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This is How Much People Get Paid to Be on ‘House Hunters’

Why would you open yourself up to the ridicule of friends, neighbors, and strangers while you house hunt and possibly reject a home for its paint color or say the words “great entertaining space” or “light and bright” in a twenty-minute span? It actually never occurred to me that people get paid to be on the popular HGTV series House Hunters, but I mean, of course they do.

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You’re going to be shopping for and buying a house anyway, so why not make a little extra cash in the process? It’s actually pretty smart to go on shows like this and a lot of people apparently board this train of thought, since HGTV reportedly gets between 100 and 200 applications every single week.

But how much money can people earn for putting their house hunt on full public display?

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Sadly, not as much as you think – only $500 per family.

Let’s break that down, shall we? Because the $500 covers everything from a person applying all the way through the end of filming, a process that can take some time. If your online application is selected, you have to go through a phone interview, paperwork, and a 10-minute audition video. So, let’s say that’s at least 3 hours of work, figuring conservatively (it would depend on the level of your video editing skills).

Then, each person or family puts 30 hours of filming into the eventual 23-minute episode – six hours at each house, before-and-after interviews, footage of their daily lives, etc.

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You’re looking at between $5-$6 an hour, bottom line. It would stand to reason, since the show is well-stocked with future episodes, that the chance to be on television is more of a pull than the cash itself. The bottom line is that you shouldn’t expect to get rich if you go on House Hunters, but you will probably get a few free meals out of the deal.

And enough cash to change out those horribly offensive paint colors, too.

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20 Cheap Knockoff Brands That Will Make You Laugh

Knockoff brands, there are some good ones, and then there are some pretty hilarious and not very well devised ones. For all the big name-brand products out there, you’ll run into a ton of other cheap (and entertaining) products.

Here are some of the best. “Meats by Dr. Dre” anyone?

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These 15 Adults Share the “Kid” Things They Still Love to

Adulting is hard, and the more of a “grown up” you become, the more you realize that age is just a number. Having kids is often a way to remind yourself of all of the fun stuff that used to make your day – and if you’re doing it right, it’s also a chance to keep doing those “childish” things you love. These 15 people on AskReddit recently confessed to the things they still love to do.

#15. Once in a while.

“Sugary cereals.

I can’t do them often (I’m a healthy eater), but a little Count Chocula or Frankenberry around Halloween can be a fun thing.”

#14. Every time.

“Swinging my legs when my feet don’t touch the ground whilst sitting in a chair.”

#13. Don’t forget to jump off!

“Swinging on a swing set, trying to get that funny feeling in your stomach from swinging too high and jumping off when I’m done.”

#12. Milk isn’t just for kids.

“Chocolate milk is great for after workouts idk why people think it’s childish.”

#11. Especially dirty ones.

“Alphabet soup.

It’s still fun to spell words in the soup.”

#10. Nothing not fun.

“Playing at the playground.

Because there is nothing NOT fun about climbing to the tippy top of a jungle gym, sliding down ALL the slides (then climbing back up them again), swinging on the swings till you’re sick and then jumping right off, and doing jungle gym parkour till you tire yourself out. Not to mention it’s amazing exercise. :)”

#9. I just can’t take him anywhere.

“My father, who is in his 60’s, was playing with legos at a dentist’s office (normal legos not the jumbo kind). He used his teeth to remove one of the bricks when he looks up at me and quickly stops playing. I find out the next day from my mother that he managed to swallow a lego. I just can’t take him anywhere. Months later he chipped his tooth in an unrelated accident.”

#8. Only occasionally.

“I (21M) occasionally enjoy going up the stairs on all fours.”

#7. Freakin’ awesome.

“We built a fort in the theater in my college dorm last night. Its freakin awesome.”

#6. Love it all.

“Pokémon. Cards, games, toys. Love it all.”

#5. Guaranteed.

“25 with 20+ guns. You put a nerf gun in anyone’s hand and I guarantee they’ll be having fun within 5 minutes.”

#4. Imagine.

“Traipsing through a forest with my dog, I will always imagine I’m a warrior princess stomping through a magical forest. Sometimes I have a little internal chat about the current politics of this fantasy land.”

#3. Always Spongebob.

“Watching the cartoons from my childhood. My roommates and I love watching Spongebob, Hey Arnold, Batman the Animated Series, etc.”

#2. Cute as hell.

“Plushies. They are cute as hell and calming.”

#1. Close enough.

“Barbies

I’m 37 years old with no daughters to use an excuse to play, so I got The Sims. Not the same but close enough.”

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15 Signs That Will Make Every Pun Lovers Day

There tends to be plenty of eye rolling and groaning when someone makes a good pun work, but isn’t that just their way of saying a pun is great?

The Indian Hills Community Center in Colorado is a pun-lovers dream. The residents have a great sense of humor and love the changing puns put up by Vince Rozmiarek, the community center volunteer behind the signs.

If you love puns, then you’re going to snicker at every last one of these.

#15. Okay, that one got me.

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#14. *snicker*

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#13. Volunteers will line up, I’m sure.

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#12. Think about it.

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#11. Do good for all.

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#10. Mental image not wanted.

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#9. So why bother?

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#8. But still satisfying.

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#7. You know you’re chuckling.

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#6. So would I!

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#5. Double truth.

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#4. Yes. Merry season to you.

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#3. You know it’s true.

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#2. Stolen, but still good.

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#1. I love smart puns the most.

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12+ Animal Lovers Share Their Most Interesting Animal Facts

People who are super into animals often know all kinds of crazy and little-known facts about their beloved creatures. For this one, these animal lovers go into detail on the weirdest and most obscure things they’ve learned – and we’re all the better for it.

#15. Seals.

“Seals will get seasick if you put them on a boat.”

#14. Dragonflies.

“Dragonflies have the best successful kill rate of any creature on earth.”

#13. Cheetahs.

“Cheetahs are so closely related to each other that you can freely transplant organs between all members of their species without needing immunosuppression.”

#12. Sloth hands.

“Sloth hands work opposite to ours. They have to exert energy to open their “fist” and relax to close it. This is how they can hang from trees while they’re sleeping and not fall off.”

#11. Opossums.

“Opossums were originally found in the eastern and central parts of the United States until the 1930s when they were intentionally transported to the Western portion to be used as food during the Great Depression.”

#10. The American bison.

“The American bison is the only animal in which both lungs share a common cavity. In every other animal the lungs are separated. What this meant is that when shot by an arrow, both lungs would collapse and the buffalo would suffocate quickly. (For other animals, being shot in the chest would only collapse one lung, and they would at least have a chance) That’s why such a large animal could be taken down with relatively small weapons.”

#9. Okapi.

“People thought the okapi was a hoax until it was photographed. In parts of Sumatra it is believed that the orangutan can speak and refuses to do so because they don’t want to work.”

#8. Ants.

“Ants breed and domesticate aphids around their colonies, so they can drink their milky secretions. Aphids are ant cows. So ladybugs, then, would be like ant chupacabras.

Edit: Thanks to everyone for both appreciating this ant fact, and for educating me with more ant facts.”

#7. Scorpionfly.

“There’s an insect called the scorpiofly that impresses mates by bringing them prey to eat. The bigger the meal, the better.

Only, some scorpionflies aren’t that great at catching food. So some of these males will imitate females, and wait for other males to bring them their gifts. Then they take the gift, fly away, and give it to an actual female.

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/31/archives/male-fly-benefits-through-female-imitation-female-invited-to-dine.html”

#6. The color red.

“There aren’t a lot of bees in Australia, so for pollenation plants relied on birds. Birds see the colour red better, which in turn increased the flora reproduction rate – this is why a lot of plants are red in Australia.”

#5. Snails.

“A snail has over 2000 teeth.”

#4. I like fish.

“Fish have been seen using tools – deliberately hitting a clam with a rock to get it to open so they can eat it. Some fish (eels and groupers) form hunting partnerships where they communicate across the species barrier with specific signals to put their individual strengths to work (the eels chase prey out of crevices to where the groupers are waiting in open water). They also get fooled by illusions in the same way we do, meaning that their brains are processing and interpreting their environment in a similar way to us.

That’s technically three facts but I like fish.”

#3. Polar bears.

“Polar bears are so efficient at storing Vitamin A, consuming polar bear liver can cause death….one polar bear liver contains enough Vitamin A to kill 52 adult humans.”

#2. The Greenland shark.

“The Greenland shark reaches sexual maturity at 150 years old and lives 300-500 years. Always fascinates me that theres something that can live that long.”

#1. Ostrich.

“On ostrich farms, some farmers have a hard time with breeding because the ostrich is more attracted to humans than other ostriches.

That’s right, somewhere out there an ostrich wants to fuck you.

http://scicurious.scientopia.org/2012/01/13/friday-weird-science-is-that-ostrich-flirting-with-me/”

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Women Confess Secrets They Keep from Men Because They Don’t Think They Can Handle It

It’s a fact of life. We all keep secrets from each other in relationships.

Here’s your chance to hear what some of those secrets are, especially from the other sex. Women of AskReddit share what they keep secret from their men because they just don’t think they’d be able to handle it.

1. Quite a gal

“Honestly, how loud I can fart. I can put many men to shame.”

2. Waterworks

“How much I actually cry. Sad? Cry. Angry? Cry. Super happy? Tears of joy. It’s frustrating most of the time and I don’t want it to be misunderstood as me being irrationally emotional. I can think just fine thank you, my eyes are just leaking.”

3. A serious one

“My eating disorder.

Which makes me feel bad sometimes, in the sense that they think I don’t spend that much time with them during the week because “I’m too busy” with school and work.

Nah, dude. I’m busy starving so that I can eat like a slightly normal person with you on the weekends and not want to kill myself.”

4. Don’t tell

“Sometimes I absolutely HATE my brother in law…he’s generally a decent dude, and has always been sweet to me, but often has “off days” where he says the rudest, stupidest sh-t. He can literally be a fount everlasting of sexist, racist, ignorant comments. Any time he meets a friend of mine he HAS to come out and spew some dumb-ss rudity in their face. I have nearly lost friends over him and am embarrassed to no end.

My husband knows his brother can be an a–, but I think he is somewhat desensitized. (Again, BIL is always very sweet and mild around my husband and I.) BIL has also been my husbands only friend and support when my husband went through multiple surgeries/health scares.

I feel like if I get too honest about the situation my husband will be very shaken. So I keep my mouth shut.”

5. Sensitive

“How insecure I can be, my self doubt, and how much I care.

In my past, men don’t handle my sensitivity very well.”

6. Lifestyle

“I kinda wish I lived in the 50’s because I really like taking care of people, I have so much love to give and I’d make a kick-a– house wife/mom.

I’m not saying anything about gender roles whatsoever. Just that the lifestyle would personally suit me.”

7. Ex flame

“While we were separated for a couple of years, I dated a guy I knew from high school that was the lead singer in a band previously. The band broke up before we even dated, but not before putting out a decent album. We were together for a couple of months, but I broke it off and ended up getting back with my now husband.

I sometimes listen to the album and my husband loves it. (One of the songs is actually a favorite of mine, and I spoke to the guy on the day they recorded the song, in the middle of them recording.)”

8. Okay, not a huge deal

“I don’t wash my bras as regularly as I should.”

9. Sad…

“That I’ve had sex when I didn’t want to have sex, because it seemed a lot easier than saying no. And that I cried afterward.”

10. Assault

“How often women have to deal with sexual assault and sexual harassment.

Not just because I don’t think they an handle it, but I just can’t f-cking deal with all the men who say “oh, it’s not that common, you’re just being hysterical, well if it was so common I’d have heard about it more, etc., whenever you talk about rape I have to bring up how common false accusations and “crying rape” are, and well you should have worn a full mech suit and never gone out after dark if you didn’t want to get assaulted.” “

11. Hairy

“How hairy I truly am. I know body hair is starting to be normalized, but I personally don’t want to just let it go au naturale. Dude, I even shave my toes.”

12. Creepy crawlers

“That I’m terrified of spiders, I keep it a secret because I’m terrified they will try to prank me with spiders or throw spiders at me because they think it’s funny.”

13. True confessions

“Sometimes I suggest watching porn while we have sex because I feel bad that they have to have sex with me. This way they can pretend it’s someone else.

I told my last SO some things I wouldn’t usually tell, he just blew it off, like I’m an idiot for thinking that way. Example: That as a child after a small molestation incident I lost trust in men. and was petrified to be around them. Including my Male family members. If I was alone with them I’d be borderline panic. I’ve managed to get over it with everyone, except my father. He creeps me out sometimes. For no apparent reason.”

14. A struggle

“How much his attempted suicide actually f***ed me up. He’s still struggling pretty badly with it 2 months later and he doesnt need that guilt making it worse. Also how much I dislike when he changes a recipe I was really wanting to try.’

15. The jealous type

“Jealousy issues.

Due to a long and weird complicated issue towards the beginning of our relationship four years ago, I’ve got a knee-jerk reaction to some old female friends of his, and occasional new ones that pop up.

I’m not generally a jealous person. I never have been, and because I know the way my brain works is kind of twisted, it’s not something I bring up or act on too often. Usually the thoughts are fleeting, but if something (or someone) gets under my skin for too long, I’ll mention it so we can talk about it. He knows I ‘can’ get like that once in a while, but I think if he knew how often it really happened, it would bother him.”

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Women Confess Secrets They Keep from Men Because They Don’t Think They Can Handle It

It’s a fact of life. We all keep secrets from each other in relationships.

Here’s your chance to hear what some of those secrets are, especially from the other sex. Women of AskReddit share what they keep secret from their men because they just don’t think they’d be able to handle it.

1. Quite a gal

“Honestly, how loud I can fart. I can put many men to shame.”

2. Waterworks

“How much I actually cry. Sad? Cry. Angry? Cry. Super happy? Tears of joy. It’s frustrating most of the time and I don’t want it to be misunderstood as me being irrationally emotional. I can think just fine thank you, my eyes are just leaking.”

3. A serious one

“My eating disorder.

Which makes me feel bad sometimes, in the sense that they think I don’t spend that much time with them during the week because “I’m too busy” with school and work.

Nah, dude. I’m busy starving so that I can eat like a slightly normal person with you on the weekends and not want to kill myself.”

4. Don’t tell

“Sometimes I absolutely HATE my brother in law…he’s generally a decent dude, and has always been sweet to me, but often has “off days” where he says the rudest, stupidest sh-t. He can literally be a fount everlasting of sexist, racist, ignorant comments. Any time he meets a friend of mine he HAS to come out and spew some dumb-ss rudity in their face. I have nearly lost friends over him and am embarrassed to no end.

My husband knows his brother can be an a–, but I think he is somewhat desensitized. (Again, BIL is always very sweet and mild around my husband and I.) BIL has also been my husbands only friend and support when my husband went through multiple surgeries/health scares.

I feel like if I get too honest about the situation my husband will be very shaken. So I keep my mouth shut.”

5. Sensitive

“How insecure I can be, my self doubt, and how much I care.

In my past, men don’t handle my sensitivity very well.”

6. Lifestyle

“I kinda wish I lived in the 50’s because I really like taking care of people, I have so much love to give and I’d make a kick-a– house wife/mom.

I’m not saying anything about gender roles whatsoever. Just that the lifestyle would personally suit me.”

7. Ex flame

“While we were separated for a couple of years, I dated a guy I knew from high school that was the lead singer in a band previously. The band broke up before we even dated, but not before putting out a decent album. We were together for a couple of months, but I broke it off and ended up getting back with my now husband.

I sometimes listen to the album and my husband loves it. (One of the songs is actually a favorite of mine, and I spoke to the guy on the day they recorded the song, in the middle of them recording.)”

8. Okay, not a huge deal

“I don’t wash my bras as regularly as I should.”

9. Sad…

“That I’ve had sex when I didn’t want to have sex, because it seemed a lot easier than saying no. And that I cried afterward.”

10. Assault

“How often women have to deal with sexual assault and sexual harassment.

Not just because I don’t think they an handle it, but I just can’t f-cking deal with all the men who say “oh, it’s not that common, you’re just being hysterical, well if it was so common I’d have heard about it more, etc., whenever you talk about rape I have to bring up how common false accusations and “crying rape” are, and well you should have worn a full mech suit and never gone out after dark if you didn’t want to get assaulted.” “

11. Hairy

“How hairy I truly am. I know body hair is starting to be normalized, but I personally don’t want to just let it go au naturale. Dude, I even shave my toes.”

12. Creepy crawlers

“That I’m terrified of spiders, I keep it a secret because I’m terrified they will try to prank me with spiders or throw spiders at me because they think it’s funny.”

13. True confessions

“Sometimes I suggest watching porn while we have sex because I feel bad that they have to have sex with me. This way they can pretend it’s someone else.

I told my last SO some things I wouldn’t usually tell, he just blew it off, like I’m an idiot for thinking that way. Example: That as a child after a small molestation incident I lost trust in men. and was petrified to be around them. Including my Male family members. If I was alone with them I’d be borderline panic. I’ve managed to get over it with everyone, except my father. He creeps me out sometimes. For no apparent reason.”

14. A struggle

“How much his attempted suicide actually f***ed me up. He’s still struggling pretty badly with it 2 months later and he doesnt need that guilt making it worse. Also how much I dislike when he changes a recipe I was really wanting to try.’

15. The jealous type

“Jealousy issues.

Due to a long and weird complicated issue towards the beginning of our relationship four years ago, I’ve got a knee-jerk reaction to some old female friends of his, and occasional new ones that pop up.

I’m not generally a jealous person. I never have been, and because I know the way my brain works is kind of twisted, it’s not something I bring up or act on too often. Usually the thoughts are fleeting, but if something (or someone) gets under my skin for too long, I’ll mention it so we can talk about it. He knows I ‘can’ get like that once in a while, but I think if he knew how often it really happened, it would bother him.”

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Never Before Seen Amazon Tribe Captured by Drone

Recently, one of the world’s very rare un-contacted tribes was seen for the first time by a drone as it flew over Brazil’s Amazon rainforest.

It almost seems impossible, but anthropologists estimate that as recently as 2013 there are hundreds of tribes in the world that haven’t come into any contact with modern society. That’s getting more and more rare with modern technology.

CBS reports that the clip was filmed last year but recently uploaded to YouTube by the National Indian Foundation in Brazil. It shows a person walking through a forest clearing in the Javari River Valley in the northwest of the country, near the border with Peru. They also released images of an ax, a thatched hut, and canoes found in the area.

According to Survival International, the Javari Valley is home to seven contacted tribes and seven un-contacted groups. The agency also recently released footage of a man who is believed to be the last of his people, the others have fallen victim to landowners and loggers. They think he has lived alone in the jungle for 22 years.

That’s desperately sad if you ask me.

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The drone was sent out by that same government agency in an attempt to better protect indigenous peoples. The footage has been used to stop illegal hunters and farmers from encroaching on land reserved for the indigenous tribes. The New York Times points out that the government is doing their best to protect against deforestation and violence against indigenous communities, though they are not always as successful as indigenous rights proponents would like.

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“Vigilance and surveillance should be intensified in the region to curb the actions of violators and ensure the full possession of the territory by the indigenous people,” says Vitor Gois of the National Indian Foundation in a translated statement.

I hope we can all agree on that.

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15 of the Best Insults Without Cursing

Cursing can be pretty darn fun, and cathartic, and it’s often just what the doctor ordered. That being said, there are some situations (mostly involving children and the elderly) where it’s not wise, welcome, or permitted.

For those instances, isn’t it nice to have some insults in your back pocket that sound “clean,” even if they’re definitely not? I think so, and these 15 people have some pretty awesome suggestions.

#15. Maybe.

“Maybe the grass is greener because you’re not over there messing it up”

#14. Twice a week.

“If you were any dumber we’d have to water you twice a week”

#13. How valiant.

“You’re the defender of your own virginity.”

#12. So serious.

“Bless your heart.”

#11. Take that!

“Cotton headed ninny muggins.”

#10. Pretty good comebacks.

“I have red hair and got the “carrot top” insult a lot when I was a kid. When I was 8 a kid on the playground said, “At least I don’t belong in a salad!” And I immediately said, “At least I belong somewhere.”

I’ve had some pretty good comebacks in my life but I’m pretty sure I peaked early with that one.”

#9. One too many.

“The world has one too many of you.”

#8. The one with the catfight.

“I flashed back to that old commerical with the catfight. “You LINT LICKER!”

#7. So creative.

“Shouldn’t you be dumpster diving for ham scraps, you six piece chicken McNobody?”

#6. 15 years later.

“My mom use to be very Christian and refused to swear. One time she was mad at something and she angrily and completely seriously exclaimed “for shiver-me-timbers sakes!!”.

15 years later and it is still an active word in my vocabulary.”

#5. Drill instructor insult.

“My USMC drill instructor told me I was so ugly that I would make a train take a dirt road.”

#4. We’d both be wrong.

“You’re the reason your parents aren’t happy”

“I’d say you could learn from this, but then we’d both be wrong”

#3. Grades and looks.

“Your grades say “Marry rich” but your looks say “Try harder””

#2. Two more legs.

“If you had two more legs, you still wouldn’t be smart enough to find work as a table.”

#1. Through your ears.

“I bet the wind sounds lovely as it whistles through your ears.”

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Grown Ups Admit Things They Wish They’d Known Before Becoming an Adult

Society wants to shame us for not wanting to grow up, so most of us just fake it ’til we make it and learn how to adult eventually. There are so many things no one tells you about being an adult, and most of them are unpleasant to encounter on your own.

These 13+ “grown ups” have no problem confessing the most shocking of stepping stones into adulthood, and chances are you’re going to find yourself nodding along.

#15. Keep learning new things.

“That you continue to learn new things, even into your adult years in the 20s, 30s(where I’m at in age now), etc. For example I didn’t finally get around to learning how to clean my clothes in the laundry, till my 20s. Yeah I know that’s probably a little late, vs. others.”

#14. Health insurance sucks.

“Trying to understand health insurance plans sucks.”

#13. On lunch breaks.

“Even if you get a lunch break with your job, you almost never get to actually take a lunch break.”

#12. Eventually.

“Eventually you’re going to wake up in pain before you even start the day.”

#11. Your heroes.

“Most of your heroes growing up are pretty shitty humans too.”

#10. We are only guessing.

“Nobody really knows what they are doing.

When we are kids adults seems to have all the answers all the time, but we are only guessing.”

#9. Better pay attention.

“Health regenerates automagically when you are young.

Then one day you need to exercise.

If you don’t pay attention, and you miss that day, you Jabba.”

#8. On making friends.

“How hard it is to make friends as an adult.”

#7. No one asks you.

“How it’s expected that on your 18th birthday, you will magically have it all together, you’ll know exactly what you want to do with your life and how you’ll get there, etc. etc. And also how there are all these things you’re “supposed to” do (e.g. graduate from a 4-year college, get a cushy job in your field of study, get married, have babies, etc.), but no one asks you if you want to do any or all of those things, or if you’re happy having done them.”

#6. Money goes fast.

“Money goes fast. I make $240/month 1/4 goes to gas, 1/4 goes to savings, 1/3 goes to my doctors, and the rest goes to my share of groceries. At the end of the month, I’ve got maybe $50 in fun money, if I don’t have unplanned expenses.”

#5. Better off financially.

“How to manage money and credit. Had I known then , what I know now , I would be better off financially.”

#4. What do I have to do?

“How to do taxes. I legit just one day had to be done. What the fuck is this my work is giving me and what do I have to do?”

#3. What you should be doing.

“Society isn’t always and usually isn’t right about what you should be doing with your life. EDIT: a word”

#2. More useful than algebra.

“How things like taxes, mortgages or credit scores work. Would have been way more useful than algebra 2 or geometry. Seen an insta post that speaks to me on a personal level “so happy I learned about parallelograms to prepare me for The upcoming parallelogram season”

#1. It’s going to drag a lot.

“There’s a reason it’s called work. I highly encourage you to find something that you’re pretty good at and you like more days than you don’t but even so it’s going to drag a lot- so maybe try to find a career that feeds you and puts a roof over your head. Most people don’t deeply love their jobs and that’s okay! It is not a moral failing.”

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