Top Tips for a Happy Life

[MarkBastable]

#108: Never do more for other people than they do for you.

Why not?

[MystyrMystyry]

Because people can tend to be a bunch of selfish unappreciative rectal cavities?

[Calidore]

But isn't this...

#108: Never do more for other people than they do for you.

...the very definition of this?

Because people can tend to be a bunch of selfish unappreciative rectal cavities?

[Paulclem]

Tip 109: As Life is often a struggle against the containment of fluids, always have kitchen roll/ towels.

I do.... now....

[Vonny]

No Calidore, #108 is for Lokasenna.

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...

[Olga4real]

I'm afraid that it'll elicit a response like - "You want me to wear what!!"

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.

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.

[Vonny]

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.

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.

This is so ridiculous! ...Lingerie and diamonds are very boring, even in conversation!

[Olga4real]

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.

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?

[JuniperWoolf]

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'.

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."

Paul, if you are a gentleman you hand over your credit card. It's very simple to please a lady.

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).

[qimissung]

#110-Let people be who they are.

[Vonny]

#110-Let people be who they are.

This is good.

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.

You are funny, you find this topic boring, though you've posted the most comments on it. Why is that?

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.

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.

A corollary of this would be

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 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.

If I don't try to fix it, it will work out somehow.

[Olga4real]

#110-Never lose your sense of humor (of course if you have it at all)

[LitNetIsGreat]

#110-Never lose your sense of humor (of course if you have it)

Good one.

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.

[Paulclem]

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.

Ruby ring. I have bought jewellery before unsupervised.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

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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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