waste his gas dropping us off those few miles) & go to the movies + get lunch & then say, "bring me my change". 😳 Change??? There are 5 of us! 🤣
And my dad put cocoa butter on EVERYTHING to "fix" it:
You burn yourself? Cocoa butter! Scraped your knee? Cocoa butter! Cut your finger? Cocoa butter! Splinter? Pull it out, then cocoa butter! 🤣🤣🤣
Y'all learned real quick to be creative on a value meal at the food court huh.
😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
My grandma used to call it “the show”.
I just spent 20 bucks at Starbucks 🥴🥴🥴
“Why... Why are the kids in Africa wishing for ketchup? What’s that about”🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 agreed
Whuhahs
She twisted the words fir the sake of the joke - but black parents love to remind us about the hungry kids with the big bellies on those commercials
Listen....the ketchup.....the beans.....anything apparently 🤦🏾😂
The most famous statement: “I brought you in this world. I’ll take you out!” We all know what that meant! Someone got smart out of their league. You made me smile & laugh. Ain’t that just like all moms!!! Brings back memories. Almost let’s me know what’s missing in these generation of kids!!!
"Don't slam my door. Either stay in or go outside." "Hold your ear down." Get that kitchen (the back of your head)
Yoooooo 😂. Only in a black family do they know about the kitchen 😂😂😂
Lol! That kitchen gave my mom hell because I had a lot of hair and I was a squirmer! Hahaha!
Oh the trama of getting your hair pressed with that hot comb 😩. Talkin bout "Ain't nobody burned you" or "That's just the heat" or popping you with that comb or brush
Lolol right! Then you say " ouch!, " they would say, that was the grease! Lol 😒🤣
Phew! I have flashbacks about that straightening comb to this day!!! I would be holding my ear down the entire time 😭😭😭
When it's time to get your hair done you went to the kitchen, not the bathroom, and prepared to get ON the counter at the sink and also had to sit in front of the stove but wasn't going to be cooking anything, except your ear if you let it go or moved! 🤣 Also Summers were spent going outside and "gettin' wet" by the sprinklers (basically only because the grass needed some water or your cousins had spent the night and your momma needed a break so y'all had to go outside and she was feeling generous.) Going shopping for school clothes, what you got for Christmas was winter and Easter.... and that was it!
Saturday morning when the music came on 🗣THAT’S CODE FOR LET’S CLEAN UP!
Not just music but Gospel music lol.
@@leepie1473 something about Jesus, bleach and pine sol that just automatically sound like the right thang to do🙌🏾
OMG y’all in my house!
When you get to the grocery store don't look at nothing don't touch nothing don't ask me for nothing lol 🤣🤣🤣 and if you roll over my heels with that cart one more again I'm going to tear that ass up
I definitely agree with this statement! Lol
"By the time I get home, this house better be clean! "
"Come back in this house one more time and you gone stay in"
"Don't go eat over nobody else like I don't feed my kids!" 😂
Bingo all of this
“Where is the box?” your mom or dad looking for the remote for the TV. 🤣. Plastic on the furniture.
@@sg5720 One of my Georgia elders looking for the TV remote: "Where's the clicker?"😄
@@maryjane974 yeah and the "moken troll"
@@gojosgirl6487 Yes! LOL! :):):)
“Close them blinds you lettin my air out!”
“Gone outside, grown folks talkin”
“If you hungry you better eat what I cooked, unless you got some MacDonald’s money!”
“Tell ya lil frein it’s time to go home”
“Baby who yo peoples/kinfolk?”
And you have to say MacDonalds ain’t no McDonald’s 😂🤣😂
All that⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️😉
My people just cut the whole name down, mickeyD's!!! I miss this
I love y’all man!! 💋❤️✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻
" Don't go outside & don't let nobody in ... while I'm gone. "
We had to clean the entire house before we were allowed to watch Soul Train.
Yes! Soul Train on Saturdays! Remember Afro-Sheen commercials and Fat Albert?
Or Go Outside!
That one! But you had to do it quietly cause you better not wake her up.😂
No no no, you needed soil train to clean the house. My best mopping comes with the electric slide.
C'mon now!!! We did too!!!
"I ain't one of your lil' friends"
"gone ova there and wrench it off"
"don't be runnin' in and out my house - either ya'll inside or outside"
"ya'll smell like outdoors"
I knew early what a ho bath was
Thats what my folks called wrenching off!
Right!! Or “Don’t forget who you talking to!”
"Wrench it off" 😭
I'm from the South, it was: "y'all smell like outside, go get in the tub and baze" 😂😂😂aka "bath."
@@tiffanyyisrael7989 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣...mine would say "bav"
This feels like a family reunion 😂💜
It really does! Lol!
Yesssssss!!!!!
The children from Africa line😂..yazz..sendin good vibe from the Caribbean🎉
5. Auntie had a room in her house that was covered from top to bottom with clear plastic....it looked like it was frozen in time! Us kids weren't allowed to even look at that room from the hallway! Lol! That room was for "Comp-nay"! 😆
The white sectional my mother bought in 1963 had the plastic slipcovers on it til about 10 years ago.
@@angelasmith5351 Lol! 😂👍
💀. My grandma’s house was a plastic museum. But now with kids, I see why. If you value your furniture, you will protect it from guests and kids. Everybody can’t sit on your couch.
😄😂😂😂 💯
😩🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭🎯🎯🎯
"Now I'm goin' in here to get some groceries. I'm telling you now....don't touch nothin', and don't ask for nothin'"
Now I'M using it.😅
Sometimes, me and my brother would wait in the car while Mom got groceries. We’d changed the station until she was on her way back to the car…
"You ain't leaving this table til all your food is eaten"
"Quit slamming my door"
"You got McDonald's money"?
"Take those clothes off when you come home from school before you go outside and play"
"Close my door. You don't live in no barn"
"This house betta be clean when I before I get home"
The one thing I hated the one was having to change my school clothes 🙄 Then I turned around and did it to my son because I understood!! 🤣🤷🏽♀️
You got McDonald money. Lol
😂😂😂😂😂
The one about Church on Sunday’s is 🥇🏆
We need to keep these old instincts back because these children off the chain
Playing outside all day and scared to come in for water... Why? Because I'd be told "you know what, it's time for you to come in anyway". So I drank out of the water hose in the backyard. 💦 😂😂😂😂 Best water ever!
Yesssssss
@t v h do what you gotta do!!
Yes! And the classic punishment was that you couldn’t go outside and play. Now, you almost have to bribe a child to put the video game remote down and go play outside! Smh
@@blackbutterfly8338 jumping rope, riding bikes, hopscotch, Jack's etc. We LIVED for outdoor fun! Work to play was the motto in our house. Kids today are too soft because they do nothing but play video games and peruse social media ALL DAY!
That hose water hit different! Lhh! It was the best and nice and cold!
No sleeping in on the weekends. Saturday is cleaning day
Omg. Yes
Wait… I think I was raised in a black household. Or my mama was so she raised us that way. 😂 I felt this entire video deep in my bones.
“Close the door, I ain’t paying to cool outside”
“Close the fridge door, you letting all the cool air out”
I’m a 23 year old South African 🇿🇦 and this and so much more has made me realize how the black community is so similar worldwide 😂 no matter the country, the culture or the religion , black folks gonna be black 😂 wouldn’t change it for the world though ✌🏽
Im coloured from Cape Town and almost everything she said was like ... Is this my mother 😅🙈 a lady in the comment section was saying her mum collects margarine containers to reuse in the house.... I was like mine collects ice cream tubs 😅🙈
🤗💞love to see this!🤗💞 Same here in Virginia! 😊👍
@@MsRamington I collect ice cream tubs 🤭😅
@@RI......... 😂 you see? We've been sustainable and recycling even before or was a thing. I just repurposed a glass coffee container into a jam jar to drink out 😂 my mama is rubbing off on me lol
@@MsRamington I collected ice cream tubs, too. Came in handy for all sorts of purposes.😆 I just recently stopped after the last kid got married and left home and I don't buy tub container ice cream anymore. 😊
“Waste not, want not.” (Finish your food.)
“…and people in Hell want ice water…” (When the answer is ‘No’)
Don't forget the old classic "want in one hand and shit in the other one and see which hand fills up first."
I cannot WAIT to start telling my kid that people in hell want ice water. It’s one of the best.
@@EJCmkechi 😆
This is so funny. I grow up with all of those rules. Especially opening up the door without asking who's at the door.
Me: Ma, I'm thirsty.
Mom: Drink water.
Me: I don't want water.
Mom: Then you ain't thirsty.
YES!!! 😆😆
Water was our magic cure all.
Insert any sickness or headache:
My mom: drink some water.
Yep... My Dad used say "yo body don't know about no soda, it wants water"
Oooooooooh noooo!!!!!! I'm turning into my mama!!! I just made this statement verbatim a Lil bit ago..... Laaaaaaawd!
Same with food. If you didn’t want what was in there, you wasn’t hungry.
The universal answers to just about anything that wasn't a necessity:
1. "NO!"
2. "BECAUSE I SAID SO!" 😊❤🙏
Don't forget "Let me think about it" which was a no😂😂😂
@@bwcarter921 🤣Right
Ooh I hated that!
@@gojosgirl6487 Right. But I kept my mouth shut. LOL🤣😊💖🙏 We made it!🙌🙏
Nodding my head, Yes! That’s what my Dad said all the time. His word was the law and it was final.
Nobody had caller ID in the early 80s, so during the summer, we stayed at home by ourselves. Mama said “don’t answer this phone while I’m at work. I’ll call u at 11:30 and imma let the phone ring 1 time and hang up. Then I’ll call right back…..that’s how you know it’s me”. She kept us safe and made sure her & daddy didn’t get in trouble for leaving us at home by ourselves all day! Black folks kids didn’t know nothing about summer camp!
Seriously
Don't keep opening & closing my door like that! Either stay inside or stay outside!
Ain't no going over to your friends house they gotta come to yours.
I couldn’t spend the night at NOBODIES house…… lol.
THIS IS THE ONE😭
👍 yap my father.
💯 This!!!
@jada marie Yes,Yes,Yes me too. I remember, it was a friday night and my mom let me spend the night at the girl's house I went to the same babysitters with, my Dad came home and asked "Where's Karen" sure nuff my dad came and got me and took me home.
being raised in a black household is the best❤️
My mama and me pull into a store parking lot circa mid 1980s and the conversation goes like this: "When we get in this store don't ask for nothing. I ain't getting nothing but what's on this list. Don't touch nothing cuz you ain't got no money. And keep your behind where I can see you. I betta NOT have to come find you!" Love you Ma❤️️
Yup, don't ask for nothing, don'twant for something because you ain't nothing in there today! Try me and see what happens. The next time she went to the store I would have to stay home because I didn't listen. These kids nowadays don't know true parenting like the old school parents.
You are home by sundown. I moved oceans away. I still get home by Sun down. Now for people from east Africa, the suns goes down between 6-7. Canadian winters, it’s 4:00PM sun down. 😩
“IDC what Tom and Jerry doing” I almost spit out my water 😂😂😂
Me toooo!!!😂🤣😂🤣😂
Lmao!!!
"Whos' week is it to do the dishes, you are your sister"
"But Ma, it's 3 o clock in the morning"
" I don't care, somebody betta get down stairs and do them dishes"
Tell the truth and shame the devil. Its like they set their alarm on purpose to snatch you out of bed at 3:00 am to do the dishes 🤣
#SpeakOnIt Got one of those early AM greetings. Had the nerve to say "what" as one does in the midst of confusion, and got a whooping with a hanger.... and STILL had to do those dishes.
Literally just had this conversation with my 13 year old. Talking about "oh, I was tired. I wanted to go to bed." I told her go ahead. Any other time she wants to stay up. But on her week to do the dishes she's tired. She was like no. I said when I get up at 2 am I'll be sure to wake you up.
@@tianawashington8869 I KNOW my mama did! Lol
This!! 🤣🤣🤣
"I'm full as a tick."
Turns off the whole house in the thunderstorm so we could hear the Lord do his work.
"I don't care what everyone else is doing. I ain't their mama! "
"In or out."
"If everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you do it too? "
(Before going in a church or store) "Don't you get in here and embarrass me! Act like you got some sense! "
Spaghetti in the fridge at all times.
Baked chicken and collard greens in the fridge at all times.
"Turn that water off! "
"Turn my lights off. "
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣please stop
Yes, we had to shut up and sit in the dark during a thunderstorm because God was talking 😁
Literally this was my household!! Lol! Crazy! My mom said and did all of that!
Yes Lord, the thunderstorms thing was real!😂😂😂
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Scenario 1:
You're in a different room.
Mom calls your name.
You answer, Yes.
No response.
You again answer, Yes, but a bit louder this time.
No response until you physically go to where mom is in the house/apartment.
Scenario 2:
You're in a different room, playing or whatever.
Your mom calls you.
You run to her location.
She is sitting somewhere near a tv and asks you to hand her the remote that close by.
I'm 65 and my Mama does this: Pour me some coffee, the coffee maker is 5 feet away from HER but I'm washing dishes.
@@stephaniechenault9169 Lol.
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Saturdays were for:
Getting hair washed/pressed, going downtown or to the shopping center (buying stockings for church, etc.). Gospel music (vinyl or 8-tracks) playing, so we knew the next day is Sunday - as we cleaned up the house, did laundry and hung it on the line. Parents cooked for Sunday dinner, so it would already be done for after church.
Buying stockings for church... almost made me cry lol Lawd the memories ❣️😩🥰
@@ebonyg3562 😂😂😆
OMG that was our household also I hated Saturdays because I knew my hair was getting ready to get washed and pressed for school on Monday 😂 😂
This was my household
My mixed daughter born in Europe got her first black American friend this year. After spending time with her she said... mom I need more black in my life. Then said thank you for raising me black .... I didn't know how to take that... lol
I still use my plastic bags for garbage 😂😂😂🤣🤣
Same!
The giant, decorative wooden spoon and fork that hung on the wall in the kitchen had to cleaned weekly WITHOUT taking it off the wall.