Best piece of advice you have ever receieved

[Neight_dawg]

about life or shopping in general

[itsjustmebub]

For Shopping advice:
Don't buy something you don't ACTUALLY NEED just because it's cheap. Because then it's just a waste of money.

[gryphon]

"this too will come to pass" which applies to everything.

[RobynCD]

Don't sweat the small stuff, and its all small stuff.

[redmouse]

What goes around, comes around

&

Treat others the way you expect to be treated

[Jacq]

The only shopping advice I really remember getting is that a device that does 10 things badly is worse than a device that does 1 thing really well.
I have found this true, especially the last few years where people want their phones to do everything. I'd rather have a nice phone, a nice mp3 player, and a nice camera than a really expensive phone that only holds 10 songs and takes ruddy photos.


Life in General:

"Live Carefully."
It's an Inupiaq / Inuit proverb I first heard of when I was taking a Northern Studies class. It's so succinct but so complex. It's affected me deeply since I learnt of it a few years ago, because it sort of sums up the way I've been trying to live my life for a long long time.

Annnd, probably not the same thing, but there is a song (here) whose chorus is "What will happen will happen whether I'm happy or sad. There are days to wake up for, there are dreams to be had, what will happen will happen whether I'm happy or sad."
Which is a very good approach, if you ask me. :3

[Patty Smyth]

I heard this on Oprah many, many years ago and I SWEAR by it. It works for everything pretty much.

"Never accept a "NO" from someone who is not in a position to give you a "YES".

[thecountess]

Be yourself.... an original is better than a copy.

[gryphon]

Be yourself.... an original is better than a copy.

beautiful

[nagem]

A fool and his money are easily parted.

(No fools on Smartcanuks though,we are all careful with our money and get super deals on here!!)

[thecountess]

A fool and his money are easily parted.

(No fools on Smartcanuks though,we are all careful with our money and get super deals on here!!)

[Jacq]

It's never Lupus.

(Thank you, Dr. House!)

[jenna321]

Always pay your bills first! And to be honest> I live by these two ideals.

[daisybear]

From a Ben Harper Song, not really advice but it has stuck with me;
"Make sure the fortune, that you seek
Is the fortune you need."

[pippinelkhound]

Never date a man prettier than me.

My father told me that when I started dating.