Best of the ‘Moving on Manual’ Tips: Guest Blogger
This week brings one of the most dreaded, or loved, holidays of the year: Valentine’s day. No matter if you’re smitten or single,you’ll find nuggets of truth and hilarity in this week’s guest blogger posts from Annabel Acton, the Australian founder of Never Liked It Anyway. The ground-breaking site lets users buy and sell unwanted items from past relationships. Even better, though, it has a manual filled with “getting over it” tips along with a forum with tell-all stories about the worst relationships ever. We’re huge fans, and know you will be, too! Read on for some great tips on living and loving.
Advice, it can be practical or useless. But before we hastily discredit the latter category, it’s worth remembering that “useless” is often funny. The Moving On Manual is a part of Never Liked It Anyway where people can add brief tips on how to move on quickly. Some practical advice includes nuggets like “buy a new bed, something you like, complete with new bedding.” This is perfect since you get the distraction of shopping plus the inexplicable excitement that new bedding can bring. There are other sage tips from seasoned dumpees like “get an extreme haircut when going through this life changing experience…” Practical and thrilling, but there are also incredibly comical tips like “my grandma told me the best way to get over a man is to get under another! It may be true, but so gross to hear from nan.” In fact, on second thought, this one delivers both humor and practicality.
Some of my favorites are from a whole other category of tips that are anger-inspired, like this one: “BONFIRE! Burn everything! Do this with your best girlfriends, blast some Taylor Swift, sing it at the top of your lungs and FB it!” Let’s break this down, as there’s lots of stellar advice in there:
Bonfire—erase all evidence.
1. Do it with people, the more the merrier (and more memorable)
2. Give it a theme song (Taylor Swift I’m assuming is optional)
3. Document it, very carefully on Facebook.
One tip, many gems. I definitely subscribe to the laughter-is-the-best-medicine philosophy. That was part of my inspiration to create the site, and it’s brilliant to see people latching on to that and spreading the good cheer.
Valentine’s day is over, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t still be giving great gifts to yourself. Check out our gift guide here.
