My NaPoWriMo edition for the day will incorporate the Trifecta Weekend Challenge Theme:
‘On to the weekend challenge. We want you to give us thirty-three words of advice. Your advice can be to anyone or about anything. We only ask that you make it uniquely yours.’
FINE PRINT
The best advice I ever gave
Was, ‘Save for things you really crave!’
Paid for, you have earned
Things for which you’ve yearned,
So never ever yield at all
To never-never’s tempting call!
© Colonialist April 2013 (WordPress)
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Col, I would like to say where were you when I needed to hear that – unfortunately, mine was a case of not hearing and learning the hard way, but, by golly, I learned! Ahem, still learning to put it into practice. So…, could you rent a Rolls for a day? (grin).
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Good advice, well expressed.
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I used to run a business in my classroom at school selling popcorn. We’d make several hundred dollars over the course of the school year. Toward the end, I’d tell the kids that we were going to do four things with our profits: use 1/4 of the money to go on a trip of our choice, have a class meal brought in with another 1/4, give 1/4 away to a local charity and the final 1/4 was to go to them in their report card envelops for them to do with whatever their little hearts desired. The main point with #1 and #2 was to have the kids experience what it was like to pay their own way. Whenever the delivery person would show up at our classroom with our meal, I’d always have the kids yell out and tell the person to, “keep the change!” It is a small thrill but, it is a thrill nonetheless! 🙂
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A wonderful initiative! Wish there had been something like it when I was a scholar.
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How true !!! Love the way you wrote it has a poem,
If you scroll back on my blog you’ll find two or three of my endeavors in writing HAIKU.
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wise advice in these days of “I want it all – I want it cheap – I want it NOW!”
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Excellent advice, and a lovely rhyme!
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I thank you!
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the promise of never-never – lands you in hot water more often than not!!
Good one Col 😉
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Lovely to drive a Rolls Royce, though!
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Well yeah…
Some things though, should only be looked at 😉
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One is allowed to drool a little …
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Oh, but of course!!!
Nothing wrong with drooling 😉
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I do like to pay for things up front but sometimes a loan can’t be helped.. Where would I live!!! 😉
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That is where most people have to go into the red.
Glad I can communicate on your blog again – I couldn’t for quite a while.
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Ah yes, the money thing. My daughter is a spender and my son a hoarder. He will save until the ends of the Earth. She will buy the least little thing.
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Actually, the saving until one can afford it can be overdone. By the time you get it you’re too old to enjoy it (like these doddering codgers in sports cars).
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I could totally see the Cat in the Hat snarking around the car for this prompt. Sweet rhymes. For the life of me I cannot break out a rhyme, when I try it just comes out sounding so fake and superficial or … other unpleasant adjectives I cannot come up with (I believe my lack of vocab is my main weakness).
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As with everything, practice has a lot to do with it. When I started blogging it took me ages to turn out a rhyme, but now they go pretty quickly.
If this is Cat in the Hat, I wonder what my odious Ode is?
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Except for houses and education, we’ve never mortgaged our future to pay for our present.
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Homes and education give one little option. The second one is particularly vital – it can be the key to starting from a hovel and having a mansion.
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Great rhyming advice though not advice on rhyming but I liked that the advice rhymed. Nicely done!
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Heehee!
Thanking you;
I give rhyme advice, too!
At end of line a word,
And end of next you set
One where same sound is heard;
Change first part, don’t forget!
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Good advice…I stick to it!
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I wish that I could myself!
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Great words of wisdom.. that none of us, or very few of us, take…
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Including, sadly, myself! Want to see my Rolls Royce? 🙂
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Want to see my Mazda 6??
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🙂
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That feeling of paying for something you’ve saved up for and making it yours is definitely a powerful thing! You’ll appreciate it more, as parents are prone to say.
Thanks for linking up!
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Thanks for the prompt. I love the 33s!
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Very good advice, now you just need to get some people to follow it!
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Including moi.
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Great advice, Col. 🙂
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Got the verse – now I just have to add the chapter!
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Oh but impatience always leads to impulse buying… (:
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Not to mention forgetting to put on one’s spectacles!
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😀 Love this advice! Well done!
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Thanks! Now all I need to do is actually follow it … 🙂
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That’s how I’ve lived too, Col.
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I still need to apply the principle!
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That is really awfully good advice for sure Col! Missed your lovely rhymes and poetry. Lovely post! 🙂 *hugs*
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Thank you kindly! I was sorry to have lost track of the Hartbees scene, too!
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You are very welcome and I am sorry to hear that. If I’ve known I would have tried to hang in there a bit longer. Thanks for always being so sweet and kind. 🙂 *hugs*
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