Yep, I’ve taken to French braiding my hair instead and I’ve also had them pat that down (usually without asking until they’ve put their hands on my head). I just...UGH.

San Francisco is a great place to explore by yourself (and I'm not just saying that because I live here). There's so much to do and see and you get to make all the decisions based on what YOU want to do. Enjoy!

Same! A former boyfriend turned me onto into when we both first moved to LA and I was on my own for the first time. It’s so great for me to see not only what I’ve spent, but what’s coming up for the month. My bank account may seem like it has a great balance, but it’s not including rent or other big bills that’s…

Yeah, I make just over $50K and I’m single, so I look at those mortgage calculators and laugh when they tell me how much house I can afford (spoiler alert: I can’t!). It’s something I’ve resigned myself to when I moved back here five years ago, but it’s hard to read everyone’s stories on posts like these that just…

Living in the Bay Area, you can’t even buy a parking space for $200K, so it’s always a double take for me to see that number. Kinda like the $625/month mortgage payment above.

And this just shows how we all live our lives differently because I live in a city and I rarely order takeout (last time was in March after getting home from trip) and I even more rarely use taxis (coming home from the airport in January) and have never used a laundry service, so if I lost my job, I would need more…

Finally! I'm with you! I mean, I know I'm a monster because I hate kids and never want them around me, but if I caught a foul ball - it's MINE. I did the work and I get to keep it. If that kid wanted a foul ball so much, then that kid's parent should have been been better/faster/stronger than me to get it. I have no…

I want to star this a million times! Just perfect!

YES! As someone who works for a university, the only time I want to talk to your parent is at graduation. Don’t have your mom or dad call me about your schedule, grades or because you didn’t plan carefully and now you have a problem graduating when you want to. Besides FERPA, this isn’t your parents’ place. Learn to…

I did something similar in my Civics class in 8th grade, back in the 90s. We picked a career based on what we thought we wanted to do at 14 and then had to "live" on that for a month (grocery shopping, rent, etc). It was definitely eye-opening to a bunch of suburban middle-schoolers!

Same! I hadn't really thought about just HOW unhealthy those delicious chips are, but when that bag is worth more than my three tacos WITH sour cream, I had to stop and think twice.

I had gone to a lot of Chuck E Cheese birthday parties when I was a kid (our neighbor had two sons and they always invited me, even though I didn't know anyone else). Obviously, parents were there, but I didn't know that they were required.

Exactly! She also could have asked the person the BF was sitting next to to change, but clearly didn't want to. And if you can't handle not sitting with your significant other for a two hour flight, you probably belong in prison.

San Francisco, CA

I was in 9th grade and my World Civ teacher hadn't checked out a television in time, so they were all gone. We had to listen to the verdict on the radio.

I'm guessing, if I could keep 25% of my income in my checking account, I probably wouldn't be worried about bouncing checks. But sure, great advice!

I donated to a Donor's Choose project in her county in Arizona and sent a card this year. The project was to buy books and since she and I used to read together when I was a child, I thought it was particularly fitting.

Same! I spend much more time pouring over my Quicken balance sheets than I would counting cash in my wallet. I just...never have cash on me, so if it's in my wallet it feels more like Monopoly money than the real thing.

I get that your job is hard. But when I give to ONE charity and now get mail from 75 because my info was sold, it sucks. I get 3-4 pieces of solicitation mail A DAY and it all has to be shredded. It all piles up and since I didn't ask to be on the other 74 mailing lists, the fact that the onus is on me to get that…

To me, the charities are the worst. I donated ONE time to ONE charity for my mom for Mother's day in 2011. After that, I was getting 3-5 charity solicitations a DAY from different charities. Just seeing the amount of money wasted by all the charities (some of whom still send me solicitations three years later, even…