Top Tips for a Happy Life

[Maximilianus]

So if both parties were to take that advice, which party should start the keeping first?

"What's going on? You're not keeping me in your life!"

"Well, you're not keeping me in your life. I only keep in my life the people that keep me in theirs."

"Well, excuse me - but I only keep in my life the people who keep me in theirs."

"I think you'll find that I was only keeping in my life the people who keep me in theirs way before you were. So you have to keep me in your life before I'll even consider keeping you in mine."

"So - you saying you won't keep me in your life unless I keep you in my life first? I don't think so! You just better start keeping me in your life right now!"

..and so on.

It's actually much simpler if you put a little less mind to it. In other words, too much mind to it kills its simplicity.

So if both parties were to take that advice, which party should start the keeping first?

Simple answer. There's often one party more interested than the other in... let's frame it simple for a change... friendship. The more interested party is always the party that starts the keeping first, and when they realize to be getting little or no feedback, this same party should be the first to start the unkeeping as well. It's like putting away an empty glass because there's nothing in it to be sipped. Looks simple to me.

[qimissung]

I've just done mine at the request of my landlord - but I couldn't spring clean him away (or even shiny and new) - so I'm stuck with the same old-...

90 - Invest in a smart phone that you can play games on - it may only be asteroids, and only a game, but there's a distinct feeling of accomplishment when you reach THE HIGHEST SCORE IN THE WHOLE WORLD!

Those pesky landlords are hard to wash out, aren't they? They persist in being a blot upon our existence!

I think this needs a slight adjustment before it's sufficiently honed to make it into the soon-to-be compiled LitNet Guide to Life. I've had a bit of a shot at editing it...

Tip 89-Spring clean your house once a year. It's a pain in the b***, but well worth it. Your house will feel all shiny and new again. Unless of course you invested a huge amount of time and money finding and buying a house that was neither shiny nor new, because shiny, new houses tend to be characterless and, more to the point, badly-designed, and anyway, although you don't mind a certain amount of non-obsessive cleanliness which is not at all the same thing as shininess and newness, you have a thing for Edwardian and Victorian domestic architecture, which, obviously, is anything but new and if it's shiny that'll only be because you've over-polished the original brass door-handles which somehow, thank God, survived the Sixties' and Seventies' fashion for wholesale desecration of turn-of-the-century houses, which was an attempt, broadly-speaking, to make them feel all shiny and new again.


It might need a light-touch line-edit, just to really sharpen up the pithiness, but I think my almost imperceptible modification adds something...

No, I think you got it about right, MarkBastable; I'd just eliminate the ninth word-after the dash-on the sixth line, maybe.

If I was to be fortunate enough to live in a Victorian house-my dream home-I would be floating in a cloud of new and shiny happiness-because it-since it's my dream-would be perfect.

[TheFifthElement]

92 (I think) - never watch the news.

(it makes me cross)

[qimissung]

Good one, Fifth. Maybe if we all banned the news it would go away.

#92-Don't worry if the colors in your life don't match.

[Paulclem]

92 (I think) - never watch the news.

(it makes me cross)

Doesn't it just. I keep watching though. It's not the news as such, but the terrible omission of everything except the most exceptional beyond our shores. What was it the BBC had on - Avon Ladies - on the morning news, and yet they hardly mentioned the big firefight in Kabul where 6 people were killed. (Of course they must have been Afghans to have merited so little coverage)

Grrr - there. I'm all annoyed again. And that's only the start....

Anyway...

Tip 93: If you have to get changed in a public cubicle, (as I do from my cycling kit sometimes), wear shoes you can stand on....

... or buy new socks... after...

[MarkBastable]

Good one, Fifth. Maybe if we all banned the news it would go away.

#92-Don't worry if the colors in your life don't match.

I'm with you on that. I find it hard to trust people whose outfits are colour-coordinated. An ex of mine was the kind of person who, if asked to take a Dalmatian for a walk, would dress in black and white.

[prendrelemick]

#94 Eat McVities' milk chocolate homewheat buiscuits.

[Emil Miller]

# 95: When drinking brandy, always make sure that it's Rémy Martin.

[MarkBastable]

#96 Neither brandy nor McVities milk chocolate homewheat biscuits are very palatable, but it might be worth experimenting with the idea of dunking the latter in the former.

[Emil Miller]

#96 Neither brandy nor McVities milk chocolate homewheat biscuits are very palatable, but it might be worth experimenting with the idea of dunking the latter in the former.

[1n50mn14]

#97- work at a place where you get free food every shift. It cuts down expenses and gives you something to look forward to.

[Darcy88]

#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.

#98 - If you ever feel overwhelmed, take 10 deep breaths, counting up on each inhalation. Works wonders

[Helga]

#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.

[Olga4real]

#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.

[Vonny]

#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.