Most of us will remember important advice given to us by our mothers when we were younger.

Certain important pieces of information that have stuck with us as we grow older and may have proven useful. 

Swindon Advertiser readers are certainly no exception and many of them have shared the best and most useful things they learned from their mums that they still remember, and still follow, to this day. 

We asked Facebook followers about the best pieces of advice given by mums in the town and here are some of the best...

Elspeth Hughes: “Don’t make yourself a slave to housework. It will all be there when you’re dead and gone. And when I got my driving licence – It’s better to be late than dead in time.”

Marcie Wall: “Never ever rely on a man, be independent, run your own castle, pay your own bills, work hard and you’ll succeed. Life doesn’t owe you a living. It’ll be a year a week Monday that I lost her, what I’d give to hear her voice again.”

Pam Nielsen: “If you can’t say something nice, say nothing at all.”

Alexandra Mancari: “My grandma always said, ‘the dust will always be there tomorrow’ meaning some things are more important than housework.”

Sharon Hemson: “Be yourself. Also you are rich when you have a home, food, job, kids and grandkids and that’s all you need.”

Kelly Shepherd: “Give them enough rope and they will hang themselves.”

Nazma B Ramruttun: “You are rich when you have all your limbs and you are healthy.”

Gillian Evans: “Back in the 1970s when the married women’s national insurance stamp was being phased out and I could choose to stay in the lower rate and be reliant on my husband’s state pension or pay full stamp to ensure my own pension. Her advice was to pay the full stamp which as a 20-something seemed a nonsense thing to do. After all retiring was some 35 years away! I did heed her advice and silently thank her regularly for it."

Dawn Stevens: "As long as you’re warm, fed and have a roof over your head nothing else matters.”

Wendy Sayer: “To train for a job where I could always support myself and a family if necessary. I did as did both my sisters."

Rose Helen: “Life is what you make it. Don’t wait for anything to be handed to you on a plate because life is too short.”

Kat Corcoran: “If people are talking about others to you, they’re talking about you to others.”

David Lees: “Take your jacket off or you won’t feel the benefit, and have a wee before you leave! Wise words to live by.”

Samip Lamchane Gurung: “Don’t be afraid to make a mistake but be careful not to make the same mistake twice!”

Ashley Cain: “Not so much a saying, but I recall losing my first job and I wasn’t allowed into the home till I was back in employment. Never lost another job.”

Clare Stacey: “If you haven’t got anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. And two wrongs don’t make a right. My mumsy was amazing, sad to say she passed away 3 months ago.”

Emma Sedgwick: “This too will pass.”

Joe Dixon: “Don’t take a sweet off strangers... grab the whole bag and run.”

Mandy Regan: “Don’t worry because you die if you do and you die if you don’t.”

Susan Patterson: “My nan taught me to always be nice to people, caring and loving.”

Mary Smartington: “If you wouldn’t ask someone for their advice you shouldn’t care about their opinion.”