Crazy things you didn't think twice about till later in life

[willietheweirdo]

For the first 15 years of my life my family had a "wood pile" in the living room. It was stacked up even with the staircase and we used to climb on it as kids. I thought my dad was looking for someone to sell it to--or maybe we were going to get hardwood floors when we could afford it--and I never questioned that or gave it a second thought.

When we moved he must have offloaded it cheap, given it to a trade that was working on the house, or otherwise disposed of it somehow.

Turns out that had been a full cord of Brazilian rosewood! Someone with nothing liquid had given it to him as payment for professional work before I was born. My mom had to have been so mad!!

That's crazy.

 

[Vibroluxer]

I always wondered why they called red heads carrot top. A carrot's top is green!! What the heck?!?

I was 41, walking alone down Union Ave, when the lightbulb finally lit.

 

[brookdalebill]

I’ve owned many 50’s-60’s Fender, Gibson, Epiphone and Gretsch guitars.
Literally dozens of them.
I was looking for Excalibur.
I kept none of them.
Turns out Excalibur doesn’t exist.
It all about the human operator.
Duh!
Double Duh!
I wasted time and money, looking for something that doesn’t exist, and didn’t have the sense (acumen) to keep the instruments (investment).

 

[sammy1974]

My dad installed a plywood floor in our old car, and painted the exterior with orange house paint.

Maybe this should go in the "We were so poor" thread. But anyway, I thought it was a legit practical fix at the time.

 

[ChicknPickn]

My parents weren’t trying to embarrass me with thrift-shop clothes; we really DIDN’T have money!!

But eventually their hard work took us beyond that. Well beyond that.

“Learn to live within your means,” dad always said, “and learn to make your money work for you.”

 

[Brad Pittiful]

saving for retirement is hugely important...i didnt make good money to have a good nest egg...i am thinking i cant retire till 67

 

[cometazzi]

saving for retirement is hugely important...i didnt make good money to have a good nest egg...i am thinking i cant retire till 67

Same. I don't think I can retire at all at this point.

 

[Dan German]

Same. I don't think I can retire at all at this point.

You and me both. I had no idea that my bad decisions would come back to haunt me…

 

[GoldDeluxe5E3]

After careful introspection, I have thought twice about every single crazy thing I've done earlier in life, and there are lots of them.

 

[Brad Pittiful]

Same. I don't think I can retire at all at this point.

sorry to hear...my just at least is a cake job...i just scan in documents to the computer...enter some data and have no pressure from my boss...also its the most ive ever made in an hourly wage...i could work at my place till im 80 if i wanted too

 

[cometazzi]

You and me both. I had no idea that my bad decisions would come back to haunt me…

For me, some of it was bad decisions, some of it was ignorance, and a lot of it was just lack of opportunity.

 

[Knows3Chords]

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[loudboy]

My parents weren’t trying to embarrass me with thrift-shop clothes; we really DIDN’T have money!!

But eventually their hard work took us beyond that. Well beyond that.

“Learn to live within your means,” dad always said, “and learn to make your money work for you.”

Living below our means is the reason we retired relatively early, and have no debt.

Pro Tip: If you shop hard at Goodwill/thrift shops, you can actually be better-dressed than most of your friends.

 

[P Thought]

Lately it's occurred to me that trying to remember isn't the same operation as remembering

 

[willietheweirdo]

Lately it's occurred to me that trying to remember isn't the same operation as remembering

"I almost forgot!" No, you  did forget!

 

[burntfrijoles]

Weminz folks. I was so wrong, misguided or clueless in my selection or deselection of the fairer sex. I picked the wrong ones and I blew off interest from those that would have likely been better matches.
Oh well,as Chuck Berry once sang "c'est la vie say the old folks, it's goes to show you never can tell".

 

[sammy1974]

Going solo hiking in bear country with no safety prep. Seemed like a fine idea at the time.

 

[catdaddy]

Canoeing across a lake roiling full of breeding gators. In the days before I quit drinking.

 

[willietheweirdo]

I was the youngest child and never had any younger relatives or friends with kids around me. It wasn't till I had my own kids that I realized I had made a lot of crazy assumptions. Like:

• If I have second son he's going to be a lot like his brother. The fuh? I HAD brothers and they were nothing like me!!

• Boys are only into things that go "vroom" and "boom" because of outside influence. Maybe if you count trash day as outside influence... my son has been obsessed with trucks since before he could crawl!

 

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