General Chat

Amanda
That would go well with my Squirrel cupboard

...named because I used to tuck away surplus items bought on offer, or early buys in preparation for Christmas

Gwyn

Years ago we had a shelf in the kitchen , Dad had put it up and one afternoon it fell down in spectacular fashion . Mum got a builder chap to put it back up and he said " there , you could stand a donkey on it now ! " it was forever after called " The Donkey shelf " .

lol Uzzi, 'Remington Steele' ( with the e) was also a US tv series with Pierce Brosnan :)

Noo Rose the Rem Steele was the leccy shaver

'dooberries' ! when you can't get the name of something in your head...as in 'pass the dooberry' :))

and not a household item, but when my mum mentioned 'thingy- from you know what' it was a fun game guessing which tv actor it was ;p)...
oh and 'Remington Steele' was 'shorthand for 'Ryan O' Neal' lol

ha ha Gwyn I would have understood Smurf.

OH has a happy knack of understanding thingies and watchyamacallits, but yes we do have pet names for things that nobody else would understand (great for playing trivial pursuit at times).
we have names like Nick shirts,

Orange sucky-up thing...........its a garden leaf blower/vac - lol

Do other families have words they use which have perfect sense within the family, but would leave outsiders wondering?

I asked my daughter if she wanted me to wash her Smurf and she knew exactly what I meant.

.......a white turban style towel for wrapping around wet hair.

Gwyn