What is your opinion on the United Kingdom?

[disneychrista]

Pizza. Either picking one up or making frozen at home I eat it at least once week.

Beer/alcohol. Though I have cut this down and take “sober” breaks of at least 30 days every few months. Last was 46 days. Longest 138 days.


Sugar in general. Candy. Cookies. Cakes. Coke or Root Beer for whiskey mixers.

 

[NannyBeBe]

Shorthand -- I still use it, typing, how to balance a checkbook, how to hem a dress and sew on a button.

 

[mrodgers]

Typing class.

I'm conflicted whether typing class helped or not. I took a semester of typing and never really used it because there weren't computers at the time. Computers weren't even common in college. I didn't have my own computer until a few years after college. That typing class taught me the home keys basically. I was lousy at it. It wasn't until I got my first computer (1995) and I could say even wasn't until the internet became common that I actually learned to fluently type.

 

[karen4546]

Bread (carbs) and meat- I really need to cut back on those. I did gain 10 pounds staying home during Covid. Some would say "I am home, and I can work out more." I said " I am home, I need a Little Debbie snack bar, Lays Potato chips or mini Marie Calendar's chocolate pie".

I am doing better now, but the damage is done and I need to do so much better, but those Marie Calendar mini pies........

 

[MrsPete]

Learning how to do my taxes.

I remember sitting in senior Advanced Math /last period of the day, and one of my classmates checked out of school early to go get her taxes done for her part-time job. I remember being astounded that someone who was doing well in the highest math class our high school offered would pay someone to fill out an EZ form.

I'm conflicted whether typing class helped or not. I took a semester of typing and never really used it because there weren't computers at the time. Computers weren't even common in college. I didn't have my own computer until a few years after college. That typing class taught me the home keys basically. I was lousy at it. It wasn't until I got my first computer (1995) and I could say even wasn't until the internet became common that I actually learned to fluently type.

Sounds like a matter of use-it-or-lose-it, but -- yeah -- I took typing as an elective in high school. By the time my kids came along, it was a mandatory class in middle school. Typing isn't the same optional skill it was back when I was in high school in the 80s.

 

[Skippy918]

Aside from maternity leave which was 4 months for me, I missed 3 weeks of high school when I had pneumonia.

 

[neverlandsky]

Water. Even drinking too much water is bad for one’s health. I’ve cut down to a liter a day and I’m doing much better.

 

[mommasita]

Diet Pepsi

 

[footballmouse]

Youth soccer referees, my son gets $40 a game as an assistant ref, $60 for head refs, even for hour long games.

That was a great teenage job for my jobs when they were that age. During a tournament weekend, they cleaned up. I always said I was going to go and get certified, but I never did. Bad decision on my part.

 

[tvguy]

Money is the most important factor in any job until one reaches a level that will support the lifestyle they want. If the job you really love pays $30k and the job you really hate pays $60k then many will probably choose the $60k. But if the job you love pays $100k and the job you hate pays $120k then you begin to have more options.

UPS delivery drivers make a lot of money for delivery drivers -- they also work a lot of hours, though.

Or the other way around. Not supporting the lifestyle you want, but accepting the lifestyle determined by your income. I was looking at our Social Security earnings statements from 1983 the year we bought our house. Not sure how we juggled $1,150 a month house payment on combined gross income of $46,000.

 

[reecejackox]

In primary school Year. 5

In high school first year.

 

[reecejackox]

I would say 6 years.

 

[reecejackox]

teens early twenties that age

I would say Nintendo Wii , rubbish.

 

[Brett Wyman]

Bass guitar and huge amplifier on credit that got repossessed when I was 18

 

[NYCgrrl]

delete - wrong thread

 

[ronandannette]

I'm adopted; they'd been married 6 years and my mom, who was 50 at the time, already had three grown children. My dad had resigned himself to never having a child of his own and when I came along it was kind of a miracle.

 

[MIGrandma]

Almost 2 years. She lost twins before I was born.

 

[reecejackox]

I would say
Murder someone

 

[ronandannette]

delete - wrong thread

What the heck is happening here? My post above was originally in a completely different thread, as were many of these others.

 

[Karin1984]

What the heck is happening here? My post above was originally in a completely different thread, as were many of these others.

Ah, I thought it was me. Somehow it got merged with the one thousand random question threads.