Advice your Mother gave you that you actually listened to.

[TheLostWinchesterWife]

Talking to my children today about being nice. Two seconds after they were tearing each other apart again.
Found myself saying 'I always listened to my Mum!'
...then wondered if I ever actually did.
Some of it was good and I should have followed and some was rubbish. But I couldn't think of any that I remembered thinking 'ah yes..I must remember that' so has anyone, anywhere ever listened to their mother?

TheLostWinchesterWife

Never lend money you cannot afford to lose ...(too true) and...

Keep calm and make a list.

My DM after a then-boyfriend cheated "darling, don't be too upset. A man will shag a bag of liver given half a chance."
Never a truer word spoken.

Use eye cream! 33 & no wrinkles, thanks mum!

Never, ever give in to peer pressure.
Don't be swayed by people whose good looks far outweigh their personality.
Don't marry a man who can't ride a bicycle
Take your coat off indoors or you "won't feel the benefit"

Don't know lost!

Presume something to do with itchy clothes, just advice my mother gave me that I've always listened to

From my Nanna 'Spend your money on good shoes and a good bed because if you're not in one you're in the other.'

Never trust a man in white shoes.

No idea why you shouldn't (apart from they're probably somewhat stylistically challenged) but that was my mother's pearl of wisdom to me.

My mum died when I was 21. She gave me two pieces of advice which I have passed on to a younger female member of my family:

1. if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is

2. the first time your husband hits you is the last

'Shag a bag of liver' is the funniest insult I've heard in ages!

I do agree with the don't lend if you can't afford to lose it stuff.

'Go to a university with a great campus full of fun people, it will be your last opportunity to have a lot of fun' She was right (ish), I went to a uni near the beach, shagged everything that moved and made a lot of friends for life.

PS, I don't think this would apply if I had been Oxbridge material.

Look after your teeth.

Work, but part time when you have children.

Do a washload a day otherwise you spend your whole weekend washing.

'Beat as you sweep as you clean' - basically tidy up as you go I am the messiest baker and cook known to man

Read the road, it tells you everything you need to know (passed down from DGF )

Never smoke in the house or the car.

Get someone who has children to show you how to latch your pfb as half the time midwives don't know how.

Always save more than you spend of what is left after mortgage and bills.

You'll never be happy with your hair, and if you had your brother's long golden ringlets you'd be crying for the straight brown hair you have now, stop stressing over it.

Look after you and yours first.

Always keep your hand on your ha'penny.

If you are going to get married then marry someone who treats you like an equal.

Clean the important bits of your house and don't worry about the rest, no one died from dusty skirting boards

You will never be bored with a book

It is better to be useful than decorative.

A friend is only a friend if they treat you like one.

Wasn't 'beats as it sweeps as it cleans' an advertising slogan for something like the early hoovers?

Oh I forgot my favourite.

The best contraception is an aspirin. Held firmly between the knees.

You will only make a handful of real, true, friends over your lifetime. Cherish and invest in these friends and don't spend energy or time on people who don't give 2 hoots about you. Be nice to everyone though!

My nan always said friends and acquaintances will come and go throughout your life but in the end,you can count your true friends on one hand - so true

Tigress - love it.

Never wear red with pink. In my latter years, I'm starting to feel that the woman is wrong about everything but I still never combine those two colours.

Always add a pinch of salt.

Wear good shoes. Your feet are important, you're on them a lot after all.

Cut your nails often.

I have pretty much done the opposite of every thing she has ever said.

It's done me well

The world is your oyster. You can do anything.

Never leave the house without putting your face on.

And like Cakes, everyone else on the road is an idiot.

My mum got married in a lovely dress to hide the bump and then got divorced twice and married again twice.

She told me to make sure I did things in the right order: get engage, get married, have children and make sure you marry the right one.

I waited and turned a few down and lateish found Mr Right. Nearly 25 years on I'm glad.

I haven't paid much attention to anything else my mother ever advised because nothing else in my life hurt as much as her divorces and the lack of stability it gave me.