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You have a time machine and can back exactly six months - what advice would you give yourself?

299 replies

Grumpylockeddownwoman · 16/05/2020 19:40

Just that really - would you have quietly stocked up on hand sanitiser? Done something sooner? Taken up a hobby? Changed job?

OP posts:
FizzyPink · 16/05/2020 19:41

Not to have booked a summer holiday on January 1st!! Also to find someone to rent out my flat before lockdown struck

rookiemere · 16/05/2020 19:42

Get my friends to choose our ski weekend the one before we actually were due to go.

Pelleas · 16/05/2020 19:43

Replace the lawnmower!

Grumpylockeddownwoman · 16/05/2020 19:45

@Pelleas feel your pain - our one is rubbish and the strimmer has just given up the ghost too!

OP posts:
x2boys · 16/05/2020 19:46

Move somewhere very remote with with new neighbours for miles,around but very good shopping delivery service😏

After8itsgrownuptime · 16/05/2020 19:46

Buy shares in zoom and house party

MissFlite · 16/05/2020 19:47

Bought flour, yeast and shares in Zoom

x2boys · 16/05/2020 19:47

No neighbours*

Tonii1985 · 16/05/2020 19:47

Appreciate every moment of your wonderful life exactly as it is. It's about to be a bit shit for a while.

HairyFloppins · 16/05/2020 19:48

Move house quick.

MarcelineMissouri · 16/05/2020 19:48

Get a job in a different industry!
Finish the building work on our house ASAP.

Monkeynuts18 · 16/05/2020 19:48

Ooh good question!

I’d tell myself to:

Go on holiday NOW.

See as much as possible of your parents. Maybe ask them if they’d like to move in while you’re on mat leave.

Go out, see friends!

ElizabethMountbatten · 16/05/2020 19:49

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Al1Langdownthecleghole · 16/05/2020 19:49

Built a big extension & moved DS, his girlfriend, DD's boyfriend & MIL in.

And my hairdresser.

oldtownroad · 16/05/2020 19:49

Go to the tip. Was putting it off for months, now our garage is full of crap and we're moving in 2 weeks. Slots for the tip disappear within minutes (I check every hour).

user1497207191 · 16/05/2020 19:50

Tell DS to do more revision for his A level mocks which he did first week of January!

museumum · 16/05/2020 19:51

Not put the car in for its mot the day lockdown began (before mots we’re all extended anyway). Car has been shut in the closed garage waiting for a relatively minor part ever since.

Wbeezer · 16/05/2020 19:51

Sell most of my shares and stop using up my Brexit stash. Stock up on paint make DS1 sit his driving test instead of procrastinating.

Pixiedust49 · 16/05/2020 19:51

Go to the dentist 😬

Lightheart · 16/05/2020 19:51

Get rid of that tip pile in the garden stop putting it off till the hours are longer!! Buy some hand sanitizer and toilet roll. Go visit everyone in my family a few extra times. Oh and invest in a toilet roll company!!

muddledmidget · 16/05/2020 19:52

Make the most of the gym/pool, buy a treadmill for home, and see all my family.

winterinmadeira · 16/05/2020 19:53

Book the week of Christmas off at work

Grumpylockeddownwoman · 16/05/2020 19:53

Ah shares in zoom is a good one!

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Ilovecats14 · 16/05/2020 19:54

Don't book that bday trip you've been planning for April. Also stock up on paint just incase you have to stay in and have nothing productive to do.

CaptainBrickbeard · 16/05/2020 19:54

Move to New Zealand!

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