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Post by Drew on Apr 26, 2016 2:42:50 GMT
This is a reaching spin off of mme's post about astrology. Do you read your fortunes? Play close attention? Keep them? Disregard them?
I have always read them for fun, usually adding "while in bed" at the end just for laughs.
However. I recently took my littlest daughter out for lunch at her favorite Chinese restaurant and took my fortune seriously. It said, "It's time to treat yourself to something of expensive quality." After lunch, we went directly to a music store and I purchased a flute so I could help her practice her flute. The magnificent flute I played in college is in storage a few hours away and I don't see us getting down there anytime soon.
Anyway. Best spontaneous purchase ever. We're having fun.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Apr 26, 2016 2:48:36 GMT
LOL, We keep the funny ones. I got one last summer that said, "You will go on a vacation out west" about two weeks before I went to my friend's retreat which happens to be one state west of where we live! I was going there to work, but it was as much of a summer vacation as I was going to get!  |
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Post by mcscrapper on Apr 26, 2016 2:51:01 GMT
I once got an empty fortune cookie. The waiter felt badly for me and brought me another one. It was empty too!  I almost cried!! Laughed instead! meredith |
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Post by originalvanillabean on Apr 26, 2016 2:55:07 GMT
Usually never take them seriously.
I love that you bought a flute. That's awesome!
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Post by justkat on Apr 26, 2016 3:06:48 GMT
I read them. I keep the "good" ones. I made them into a mini album using Instax pictures.
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Post by cmpeter on Apr 26, 2016 3:21:04 GMT
When dh and I first started dating, in 1986...twice we both got the same fortune in our cookies. I have kept those two, they are somewhere in a box with all the old letters we used to write to each other.
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Post by 950nancy on Apr 26, 2016 3:27:33 GMT
After we purchased a new SUV, we went out for dinner. My fortune said-Buy the red car. I WANTED the red SUV, but the blue one was cheaper. I looked for a camera to see if I was getting punked.
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Post by krazykatlady on Apr 26, 2016 3:46:26 GMT
We play "in bed" too. I have a scrapbook titled "in bed" that holds every fortune my family of four (now down to two, we're empty nesters) has gotten in the last ten years. I don't know why I keep them. It's like an obsession.
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Post by disneypal on Apr 26, 2016 11:45:13 GMT
I keep some of them in my wallet, just for fun, because I like what they say. My favorite one says "You like Chinese food".  |
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Post by moonglowe21 on Apr 26, 2016 12:27:33 GMT
I don't take them seriously but I do like to read them. They always end up in the trash except for one that I carry in my wallet in the little clear window in front of my license. It says: You can't choose how you will die, but you can choose how you will live. I thought it was a great reminder to live life to the fullest and try and make good choices.  |
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Post by jeremysgirl on Apr 26, 2016 12:35:59 GMT
The Chinese restaurant we go to gives out fortune cookies and it's one of my favorite things to read them. I have been known to occasionally play the lucky numbers on the bottom in the lotto. |
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Post by pelirroja on Apr 26, 2016 13:07:16 GMT
Ages ago, I was on a blind date at a Chinese restaurant. I had driven myself over there, we weren't a good match, and I was daydreaming/ planning my quick exit when the fortune cookies were delivered. My fortune read "Better to be alone than to be in bad company".  Enough said: I was outta there. That was 1978 and it's the best (and most appropriate) advice I ever got in my life. I still use it and dispense it to others whenever necessary. |
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Post by caro on Apr 26, 2016 13:09:43 GMT
Usually never take them seriously. I love that you bought a flute. That's awesome! That is very cool. |
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Post by threecs on Apr 26, 2016 13:10:59 GMT
My favorite fortune said "You laugh now ... wait until you get home!"
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Post by bbkeef on Apr 26, 2016 15:49:29 GMT
I read them for fun. I don't take them to heart since I know you can create your own! I bought 250 FC with 5 personalized messages for my sister's 50th. It was so fun. I recently got a fortune that said "you are soon going to change your present line of work". I just had an interview this morning! And I was encouraged to apply for another position just yesterday! So maybe I should take them more seriously! |
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Post by freebird on Apr 26, 2016 15:53:34 GMT
Right after we opened our business, my husband and I both got at the same meal "You will make a fortune with your friend".
I'm not sure about a "fortune" yet, but we both are doing well. That's the most excited either of us has been over a fortune cookie. lol
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Post by baylorgrad on Apr 26, 2016 18:01:24 GMT
My favorite fortune that I've received said: "About time I got out of that cookie." |
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Post by mymindseyedpea on Apr 26, 2016 18:47:54 GMT
I only take them to heart if I feel them at a deeper level. Sometimes I don't and other times I do. I have a friend who had a fortune cookie synchronicity with me once. We just knew each other in a mutual online group. She was living in Florida at the time. But we started talking a little more online. About 6 months later she commented under a post my mom actually put up asking if anyone lives in Southern California. And she named a city only 5 miles away from me We've met since, bumping into each other at this festival, and still experience many synchronicities, other than the fortune cookie |
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Post by JustCallMeMommy on Apr 26, 2016 18:50:00 GMT
Sometimes, I take pictures for Facebook or stick them in my wallet to discover again later.
I hate it when I get one that is a "saying" rather than a "fortune."
My favorite recently was, "Patience is your alley at the moment. Don't worry." I walked all over that patience.
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Post by 950nancy on Apr 26, 2016 18:59:14 GMT
We play "in bed" too. I have a scrapbook titled "in bed" that holds every fortune my family of four (now down to two, we're empty nesters) has gotten in the last ten years. I don't know why I keep them. It's like an obsession. We used to do this when my kids were really little. We stopped before we figured they knew what we were saying. My youngest one was maybe in fourth grade when he read his out loud and said "in bed" after the fortune. He smiled and told us that now he understood. That kid has a memory of a sponge. |
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Post by anniefb on Apr 26, 2016 19:48:46 GMT
Just read them for laughs and don't take them seriously.
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Post by purplebee on Apr 26, 2016 20:05:57 GMT
Best one I ever got was a few weeks before my wedding: "The marriage will be successful." Just celebrated our 44th anniversary.
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Post by disneypal on Apr 26, 2016 20:12:13 GMT
I hate it when I get one that is a "saying" rather than a "fortune." I know... my sister calls those "statement cookies" - she will say "Ugh, I didn't get a fortune cookie, I got a statement cookie"
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Post by eastcoastpea on Apr 27, 2016 10:59:10 GMT
I have most of ours in a jar.
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Post by craftsbycarolyn on Apr 27, 2016 17:01:59 GMT
I always read never take them seriously.
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