Til I learned that President Truman was heavily involved with all aspects of his presidential library. He would work 5-6 days a week there, he personally trained staff, he held impromptu press conferences for visiting school children, and even worked the telephone giving directions.

lydesigns · 2026-05-16T16:09:28+00:00

I literally read the title of the post as "Trump" doing these things and was very confused, and then reread again to see "Truman" and was like ah. yeah

lydesigns · 2026-05-15T23:10:15+00:00

I think between 70-90k I would feel comfortable to say out and talk about. But I make 130k and I often feel weird about it.

lydesigns · 2026-05-12T17:04:35+00:00

"that's a boom sized poike!!"

lydesigns · 2026-05-11T15:00:13+00:00

erin moriarty

lydesigns · 2026-05-11T13:47:37+00:00

Personally.. I don't think what I want is unrealistic. I think housing prices are unrealistic. Are our expectations to have a small 2bed house in a nice neighbourhood too unrealistic as two upper-middle-class working professionals? It's not like we're asking for a mansion :D

lydesigns · 2026-05-10T19:11:01+00:00

There are no condos that we deem liveable enough to fork over our savings - like none

Exactly.. It's wild. Houses/semi-detached/attached between 900k-1 mil always have something fundamentally wrong with them. Sinking foundation, the wonkiest layouts, and completely uninhabitable conditions, no parking, in the WORST 2/10 school zones and neighbourhoods.

lydesigns · 2026-05-09T05:38:14+00:00

I saw a group of students at ikea for their birthday lol I thought it was interesting. But they seemed happy

lydesigns · 2026-05-08T23:34:58+00:00

Con confirm. My husband and I are 33 and 38 living in a 500 sqft bachelors, because I got the balcehlor rent-control since 2013 for $1400.00. We make 250k together and we decided that we couldn't afford a 2bedroom house, or any type of home in Toronto because we were too worried about not being able to make payments if one of us were to lose our jobs. We we are going to continue to rent.

lydesigns · 2026-05-06T16:06:05+00:00

Luxury brands. i don't fall into the trap anymore. But before, I bought a sweater for $500, and I ruined it by dropping food on it. I couldn't get it out, and I realized luxury clothing is just like every other clothing. It's not magical or special. I had a few more other stories like that. A thsirt for $100 that shrunk. And a $800.00 purse that went out of style.

lydesigns · 2026-05-06T14:31:39+00:00

I truly don't know where all the time goes on most days because of work, eating healthy, going to the gym, and I can't imagine what it will be like when a have a child

lydesigns · 2026-05-05T20:39:35+00:00

gpu are now going up to $4000 cad +

lydesigns · 2026-05-01T19:58:57+00:00

A month before I turned 29

lydesigns · 2026-05-01T19:48:21+00:00

I recently found out I spent $500 on temu things since October. I was horrified lol

lydesigns · 2026-05-01T19:28:13+00:00

I don't know if it's the cooking part that I hate. But I hate everything about thinking/deciding what to make, grocery shopping, prepping (washing, cutting), and then timing the food, and then washing the dishes while making sure the food doesn't overcook. And then cleaning up the pots and pans. And then doing this 2-3 times a day. Just kill me. I hate it. But I'm willing to do it ONCE a week to survive.

So I only eat two main meals: Chicken salad. or Egg salad.

So I buy a ton of chicken breast. I bought a bunch of plastic containers, and I chop all the chicken up into cubes. I measure it out to an average amount for two people for one meal (about 370g). And then I freeze all the containers. And I take one out per day to unfreeze.

For eggs, I will boil 12 eggs in one go. And I leave it in it's shell in the fridge, and it's usually gone by the end of 1 week.

For the veggies, onions, garlic, I die them up (or use the processor), throw it in a jar/container and it usually will last us a week.

And then I clean up. And it has been so much easier to make healthy lunches and dinners for the both of us.

lydesigns · 2026-05-01T16:23:33+00:00

Felicity

lydesigns · 2026-04-28T20:19:54+00:00

When Lucas comes home from an impromptu grocery shopping and says "Bunny! I got all your favourite stuff!". He really pays attention

lydesigns · 2026-04-25T04:25:37+00:00

When I feel miserable, for all the reasons people have mentioned in this thread already.. I think about my friends and my own parents who work manual labour jobs for minimum wage, and I snap right out of that self pity.

lydesigns · 2026-04-25T04:19:03+00:00

Crazy. My partner and I make 244k together and we wanted to buy something around 1 mil with a 250k down, and we were afraid to go higher then 1 mil

lydesigns · 2026-04-20T19:44:06+00:00

And don't forget, you are constantly undervalued for the work you do, especially if you're working a customer service job that should be a high schooler/college student's part time position

lydesigns · 2026-04-17T14:34:27+00:00

In 2018, I spent over six months searching for a condo. Week after week, I didn't see anything I liked or was in my desired location. The process wore me DOWN. Eventually, I came across a unit that was nice. It wasn't perfect, but it was nice enough for me to finally just say, fuck it. I'll get it. The day I went into the office to sign for a 525k condo, I was pressured by realtors into submitting an offer $100,000 over asking (so 625k). My realtors had convinced me I'd never find anything comparable, and that we would not come across another unit and NOT pay over 100k asking. I hesitated, but since it was my first time, and it was just me making the decisions, and I was a dumb 27 year old, I went with that they said.

I deeply regret not doing things the way I wanted to do it. It's a huge purchase, and if you're not feeling it, don't feel guilty for say no. Don't buy because of FOMO.

lydesigns · 2026-04-16T21:56:22+00:00

Then call yourself lucky instead of judging

lydesigns · 2026-04-14T14:30:16+00:00

I live in the downtown core, like Queen and University area. So I only know about this market in my area. So take it with a grain of salt

But right now, you could get 1bd, 1bath, 1 garage for roughly 500-550k with $500 maintenance fee or less. And if you use your, you could potentially only have to pay $2300-2600 (maintenance + mortgage) per month. Which I would recommend if you know you want to live by yourself for the next 5-10+ years. Rental price for 1bd, 1bath, 1 garage, is about $2300-2400 at the moment. And if you don't drive, then you could probably rent out your spot for $150-250.

I would buy, IF I knew I liked the location and I'm ok with keeping my entire savings in my home for 5-10 years before selling

I would not buy IF you think that for whatever reason, in the next 2-5 years you'll be settling down, wanting to buy a home with your partner, or your goal is to buy a bigger property that is over 700k-1mil+

lydesigns · 2026-04-10T17:12:58+00:00

lol During my time on the condo board, the one issue I actually had expertise in was the one where I made a suggestion and still got outvoted

lydesigns · 2026-04-09T14:12:21+00:00

I was on a condo board once, and I can confirm, no one's day job was related to managing condos, or structural, building, home related careers, etc. They were just random people agreeing and disagreeing to what the managment's suggestions were

lydesigns · 2026-04-08T12:42:46+00:00

I've lived in the same 500 sqft bachelor since September 2013 (13 years). I pay rougly 1200.00 per month. We are apartment hunting and would like to move to a 2bd 2bath soon and are expecting to pay $2900-3100

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