Do / did you have a Swear Jar?

Tommo apart from the cooking and the leaving my DH could have written your list!

I had a New Year resolution to break myself of the habit of using meaningless verbal tags such as 'actually' 'to be fair' and 'basically'. Work colleagues were using them; I just picked up the habit and really didn't like it. The jar didn't get very full but served as a reminder and so did its job.

Tommo 😂 😂 😂

Things I consider offensive in my house which would warrant a $ or 2 in the jar if I had one. They are far worse than any swearing I might do in response.

“My mother is coming to stay”
“Go tidy up your shed”
“We’re having Xmas her this year.”
“Would you like to come shopping with me?”
“ I’ll cook”
“I think the house needs painting again”
“Why don’t you go back to work.”
“We’re getting a dog”
“I’d never leave you, dear.”

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

No - it wouldn’t have gone down well at all, very judgey. My kids didn’t swear in front of me, I was the only one in the family who ever swore. Still am.

F*$# no!
I’d be broke.

Hell no!!

No I would be skint if I did and then there would be none for the GCs jar.

No swear jar in our house it would be permanently full!

I think it depends on what you count as a swear word. I find people who use the F and C words all the time to be very wearing and avoid them wherever possible. And yes it does show lack of vocabulary if people are constantly talking about the effing this and effing that.

I once went on day relief to another library (when I was a library assistant in the 1960s) and they wanted me to put 2 shillings in the swear tin for saying that the "damned" bus driver put me off at the wrong stop. I told them to grow up. They never got their two shillings.

Jaxjacky

Our local pub used to have one, filled up with 50 pence pieces pretty quickly, money for charity.

Does being a little short for the next pint qualify as a charitable need?

Doodledog wrote: "but it seems odd to me that you 'make clear' something that is simply not the case."

I stand corrected. I should have written " ... made my opinion clear..." instead of "...made it clear..."

I'll use your reply as a rejoinder in my next construction project.

Our local pub used to have one, filled up with 50 pence pieces pretty quickly, money for charity.

Swearing doesn't show a lack of vocabulary though. They are additional words that people can draw on if required. Some people with small vocabularies use them, but others add them to wide and expansive ones - they are just words.

Fair enough to say that you don't want to hear them, and if a swear box works for you and yours, that's fine; but it seems odd to me that you 'make clear' something that is simply not the case.

No. My language is much better since I retired.

No.

My granddaughter does for her mum and dad, she has threatened to bring it to our house the next time she comes. She reckons she will be £'s in if she hangs around granddad.