One Day Contest
Have you had a chance to check out any episodes of the new "Martha Stewart" show "Whatever, Martha" on Fine Living Network? Alexis Stewart and Jennifer Koppelman Hutt bascially just sit and roast Miss Martha Stewart.
That must be so theraputic!!
In the spirit of all the hilarity that ensues on the show, INO is giving away 4 Whatever, Martha aprons.
How do I enter?
Leave a comment on this post telling YOUR Whatever, Martha moment. These moments could include times where either the mother or daughter might have been slightly embarrassed by something the other did. For example “I remember when my mom came to pick me up from school and greeted me with a head full of rollers in front of my friends," something of that nature.
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300 points
there was one time back in 8th grade that i was finally making friends at a dance and dancing in a circle when all the kids started laughing, and when i turned around...my MOTHER was dancing like a fool hippy style. the most embarassing whatever moment of my life.
OOOOO I JUST MOVED INTO A NEW HOME AND DO ALL THE COOKING BUT HAVE NO APRON! I DESPREATELY NEED ONE, PLEASE PICK ME :D
300 points
I love aprons! They are not only effective, but cute too!
1280 points
I cook and bake for my family a lot and I would love to win this. :)
300 points
I cook every day for my family and would love to have an apron... that way I would stop getting food all over my nice clothes :)
300 points
Oh I just absolutely have to have this for my daughter!!!! This is great!
I am so happy to see aprons making a come back. They remind me of my grandmother and mother.
1064370 points
Love it! Love it! Love it!
Please!?!?
510 points
i adore aprons!! her show looks funny.
300 points
mY mARTHA MOMENT WOULD BE, wHEN i COOK AND BAKE DAILY FOR MY FAMILY, AND IT does not trun out as good as Martha does and would do, I say, well this is not a Martha moment. I love this apron, and would love to win and wear it proudly.
300 points
I am "whatever Martha"!!!!!
Aprons? I love them. The wittier the better.
300 points
I NEEEED this. Please oh please oh please
Kids are bibs, Adults are aprons. Whatever. I want it.
300 points
Meredith Peters,
We have a dog that sheds so badly that actual big tumble weeds of his very lightweight hair are a common site rolling through our rooms. I cleaned quickly one day for impromptu company and wouldn't you know it someone moved the rocking chair and unleashed a huge dog tumbleweed. Whatever,Martha!!
1020 points
I love Martha! I would love to win this!
330 points
I love Martha. My wife says it would look good on me.
8260 points
Boy is that something I could use. I was just thinking, I NEED a new apron, and there it is.
33280 points
Martha Stewart is my idol... but unfortunately I have no interest in cooking, haha.
300 points
I've been watching some shows and love them. It's hilarious to watch! Getting paid to diss on your mom....how fun. JK.
My moment was actually watching MS's show one day, and she proceeded to IRON ALL OF HER BEDLINENS! You have got to be KIDDING me! I'm lucky I have time to make the bed with clean sheets, much less iron them! WHY?
505 points
wow i loved this,because i always but always mess my clothes up when i'm cooking!
when i was about 13 or 14 my mum came to me and said that the boy had a huge crush on is over there and if i really want to make him notice me i should go and talk to him before his possibly boring and middle aged cranky mother comes! -it was a party for the mothers day and everyone was with their mothers- it was nice for her to warn me,but telling me those when i was actually talking to HIS mother deffo didn't help me !
300 points
I remember when I spent hours trying to make healthy homemade chicken nuggets for my first son (now 15)
I proudly presented them with homemade pineapple sauce dip and he took a bite, pushed it away and said... "that tastes yucky, let's go to Oh No Donalds"
I would love to win this for my sister, she has the family gatherings at her house.
300 points
I love Martha, but I also love cooking and need a new apron!! My mom was also my girl scout leader so I have a lot of embarrassing stories: This one happened when my friends and I were on our way to a dance at 13. We were discussing different sexual practices that we had just learned about in school (I'm gonna keep it PG and not mention them...) and my mom from the drivers seat goes: "Well, its not my favorite, but..." She didn't finish her sentence because I squealed that middle schooler squeal way too loud. Scarred for life, and so were my friends. My mom is a sex ed teacher, so I guess she was just trying to open up the conversation.
380 points
on a tour of the school, my mom got real chatty with another students parents, and what did they talk about? how my weight loss program was not working. WTH?
gotta love mom
I wanna win!!
525 points
I love Martha!!! My husband calls me Martha because I love to enteratain, decorate, crafts and cooking. Although Martha is narotic I still love her. Sometimes I find my mom is as crazy as Martha. When I was growing up all through my childhood everytime my friends came over my mother would always be near by with the DUSTBUSTER. Remember the dustbuster. I still have nightmares of my mother chasing me with it. My friends called her Mrs. Dustbuster. Even today when I meet up with old friends hey always ask if my mom chases my kids with the dustbuster. HA HA HA the dustbuster is gone but she now ones a Swifer!!!!
Martha is wonderful.
300 points
My mother announced to the whole family (about 30 people--aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings, grandparents) at our Thanksgiving dinner that I finally had the need to go shopping for my first training bra-- I was the only girl in my generation of the family; all the boys STILL remind me (& we're all in our 40s), and it comes up often now that we all have kids of our own!
710 points
My mom, who is a Martha, BTW, is queen of telling her friends every little detail. Like when I hit puberty. Why exactly did her friends need to know that? Now that I'm closer to menopause, I just don't tell her stuff.
300 points
Every day is a Whatever, Martha day. Who can keep up with her?
12135 points
Can't recall a Whatever, Martha moment that stands out above the others, but I really would love this apron :)
300 points
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300 points
haha, as soon as I saw this post it reminded me of when I was about 13 and my mom came home with this HIDEOUS haircut. It was super short on the bottom but long on top. It was supposed to be the "Martha" cut as my mom called it. Over the years she has always kept up with her martha hair styles. She also has her house IMACULATE. She does crafts, sculpts clay, paints a room in her house every few months, works in her garden. She is a clone of martha, but still manages to be a down home awesome Mom. I would love to win one of these to wear for our annual Thanksgiving dinner, because this year I will be cooking, and cooking for my mother would be like cooking for Martha herself. Plus they are super cute. :)
3145 points
sooooo cute!
300 points
My five year old "Whatever, Martha"ed me recentley when I was preparing meatloaf for dinner and asked if she would like to help. She told me that mixing the meat with my hands was "disgusting, and I needed to use a spoon." She went on to explain that putting my hands in the food was not healthy and she would only help if we used spoons....
300 points
We were at a restaurant and the waitress was asking us what we wanted to drink. My 7 year old blurts out, "my mom only drinks at night" (referring to my juice and tea drinking since the kids are always snatching my drinks all day long) She must have thought I was a drunk from the look on her face LOL.
1845 points
I love to cook, decorate and be crafty. This apron would be great. Don't have any stories to tell on my mom. She's really good about thinking first and not embarrassing me.
300 points
Ha! That's my line....
I cook alot and could really use this.
300 points
This would be perfect, i tend to not change my clothes when i cook, so i'm always getting them dirty.
great contest!!
395 points
please i just want to win once :-)
1440 points
i LOVE this show, its freakin hilarious! and i really could use an apron! =)
555 points
It's midnight, Friday night, 7th grade. I come out of the so awesome hang out Skateland. Oh yeah! So I see my mom's car in the front row of the parking lot. I run over and get in. There is no car in the spot in front of us so my mom pulls forward. The front of the car goes up and then comes crashing down! The entire skateland parking lot - which is full by the way because everyone is leaving - hears it and looks over just as my mom gets out of the car in her bunny slippers, nightgown and winter coat to see what she ran over. Well there was one of those parking blocks at the front of the space. So now she says she can't drive back over it. What! Just keep going I say! Luckily for her, humiliating for me, a group of high school guys come over to help (what high school guys were doing at Skateland I have no idea) So, they lifted the car back over the parking block all while I’m hunched down on the floor of the front seat. For the life of me I can't remember if there was a friend in the car with me, but there must have been. I could have died. If I would have been just a few years older I would have just laughed hysterically, but you know middle school.
My mom would yell at me telling me not to walk in puddles in front of my friends in front of my school. Embarassing!
300 points
When I was 15 I saw this guy from another school that I thought was pretty cute. When I was 17, I met him and thought "Not so much!". I told my mom that he was pretty unattractive, now that I had met him, but, I said yes when he asked me out, trying not to be superficial. When he came to pick me up, my mom blurted out, " He's not ugly, sweetie!"
Whatever, Martha!
1375 points
My mom once opened the door with her robe on....which is ok, ya? Well, she was naked underneath and my boyfriend got a good look! I was petrified!
Thanks Vera!
925 points
hmm I got you folks folks topped I am known as the lady who after letting the older kids off to school.....MAKE GOOD CHOICES TODAY>>>SAVE YOUR CARNAL TREASURES....
300 points
Just this last weekend when my parents finally met the parents of my boyfriend of three years, my mother managed to tell stories of me from the unbearably awkward years of junior high. Ugh.
300 points
Has anyone every tried to makes something from her magazines? WHATEVER MARTHA! nothing turns out.
PS - my mother still buys me extra large underwear as christmas presents - it's so big that you could fit 3 of me in them. THAT is embaressing.
300 points
My mom seriously embarrassed me in the third grade...This was back when it was okay to bring home baked goods for your birthday to share with the other kids. Well my mom made my favorite M&M cookies. I was so proud as I took them into my class and as I handed them out! My teacher of course got the first cookie and as she took a bite, sheer horror came over her face and as polite as she could be she turned around a spit the cookie out in a tissue....To make a long story short my mom used salt instead of sugar...From that day on if I had to bring anything to school for a party or birthday it was store made!! :) I would love to give this apron to my mom for all the crazy things that happen in our kitchen!
300 points
My high school graduation (28 years ago!) and everything is perfect. The pomp, the circumstance, graduation gowns and caps all around.
The ceremony has just ended, everyone's friends and parents are running towards each other to congratulate the graduates.
Here comes my mom and dad. What's that? Something trailing behind my mom? Is it a snake chasing her?
She draws closer--OMG!!! It's the leg of a pair of stockings! Seems she quickly changed that morning and her panty hose got stuck inside her pants leg. When she put the pants on, it pushed out one leg of the stockings, and it was trailing behind her like a snake, and she had no idea!
I was SOOOOOO embarassed! Whatever, Mom!
awesome I like it, I hope I win
very nice to have an apron.
Cute aprons.
My whatever Martha moment was when my mom went and watched me give birth to my son. I was a bit embarrassed but was in so much pain at the time I didn't care.
300 points
ugh, I would love a plain 'ole apron. I cook dinner every night for my boyfriend and myself, and I love doing it (because then he does the dishes!) but my only apron is one I got in elementary school. It only goes to my bellybutton and doesn't adequately cover my... um... chest. Sad. Ha! they have cute ones at IKEA but I'm cheap :)
whatever you still have a mom around
300 points
I have way too many Whatever, Martha moments!
One of my top moments would have to be walking into my house with 2 of my girl friends to my mom playing a game of DanceDanceRevolution sans bra. They had never met my mom before...
If I was anything like Martha, I wouldnt need an apron!!
300 points
My 'whatever martha' moment would have to be the time I had a london broil seared and cooked just beyond rare. I rested it appropriately, made homemade horseradish remoulade. I transferred it onto a fiesta platter and flipped it onto the patio.
I scooped it up and told everyone it would be eaten by me later. I got burgers and found jalapeno slices in a jar and regular american cheese. I sent my better half to the local store to get hamburger buns.
It was great. Our guests laughed later that they thought it was very uncomfortable when the meat took a dive but they liked the way we just laughed it off and developed plan B. The guests helped and we had a great meal. A great meal is always more about the company than the dishes.
So burger night was definately a 'whatever martha' moment.
Nothing in my house is perfect so whatever, martha.
I thought I would make a perfect holiday memory with my son when I bought a gingerbread house kit. Of course everytime I tried to put up one wall the others would fall down. After about an hour my son got bored and walked off to play with toys and I finally got the hot glue gun and cursed as I finally got my holiday memory together.
300 points
Never seen the show before
I remember driving home while my mom was visiting me and my kids. She had gone over to visit a neighbor friend of mine with her housecoat on. It was not right next door. She had to walk a ways.
My Martha moment was when I was at a family reunion. I wasn't feeling well and I told my Mom that I wanted to go home. My Mom said loudly, to the entire room of family members, "It's because she just started her period yesterday" It was very embarrassing and I wasn't even on my period.
I love Martha
Oh, so many, hard to remember all the mishaps and flops and embarrassments. My sister baking a lemon pie and forgetting to put the lemon juice in has to be a classic family tale.
My Whatever, Martha story is rather bizarre, it was 1976. I was heading off to music camp for ten days. Just as she was dropping me off, she says right in front of the whole band, "Please make sure you wash every night".
I could have died. I was 11.
300 points
My mom called everyone she knew to tell them that I had my first period.
wow aprons save clothing lives
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It was mothers tea in 8th grade. I just had modeled the dress i had made in sewing class and was walking down the steps in my first pair of high heels that my mom had repeatedly warned me that i would fall. sure enough I fell and my mom was mortified. Her fault!
My whatever moment was when I catch my daughter in a lie
My 'whateva' momment would have been after travelling over 40hrs from Holland to New Zealand, 3 transfers along the way, being pulled over in customs and being strip searched while my mother had to wait for over 3 hours for me to be realised.... ewwww wateva!!!!!
so FRY FOOD NOT YOUR MIND hihihi (and NO I did not have anything .....) HIHI
My mom...never a Martha...she was a 60's Hippie...and I wanted a Martha SO badly...like I thought all the other kids had. Now that I am a mom...I appreciate her more than ever...but the little bit of Martha I longed for...I am now, with my own kids, mixed up with a bit of Hippie
cute
310 points
I remember cooking my first chicken dinner for my family and never realized that theirs a bag of guts inside the chicken. Well we all sat down to eat and someone pulled it out and basically everyone started laughing at me. Whatever Martha.......I've improved since then
300 points
I was cooking the Thanksgiving turkey one year when my mother
decided to go in the kitchen and check on the turkey.She came
in and announced in front of everyone that the timer had shut the oven
off and it wasn't even cooking.Then preceeded to ask me why I
was not aware of this.Then in a rare moment I spoke up and asked
Can we finish cooking it in the microwave?I saw at that moment fire
rolling from her eyes.This had to be a Whatever,Martha moment for
me
This is so cute. My boyfriends line is whatever so it's great.
I need lots of aprons.
300 points
My mom wanted to accompany me when I registered for classes in high school. I had to beat her back with a stick, not literally though.
martha rocks,need apron cook fervently
time is what matters
300 points
My mom was pretty awesome, once I look back. She only had one whatever, martha moment when we were out shopping. She said something to me and I shot back with a snarky, teenage, Mom, you are embarrassing me! Well, she said quite loudly, OH, I'M EMBARRASSING YOU, AM I? WELL, WE WOULDN'T WANT THAT, NOW WOULD WE?! I wanted to disappear. haha.
300 points
I remember when I was a teenager and got in trouble at school for something or other and they called my mom in. She came storming in in her pj's, housecoat and house shoes. Needless to say I stayed out of trouble cause I never wanted that repeated again. I think she did it on purpose cause she knew I would be mortified.
Clever Apron to wear.
It was the 80s when mom showed up to chaperone my 5th grade class trip dressed in her long flowing tie-dyed top and a pair of well worn blue jeans! Yoikes, she was the "aged" flower child from the 60s and was right there IN FRONT OF ALL OF MY CLASSMATES---all day long! "Whatever Martha" or not, how could I possible stay cool and hip?????!
I've never had an apron before..... this is great!
300 points
It's always whatever martha in my house! I personally think that the woman is nuts!
I have a friend that we've nicknamed Martha because she can do just about anything. This would be cute to wear when she comes over for a bake night and all of us are there.
My used to always be very picky about her food when we traveled together. She always wanted her brie softened prior to dinner, extra butter for her crab legs, etc....
Whatever Martha...
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