Fashion is in the eye of the wearer

Don't waste a lot of energy worrying about what your kids want to wear to school. No one that matters cares if your kids are wearing matching socks or stripes with plaids. I figure if it's covering all the important parts that's the important thing. Save your strength, eventually you'll need it for bigger battles.

Ways to cut spending #45

Don’t let yourself get suckered into one of your friends’ consulting parties. They are getting the stuff for free just by having you over. And you will feel obligated to buy something even if your checking account is in the red. So just bow out, tell them your dog has an ear infection or that you have clothes at the cleaners to pick up.

Here's an idea

Don't make "private and personal" video tapes of yourself in the first place.  I am amazed time and time again at people who, famous or not, feel the need to record themselves on VIDEOTAPE having sex. I'm even further amazed that these same people are shocked and angered when these tapes become public, as they inevitably seem to.

Another lesson learned the hard way

Don't assume your shoes are safe on your very own front porch. Although it may seem to make sense that because they are on your very own stoop which is part of your very own home you wouldn't have to worry, I'm sorry to inform you that there is no way to insure a roving pack of chihuahuas won't come along and chew up your favorite pair of Reef flip flops.

Wanna know what REALLY bugs me?

Don't mutilate your library books. Being a tax paying, law abiding, library card holder does not give you the right to fold down corners, hi-light passages, or make notes in the margins. Get a bookmark and a notebook.

The lesser of two evils

Don't eat the last Boston Cream doughnut.  Just throw it away.  I know you don't want to waste it, wasting feels wrong, but trust me, the way you're going to feel after you eat that last doughnut right before bed is way worse than the "Oh my gosh I just wasted a doughnut!" feeling.

Another reason to avoid social networking like the plague.

Don't drink and drive and then post on Facebook. While perusing the topic 'the dangers of facebook' on yahoo mail I came across a story about a 20 year old who had seriously injured a woman while driving under the influence. While awaiting trial the young man dressed as a prisoner and went to a Halloween party. He later posted the pictures on his Facebook. The photos were later used to get him two years in prison using the argument that he was 'unrepentant'.

So be careful and use good judgement about what you post on Facebook or Myspace. What you post can and will be held against you.

Of course you could use even better judgement and not drink and drive, or at the very least go as something else for Halloween.