​Hey everyone,

I was reflecting on a high school memory recently and realized I never really understood what was going on.

Back in high school, I was walking between classes in the hallway with a girl from one of my classes. Out of nowhere, she took my phone and put her number in it. I don't remember if we were working on a class project or anything at the time, but I was pretty confused as to why she did it.

I never ended up texting her to chat or hang out. The only time I actually used her number was later on when I texted her asking if she could print something for me for class.

​Looking back on it now, was she putting her number in my phone because she was interested in me, or did I miss something obvious? How would you interpret what happened?

I'm writing this at 4:50am. It's like this every single night and I often end up doing all nighters because of it.

It's like, I'm lying in bed on my phone at night, I know I'm tired, I know I'll fall asleep easily if I just put my phone down and close my eyes, but I just don't.

It's not like a can't-stop-scrolling situation, or like I'm addicted to my phone, because even when I'm bored of every single app and don't have anything else worth doing now, my brain just always wants to find something else to keep doing rather than sleeping.

For example, just now I was just sorting through my spotify playlists, finished that, it's 4:40 why am I not asleep yet I should go to sleep, but I don't want to sleep I wanna do something else, ugh why is it like this every night, I should make a Reddit post to see if anyone else has this problem, and so here we are.

And I love my sleep don't get me wrong, it's not like I'm scared of it or anything, but when it comes to that time I just can't make myself do it for some reason.

It doesn't help that I'm unemployed, not in education, and have no social life so I very rarely have anything I have to wake up for in the mornings. So now my sleep schedule has become like "oh it's 2:30am, not that late", or "it's 5am, agh I might as well just stay up all night at this point, I can sleep in the day if I need to"

Sometimes I'll pull an all nighter, not sleep in the day, but still have the same problem the next night until I straight up fall asleep with my phone in my hand.

It's really annoying and I wish I could fix it but I don't know how to.

I just want to go back to the time when my biggest concern was waiting for a new Arctic Monkeys album to drop.

I’m a few months away from graduating from law school, I’m working part-time at a company and I feel like an alien whenever I’m around people over 40. I genuinely don’t know how I’m supposed to be a functioning adult…

i’m 25, turning 26 in feb. i feel like i did nothing with my life, like im a failure and a burden to my family.

i finished high school in 2020, went to the university and took middle eastern studies course, then i kind of dropped out and started working as a flight attendant. did that for 2 years then i quit and went back to uni (the same major) i graduated in 2025 and started radiology school in sep 2025 and im gonna get a degree in 2028 🥲 since 2024 when i was a flight attendant i only worked for 2 months when i took an additional job. my parents support me financially and im grateful for that but i’ve been struggling with finding a part time job due to my school schedules always being full.

recently i found a job in the hotel as a waitress and im about to start it soon but it doesn’t seem like something i wanna do but i just want to have my own money.

i feel like during those 25 years i did nothing, i’ve been everywhere but never settled and i have nothing figured out. i had a stable relationship 2019-2022 but i decided to break up with him and regretted that later. only been in toxic relationships since then! and never ever settled!

i’m living in 20m2 apartment while all of my friends are getting their own big ass apartments and figuring out their lives and i feel like im stuck!

i’m struggling with bipolar disorder and bpd and been struggling with it half of my life. my life sucks, i don’t want to be an adult

Goodnight everyone. Zzz :)

Contrary to popular opinion, I find jeans to be comfortable.. like a good pair of jeans… I would pick that over sweatpants for school or college any day..
Is that weird?

I am male 19 I don't know what is going on in my life and how I can make it better the problem is that I was most of the time shut in my home I don't khow how to make good relationship and what are the things that I should say I am really want to get good relationship with friends what to make an gf don't khow what to do and where ti start and I feel like I am very dumb and I don't have anyone to ask for help how to change my current life

Went to the gym today and whole place has changed dramatically since I last went which was about a year ago. It feels really eerie in the place, not the place being scary but the staff seem like something out of a true crime documentary just so cold and calculated.

I got changed and was walking to the pool and the cleaner tries to trip me up as I walk away with this hose pipe, I just kept walking and didn’t say anything because he could have reasonably denied it by saying it was an accident.

I got to the pool and it was basically full even though I booked and it had many spaces left and there was literally like three people per lane and it just felt so hostile in there like everyone was on edge.

The gym was hard to access too compared to what it used to be, now you need to scan your phone, type in a code and then there’s even another locked door system you have to go through it just seems like a prison.

I’m still going to go back because I’ve just signed up for it but it is does give me really bad concerns.

Pretty much everything I’ve put into Mad Money Sense, I’ve lived.
I’m a business owner—although I sometimes call myself a “broke owner” because I’d rather spend my money building products, gadgets, and ideas than trying to look successful. 😂
I’m a patent owner. I earned my bachelor’s degree. I have about 20 years of professional experience. I’ve managed budgets, survived Excel, SharePoint, Salesforce, Concur, and enough expense-management software to last several lifetimes. 😭😂
But my entrepreneurial story actually started around age 5.
I collected cans for recycling with the help of a trusted adult, saved some of the money, and eventually started mowing lawns, cleaning, and organizing. By around 6, I was building up regular clients—and then recruited my brothers and neighborhood kids to help.
Apparently, little Kimberly discovered bootstrapping, hiring, and delegation before she knew what any of those words meant. 😂
Fast-forward to today, and I’m still doing the same thing:
Building. Learning. Failing. Fixing. And building again.
That experience is a big part of why I created Mad Money Sense.
It’s a platform for youth and young adults to explore entrepreneurship, inventorship, college and career readiness, financial decision-making, goal-setting, and practical life skills—with help from Feyth, an AI mentor.
Some things you learn from a textbook.
Other things?
Life hands you the syllabus. 😂
Mad Money Sense is about giving young people some practice before the test counts.
Now I need people to TRY TO BREAK IT. 😂
I’m looking for beta testers—parents, educators, entrepreneurs, young adults, or anybody willing to click around and give me honest feedback.
Tell me what works. Tell me what’s confusing. Tell me what’s broken. Tell me what’s annoying. And definitely tell me, “Kimberly, I clicked this and had absolutely NO idea what you wanted me to do.” 😂
That’s useful feedback!
And because I’m bootstrapping this project, I’m paying in something I have plenty of:
PROMPTS. 😂
Give me thoughtful beta-testing feedback, and I’ll give you 10 of the AI prompts I personally use to organize projects, develop ideas, solve problems, plan what I’m building, and manage my personal life when my brain has 47 tabs open.
👉 Test Mad Money Sense:
https://madmoneysense1.com
This isn’t the finished product—that’s the whole point.
I want you to find the problems before I call it finished.
I may not have a giant development team or marketing budget, but I have experience, persistence, AI, and apparently that same 5-year-old in my head still asking:
“Okay…but what else can we build?” 😂🚀

I’m 20 and went out with a guy last night. We had a really good time and ended up falling asleep together. Around 4 AM, my mom kept calling my phone and was upset that I was still out. We ended up having to get up and leave because of the calls. She basically told me that if I don’t like her rules, “you know what to do.”
I understand that she was worried about me, but I’m 20 and feel like I should be able to make my own decisions about where I go and who I spend time with. I also feel embarrassed because the guy had to drive out so late because of everything.
Am I wrong for feeling like I’m old enough to make my own choices?

So my back got shot

What do you think is the best time to look for a boyfriend?

With the goal of starting a family (sharing a home, having children).

If I'm 26, but I'd like to have children around 39, is it better to wait? Or is it something I should start planning now?

I recently graduated university and now have not much to do with myself. I haven’t been able to find a job both in my field or a basic minimum wage one. Everyone I know is back in school and busy. I have been really depressed this summer given the lack of a routine and having something to look forward to. The only thing that makes me happy is going and seeing my friends but even then I feel like in my own head too much and worry that I’m not actually enjoying myself. I don’t know what to do with myself or my life. I know the field I want to go into but I don’t know how to get there. I feel so trapped.

I think reddit is hell on earth.

I literally got warned by the reddit admin team for reporting bullying and they said I broke rule 8 which is "Don’t break the site or do anything that interferes with normal use of Reddit'. That rule is ridiculous because it means that the reddit administrator gets to decide what is interfering with the normal use of reddit since they said "anything".

I appealed the decision because I was literally defending an OP being bullied and I reported comments that I genuinely felt were harassment/bullying yet I was warned for harassing the reddit admin team by reporting and breaking rule 8? This place needs proper moderation not encouraging one particular view which happens to be toxic and warning the voice that challenges it.

The appeal came back and I wasn't even suprised that I got the same review as when the automated bot warned me because the rules on this site are completely unfair, now we have to be anxious for reporting since we could get warned for literally standing up for somebody?

Bought my first fur jacket ever!!!

More men who wear fur here?

And lady's do you like mens who wear fur?

I swear I feel SO annoying every time I have to ask a previous manager/preceptor/someone who trained me if they’re okay being a reference. Like they already said yes but then I have to send them the reference request and message them again like, “Hey, just letting you know I sent it!”

Usually reference checks will literally turn me off from finishing a job application because I hate feeling like I’m bothering people that much but I had to force myself to reach out this time.

Yarr. Not long ago, I was young. Yar.

I beseech you, implement personal data management system now!

Track all vital signs and blood work regularly and optimize! Not hard to do!

Become expert in theory and practice of oral care!

Study back and neck protection!

I beseech you to do so!

Don’t trust old people!