My pal Elizabeth is back with her Truthful Tuesday topic, and being a supporter of friends, I’m joining her again this week. This week’s question is:
If you could “do-over” any one scene in your life, what would it be, and why?
Wow Elizabeth! What a question. I probably have a bunch of answers for this question, but since you are limiting it to one, I had to think very hard about it……. Yep, still couldn’t come up with one! Here are some of the moments that topped my list though:
The setting: On vacation for the weekend with hubby, who was my boyfriend at the time. We had been dating for 1.5 years or so.
The scene: While walking around the lake at the resort where we were staying, I kept bringing up the topic of marriage. After hounding him discussing the topic with him, he got frustrated and started yelling at me, saying “Stop bringing up marriage! I won’t be ready for 2 years!” (Truth was that he had purchased the ring a few days prior). I wish I hadn’t been so pushy about it, but hey, I was in love! And he knew the kind of wear-your-heart-on-your-sleeve person I am. Here is a picture from the engagement night, 10 months later…
Right after my husband proposed to me
The setting: Walgreens at 7am on a Sunday morning in February 2009.
The scene: After I had gotten pretty actively into super-couponing, I learned that in order to get the good deals, you had to be at the store as soon as it opened on Sunday mornings. This particular week there was an awesome deal on Huggies and shampoo/conditioner. Prepared with my coupons, my list, and my wallet, I set out for the journey. Three stores and 1.5 hours later, I scored all of this for about $60. What would I have done differently? I would have kept going and got some more! I could have hit ALL of the Walgreens within a 50-mile radius. A little hot chocolate and some driving music and I would have been good to go for days! (The diapers lasted for 3 months and I still have shampoo/conditioner left!).
My Walgreens Loot!
Ok, so those weren’t the most serious answers to this question, but I found it fun to take a trip down memory lane. There are many other moments in my life that I would like a “do-over” for, like the times I flipped out before prom because my hair didn’t look right (after having it done), or the time I drank so much in college that I was shaking on the floor for hours, pretty sure I had alcohol poisoning. But then, if I redid some of those major life moments, I might not have learned some good lessons and be where I am today. So at the end of the day, I wouldn’t do anything over.
(And P.S. Elizabeth…’Groundhog’s Day’ was one of only 2 movies I ever walked out of after watching about an hour of. Yes, I hated it THAT much!).
What moments in your life would YOU do-over…even seemingly small and insignificant ones? Join Elizabeth or let me hear your answers here!
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People often don’t understand why I wouldn’t want any do-overs in my life (get rid of the yucky stuff, etc) but when you look at your life as a timeline, each seemingly unimportant decision leads us to where we are today..so anything I may have done differently could mean I wouldn’t have the kids I have, etc. I wouldn’t change a thing.
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We had similar with the engagement!
I gave him a hard time about wanting to be engaged, he kept saying he didn’t have money for the ring (in fact had already asked my parents AND purchased ring). 1 month later ring was on a very patient & happy finger
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What a sweet picture of your engagement night! So funny that you hounded him. I did something similar to mine. I kept showing him rings I loved. He finally yelled at me to stop it. Turns out one of the rings I showed him was the one he has already purchased weeks prior.
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That’s so funny about your engagement. Such a sweet picture
& go you on couponing!! Walgreens is awesome, and yes, you do have to be there super early! Blooms, a grocery store around my neck of the woods, was doing triple coupons every week up until December. They would triple any coupon up to .99!! That meant A LOT of free stuff!
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Your couponing skills are INCREDIBLE! You put me to shame.
I am impressed that your hubby was able to hold off giving you that ring for 10 months after he’d purchased it. Mine went from the store to my finger in less than 48 hours!
~Elizabeth
Confessions From A Working Mom
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I love the engagement pic! You look so happy!
You got all of that for $60????? The diapers alone would be enough of a deal.
Please teach me your awesome couponing skills.
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if only we had a do-over button…i’d be pushing just about every day!
ps- i loved groundhog’s day!
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I’d love to do over all those times I lost my temper and yelled at my kids. They didn’t deserve that.
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I’m so on the No Do-Over bandwagon.
Here’s why:
“What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning – and some of them many times over – what do you find? That you can swim? Well – life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!”
Man I love Alfred Adler.
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The things I would probably do-over are the times I’ve yelled at my kids! I always feel so guilty then I do that. Otherwise, I wouldn’t do anything over, because I think the things I’ve done have made me the person I am today!
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I have to second the emotion on the movie Groundhog Day…I simply can’t stand Bill Murray!!! HATED him in What About Bob!!!!
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I hated groundhog day too… Nice post
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Tamara Reply:
February 3rd, 2010 at 8:19 am
Thanks! Yeah, couldn’t stand the alarm going off with the Sonny and Cher song all the time (I think that was the song they used). Thanks for stopping by!
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Let’s see…I don’t really regret hounding my husband to crap or get off the pot already…:)
One of my most serious regrets is that I didn’t even attempt to negotiate my first salary out of college. The ink was barely dry on my last exam and I was paranoid I needed a job yesterday. So I took the first one that was offered, at the amount they said it paid. I didn’t realize that every raise for the rest of my life would be based on a % of what I made last, and then paid for it for the next 9 years. Now that I’m a freelancer setting my own rates, I hope to break this cycle.
I also wish I hadn’t drank so much I barfed all over the limo on the way home from my bachelorette party. That was also probably alcohol poisoning… Glad I learned my lesson without more serious consequences.
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Tamara Reply:
February 3rd, 2010 at 8:18 am
You sound a lot like me.
I also took the first job I was offered out of graduate school b/c I wanted a job “yesterday.” And I will tell you, I was getting paid less than my Bachelor-degree counterparts! Pathetic. Thanks again for guesting and I am going to be putting your button in the sidebar! 
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You know, I’m sure that there were times when I had done or said something that I wished I could take back or do-over, but all in all looking back I wouldn’t change anything I’ve done in my life. It all led me to where I am now and I wouldn’t change that for the world.
Great loot by the way, I’m impressed!!
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