i wasnt around my grandparents much but now that my mom has been gone a year her voice is in my head EVERY day of my life.
" i aintta payin it , let em keep it " .
it applies to overpriced crap but i believe its more a lesson about the things you need versus the things you think you need .
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1)Treat others as you would want treated.

2) When you are down, just yell they will come running. (meaning, you are never alone)

3) Always hold your head up high and smile.

One I always do and Love:
4) Never measure your food, make and fix your food as like you love doing it more then anything. Give it your love and understanding of flavors. but never forget the sugar it deserves. (if you salt it, sugar it also as my grandfather said. It balance the love you gave it.) This means, if you put salt in your food you cooked, but a teaspoon of sugar in it also. It does balance it out.

There are so many, I can't say them all here. I grew up with not only my grandparents, but also my great grandparents. Even my children were able to know their Great grandparent and great great grandparents. So there were a lot of wise tails and all, that I live by.
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My grandmother would tell me that every foot tub must stand on it's own legs..and that if you lay with dogs you will get up with fleas..be careful of the company that you keep..never let the right hand know what the left is doing.
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ClaudiaHCA, same here. Both sets of grandparents lived too far away to visit on a regular basis. I saw them once a year. Like you, I remembered what they looked like.... the inside of the house..... both lived on farms so I was always outside chasing the animals or playing with cousins.... one grandparent's house was haunted so that was always an adventure.

But I never had any long conversations or advice learned with either sets of grandparents. One thing that had always stuck in my mind is that my grandfather never said turn left or right when I was driving him somewhere, it was "turn west" or "turn north".... say what?
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Sadly I did not grow up around my grandparents. As a very young child I would visit them for an extended time, but my only memories are visual (what they looked like, what I saw, the layout of the apartment, food I ate) but no advice and no lasting comments or experiences.
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