#97- work at a place where you get free food every shift. It cuts down expenses and gives you something to look forward to.
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#97- work at a place where you get free food every shift. It cuts down expenses and gives you something to look forward to.
So true! I get a free meal every shift where I work. If you eat the standard three meals a day this reduces your food costs by a clean third. Its gotten me through a few periods of being stark broke. And it does give you something to look forward to, I know exactly what you mean.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1n50mn14
#98 - If you ever feel overwhelmed, take 10 deep breaths, counting up on each inhalation. Works wonders
this also works if you are very tired and need to wake up, that is if coffee doesn't do that for you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darcy88
#99 Tip for ladies: buy some nice lingerie (and/or jewelry), it makes you feel better, if you are a gentleman buy some nice lingerie (and/or jewelry) for your lady.
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#100: Only buy nice lingerie and/or jewelry if you can comfortably afford it, without increasing your credit card debt, because there's no worse feeling in the world than bills coming in the mail that you can't pay, and the interest mounting... and also, don't manipulate other people into buying you stuff that you don't need at all.
#101: Don't let money control your life!
"If you want to be happy, be."
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
#102: Once one's basic needs are met, all happiness and joy comes from within - (and from friends and animals, but certainly not from lingerie and jewelry.)
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Originally Posted by Vonny
...oh, there must be.
You got me here! :lol: There are many worse things! But it's not a lack of lingerie and jewelry.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
103 - Take lazy afternoon naps
Tip 104: "I find that ninety percent of the things I worry about don't happen. Also, of the things that do happen, it wouldn't have occurred to me to worry about half of them. Therefore, the more things I worry about, the fewer things are likely to happen."
Tip 105: Never lose your ability to laugh.
I've never said that lingerie or jewelry cam make anybody happy, it gives some feeling for comfort, I personally appreciate these things more than any money on my account.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vonny
Tip #106: Learn to say 'no'.
I'm awful at this.
"Hey David, would you mind giving up an entire day's work to run through mindless-exercise-number-forty-two with me?" "Hey David, would you mind proofreading my 20,000 word thesis on Marxist economics?" "Hey David, would you help me build a three-room extension on my house?" "Hey David, would you help me dispose of the bodies?"
Life is dumping far too much work on me at the moment, but I'm still pathalogically incapable of turning down a request for help...
A good idea that I tend to forget is to take a certain amount of cash with me when going out and leave the bank card behind. I've had some expensive nights knowing I had that card. Just make sure you've got enough to get a cab back if needed.
I have to say that I've had more happiness and joy from lingerie than from the entire animal kingdom.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vonny
I'm glad you like sexy women! :) But I generally get more happiness and comfort from my flannel and my down comforter (which requires geese) and being able to heat my home in winter.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Several years ago a guy friend of mine asked me if he could have a pair of my panties. I thought it was an odd request, but I said okay. He went through my drawer and picked out something. I was surprised at what he wanted. It was one of the most worn out and cheapest items I owned. (And now I'm reminded that guys like cheap.) Months later, or maybe a year later, I was at his home and he opened his drawer, and I couldn't believe that those underwear were in his drawer. He still had them! I still wonder what he was doing with them. I'm not sure how this fits. I just think that a lot of that sexy lingerie looks uncomfortable and is unnecessary, unless a woman wants to attract every lecher in the kingdom. Nowadays I like good underwear that fits well, but to me it's always called underwear.
...............don't type anything, don't type anything, leave it be, don't type anything...Quote:
Originally Posted by Vonny
A corollary of this would beQuote:
Originally Posted by Lokasenna
Tip 107: Doing nothing is often something.
I used to go to a lot of pubs and parties and restaurants just because people would call and say, "You doing anything tonight?" and I'd confess I wasn't. Then they'd invite me somewhere and I'd feel that, having said I was doing nothing else, I was obliged to go. The only way out of it was to lie at the outset.
"You doing anything tonight?"
"Yeah - I'm, er, going to see my sister in hospital."
In my thirties, when a lot of stuff was occurring to me about myself, I realised that the choice was not simply between whether to acquiesce or to tell fibs.
"You doing anything tonight?"
"No."
"Great! Want to meet me at The Grapes for a game of pool?"
"Sorry, I can't. I'm not doing anything tonight. That's what I want to do."
The principle applies to problems, too.
"This is going to be a mess. What are you going to do about it?"
"Nothing."
"You've got to do something!"
"Yeah, I know. I'm going to do nothing. If we leave it alone, it'll sort itself out."
A lot (but not all) problems will simply run out of gas and collapse if you don't keep topping up their tank with energetic attempts to 'do something'.
I'm afraid that it'll elicit a response like - "You want me to wear what!!"Quote:
Originally Posted by Olga4real
That was just for a suggestion about a scarf...
I tend not to make suggestions about clothes... anymore.
If buying clothes was a skill in a computer game, I'd be a Level 4 Inept.
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Originally Posted by Paulclem
Paul, if you are a gentleman you hand over your credit card. It's very simple to please a lady.
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Originally Posted by Lokasenna
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Originally Posted by MarkBastable
These two are really good!
#108: Never do more for other people than they do for you.
Why not?Quote:
Originally Posted by Vonny
Because people can tend to be a bunch of selfish unappreciative rectal cavities?
But isn't this...
...the very definition of this?Quote:
Originally Posted by Vonny
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Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
Tip 109: As Life is often a struggle against the containment of fluids, always have kitchen roll/ towels.
I do.... now....
No Calidore, #108 is for Lokasenna.
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Originally Posted by Lokasenna
It's not easy to pick clothes as a present for somebody both men and women, but I am sure if you give her a little box with a diamond ring she won't ask if you want her to wear that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
My mother has a lot of diamonds to pass on to me, and I couldn't care less about them. I guess I'll put them in a safe-deposit and if I ever have trouble paying my electric bill I'll sell them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olga4real
This is so ridiculous! ...Lingerie and diamonds are very boring, even in conversation!
You are funny, you find this topic boring, though you've posted the most comments on it. Why is that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Vonny
This might have changed my life. I'm so tired of making up stupid fibs. "I can't go to the bar tonight I have... my goldfish died and I'm... burying it. We were very close." Instead I'll try the "I'm doing nothing. Nothing is what I want to do, and it's what I'm doing."Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Humph! If some guy handed me his fancy credit card and told me "buy myself something pretty" I'd take it as an insult and try to bite his bottom lip off (sorry Paul, I guess it is difficult to find something that would please all women - maybe you could get her some Junior Mints? No one hates Junior Mints).Quote:
Originally Posted by Vonny
#110-Let people be who they are.
This is good.Quote:
Originally Posted by qimissung
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Originally Posted by Olga4real
Paul is a conscientious father stretched to the limit with educating his kids and caring for sick relatives, and his wife as well. Paul would like to have a Kindle but doesn't get one, for some reason. I don't see why he needs to give diamonds. And his wife might appreciate Junior Mints more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olga4real
The reason this topic is boring is because it continues on and on, and it's sapping the life out of what was a fun thread.
I felt the same as you about this one Juniper. It's life changing, along with saying "no." I have this with my mother, all of my energetic attempts to do something.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
If I don't try to fix it, it will work out somehow.
#110-Never lose your sense of humor (of course if you have it at all)
Good one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olga4real
Tip 111: Get away from all of the noise.
It makes every sense.
I was going to pull them together from 1-50, 51-100 etc, but it seems like too much effort now - I'm lazy by default.
Ruby ring. I have bought jewellery before unsupervised. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Olga4real
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Tip 112: Don't send your husband and son out to get your feminine products
It's misery on them and a guarantee they will not get it right...the package was thrown in my face.
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Just want to say, I apologize for responding to you as I did. I've thought about Qimi's "Let people be who they are," and then I read MarkBastable's reply on the "Life Sucks" thread over several times.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olga4real
It's just that I have trouble understanding some things, especially with women it seems. See, I just come from a different "place", and to me this kind of statement sounds absolutely outrageous. I was wondering, did I miss some humor in it? But no. My mother also gets comfort from jewelry. I just have trouble understanding because of the way I grew up with no feeling of security, and my mother grew up differently than I did, in which she did feel a sense of security. You get comfort from lingerie and jewelry, and I get comfort from having money. They are equally valid. So I'm sorry if I took the humor out of the thread.
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Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
At least be glad she didn't use them first Gilliatt, or you'd need Tip #109! :lol:
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Originally Posted by Paulclem
:lol: Frankly, it just never works when you send someone else to do your shopping for you, have you ever noticed that? My parents biggest fight was over the pink toilet paper he kept bringing home when she specifically asked for another color, white I think. I could never figure out why that was so important, but I think she did not feel listened to, and that I do understand.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
Sorry, Gilliat, you tried, anyway.
Tip 113: Do your own shopping!
And Vonny, thank you. Olga is really, really nice. She is a loving person and kind to animals. :D No, really, she is.
I think the men in either of your lives would not be left guessing what you thought or felt!
Actually, my sons got me a watch with diamonds on it for my birthday. I didn't ask for it, but I was quite touched by it.
Tip 114: Recieve all gifts with grace and pleasure (and little squeals of happiness if it's really what you wanted)
Tip 115: Always at least say hi to everyone you meet.
Tip 116: If you ask someone how they're doing, actually take the time to listen to their response.
Tip 117: A little physical discomfort every once in a while can be beneficial.
You don't have to apologize, Vonny. You won't believe but I don't have a single diamond at all, nor I am going to buy any, I rarely can afford buying a really high quality lingerie. If I had money I would divide the amount into three parts give the two to my daughters and the rest I would spend on travelling - I have never been outside of Europe. I would give some money to our local dog shelter as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vonny
However if I ever get a diamond as a gift I will not refuse it and would wear it gladly (of course if the jewelry suits my taste).
Thank you for kind words you are too nice to me. I also was touched by your sons' gift.Quote:
Originally Posted by qimissung
Olga, I hope someone gives you some nice diamonds. And Qimissung that's really nice about your watch.
I don't know why I'd be contrary with someone who has a cat avatar. I don't know why sometimes my mind goes into these strange phases lately. My thinking was really off for a couple of days. (Anyway, I'm taking a medication that should help, but apparently it takes a while to take effect, and in the meantime it's making me feel worse than ever - but hopefully I can stop routinely tyrannizing this forum soon!)