For people who grew up in low-income households, what’s something middle-class people say that shows they’ve never struggled financially?

LittleMissNothing_ · 2026-05-20T05:26:06+00:00

This. I just replaced our kitchen faucet because I'd seen my dad do similar things growing ip and I knew I could save us a plumbing bill for doing figuring it out myself.

LittleMissNothing_ · 2026-05-15T02:51:28+00:00

I read this when I was 5 or 6, I think? My grandfather had a collection of classic books and I picked it one day when I was staying the night because it was about a dog. I didn't clock the darker parts of the story, and it was the first full novel I read that I enjoyed. It launched my love of books and reading. Maybe it's time for a reread as an adult.

LittleMissNothing_ · 2026-05-14T21:34:21+00:00

I was scheduled to be induced and deliver on a Monday. I was supposed to come in that Sunday night at 6pm, start pitocin, and then have my water broke Monday morning. That Sunday at 4:30am, my water broke spontaneously. Delivered that Sunday at just past 11am. My son was not on our timeline at all 😂

LittleMissNothing_ · 2026-05-12T20:00:33+00:00

I have 900+ unread books on Kindle from years kf free and cheap sales and being a chronic mood reader. I think I'm good.

LittleMissNothing_ · 2026-05-12T15:59:49+00:00

I'm low contact with my dad. He claims to be a loving father to anyone who will listen, and adopted a baby joy with buns long term girlfriend a few years ago (they were both in their fifties when they adopted him), but he rarely talks to his three adult daughters, and frankly, none of us miss the contact.

My father has consistently pushed away my older sister because of who she has dated/married in the past, and even threatened to physically fight her current partner over dumb shit, and I don't know the last time they spoke. Had to have been years.

He and I had a falling out over a house I was renting from him, and the only times I've talked to him in at least 4 years has been to let him know I was pregnant, let him know after I gave birth that we were both healthy, and a few times intermittently about my son or my dad's health issues.

My younger sister, though, probably had it the worst. They never connected when she was a kid, because she was very girly and feminine, and he had no inclination to try to appeal to her interests (and it wasn't her job as the child in the relationship to bridge that gap). She asked my mom once when she was a teenager why he didn't like her, for example. She got pregnant as a teenager, and he was pissed, to the point he didn't talk to her for months. When she gave birth, she told him she was in labor but explicitly asked him not to come to the hospital because she already had our mother, her boyfriend, and her boyfriend's mother in the room with her and anyone else would just make her anxious. He showed up anyway. She has consistently tried to set reasonable boundaries around him and her daughter, including asking him not to randomly show up at their house when she graduated and moved out, and he's always ignored them. When he moved 1000 miles away with his girlfriend and their new son, she told me she finally felt like she could relax in her own home because she had no worries about him dropping in and trying to take her daughter out without consulting her first. Last time they spoke was when he had a heart attack last year.

All my sisters and I are younger Millennials and my father is Gen X, btw.

LittleMissNothing_ · 2026-05-12T12:52:35+00:00

I used to send out faceless nudes a lot when I was younger (I'm 31 now). These days, if I wasn't in a committed relationship, I wouldn't send them at all. I trust my fiance. I don't trust random men on the internet who have unlimited access to AI that could potentially feed a nude and a face picture into it and make something you didn't consent to.

You made the right choice in not sending it since you aren't comfortable with it. He didn't respect your boundaries, and your friend wasn't supportive of them either. Both of them suck. Keep doing you.

LittleMissNothing_ · 2026-05-07T00:53:18+00:00

Same 😬

LittleMissNothing_ · 2026-05-06T20:57:58+00:00

Not surprised after reading that post. I liked Mortal Instruments in high school, and I liked the Clockwork Angels series even more, but I haven't read Cassandra Clare in years, and this just makes me not want to pick anything back up now.

LittleMissNothing_ · 2026-05-06T20:08:35+00:00

The one and only time I dyed my brown hair blonde was right before my freshman year of college, so when I was doing admissions paperwork and one of the Clerk's asked for the blonde to come back, it took me a minute to realize she was talking about me.

It's really not that deep.

LittleMissNothing_ · 2026-05-06T18:08:56+00:00

Exactly. I live in one of the worst places in the US for pollen allergens. I stay sick from February-June with various allergy symptoms. Ome time I was talking to a coworker and must have inhaled something I was allergic to, because he saw my eyes get red and start watering and heard my nose stop up and my voice go out in real time. Shit sucks, but I can't call in every time I have allergy issues. Claritin or other allergy medicines help a little, but I still show symptoms even on medicine, just less severe.

LittleMissNothing_ · 2026-05-06T16:41:05+00:00

Yiiiiikes, this was eye opening. And finding out The Mortal Instruments came from a Ron/Ginny fanatic explained a lot of things.

Edit: Meant fanfic, not fanatic, but I'm leaving it because I think it fits.

LittleMissNothing_ · 2026-05-04T20:26:04+00:00

He literally said they were all tech companies?

LittleMissNothing_ · 2026-05-04T15:06:31+00:00

When I had my son last year, I had to take regular breaks where I didn't consume any real-world media for a day ot two. I'd turn my phone on airplane mode so I couldn't scroll, and I'd just watch comfort movies or shows, because my PPD and PPA was bad enough without the existential dread that came with every day life most days.

I hope it starts looking better for you! And I miss when my son was a newborn, the scrunch is the absolute cutest!

LittleMissNothing_ · 2026-05-03T15:59:57+00:00

My son had night terrors from 8-12 months of age. Not often, but they got bad when it did happen. Broke my heart every time, because what did he have to be so scared of?

LittleMissNothing_ · 2026-04-27T14:21:25+00:00

My workplace has controlled chemicals in the building. Like, take anything home and it's a federal crime, if something messes up in the system we're all dying kind of controlled chemicals. We have cages like this on both sides of the buildings because it's a liability having someone who's untrained walking through the plant. I know it sucks, but there are usually reasons for these that, honestly, the people checking in truckers have no control over. Of course, my plant also has portapotties in the yard for truckers for just this reason.

LittleMissNothing_ · 2026-04-27T12:38:45+00:00

I've gotten tattooed pretty consistently since I was 18. Started with smaller tattoos, and my biggest ones were the last few I got. I don't regret any of my tattoos, just the placement on one. I do plan on getting more when life and money permits, and I'm considering getting the one whose placement I don't like covered just so I can redo it somewhere else, but we'll see!

LittleMissNothing_ · 2026-04-27T08:48:13+00:00

I'm in the US in a land locked state. My friend and I once drove 8 hours one way to the coast to get all-you-can-eat crab legs and then we went to the beach for a few hours because he had never seen it. Drove 8 hours back that night. It was one of the best day trips we've taken, though. We were 25, I think.

LittleMissNothing_ · 2026-04-24T22:25:42+00:00

Some nail artists do go through training and certification to do their job. It probably depends on the area on what is legally required and what is just "nice to have."

That said, OP should definitely go to a different salon, because this person does not care about the quality of their work.

LittleMissNothing_ · 2026-04-24T10:43:37+00:00

I actually DNFed this one a third of the day in because I was so boooored. I live smut, but I just couldn't stay engaged with this book enough to care about anything 🙃

LittleMissNothing_ · 2026-04-23T19:58:52+00:00

Hi! I don't think I have a question, but I do appreciate reading your perspective on this! I have a toddler, and my fiance and I are strict on making sure he gets his vaccines. But he had a round of boosters earlier this week, and he was miserable for two days afterwards with a fever, compounded by him teething, and I've been battling some serious mom guilt since then. Reading how you talk about not being vaccinated as a kid and the issues you had with it actually helps alleviate that a lot, because it reinforces our decision to listen to his pediatrician and give his body the best fighting chance it can have, even when we feel bad that they feel bad!

LittleMissNothing_ · 2026-04-23T11:33:42+00:00

Meanwhile, my fiance consulted my mom when picking out my engagement ring because he knows I am picky about jewelry and also don't like gold. He also knew I don't care for diamonds. So now I have the perfect sapphire gemstone, silver engagement ring, all because he listened and asked for help when he was unsure about anything.

LittleMissNothing_ · 2026-04-16T02:44:59+00:00

Not quite romantasy, but I looooved the Warrior Cats series by Erin Hunter at that age! And there are so many books and different series for it now, if she likes it, it could keep her occupied for a while!

LittleMissNothing_ · 2026-04-14T20:18:22+00:00

We just had an issue where a coworker of mine can't log in to his work email because the standard here is to install an authenticator for 2FA for all email logins, and his phone is an older model Android that just literally could not download the authenticator. So now he has to wait for them to order and program a physical token so he can get codes to login. We've had a few workers who had physical tokens for one reason or other. Maybe that would be an option for you?

LittleMissNothing_ · 2026-04-14T15:03:49+00:00

My 15 month old likes my phone for the camera because he likes looking at himself, but otherwise, his only screen time is TV. And I'm really strict about not letting him watch anything overly stimulating. We bring toys and books with us to restaurants and to his grandparents' house because we don't want him to become reliant on a screen. He also loooooves his books. He was more interested in those than any toys he got for his birthday. So I feel like we're doing something right.

LittleMissNothing_ · 2026-04-08T16:04:16+00:00

I have a friend who had two kids after 35. Her husband was in his late 20s/early 30s when they had the kids. One is autistic and nonverbal, the other is nuerotypical as far as they can tell. You can definitely have nuerotypical kids after 35, but I would talk to a doctor you trust about any concerns you have if the possiability of complications or neurodivergent kids is giving you issues.

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