and we decided to round up the best answers:
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“Catholic mother, Muslim dad; neither really practicing.
“I grew up in a hoarder house.
I look back at my childhood now and cant believe the cluttered nightmare I grew up in.
Now I relish throwing things away when Im done with them.”
“Using a ships bell to call for dinner.
My parents got tired of yelling for us so they mounted a ships bell to the hallway wall.
They would ring it for dinner and any other occasion when they needed our attention.”
She’d basically swim me on a leash down the river for fun.”
“We only ever ate chilli with mashed potatoes and apple sauce.
I thought everyone did this until like grade 11 when I had dinner at a friends house.
Her mom put out chilli and I asked if they had any applesauce.
They all looked at me like I was nuts.”
“We were not allowed to have a drink with our meals.
“Leaving a shot of bourbon whiskey for Santa.
He gets tired of milk and it helps him feel warm.”
“Clapping at shows we were watching on TV as if we were part of a live audience.”
“We had pet rocks and named them.”
“We got told the ‘kitchens closed’.
Turns out other people are allowed to eat whenever they wanted??”
“My mum didnt know how to clean and so couldnt really teach us either.
We had this fungus growing out of the carpet at one house that looked like cooked noodles.”
“Having your teen partners just move in.
“Unlimited access to full sugar soda, specifically Pepsi.
We werent allowed back inside until the streetlights came on.”
“Whistling for each other.
My mum didn’t like yelling up the stairs.
I don’t even know how I believed that was a real tradition.
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