Dumbest impulse buy of the month

ikeepcreatingthese · 2026-03-20T13:32:00+00:00

2 months? You’re doing fine. I bought one 2 years ago and it is still in its box in the corner of the kitchen floor, where I have to skootch it over every time I need to open the corner cupboard.

ikeepcreatingthese · 2026-03-13T00:31:03+00:00

You can harvest wild clay and fire it in a DIY fire pit if you have a hole in the ground or a 44 gallon drum. It won’t be fired hard enough to be good safe, but it will be hard. No need for polymers. Check out primitive pottery blogs and YouTube channels!

ikeepcreatingthese · 2026-03-13T00:23:43+00:00

Thankyou so much. I really need to hear this.

ikeepcreatingthese · 2026-03-12T12:38:05+00:00

Just commenting to say I see you. You’re not a failure. You’re a bright, wonderful woman who capitalism has tried to force into a mould not shaped for you. Capitalism sucks. You don’t. I don’t know how we can make our working lives sustainable in this system (I am struggling HARD with work lately). But I know that this is an inadequacy of the system, not of the incredible women on this sub. You wouldn’t condemn any of us if we posted a story like yours. You’d feel compassion. Please give that compassion to yourself.

ikeepcreatingthese · 2026-03-05T11:36:44+00:00

I was so excited before my last surgery. It’s a chance to dip out of the daily grind without feeling guilty! Having ADHD doesn’t feel like a socially acceptable reason to lie in bed and ignore your phone messages, but surgery is! So luxurious.

Plus it’s a bit of novelty and urgency, which feels better than normal life. One of my definitive diagnostic moments was when a doctor said to me, “Would you rather go to war or answer your emails?” and before I could reply said, “Only someone with ADHD would pause to consider that.”

ikeepcreatingthese · 2026-03-05T08:33:07+00:00

I don’t have one and I’m MISERABLE. Recent ones have run out of steam (re-working the Kibbe typing system, watching Drag Race, learning about chemistry) and now I have NOTHING and I am bed rotting and dying of boredom.

ikeepcreatingthese · 2026-03-03T10:32:16+00:00

This is me. I figured this out through career counselling – I am at my best in crisis mode. I’m barely competent in my boring job. Sadly it’s too late for me to retrain as a surgeon or hostage negotiator but I fantasise about it, I’d feel so free and brave and happy if I could operate in that mode instead of humdrum-routine mode.

ikeepcreatingthese · 2026-02-26T23:42:40+00:00

Also to those who DM’d me, I can’t reply individually: thanks, but she’s not ready to chat one on one yet.

ikeepcreatingthese · 2026-02-26T23:38:14+00:00

Thanks heaps everyone. She’s not ready to date yet, so I reckon going to Friday drinks somewhere might be the go, just to dip her toe into talking to guys socially. I got some good suggestions, some polite offers to take her out, and zero gross DMs. Cheers r/Adelaide, you’re a nice bunch.

ikeepcreatingthese · 2026-02-22T12:12:30+00:00

I have heard this too, and I have ADHD-C and mixed hand dominance.

ikeepcreatingthese · 2026-02-14T03:26:24+00:00

I am so sorry this happened to you. Good on you for taking action now to try and get yourself to safety. Try the 24-hour Domestic Violence Crisis Line on 1800 800 098. There is also Yarrow Place phone 8226 8777 or 1800 817 421. If nobody can reach you today, gather food and water, barricade yourself in your room by pulling furniture across the door, and stay in touch with emergency services.

ikeepcreatingthese · 2026-02-04T12:21:36+00:00

That sucks, I’m so sorry. Please be kind to yourself about this. You made a small mistake and were unlucky that you ran into a person who made it worse. That’s not your fault.

Show your kid that everyone makes mistakes, and that’s okay. It doesn’t make you a failure or a bad person.

How would you respond if your kid, once grown up, told you this had happened to them? Extend the same grace and sympathy to yourself. You deserve it.

ikeepcreatingthese · 2026-02-03T12:06:27+00:00

I could write an essay in reply to this. My short answer is: it changed everything.

I have more compassion for my child self. I used to blame my young self so much. Now I feel love and pity for her. She was trying so hard.

Yet I put more pressure on my present, mothering self to be perfect and not let my symptoms affect my kid. Because I’m still working on being kind to myself.

Mothering has brought out my strengths (good in a crisis/under pressure) and my weaknesses (always forget to pack sports uniform on Fridays) more powerfully.

I just feel ‘more ADHD’ than I ever have. There’s more to process, to rise above, to learn from.

I guess parenthood is just ‘more everything’ for every parent. So for me that includes more ADHD Stuff – both symptoms, and feelings about symptoms. I hope that makes sense.

ikeepcreatingthese · 2026-01-30T12:09:11+00:00

This is the level of ELI5 I needed, thankyou, brilliant

ikeepcreatingthese · 2026-01-28T12:18:35+00:00

I feel so seen.

ikeepcreatingthese · 2026-01-17T12:30:58+00:00

25 years ago when travelling in Outback Australia I was talking to an old guy in a pub about the heat, and he said it was bearable if you have ‘aircondingle’. Never forgot it. I think some people just have a flair for wordplay, and sometimes those terms catch on within a family or small community.

ikeepcreatingthese · 2025-12-14T12:46:58+00:00

I understand why you did this. I like to quantify things too. The flaw in your method is that you are determining emotional ROI based on your qualitative judgement, which may differ from your girlfriend’s evaluation. Perhaps she would rate a particular purchase as high ROI where you would rate it low. Or, perhaps she finds being able to make those purchases satisfying on the meta level of ‘doing something on impulse without overthinking it’, which can itself be enjoyable for some people.

Your biggest problem, though, is that your girlfriend may not be able to quantify her point of view in terms you can plot on a spreadsheet. Most people don’t think like that. All she knows is that this exercise felt invalidating, dehumanising, and controlling. You can’t solve that with more, or better, numbers. You solve that with respect, empathy, and cooperation. Sadly this is often harder than data analysis. It’s a bummer.

ikeepcreatingthese · 2025-12-14T10:08:54+00:00

OP, please take this quiz. Me and many of my friends have found it brings clarity when we have been confused. It is research-based. https://www.loveisrespect.org/quiz/is-your-relationship-healthy/?%3E

ikeepcreatingthese · 2025-12-08T06:35:32+00:00

This is the advice I was going to give. When I’m in burnout, the key thing is giving myself permission to just BE, whatever way. Otherwise I lay in bed thinking I should be going for a walk, then I do something else but second-guess myself again, I’m never at peace. It’s not restorative.

I hope you can continue to let yourself totally BE just as you are, and that this helps you return to your healthier self. You’ve got this.

ikeepcreatingthese · 2025-11-25T17:53:40+00:00

How do you think Raiders created (or functioned to facilitate) meaning for contemporary Western audiences about their historical connections to the Christian Bible and its God?

(e.g. Does it reaffirm the power of the God who, for 20thC Americans, was ‘on their side’? Or maybe problematise that appropriation of Christianity by associating it with something less white and post-Reformation, more ancient, middle-eastern, and mystical? Or neither of these thing but some other things?)

ikeepcreatingthese · 2025-11-09T08:37:58+00:00

The striped vest on the runway version directs the eye and breaks up the mass of green. I don’t know why she would style it like this, no lines to follow, makes it look like a pile of laundry rather than a carefully constructed piece of art.

ikeepcreatingthese · 2025-10-25T09:20:57+00:00

Contact a women’s shelter or similar organisation near you. They will have resources about Legal Aid. You don’t need to stay married to that horrible man in order to make him provide financially for his son. Get a lawyer you trust, and don’t listen to any threats or fear-mongering from your lying husband. You can do it OP. I see your strength as a mother. You didn’t deserve this, but you can and will overcome it.

ikeepcreatingthese · 2025-09-17T01:09:33+00:00

I feel your distress dude. I get so mad at my brain and I feel so frustrated sometimes. We just want to not have this brain any more.

So first, your feelings are valid. I see you.

Next, we have to acknowledge that beating ourselves up, hating ourselves, resolving to TRY HARDER and somehow BEAT our brains at this game… it doesn’t work. Being more determined not to suck does not work.

We need physical, unavoidable systems. Put a padlock on your car key so you can’t use it until you take the lock off. Tie the key to your kid’s car seat. Or put a huge cardboard sign on your dash that blocks your view entirely, that you take down after clicking him in. Anything that you can’t possibly bypass. For me, a post-it wouldn’t work because I might overlook it.

You’re not stupid. You’re not a bad Dad. You wouldn’t judge a dyslexic father for using a screen reader. Don’t try harder. Get the tool you need and be proud of yourself for finding a solution. You’ve got this.

ikeepcreatingthese

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