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What is the WORST ADVICE anyone has ever given you???

Solar Is My Name — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:05:30 GMT

The worst advice (or one of the worst) given to me was:

"If you're a psychology major you'll have to take a math class and a statistics class, and you never really liked math, so instead of studying psychology, why don't you be an English major -- you like to read."

-Solar

Re: What is the WORST ADVICE anyone has ever given you???

EmmaBunting — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:08:05 GMT

What do you want a back lot for? (could have bought 4 acres of land behind my house for 20 grand 30 years ago. ) I still have the footprint on my butt from that one....

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scotttie — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:11:26 GMT

""You should watch this show called QVC......""

Well......several thousand dollars later.....

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JaneMarple — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:12:17 GMT

On 1/25/2014 beammeupscottie said:
""You should watch this show called QVC......""

Well......several thousand dollars later.....

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Lynneuk — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:13:11 GMT

"Move to the States,you'll love it! It'll just be for a few years and then you can move right back home."

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JustJules — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:15:59 GMT

""Color inside the lines"".... that takes zero creativity and life is messy!

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Lila Belle — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:18:40 GMT

On 1/25/2014 Lynneuk said:
"Move to the States,you'll love it! It'll just be for a few years and then you can move right back home."

My nan can relate to that, Lynneuk. My granddad told her the same thing.

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LyndaGee — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:18:42 GMT

My parents weren't too keen on my marrying my husband: He's very outgoing and I'm a bit shy, and they were afraid he'd dominate the relationship. Hahahahahaha!!!!

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Marianne1 — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:19:06 GMT

Get a perm

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scotttie — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:19:54 GMT

On 1/25/2014 Marianne is said:
Get a perm

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MikafromTopeka — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:21:51 GMT

I had an employer once who suggested I buy a home. I was a 24 year old kid living in my hometown which I hated at the time. I guess he wanted me to be indentured in a way but in the end he closed up and retired several years later and I would have been hung out to dry because employment there was hard to find.

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JaneMarple — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:23:39 GMT

Both my mother and mother in law didn't want my ex and I to move and build a house in the middle of no where in 1986, the area in question has grown quite a lot along with home and land prices. I'm still kicking myself over that one.

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Lynneuk — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:29:43 GMT

On 1/25/2014 Lila Belle said:
On 1/25/2014 Lynneuk said:
"Move to the States,you'll love it! It'll just be for a few years and then you can move right back home."

My nan can relate to that, Lynneuk. My granddad told her the same thing.

I'm still waiting to move right back home....28 years later!

Where is your Nan from Lila Belle?

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Lila Belle — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:44:00 GMT

She's a war bride from Devon, Torquay.

My granddad was never sent to England again although several times they stationed on the continent so that travel back home was easier.

Can you say where you're from ?

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TN halfback — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:49:37 GMT

Probably the advice I gave myself at 19..."marry him, he'll change." Guess ya'll know how that turned out!

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Deb1010again — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:53:50 GMT

I just want to say I LOVE this thread. I'm trying really hard to think of an example from my own life. I must've purged anything from memory. LOL

ETA: I just thought of one. My own mother suggesting I move my alcoholic senile pill-popping mother-in-law in with me and dh.

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Marienkaefer2 — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 05:05:53 GMT

Puff puff give.

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Snowpuppy — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 05:14:25 GMT

"OMG, it doesn't matter if you don't love him.......marry him! After all, he's got a job and a house"!!

I didn't.

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Lynneuk — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 05:17:30 GMT

On 1/25/2014 Lila Belle said:
She's a war bride from Devon, Torquay.

My granddad was never sent to England again although several times they stationed on the continent so that travel back home was easier.

Can you say where you're from ?

Torquay is a lovely town, I can understand how she would miss it. I am also from a seaside town but up on the north coast of Wales. It is called Llandudno.

If you go to google.co.uk and search Llandudno you will be able to see how beautiful it is,lol.

I am trying to persuade my husband to move there for retirement after his Mom and Dad are gone. It is a hard sell because of the exchange rate, I'm not giving up though and I keep buying the Lotto tickets!

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bikerbabe — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 05:19:35 GMT

I honestly cannot think of anything. I guess I've discarded any negatives and moved forward.