Rules to Live By:

[budbeerlady]

DD is learning that if you have people who love you, you are rich. Money doesnt buy happiness, friends and family are priceless.

 

[wvrevy]

REALLY cool thread !!! I hope it sticks around for a while and gets hundreds of posts!

Here's mine:

1 - Live life for today, as you never know when tomorrow may forget to show up. (My dad died at an age just ten years older than I am right now, and I never got to know him man to man. I'll never take that chance with my daughter!)

2 - Try to follow the golden rule. When that fails, at least treat people as they deserve to be treated, based on their actions.

3 - Play. Just because you've grown up doesn't mean you have to be a "grown up" 24-7.

4 - Don't stop learning. The number of interesting things out there that you don't know is always considerably greater than the number of things that you do.

5 - Practice random acts of kindness. It makes the world a better place for everyone in it.

There are bunches more, but if I don't stop at 5 I'll start quoting Mark Twain and Robert Heinlein, and then I'll be here all day.

 

[jennyl772003]

Don't assume that since your DH used to do his own laundry before he met you, that he actually knows "how" to do laundry.

"You put 2 tubs of soap in, right?" (this is a direct quote from my DH yesterday)

 

[wvrevy]

Don't assume that since your DH used to do his own laundry before he met you, that he actually knows "how" to do laundry.

"You put 2 tubs of soap in, right?" (this is a direct quote from my DH yesterday)

lol...My wife and I had that discussion shortly after we got married.

I won the discussion.

Now I do my own laundry.

 

[Evil Genius]

Don't wait to live your life. I see so many people putting off things they want to do.

 

[Sandy V.]

1. Live your life by following the Golden Rule.
2. Just because you have pains, doesn't mean you have to BE one (my rule for getting older).
3. Tell your family "I love you" every day that you can, especially before they walk out the door in the morning and before they go to sleep at night.
4. Treat each new day as a gift and an opportunity to start over if you need it.
5. Never, ever, wake a sleeping baby unless you ABSOLUTELY have to!
6.. Don't eat yellow snow!

 

[disallday!]

I only have 2!

#1 Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups

and, this is a gross one...

#2 Grandpa said never to eat peanuts when you have hemorrhoids

 

[Chicago526]

You can have it done fast or have it done right, you can't usually have both.

Don't make your travel agent mad, they pick your seats on the plane!

Be careful how you treat your children, they'll be picking the nursing home.

Poor planning on your part does not equate to an emergency on mine.

 

[ford family]

Two rules of international travel:
See a toilet, use it.
Offered food, eat it.

ford family

 

[TigerCheer2009]

A friendly little bump because I'm shocked this even got two pages worth

Loud bus+no snack+grumpy costume ladies=not good.

Plus never drop a chair on your foot. It hurts. I tried it.

 

[dejr_8]

The three rules of being plumber (hey it is a subset of the rules for life)

Don't stand in front of an open pipe

Don't eat with your fingers

Poop doesn't flow uphill