1. Make the bed
Seriously, making the bed is so over rated. Why make the bed when you’re just going to get in an mess it up again?
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2. Worry
I’m bad for this. I worry about things a lot. My grades, what I’ll do when I get to a certain stage in my life, what type of silly schedule the school is going to come up with this semester for courses. But really, what’s the point? Worrying doesn’t help a solution come about. It just makes us anxious, and it’s bad for our health.
3. Waste time with frenemies.
I know a thing or two about frenemies. Everyone has them. But do you really want to look back on your life and memories and have them tainted by somebody who doesn’t appreciate you, who is always competing with you or giving you catty, unsolicited advice? Probably not.
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4. Not look up stupid videos on YouTube
Sometimes, when I’m having a bad day, I come home and spend an hour looking up really stupid videos on YouTube and laughing about them.
I get periods of guilt when I’m thinking about how I need to be more productive; I should be spending my time blogging or doing homework, not watching RWJ‘s commentary on outrageous videos and giggling to myself. But sometimes, you just gotta relax.
5. Dry clean your clothes
Seriously. Dry cleaning? I have a limited amount of time on this earth and I do not want to be spending it taking my clothes to and from the dry cleaners, thankyouverymuch.
(you are welcome to ask me about that in a couple of years when I have the money for nice clothes, and tease me about how my mind has changed, but for now, I’m sticking to that).
6. Pre-wash your dishes (before they go in the dishwasher)
My stepmom does this, and it’s so bizarre. I understand rinsing them off, but she actually uses a cloth and soap.
7. Complain
This goes along with worrying. I once had a friend tell me “never complain about the things you can’t change”. He was right; it’s a negative, poor way to live a life, when your constantly complaining. I complain a lot. I’ve been trying to reign that in.
8. Resent your circumstances
Even if we hate our jobs or want to strangle our neighbor, life is just too short to resent what life has given us. We have to do what we have to do, and thinking negatively about those things won’t help them go away. Try to put a positive spin on the things that you resent; positivity is contagious and you’ll be thinking positive more often.
9. Make reasonable meal choices
I understand that to keep living, we require nutrition. But I’ll never understand those people that look at me
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funny for having a hot fudge sundae for breakfast, or pizza for six meals in a row. I’m not saying you should sacrifice your health, but it won’t kill you to eat what you want every once in awhile.
10. Give yourself restrictions (not drinking, no chocolate)
When your geriatric, you’re not going to be looking back on your life and thinking “oh, remember that time I went a week without chocolate? Awesome!”. You’re going to be thinking about all of the things that you did and enjoyed.
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haha I never make the bed. I always leave that to him.
A good list.. I agree with most of them.
When others waste time with #7 and #8, it truly drives me crazy… I have a half dozen or so coworkers that just do nothing but complain.
If you hate your circumstances that much, then change them!!
I agree with most of your list, except for dry cleaning. If I try to handwash my wool suits, disater would probably ensue and I’ll have to replace them :p
oh and I know what you mean about frenemies. Such a waste of time maintaining a facade of being friends with somebody we don’t even like (and that doesn’t really like us either). come to think of it, I wonder why so many of us do matain these frenemy-type relationships.
Great list! Can we add “work until age 70?”
I do too many of these things, except make the bed
Love the list. I agree on #1 except my wife would make sure that my life would be even shorter if I didn’t make our bed… so ours is nice and neat every day (mostly because she makes it though).
And next time you’re looking for funny YouTube videos, my buddy posted a top 5 on his blog a little while back (http://kooztop5.blogspot.com/2012/01/top-5-funniest-youtube-memes.html). TRY to not laugh at Macarron Chacarron. I dare ya!
I do some of these, including make the bed. I do it mainly so my dogs don’t roll around on the sheets that I sleep on (but I let them sleep in the bed. Please don’t ask how this makes sense).
The one that I’m most guilty of is worrying. I am a constant, chronic worrier. But then I go eat some chocolate and everything is good again
I like this list
. Youtube can be very addicting. Their thumbnail previews are so curious I sometimes can’t help myself but watch one video after another…
Love this list! One time I spent the whole day watching Weird Al parodies on YouTube. Was it worth it? Absolutely.
Life is also too short to be ironing all your clothes. For most items I simply fold them up as soon as they come out of the hot drier and most are virtually crease free!
I’d so rather spend the five minutes dropping my shirts a the dry cleaners than the hour of ironing.
In a larger city, I’m told they do pickup and delivery at offices. If they brought pizza with them, I’d change religon.
I’m with you on most of these! I like the look of a made bed, but I actually pull the blankets and top sheet off every morning to let everything air out. We can’t flip our pillowtop mattress, so I think it’s kind of gross to just leave it all wrapped up all day.
I never, and I mean NEVER make my bed unless someone is going to be coming over to see it. The only time I kind of *make* my bed is right before I go to sleep when I haven’t done it in a while and the covers get so tangled that they HAVE to be straightened out. But only then. ONLY.
I also actively avoid buying not only clothes that require dry cleaning, but clothes that require ironing, too.
Frenemies is my favorite subject! We all have them and we all waste time on them.
By the way I pre-wash dishes too!
Making the bed is such a useless exercise. I do pull my comforter back up to the top of the bed sometimes, but that’s mainly because I don’t want my dogs to puke on my sheets. At least if they puke on the comforter, I can just swap it out for my backup comforter and move on. Changing sheets is significantly more hassle.
Making the bed is for suckers!
We only do it when we are having someone over for the first time and we know we will give them “the tour”
I agree about making the bed and dry cleaning. If it can’t be washed in the machine, I don’t want anything to do with it.
LOL… I love this list. I hate making my bed for exactly that reason! I hate YouTube and wish my husband and son would realize I really could give a rat’s behind about the stuff they think is so funny.
Sometimes, yogurt and granola is dinner… and that’s OK. A banana split works in a pinch too.
Scrub grouting. Hope that doesn’t make me sound too disgusting.
Keep up with everything posted on my social media feeds. Duh.
Sit in traffic. Sometimes unavoidable, sadly.
Oh and +1 to whoever said life’s too short for ironing! I’m lucky in that I can work in casual/business casual, though.
HA! Number 10. Remember that time?