purplealabaster

@purplealabaster (22091)

United States

Joined myLot 15 years ago

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane I would walk right up to Heaven and bring you home again!

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When is the right time to start teaching children about money

lovely @augusta123 (6649) 19 Jan 19

My little daughter is really growing fast and I can't wait to teach all that is on my mind even money matters. When is it appropriate to start teaching children about making and saving money.

money

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purplealabaster Around the age of two, before they even really understood what money was, I had both my girls start putting change in their banks to teach them to save money. As they got older, I explained what the coins were and started to teach them their value. When they...

22 Jan 19

Im not alone am I? Lol

Kay Corde @KaykayC (23) 20 Jan 19

I'm very superstitious, and I feel like bad and good luck is everywhere. You ever feel like you keep running into bad luck? Not the falling and needing an ambulance or losing hundreds of dollars but random small things that make...

randomness badluck

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purplealabaster There are definitely times when I think that if I didn't have bad luck, then I wouldn't have any luck at all. A couple months ago, I was cooking hamburgers on the grill. I had forgotten the spatula to flip them inside, so I ran in to get it. In the meantime,...

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Alligators Love Golf, Not Golfers (Animal Story 14)

M.-L. @MALUSE (69373) • Germany 13 Jan 19

I found this piece of news in the box* where I keep snippets from newspapers which can be turned into discussions on myLot. It is from March, 2015. When Bill Susie and Dick Huber of the Myakka Pines Golf Club in Englewood,...

malus animal stories

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purplealabaster I always wanted to see an alligator in the wild, so a friend of mine took me to a golf course ... he said that was the best place to find them! We saw a momma and her babies in the water next to the course. We kept what I was told was a "safe...

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Pool in the Morning

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (317040) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 10 Jan 19

Just arrived. I went to check the mail and found a package waiting for me at my door. If the mail lady knocked, I didn't hear her. The suit is made in China. I think the Chinese sizes run smaller than US sizes. So, I'm going...

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purplealabaster I'm jealous! I want to go in the pool in the morning, although not in this kind of weather.

15 Jan 19

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I’m NOT a Grocery Store

DianneN @DianneN (247186) • United States 15 Jan 19

Never a lender or a borrower be. That is a quote from William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, said by Polonius in Act I, Scene III. I have never borrowed anything in my life except for a pen at times and something blue for my...

borrowers

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purplealabaster I have borrowed things, and I have lent things. However, I have never, ever gone to a neighbor's house to borrow food, and I just can't imagine ever doing it. The closest thing to it that I have done is been at my parents' house and asked to take something...

15 Jan 19

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Beautiful Sunset…

sishy7 @sishy7 (27167) • Australia 7 Dec 17

# 97 My husband picked me up from work today. In the car we discussed what we should do for dinner. We couldn’t really decide and ended up just taking a long drive to the beach... Unplanned, I wasn’t really dressed for the...

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purplealabaster Yeah, my life would be good, too, if my husband were like that.

14 Jan 19

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Decisions, decisions, decisions

MysD @mysdianait (66009) • Italy 10 Dec 18

Sometimes I stop and think about the decisions I have made, wondering whether they were the right ones or not. I am convinced that there is no point in cryng over spilt milk so I probably never consider any of them as being...

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purplealabaster Yes, I have a car. Yes, I really need it. Everything here is too far away to walk, and the roads are not pedestrian friendly even if it wasn't too far. I would only give it up for a newer, better one. Would I give someone a lift? It depends on how cute they...

14 Jan 19

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Ben Watson Can Approve my Loan AND Lengthen my Penis!

The Horse @TheHorse (218548) • Walnut Creek, California 13 Jan 19

While watching the New England Patriots beat up on the Los Angeles Chargers today, I decided to check my SPAM folder, where most of my really important emails wind up. It turns out that the same person, Ben Watson, can approve a...

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purplealabaster Who said that my penis needed lengthening?!

14 Jan 19

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Another victim of GPS ?

topffer @topffer (42156) • France 14 Jan 19

The picture speaks by itself. Last night a guy following blindly his GPS reached this point in the old downtown of Auch. It was a point of no return. He was still there when the police found him at 9am, blocking the pedestrian...

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purplealabaster My GPS has tried to take me to some pretty questionable places, but it has not yet instructed me to try to climb stairs with my car. Then again, it did try to get me to turn left over an embankment with no road in sight just an almost straight drop down a few...

14 Jan 19

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You Can't Always Get What You Want

Susan @HazySue (39268) • Gouverneur, New York 14 Jan 19

I love this saying. I think it is the perfect one to start my day with. I agree wholeheartedly with it. I know I am happy with what I have. In my travels around myLot I have noticed that there seems to be many people who are...

happy

content

mylot people

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purplealabaster I used to be a happy and contented person. Recent events have changed that, but I am actively working very hard to get back to that happy, contented state. It is a struggle most days, but it is getting easier with time.

14 Jan 19

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Dancing on the Edge of Naughty

Jo Ann @akalinus (43184) • United States 2 Jan 19

I can write dead serious kinds of articles. I have written articles for a fence company, a funeral home and other serious types of writing. I can do it, but it is not my favorite thing. I really like dancing on the edge of...

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purplealabaster I do it all the time. What is the point of being here, if you can't have some fun?

14 Jan 19

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«Bloom»...

topffer @topffer (42156) • France 12 Nov 17

@allknowing started today a discussion about «poop pills» to cure some diseases. «Birds of a feather flock together», and it gave me the idea to write a few lines about «Bloom» , a kind of yogurt maker to produce spirulina at...

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purplealabaster Well, I won't say what that liquid looks like, but I certainly would not willingly drink it!

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Goofiest accident ever!

snowy @snowy22315 (180452) • United States 20 Jul 17

So, my friend has an affinity for Wendy's salads and wanted to stop there yesterday. While unwrapping my fork, I somehow managed to jam it into my thumb..and got a little stab wound on it. I was thinking..now this is something...

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purplealabaster I managed to cut myself with a plastic knife, which is probably something only I could do! I was at a company picnic, so I was using the plastic ware instead of my fingers like I would normally do. I was...

20 Jul 17

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Good morning from a sunny winter day.

marguicha @marguicha (222844) • Chile 20 Jul 17

The weather is better now and the snow is a thing of the past now. I´m about to go for breakfast (or maybe just a cup of coffee), mylot a bit and then start my chores. I will check what to cook for lunch today, do some phone...

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purplealabaster It is funny thinking about it being Winter where you live, because it is Summer here. I have a bunch of boring chores to do today, but at the moment I can't get myself motivated, so I am just sitting here wasting time.

20 Jul 17

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Cheating with cheaters

naruto @akp100 (13640) • India 20 Jul 17

Hello friends Nope , I am not cheating with anyone, even with cheaters so far. But recently we friends had small discussion over tit for tat. One friend was suggesting that that's how life is now. If...

cheating

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purplealabaster I do think that is the reality of the mentality for many people these days (tit for tat), but that is not how I feel. I do not feel that I should go out and wrong somebody just because they wronged me. That makes me just as bad as it does them, so why should I...

20 Jul 17

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Does your house have a DRAWING ROOM or PARLOR?

anthony davis @lookatdesktop (27134) • Dallas, Texas 20 Jul 17

The old days, back in the 1600's, rich homes had both. The drawing room was a place where men could set and have a smoke or a drink and talk shop or do business, or go over war strategy or talk politics, while the parlor room was...

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purplealabaster Our old house had a "dining room" that we used as a creative room for homework, puzzles and arts and crafts type stuff, since we had an eat-in kitchen. We also had a "family room/library" that was separate from the living room. We could have adult company in...

20 Jul 17