I think the old “pay your hubby/signficant other/friend/family member every time your curse” break the habit (and the bank!) pretty quickly! 😉

Oh, the things we find when we have extra time on our hands. I’m such a lip gloss girl too! Hooray for fun nail colors!

I have a horrible potty mouth. I tried giving swearing up for Lent a few times, and never made it past day 1.

Love the nail polish!

I’m not a big curser so I don’t have that problem — but I know my brother in law stopped cursing so much when he had a kid — he is super careful to not say any f-words in front of my niece!

haha, i was just going to say, “love your nails!” thanks for answering my question before i asked it (i haven’t read the comments to the last post, although i did read the last post!)
love bright and wild nail polish, too – recently tried fake nails for the first time – went with turquoise blue with white flower nail art. they were fabulously fun!
good luck with the swearing! you + potty mouth? never woulda guessed it, caitlin!!

1) No advice on cursing…I use the f-word more than any other word in my vocabulary, unfortunately. Oops?…

2) I am also having red cabbage and kale for dinner!

3) I just bought that nail polish! 😀

I can’t remember the name of the website, but I’m sure someone on here knows it. There’s a website which can work like a negative piggy bank — if you break your commitment, you give so much money to a charity you don’t like. For example, I’m a very liberal Democrat, so if I were trying not to swear, I would set it up so that every time I said a dirty word, I’d commit to giving a dollar to a Tea Party group. It requires accountability, but it’d stop me from swearing like that!

I definitely try to watch my cursing now. Teaching and being around kids has a lot to do with that and I try to knock the habit now before my husband and I decide to have kids. I definitely don’t want that in my house when the kids come.

I’m a curser too. It’s so bad, though I’m actually really good at keeping it under control around people I don’t know. A lot of friends have told me to replace the bad words with funny ones…like fudge, fiddlesticks, shebang, crud, etc. Not sure if it would be helpful when I’m REALLY pissed, but it’s definitely a fun alternative to dropping the F-bomb when you’re just a little riled up about something.

LOVE the nail polish! And the Burt’s Bees! I adore the pomegranate one…with a passion!!

O.K. Caitlin, this totally works. When I had my daughter, Katie, my cursing was out of control. Every effort to “do better” was just not making it. So I started censoring my thoughts. I found that I thought cursed. When I thought a curse word, I would mentally correct myself and rethink the thought with the words I would have preferred to use. Years later I discovered that I no longer even think curse. More recently I’ve fallen back into the think cursing mode, so I know potty mouth is edging it’s way back into my life.

BTW, you’d be surprised how much more creative you become when you replace the curse words with the words that actually fit what you meant to convey.

I’m not really a curser so I can’t really think of any advice for you. The only thing I’m usually saying is that my dog is a “little sh*t” 🙂

I really hate your reasoning for not cursing —
As someone who is supposed to represent a strong, independent, feminist-minded thinker, why would you succumb to societal expectations that women must act all prim and proper? That logic is disgusting and is only perpetuated by these kinds of statements.

You might have other reasons for not wanting to curse, and there are certainly good reasons, but you didn’t list any others. I am very disappointed.

How funny I never would have pegged you as a curser. I cringe when I hear swear words. I think because I grew up in a no-swear household and if my brothers ever accidently swore it was a huge, huge deal. My husband was a curser when I met him, but slowly he’s changed his choice words. (At least in front of me…) It can be done!

I swear like a sailor. I have no problem with it either. 🙂

I don’t swear much on my blog because I don’t think it’s professional but sometimes it’s needed. 🙂

Have fun- everytime you curse you have to place a coin in a jar. The goal is to reduce the amount of coins you put in the jar each week.

Also, come up with silly works to use instead- like “DUDE THAT VACCUMS” or ” OH PINEAPPLES”.

omg I am such a curser too. My fiance always tells me I swear way too much. I’ve been trying sooo hard to change my ways. It’s been working. I don’t even have any tips for you, unfortunately. I somehow “switch it off.”

I, too, have heard of having to put money in a glass jar everytime you curse & then donate it to charity or a church. It also helps me, when trying to break a new habit, to make a list of all the reasons WHY I want to do it… real, passionate & motivating reasons. I put them on an index card & carry them around w/me for the first month or so. Lastly, never underestimate the power of prayer!

I have the worst potty mouth. I am worse than my husband. I only say it around my house or people I know that talk like I do. It’s bad though. Good luck getting rid of it. I can’t seem to figure out how to stop.

Love Cadbury eggs! And the nail polish color!

I know last year when my roommate was working on stopping her cursing, she put a coin or $ bill in a jar (each word depending on how much she said it before the challenge received a different value) and when the jar was getting full she donated it to a charity.

I had tried many times in my past to 86 my cursing habit. All that I found that worked was spending more and more time at work – where it would be really inappropriate to do so! Now I rarely curse, which has the added benefit of really getting others attention when I mean business!

interesting question! Hmmmm well~I hear that it is a proven fact that most habits (excluding nicotine, etc.) take at least 21 days of “fasting” it for it to dissipate or completely go away! So~like many others said, perhaps pay up for at least 21 days? or just for the good sake of it, just stop it completely for 21 days and see what happens! haha. And although this is lame~sub those words for encouraging words!! If you feel crappy about something, perhaps turn it around and say a genuine encouragement to someone else instead? 😛

Haha I so can’t picture you being a curser! I used to curse too much before but have improved a lot! When I’m p’d off though, its a different story..I can’t control myself and the f-word is all over the place! :-/

I have a potty mouth, too. I try not to worry about it too much unless I’m around my parents, or children. I feel like they’re just words, right? And I love that nail color!

I had a professor say to me (while getting my teaching credential), “There’s no such thing as bad language, there’s only inappropriate use of language.” That’s always stuck with me. Personally, I love a good f-bomb. There are inappropriate times and there are completely appropriate times. It’s like anything else, everything in moderation! 😉

What worked for me when I stopped cursing was to come up with something else to say instead. f-bomb = fudge monkeys or something silly like that. That way you’re retraining yourself to say something different instead of trying to change your speaking patterns.

Good luck! It’s totally worth it to stop — then when you do curse people know you really mean business 😛

i feel ya…..working with children on ‘their’ speech has forced me to clean up mine 😛 i have also reduced my ‘like’ count as well to be taken seriously as a professional when conversing with parents! Hope you figure something out that works for you!!

Ha ha I’m a French Canadian and in Quebec (the French province of Canada) its considered better to say f*** (which has no meaning in French…) than to use a French swear word. So it was interesting to see people being uncomfortable around me when I moved to an English province because I said f*** all the time thinking it came across like if I was saying ‘drats!’ LOL. I fixed the problem by saying ”f*** – oops I mean – ‘zut alors’ ” for years – it eventually worked. So maybe try to swap it for something silly and less offensive whenever you have the urge to say it (or whenever you say it by mistake:)

There are certainly inappropriate times to use curse words. But it’s not an un-ladylike habit! They’re just words.

I need to break the habit too. I have young kids and I’ve VERY careful of what I say around them, but really, you’re right it is not polite at any time!
I love that nail color!

I couldn’t read through all 107 comments so I don’t know if anyone suggested this yet, but maybe spend more time with kids. When I first started working with children I was terrified I was gonna accidentally drop and f-bomb but after 5 years it has still yet to happen. Somehow something inside of you just cleans up as a grown up in front of kids. I bet you don’t curse (or at least not as much) or your Girls on the Run events.
But, P.S I think the fact that you curse is endearing!

I remember you mentioning that once before on your blog, and I thought, “I knew it! Caitlin is badass” 🙂

Heyy! Some of my friends curse, and one of them got out of the habit by having a curse jar, or a ribbon they wore around their wrist, so when they were about to curse, they would see the ribbon, and not swear. Another thing is to hang out more with people who don’t curse, it really works.