Stuff you've learnt the hard way

[crazycanuck]

Since we don't use Bounce down this way & it's been many many years since using it..can you explain why you don't put bounce with whites??

Are you talking about the sheets of bounce or liquid bounce?

[Kimmyt]

I think the key is unopened box!!

[crazycanuck]

AGH...i read it so quickly whilst eating brekkie at work that i missed the unopened bit..

[Irulan]

Couples do not need to sit down and talk. It usually ruins the relationship. If you want to grow old peacefully and happily with someone, accept them for who they are and hold your tongue. The irritation will pass. It's better than the frustration of getting into a three hour go-nowhere "talk."

(I'm still learning this one, and usually have the most trouble during that time of the month. When I feel the urge to bring stuff up, I check it and remind myself that a lot of it is hormones.)

Stuff I learned the hard way -
You have to listen as much as you talk.
You can't qualify things with explanation, or if only or because.
"I" statements begin with "I feel (a feeling) " not "I think that you blah blah blah......"

[solobiker]

There are strings attached when a husband offers his wife a massage. Be forewarned

I agree..

[Miranda]

- Don't ever buy clothes that will "fit once I lose a few pounds"

That made me unexpectedly LOL

[Miranda]

Saying... "Come on!!! We need to HURRY UP, or we are going to be late!"...

is a way to guarantee you ARE going to be 15 minutes late regardless.

[Miranda]

Bikini waxing should ONLY be done in a salon, vs at home.

Bonus... it stiffles crying as it can be a bit embarrassing to do so in front of a professional stranger.

[jesvetmed]

Don't spend the "raise" you have coming, until it's in your hands.
Turns out the word for this year: "Wage Freeze". WHAT?
So much for that raise

[jesvetmed]

Don't ever buy clothes that will "fit once I lose a few pounds"

I JUST did this! STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!!!!

Where were you two weeks ago!?

[Bruno28]

Remove spare tampon from pocket of black corduroy jeans before putting in washing machine.

[Eden]

Bikini waxing should ONLY be done in a salon, vs at home.

Bonus... it stiffles crying as it can be a bit embarrassing to do so in front of a professional stranger.

Not exactly something I've learned....(I never have and never intend to put wax anywhere near my bikini area...) but I read this story on another forum a few years ago... It's absolutely hilarious, but I sure hope its a work of fiction...

Body: All hair removal methods have tricked women with their promises of easy, painless removal - The Epilady, scissors, razors, Nair and now...... the wax.

My night began as any other normal weeknight. Come home, fix dinner, play with the kids. I then had the thought that would ring painfully in my mind for the next few hours:

"Maybe I should pull the waxing kit out of the medicine cabinet."

So I headed to the site of my demise: the bathroom. It was one of those "cold wax" kits. No melting a clump of hot wax, you just rub the strips together in your hand, they get warm and you peel them apart and press them to your leg (or wherever else) and you pull the hair right off. No mess, no fuss. How hard can it be?
I mean, I'm not a genius, but I am mechanically inclined enough to figure this out. (YA THINK!?!)

So I pull one of the thin strips out. Its two strips facing each other stuck together. Instead of rubbing them together, my genius kicks in so I get out the hair dryer and heat it to 1000 degrees.

("Cold wax," yeah...right!) I lay the strip across my thigh. Hold the skin around it tight and pull.

It works!

OK, so it wasn't the best feeling, but it wasn't too bad. I can do this! Hair removal no longer eludes me! I am She-rah, fighter of all wayward body hair and maker of smooth skin extraordinaire.

With my next wax strip I move north. After checking on the kids, I sneak back into the bathroom, for the ultimate hair fighting championship. I drop my panties and place one foot on the toilet.
Using the same procedure, I apply the wax strip across the right side of my bikini line, covering the right half of my *****> and stretching down to the inside of my butt cheek (it was a long strip) I inhale deeply and brace myself....RRRRIIIPPP!!!!

I'm blind!!! Blinded from pain!!!!....OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!

Vision returning, I notice that I've only managed to pull off half the strip. CRAP! Another deep breath and RIPP! Everything is spinning and spotted. I think I may pass out... must stay conscious .... must stay conscious. Do I hear crashing drums???

Breathe, breathe...OK, back to normal.

I want to see my trophy - a wax covered strip, the one that has caused me so much pain, with my hairy pelt sticking to it. I want to revel in the glory that is my triumph over body hair.

I hold up the strip! There's no hair on it.

Where is the hair??? WHERE IS THE WAX??? Slowly I ease my head down, foot still perched on the toilet. I see the hair. The hair that should be on the strip...it's not!

I touch. I am touching wax.

I run my fingers over the most sensitive part of my body, which is now covered in cold wax and matted hair. Then I make the next BIG mistake...remember my foot is still propped up on the toilet?

I know I need to do something. So I put my foot down. *****! I hear the slamming of a cell door. My ***** is sealed shut! My butt is sealed shut. Sealed shut!

I penguin walk around the bathroom trying to figure out what to do and think to myself, "Please don't let me get the urge to poop. My head may pop off!" What can I do to melt the wax?

Hot water!! Hot water melts wax!! I'll run the hottest water I can stand into the bathtub, get in, immerse the wax-covered bits and the wax should melt and I can gently wipe it off, right???

WRONG!!!!!!!

I get in the tub - the water is slightly hotter than that used to torture prisoners of war or sterilize surgical equipment - I sit. Now, the only thing worse than having your nether regions glued together, is having them glued together and glued to the bottom of the tub... in scalding hot water..... Which, by the way, doesn't melt cold wax. So, now I'm stuck to the bottom of the tub as though I had cement-epoxied myself to the porcelain!! God
bless the man who had convinced me a few months ago to have a phone put in the bathroom!!!!!

I call my friend, thinking surely she has waxed before and has some secret of how to get me undone. It's a very good conversation starter -

"So, my butt and who-ha are glued together to the bottom of the tub!"

There is a slight pause. She doesn't know any secret tricks for removal but she does try to hide her laughter from me. She wants to know exactly where the wax is located, "Are we talking cheeks or hole or hoo-ha?"

She's laughing out loud by now...I can hear her. I give her the rundown and she suggests I call the number on the side of the box.

YEAH!!!!! Right!! I should be the joke of someone else's night. While we go through various solutions. I resort to scraping the wax off with a razor . Nothing feels better then to have your girlie goodies covered in hot wax, glued shut, stuck to the tub in super hot water and then dry-shaving the sticky wax off!!

By now the brain is not working, dignity has taken a major hike and I'm pretty sure I'm going to need Post-Traumatic Stress counseling for this event.

My friend is still talking with me when I finally see my saving grace.... the lotion they give you to remove the excess wax.

What do I really have to lose at this point? I rub some on and OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!

The scream probably woke the kids and scared the dickens out of my friend. It's sooo painful, but I really don't care.

"IT WORKS!! It works !!"

I get a hearty congratulation from my friend and she hangs up.

I successfully remove the remainder of the wax and then notice to my grief and despair....THE HAIR IS STILL THERE.......ALL OF IT!

So I recklessly shave it off. Heck, I'm numb by now. Nothing hurts.
I could have amputated my own leg at this point.

Next week I'm going to try hair color......

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

The things women do to their bodies! {{{cringe}}} How awful!

I rejoice in my nice natural 'animal fur areas'.

[shootingstar]

Jeepers, that hot wax thing. It was funny.

I no longer grab for free samples of razors, etc. I still have free samples, unopened from 4 years ago.
I have to accept my aging means....less hair grown in certain areas. thanks to mom, who gave me this gene. (genie )

Microwaved stir-fried leftover food ..never tastes the same as freshly stir-fried.

[OakLeaf]

I think I'm jealous Shootingstar. I think.... to me, aging means hair growing FARTHER down on my legs, no naturally bare skin between eyebrows, eyelashes and sideburns, etc...