What did you SWEAR you would have...?

Actually, I can't think of anything that was denied me in a way that I felt compelled to have it. The thing that I vowed I would never have was a pink bathroom. Mum had a thing for pink, and the bathroom was a teeny tiny little one, and the pink was tooooooooo much for me -- especially as I really don't care for most shades of pink to start with.

So, what do I have in this house? Two -- COUNT 'EM, TWO -- bathrooms in which the FIXTURES are pink! I conducted my rebellion by adding every other colour I could think of and making them a deliberate hodge-podge of colours!

Originally Posted by rapunzel47

Actually, I can't think of anything that was denied me in a way that I felt compelled to have it.

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Those were the words I was looking for! Life was basically the same for us.

For starters being able to be on time...my mom is always but always late for everything. For our wedding I gave her a different time to everyone else just so she'd be on time since she was walking me down the aisle.

Being able to stay out for the whole night if I want - at 21 I still had a curfew of 10pm.

Oooh and big one this : not having to get up at the crack of dawn on saturdays to "spring clean" the house and yep every single saturday for as long as I lived there...

Central heating. When I was growing up we just had one heater at the bottom of the stairs and the heat never reached my room, you could actually see your breath in the air it was that cold. I remember sleeping in two pairs of jogging bottoms and two big jumpers and still being cold in winter. A couple of years ago my dad actually bought some little portable heaters, but it was still chilly in winter (he doesn't feel the cold).

Now, I have my own home and I have radiators!! Can't tell you how wonderful it is to get out of bed, see frost on the window, but still be nice and warm! To not mind taking a shower, knowing that you won't shiver! Don't think the novelty will ever wear off

Originally Posted by JakkieS

Oooh and big one this : not having to get up at the crack of dawn on saturdays to "spring clean" the house and yep every single saturday for as long as I lived there...

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Same here. And always during saturday morning cartoons!! How cruel is that?

Another thing: blankets on the couch in the winter. My mom would never let us have them because she said it looked too messy. "What if someone comes in? What will they think??" (my answer was always that "They'd think someone actually LIVES here" )

Chocolate biscuits!. My mum would just make sure we had boring plain ones unless it was for tea on sundays.

So now, you come to my house and theres a jar full of kitKats, Penguins, Breakaways etc... all covered with chocolate!

My kitties!
My parents think animals are supposed to be outside (except THIER dog)
and they didnt like rock music. I wasnt forbidden to listen to it, they just didnt prefer it
Besides that there wasnt much I wasnt allowed to have. My parents were pretty laid back, even for my father being a minister.

I love reading everyone's answers! They are hilarious !!
Krazy kat, can't believe that about the dish soap!!

For me, it was pop (or soda for you US'ers ). It was only for liquor mix at parties in my house

Or sitting on my butt instead of cleaning first thing on the weekends (as others have mentioned).

And eating cereal or chips for dinner once in awhile...

Originally Posted by Arlyn

more pets than humans

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Umm, cable TV, alcohol, indoor cats, a MAN.

Originally Posted by Loveysmummy

I love reading everyone's answers! They are hilarious !!
Krazy kat, can't believe that about the dish soap!!

For me, it was pop (or soda for you US'ers

). It was only for liquor mix at parties in my house

Or sitting on my butt instead of cleaning first thing on the weekends (as others have mentioned).

And eating cereal or chips for dinner once in awhile...

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Hey now. It's pop to me, and it always will be. A soda is an ice cream drink.

What do I have now that I didn't then? A (relatively) clean, peaceful home and tasty from-scratch real food. Oh, and really nice sheets, though I didn't know I needed those till I had them as an adult.

Originally Posted by rapunzel47
Actually, I can't think of anything that was denied me in a way that I felt compelled to have it.

Originally Posted by Hydroaxe

Those were the words I was looking for!

Life was basically the same for us.

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Same Here

Believe it or not...food! My mom was notoriously always on a "diet" (believe me, even now she is always on one or watching what she eats and she doesn't need to, she looks fab)...and it was just her and me. Anyway, I was a track and long-distance runner in high school and was always STARVING. It would never be beyond me to eat an entire Domino's pizza, but that was just it...if I needed food, I would have to order. Then, if we didn't have enough money, I would just starve . Plus Mom NEVER EVER cooked! And then she would be like, "Oh, I'm going to the supermarket, do you want anything?" I'd say, without fail, "FOOD!" Since I wasn't *specific enough* it would be diet iced tea and pretzels.

Yeah, you could say, I have had a problem with food...I never knew when my next meal would be . So now, I shop at gourmet supermarkets (Wegmans, Whole Foods, etc) and always have fresh veggies, meats, organic snacks...and i make it a point to go once per week.

Now it's funny b/c Mom always hated cooking...I do too! But i do it out of necessity

For me it's a bathroom for myself! I grew up in a house of 8 (my parents and 6 kids) and I always begged for a second toilet. I'm house hunting, and even though it's just me I won't look at anything under 1-1/2 bathrooms. The other thing is the Extra Innings baseball package on cable. Even though it wasn't available when I was a kid, it would be the type of thing that would be too expensive and we only had one TV. I had to fight to watch baseball (and this was during a period when the Red Sox were on successive hard to get in radio stations).

Actually growing up I pretty much could do what I wanted. But I had to keep covered up, no bikinis, nothing low cut or short. Of course, now I have no desire to wear any of that cause I'm too out of shape.

I SWORE I'd have a house far away from most of my family-------and I do LoL!!!!!!!!

I've really had to think about this one. My first reaction is I swore I would never argue about money like my parents did. Paydays were never good at my house. My parents would NEVER spend money on extras, even when we had the money. To this day, they still don't ever splurge. I know how much money they have in the bank, and I wish they would live a little before they died, but I can tell it's never going to happen. With my credit card bill as proof, I am now the opposite of them.

I asked my brother this question this morning. The answer was so simple, I can't believe it didn't come to me right away.

I swore that all of my meals would not come out of a can or box!!! My mother was NOT a cook cook and if it didn't come out of a can or box, we didn't eat it. My brother and I both have become fairly decent cooks.

My Mom was the opposite, she always cooked from scratch with the exception of cakes, she never mastered that. The other thing that just occured to me is eating away from the table. We always had dinner at the table as a family which was nice but it's also nice to eat in front of the tv.

That being said, I have been known to have a candy bar and a soda for dinner. Not good for me at all, but so yummy.

I can't think of many material things, although I'm sure there are some. The one thing I always swore was that I wouldn't be so strict with my children that they resent me. My mother was very strict. I've managed to discipline without the extreme environment that I felt I had as a child. As a result, I have children who trust me, respect me, and totally stay out of trouble.