SC Johnson In My Family: Family Stories, Great Advice, Family Heirlooms, more

What's Your Best Story?

Whether they're sweet, sentimental or laugh-out-loud funny, family stories celebrate the people we love and the moments we've shared.

We have three topics open right now: Funny Family-isms, Great Advice and Secret Recipes. We hope you'll read through the stories others have submitted or share a story of your own. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Fantastic sweet potato yumminess

Meg from Ann Arbor

Chunk sweet potatoes and boil til tender. Toss with olive oil, italian seasoning, paprika, salt and pepper. Roast in the oven at 350 degrees for one hour, stirring about every 20 minutes.

Thank you is TEE TOO

Laura from Kansas

My daughter when she was little decided to say TEE TOO instead of Thank you. We still say it that way today, she is forty two and has 2 children and 1 grandchild - so that makes me Great Grandma! TEE TOO for that.

"OK Mr. the-bread's-gotta-match"

Donna from Michigan

When my children were in elementary school almost 20 years ago, we had the opportunity to teach them about giving back to those less fortunate than we were. Through his office, my husband became involved with one of the Salvation Army's food...

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Butter Incident

Dave from Oak Brook

My family was at my brother's house for a visit (we brought bagels) and, my then 6 year-old daughter, who is a notoriously finicky eater, asked for some butter on her bagel. I got some butter from the refridgerator and spread it on her bagel. She...

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Truly a Family Company

AZJyn

In the news these days is the "Johnson" name. A few years ago I had the privilege to meet some of the true Johnson Family. The building I worked in for the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale was the 'SC Johnson Building'. My mother worked there too. We are...

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Try to love each other every day and say it

Jerry from Michigan

We have been happly married for almost 60 years, we have 5 sons and 11 grand children. We will have 4 sons (one in Texas could not make it) and their wives, 22 people in all at Christmas. Each son is in a different business, flowers, chemicals,...

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Giving with Love

Ruth - Jake's mom

Jake was diagnosed with a brain tumor just one day after his 6th birthday. After major surgery Jake had to learn to walk and talk all over again. After losing his hair to radiation and chemo, Jake told me that he wanted to start a hat drive for...

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Marco Polo

Jill from Pennsylvania

Our family adopted the phrase "Marco Polo" from the swimming pool game played by children. While it's used in the game to figure out where someone is in the pool to go after them, we use it when we are out in public and lose track of where someone...

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