I hope this doesn't double post - but kinja killed my last reply. Simple response:

At first I was like, oh dear god I have no idea, then I realized maybe I do - so here's my advice, and feel free to take it or leave it, I just hope it's helpful in some small way.

How is it selfish to want to adopt? I have a hard time wrapping my head around that. There are lots of reasons not to carry (I've decided against, if we ever have kids, because I don't want to pass on any of my medical issues) - but regardless of the reasons it's the opposite of selfish to give a child in need a home,…

This is awesome and reminds me of my almost-first apartment. The neighbor broke up with her boyfriend. He then spent the next three days coming and sitting outside of her apartment playing guitar and singing (poorly) shitty love songs to attempt to woo her back. He did this directly outside of my bedroom window.…

I think I am hoping to do something similar - in that I want to start simple and expand; but sometimes I get ahead of myself and make things more complicated than they need to be at the outset. :P

That sounds like the advanced class. I'm decent at math and shit, but I'm so visual I usually end up writing it down (and yes, occasionally drawing myself a picture, former art major here) - so most of this went over my head *sigh*. I need pictures or something. I will come back to your comment after I've fooled…

I'll check them out - I think it can just be daunting to have to make my own (even though I half enjoy that type of work at my job, at home I don't want to put forth all that effort and have it not turn out). I'll probably enter everything myself anyway, because I'm an ultra control-freak and I hate the idea of having…

Can someone write an article on how to do this? Like I understand the basics of budgeting, but I haven't set up a spreadsheet or anything because, generally, all the stuff the books mention either aren't relevant or are too "general" and I'm not really sure how to start. I understand the concepts theoretically; but I…

Ugh, I hate all of you. [not seriously - just jealous about all the paid-off loan stories and not having much debt stories - good for ya'all for making good choices, I was not so... smart in my youth.]

My post-high school educational story is 10 years of insanity (beginning with an associates in Illustration, a weird…