Someone posted an expense account for a 21-year-old female University Freshman for a month:
Breakfast: 6x30 = 180
Lunch and Dinner: 15x2x30 = 900
Boba Tea: 15x8 = 120 (twice a week)
Fruit, Snacks, Yogurt: 100x4 = 400
Clothes: 300
Make Up: 200
Water and Electricity for the Dorm: 80
Eating Out with Friends: 300 (two or three times a month, splitting the bill)
Phone and Internet: 130 (100 phone bill + 30 internet bill)
Bottled water: 15x6 = 90 (One big bottle for the water dispenser once every five days)
Doing Nails, Hair, and Skincare: 150
Toiletries: 100 (shampoo, conditioner, body wash, body lotion, laundry soap, tissue, menstrual pads, etc)
Class Funds: 30 (a fee that every student submits so the class can go on crowdfunded excursions)
Study Materials: 100
Total: 3080/month
The submitter complains, “Weird. I don’t feel like any of these numbers are super off, but the end total feels totally off to me. I remember that back in my day, in 2010, we could live pretty comfortably on 500 a month. Do uni students already need 3000 a month to survive?”
A food blogger writes PSA explaining, “I just found out today that you’re supposed to walk with your butt! That way, your legs will get thinner and straighter the more you walk. This is super great advice if you have thick legs or curved legs! It’s such a lifesaver!”
She posts explanations by other people that say, “First, the foot that you’re stepping out with, it has to land first with the heel. You can try bending your toes up to make sure you heels touch the ground first, followed by the outside of your foot, then the inside of your foot, then latch onto the ground with your first three toes.
The second you’ve latched onto the ground with your toes, this has become your back foot. But don’t think you don’t need to do anything with it once it’s the back foot. This is the best time for figuring out what it feels like to walk with your ass.
Tighten your ass and pull it up, pulling your thighs along. Keeps your toes latched onto the ground, and push backwards with them, and walk forward.
During this, the foot you’re stepping forward, you need to tighten your butt, pull up your thigh, tip up your toes, and land with your heel.”
In the comments, someone helpfully explains, “Basically, it’s just walking like you have the worst diarrhoea in the world but the bathroom is still two minutes away. Or that you’d just gotten out of the shower with wet slippers, and you need to hold onto your slippers with your toes so it doesn’t make a loud slapping noise against the floor when it slips away from your heel.
“Or, like, you know leg lifts? Just do the same thing but don’t lift your knee up as high.”
In response to a doctor’s advice that #you should always give birth at a public hospital, which is going viral, a childcare blogger responds, “I just want to let this wonderfully helpful young doctor know a cool fact: most public hospitals do not offer epidurals in our country.”
In the comments, someone says, “My friend went to a second-rank hospital (pretty damn decent hospital), and the only pain relief option they have there for childbirth is electrically shocking your tailbone.”
Someone replies underneath, “Why not just shock your head. It’ll be more effective.”
An absolutely goddamn adorable Tiktok video of a toddler making a complete meal by himself in tiny, toddler sized kitchen. The blogger reposting this says, “I can’t count how many times I was shocked watching this video. I had no idea they sold faucets this tiny, or toy stoves that actually worked! Even the tiny toy TV functions!”
Comments are all marvelling, “Oh my god, that looks like so much fun! Why didn’t they have this shit when I was a kid??”
A relationship blogger writes, “There’s a type of kid who’ll grow up and blame their mothers for not getting a divorce, and look down on their mom. They’re super selfish.
In a lot of cases, a lot of mothers choose not to divorce genuinely for the sake of the kids. It’s not just an excuse. The mother sacrificed herself and protected her child.
Based on my personal experience, most kids whose moms ran away and left them with their dad grew up in very shitty environments.
For most underclass families, a mother is the steerer who keeps a family functional. She uses her strength and spite and hard work to maintain a family. Most underclass fathers are lazy, irresponsible, and have a bad temper, and have no sense of sacrifice towards their child. It is a difference of night and day whether a child has a mother or not.
You can’t ask your mother to sacrifice herself to protect you as a child, and then force her to be an independent adult once you grow up. You can’t have both at the same time.”
Comments say, “Maybe underclass people should just not have kids.”
A submission to a relationship blogger, “Why do people suddenly vanish when they get pregnant? I’m super curious. A lot of girls around me who practically live on social media don’t make a single post for the whole 9 months they’re pregnant. Or only post once or twice. And as soon as they have the kid, they start posting again. Usually, I only find out where they disappeared to once I see the photo of the newborn. But before they got pregnant, they are posting selfies and travel photos all the time…I love social media too. There’s no way I could quit it for that long. Why does this happen? I’m so impressed.”
Comments answer, “It’s because all they want to do is sleep all day.”
A blogger posts, “Shocking discovery today—marriage under false pretences is still a legal marriage. You can get a normal divorce, but you can’t get the marriage annulled (unless you were forced into the marriage under duress, or its bigamy, or they’re underage). So, basically, if someone conned you into marrying them, there’s nothing you can do about it?”
Comments ask, “Honestly, why get a marriage certificate when you can just sign a contract together? At least the law protects contracts.”
Another blogger responds to the trending topic #you should always give birth at a public hospital, by making a list:
“1. Giving birth hurts. It hurts so much that you won’t even be able to stand your husband touching you. Actresses screaming like they’re being murdered in TV shows is totally accurate, even though this’ll exhaust you and not get you anywhere.
2. Epidurals are the light of mankind. At three cm open, I was in so much pain I was punching a wall. As soon as I got the epidural, I had no pain, fell asleep, and woke up again at 10cm.
3. You need to learn Lamaze breathing method before hand, form that muscle memory. You can’t count on quickly watching a video the day of. Once you start freaking out in the delivery room, your head will go completely blank.
4. The stuff I used the most at the hospital is tissues, wet wipes, towels, single-use underwear, menstrual pads, and a peri-bottle. I brought a lot of stuff that I never ended up using.
5. Keep up your exercise while pregnant, even if it’s just walking around every day. It’ll all help with faster delivery. Of course, it’s even better if you’ve been regularly exercising since before you got pregnant. Having strong muscles and a high constitution is so important.
6. Breastfeeding isn’t something humans were ever meant to do. It’s just using a baby’s mouth to rip a nipple apart so they can suck out your life force.
7. The first shit you take after giving birth, it’s the first time in my life I’d had to use two whole bottles of lube. Jesus Christ. Not even dragon fruit helped.
8. You’ll have to breastfeed once every 2-3 hours. For fear of a blocked duct, you’ll even have to set an alarm so you can wake up and pump milk. My lactation nurse says that this’ll continue until I wean.
9. You won’t die from sleep deprivation, but you’ll be utterly exhausted. Every free moment I have during the day, I want to sleep. I’m so jealous of my husband who can go back to work already.
10. My mom and dad can’t help so they gave money. My in-laws gave both money and help. They gave us so much support. I’m going to be a MIL one day too.
11. Keep up healthy communication with your family. Everyone is being a mom or dad or grandparent for the first time. They’re all trying to do the right thing, and things don’t necessarily have a right answer. Watch each other, help each other, and learn from each other.
12. Babies are angels when they’re sleeping, and transform instantly into demons the second they get angry. They can’t wait even five seconds. They’ll scream until they’re red in the face. They also sound exactly like an angry cat.
13. That newborn is going to pee and poop a dozen times a day. The second they’re done eating, they poop, the second they’re done pooping, they’re hungry. They’ll even poop while they’re eating. You will definitely get peed on while changing a diaper.
14. I’m so happy I used to dress up and put on make up and take photos. I hardly even recognise myself anymore. Maybe I’ll get back to that state once I’m done breastfeeding.
15. After weaning, I’m looking forward to drinking coffee and working out the most. I’m not gonna go for the heaviest weights right away, I know I have to take care of my body carefully.
16. That baby isn’t easy to deal with because he’s a good baby. He’s easy to deal with because you’re a good mommy.
17. When you see a diaper rash, you’re going to feel so bad about yourself.
18. It’s honestly a little unfair to call babies “gold-eaters”. Babies don’t need much—food, sleep, a feeling of safety. It’s only adults that end up buying way too much crap.
19. I don’t even give a fuck about my figure anymore. I’m just happy to be alive, get a little extra sleep. I don’t want to be too hard on myself so soon.”
Comments say, “I’m hurting just reading all this.”
>walk with your butt
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