You attract more bees with honey!

Can’t stress this enough. Another one, when on the phone to a service and they say their name, use it, (e.g. ‘Oh hi Cindy, I’m calling in relation to …’) and the change in tone and willingness to help is palpable - it never fails.

If it is any kind of business or agreement - put it in writing even if you know everyone is being honest. It is surprising how often people forget / misremember details of things. If you both have a copy in writing there is no misunderstanding about what was agreed upon.

Fact. Not a "cheat".

My friends are interesting, I have low self-esteem and I am not sure if I am interesting enough. Mostly I do the same as my dad, I am confused most of the time, so I am just trying to be useful and do something nice or help if I can.

If you’re looking for a day at home undisturbed, okay I guess. But, why else would you hide this? And that only works if you live alone, no family/roommates. Edit: thanks for sharing reasons to do this, it makes a lot more sense to me now. ☺️

Set your outfit out including shoes & accessories. Put your wallet, keys, purse, glasses (anything you might go searching for in the morning) in all of their correct places. Prep your breakfast items and put them all together in one spot in your fridge, do the same for any meal.

You are never too old to learn or to go back to school/university. If you can read and write and you can afford it, then the answer is yes, you can do it (work at a university, get asked a lot by mature age learners)

Or, you could increase them by playing an Elf +1 DEX, Half-Orc +1 STR, or Dwarf +1 CON. Per Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition. I spent untold hours playing from 1978 until I discovered girls at 16.

I’d expand the last one to include keeping score is the murderer of joy.

This is good advice but only if you can control your own sleeping environment. If you live in a noisy place it's very difficult to get a good night's sleep.

I have a friend who likes to say "If you don't ask, it's an automatic no".

Also, experiment with seasonings. I add a tablespoon of lemon juice, and half a teaspoon of mustard to my leek and potato soup. You can't actually identify either flavour, but it tastes amazing. And use boullion or stock cubes if you don't have stock.

And don't put debt on credit cards if it can be avoided.

love cooking

Try crack instead.

I don't drink. At uni, I found that you can order a diet coke, or sparkiling water, and every one will assume it's mixed with alcohol, as long as you buy your own drinks. If someone else is standing a round, "Thanks, but nah, I'm still working on this one." The downside is that drunk people are annoying when you're sober.

Gave up 8 years ago and haven't looked back

Yeah. I only use weed.

If you're sober and your friends are drunk, you will find out a lot about those friends. I offer this both as a cheat and a warning.

But one big problem I’ve found with this over the last 40 years. I decided at 19 I didn’t care for alcohol or losing control. Both in business and my personal life, people assume I am a recovering alcoholic/have a drinking problem when I don’t take a drink that is offered or choose not to go “out for drinks” after meetings, etc. Wildly annoying.

Genetically none of my family get hangovers ever. But none of us like alcohol much so it's kind of a wasted gift.

I cannot drink alcohol for medical reasons either, but I find I get invited to situations where people drink just fine and nobody pressures me to ‘just have one’. I think the point is that I am A never seen drinking and never have, and B don’t make people feel I am judging them for drinking. Instead I use it to learn: “Is that a good wine? I can never tell decent wines so thank you so much for recommending it, I appreciate your help!”

It's been 7 1/2 years since I've had a drink, and my life has improved immensely. I have a group of friends who (mostly) don't drink, and we do a ton of fun stuff sober. Over this past year, our theme has been circuses, and every month or so, we go to a new one in a neighboring city. It's been awesome! When I was drinking, socializing meant sitting in a bar or someone's living room. If you're considering giving up alcohol, I 10/10 recommend :)

Alcohol shrinks the brain.

You also realise the people you drink with are just that !

JFC. This isn’t a f*****g cheat code and it is true of literally everything you buy outside of your basic needs.

"Downside: you miss out on the social aspects of sharing drinks, and being the only sober person can suck." Only if you are burdened by caring what other people think....If they have a problem with it, then you're hanging with the wrong people.

I have always had an extremely low tolerance to alcohol. So when all my friends would go out, I was always the designated driver. We would take my friend's 9 passenger Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser wagon (Think that 70s show) and they would all go get drunk. After they had enough to get good and buzzed, I would go to each one and say "Hey man, I need $20 bucks for gas to get us home." So the 7 or eight guys would all give me 20 bucks. I would wait a few hours and do it again. They would never remember it the next day. Sometimes I had to use some of the money to have the car cleaned after someone lost their cookies, but overall it was profitable for me and everyone got home safe. And none of my friends ever got a DUI.

I hate the taste of alcohol so this one is easy.

My body has developed an aversion to alcohol. One drink and I end up with an upset stomach. So u just stick with medical cannabis.

It’s relative. Those who talk too much should listen more, but those who don’t talk much don’t need to feel bad about trying to make themselves heard.

You’d think this would be something covered in all high school, required for graduation. Something everyone would benefit from doesn’t sound like you should have to go out of your way to learn.

Don't forget WD-40.

I can do this? I can buy these? Do they help me gauge the space around me better? THANK YOU PANDAS! I'm shite at parallel parking. I can do it if there's a shop window as I can see my reflection.

Using logic might work some of the time, but intuition is very important. Think of a situation where a small child is alone in a room while you are in the kitchen. Logic tells you they are playing nicely, intuition tells you they have probably found and eaten all the chocolates and that's why they are so quiet.

Truth. Your body will give you feel good hormones. Your confidence level will go up too. Doesn't matter if you're horribly out of shape and can only do 1 pushup. Do that every day. When you can do 2, then do THAT every day.

First one yes, it’s great for confidence, second one is subjective - the better advice is perhaps don’t be a slob and be aware of personal hygiene

Joking but - I've seen enough Sci-Fi movies to know that guy in the photo is a slave and if he runs away that collar around his neck will blow up.

Before you apply, look for the "buzzwords" in their ad and modify your resume and cover letter to reflect these phrases and wording.

Until the password manager is hacked. Looking at you Last Pass...

I never make the same mistake twice. I make it 3 or 4 times, you know, just to be sure.

This includes while driving. My left hand and left side of my face are much older than the right

A self-deprecating sense of humor is an enormous tool for disarming uncomfortable situations. If you make yourself vulnerable it sets people at ease.

I've always had terrible, terrible hair. fine but lots of it. One straight haired parent, one curly haired. And as they both kept it short, the haircare i learned from them was destroying my hair. So now I but reasonably priced shampoo and conditioner (nothing fancy), changing my washing schedule and bought a double satin bonnet. My hair is soooo soft and just amazing after less than 6 months. And it does make me feel better, having normal hair not a nightmare of fluff. Plus turns out I have loose ringlets lol. I didn't know.

A friend once told me, "You don't get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate."

Said by someone who clearly doesn’t live paycheck to paycheck. Not everyone can do this. I have saved a lot over the years, enough to invest, but save half my paycheck? Are you kidding? We would not be able to afford food let alone our mortgage.