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Here's a little something I was sent and thought I'd pass it along...
Subject: Zen Sarcasms 1. Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me alone. 2. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and leaky tire. 3. It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. 4. Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted. 5. Always remember that you're unique. Just like everyone else. 6. Never test the depth of the water with both feet. 7. If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. 8. Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. 9. If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. 10. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. 11. If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it. 12. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. 13. Some days you're the bug; some days you're the windshield. 14. Everyone seems normal until you get to know them. 15. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket. 16. A closed mouth gathers no foot. 17. There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works. 18. Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving. 19. Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. 20. Never miss a good chance to shut up. 21. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
Because apparently some people around here can use some...
I wish this weren't so but ------ FOR MY FRIENDS OVER 40 and ESPECIALLY OVER 50!!!! Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder
I decide to water my lawn. As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full, so, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first. Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.
Most of the time I'm not really what I'd consider a cheap person. I don't mind spending a little more for quality and I'm not convinced that keeping all of my money locked up is going to insure a better old age more than having a really good time now while I can.
That being said, I do have moments of real cheapness, and one of those moments was brought to my attention this weekend. I am a huge shampoo and conditioner cheapskate. When either my shampoo or conditioner bottle starts getting low I will milk it for at least another week by adding water to the bottle every couple of days and shaking the contents really hard. I will keep doing this until there nothing remotely resembling a bubble coming out of the bottle. Then, and only then, will I replace the bottle with a new one. And it's not as though we're talking about high-falutin' hair products here. This is Trader Joe's $2.49 shampoo and conditioner. Plus, I do it all of the time, even when there's another brand new bottle mere feet away. I have no idea why this is the area where I've decided to be the high priestess of cheap living, but apparently this is where I draw my line. How about you? What completely irrelevant thing are you cheap about?
I was thinking about values these days, or more specifically, how people's values seem to change over the years.
When I was young, I valued success and the things that having a decent income can buy. As I got a little older, I valued people's thoughts and moral beliefs more than monetary pursuits. I came to love ideas and visions of a better world. Now, I think more about what means the most in my heart and how the things I value have much, much less to do with money, or status, or material items and much more to do with how I am able to face myself in the mirror, or provide a decent example to my kids. How about you. Have your values changed? Do you think the values of society in general have altered the way we look at things? |
