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Who taught you... (poll)
How to ride a bike?
How to swim?
How to balance a checkbook?
How to manage your money/save?
Break up with a boyfriend?
How to cook?
Re: Who taught you... (poll)
How to ride a bike? parents
How to swim? parents (and I took a class when I was little at the Y)
How to balance a checkbook? my mom
How to manage your money/save? Dave Ramsey. (lol) My parents led by example (they handle money well) but never sat down and showed me how to save, spend and give.
Break up with a boyfriend? no one. I never have.
How to cook? My mom and auntsHow to ride a bike? My dad. Still remember the bike wrecks, too. My sister had to have stitches during her trial-n-error. ha ha
How to swim? My dad.
How to balance a checkbook? My mom--she's the money brains in the family.
How to manage your money/save? See above.
Break up with a boyfriend? My friends?!!? I remember taking their advice--at that time it wasn't "cool" to talk with the folks about that stuff. Ahh...middle school days.
How to cook? My gram.
How to ride a bike? Dad
How to swim? Dad and swim lessons
How to balance a checkbook? Learned this on my own.
How to manage your money/save? Still learning this one
I'm naturally frugal, so I suppose my parents influenced that.
Break up with a boyfriend? No one--is there a right way to do this?
How to cook? Mom showed me the way around a kitchen, but Dad taught me how to make food taste goodHow to ride a bike? Mom
How to swim? Mom
How to balance a checkbook? My Consumer Ed teacher in high school (don't recall her name)
How to manage your money/save? Umm, no one. This is a work in progress I'm learning myself.
Break up with a boyfriend? No one. I always sucked at this.
How to cook? Mom mostly, some Grandma.my bookshelf!
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How to swim? The swimming lessons lady, and also my dad.
How to balance a checkbook? My parents.
How to manage your money/save? My parents had the biggest influence on that - I swear, they are WIZARDS when it comes to this. I'm also a fan of most of Dave Ramsey's policies - so are they, but they just don't realize it.
Break up with a boyfriend? Uh. I don't recall getting any sort of teaching for this, actually.
How to cook? My mom.
How to ride a bike? my dad
How to swim? It was a combination of a lifeguard (swim lessons) and my parents.
How to balance a checkbook? My mom
How to manage your money/save? I think I'm still learning this. My parents gave me an example to go by but never really talked about how. So DH and I are figuring this out still.
Break up with a boyfriend? I don't think really anyone taught me this. I may have taken advice from my friends the first couple of times but eventually I just knew how to do it.
How to cook? Definetly my mom. Also my grandmothers had a hand in this. Cooking is a big part of our family (we always gather around food) and you learned early on in life how to cook.
How to ride a bike? My mommy...
How to swim? Well my mommy tried to no avail...I still can't swim.
How to balance a checkbook? No one really...hence why I can't do it well.
How to manage your money/save? The hubs
Break up with a boyfriend? Umm...I don't know. I always had a friend do it! Lol
How to cook? No one really...mostly just experiementing myself. I am a big fan of cooking shows.
How to ride a bike? My dad
How to swim? Aunt, Dad, swim lessons
How to balance a checkbook? My mom
How to manage your money/save? Yikes, myself. Parents never sat down and told me how, just told me to save.
Break up with a boyfriend? Friends, oh my.
How to cook? My mom.
How to ride a bike? my brother
How to swim? swim class
How to balance a checkbook? my mom
How to manage your money/save? My parents taught me a lot. My brother is big into finances and is always giving us advice.
Break up with a boyfriend? No one
How to cook?My mom and grandmaHow to ride a bike? My dad
How to swim? The lady who taught swimming lessons at the pool
How to balance a checkbook? class as school
How to manage your money/save? my grandma
Break up with a boyfriend? no one really
How to cook? my brother and he is one damn good cook!
BAHAHA... Just for the record- I SO thought this thread was going to be "Who taught you to... diddle the bean (or something along those lines)" after our conversation on Saturday.
How to ride a bike? I think my mom
How to swim? mom again
How to balance a checkbook? pretty sure my mom did lol
How to manage your money/save? my husband
Break up with a boyfriend? I always asked my mom for advice, but I never did much breaking up... I was usually the dumpee.
How to cook? all of my recipes come from my grandma and mom, everything else is self-taught
How to ride a bike? I taught myself. I wanted to ride my sister's 2-wheel Peaches 'n Cream Barbie (gag) bike. I was too short to get on it. I remember one evening, my sister and mom were at ballet (my lessons were another day) and dad was inside watching Law and Order or something. I got up on the cross tie in the front yard, climbed up on the bike, rode to the end of the street, hopped off (afraid to turn on my own), walked it back, and repeated until I felt like I could ride on my own. An inch or so later I could get on the bike without a step
How to swim? No one. I took lessons and I failed miserably. I sink like a brick.
How to balance a checkbook? My mom. She is a bank employee.
How to manage your money/save? No one. Always working on that.
Break up with a boyfriend? No one. I've only ever broken up with one and it didn't go as planned.
How to cook? Mom a little, a little from the Food Network and a lot from reading cookbooks, a favorite past time while visiting home during college breaks. Southern Living puts out a great end of the year book.How to ride a bike? My step dad
How to swim? swim lessons and my parents
How to balance a checkbook? my mom and I took some elective class in high school
How to manage your money/save? parents, but mostly H. We're doing awesome on that!
Break up with a boyfriend? I took advice from friends
How to cook? pretty much self taught. my mom doesn't cook much and once H and I got married, we started getting cook books, which I have learned I could look at a cook book all day long. I love love love finding recipes and making them.