January has been awful to me. I’ve only managed to spend 10 nights on a foreign holiday so far in 2025 and had my bank account unexpectedly closed on this holiday so now I’ve got loads of physical cash instead of funds in the bank. I can’t get my wallet to close properly because there’s too much cash in it and I can’t fit it all in the safe. Nowhere accepts £50 notes so I was unable to purchase the coffee machine I wanted today. To top it off I’ve only got 3 more foreign holidays booked until June. Roll on the Summer. Life is hard.

I tried inner dialogue..c'mon, ONE more!

But it just wasn't the same.

Hi all! I (24f) have always had trouble with keeping my room clean. I moved a few moths ago and it's a disaster. I still have most of my knicknacks and belongings packed away in boxes. My posters and tapestries have yet to be hung up, and my room is covered in trash. I had a day set aside to clean and organize, but then I injured my back rather severely and still can't do it. It's affecting my mental health and is incredibly frustrating that I can't do it myself. My mom, bless her, she's a saint, has offered to pay to hire someone to give my room a deep clean to help me get back into the swing of it, and I'm considering taking her up on it. I have a lot of self consciousness about cleanliness and filth and I'm worried about being judged. Do I need to feel bad for hiring a one time cleaner for my room?

My second computer monitor wasn't working which threw off my entire morning routine. Finally got it fixed but wasted precious early AM computer alone time.

Also my coffee cooled off while I was trying to figure out why my second monitor was working.

I am seriously considering just calling it a day, and heading back to bed now.

I have one puffer winter coat that has kept me quite warm for the past 3 winters.

I saw a Facebook friend’s winter photo dump and subconsciously counted the number of featured winter coats (all of them were coats, not jackets): SIX warm winter coats.

Is this normal? Mere curiosity, no judgement.

There are 3 types of misleading mobile game ads I fucking hate

Those shitty fucking run and shoot mobile ads like top war or whatever. It shows a bunch of stupid fucks running and shooting zombies. There are upgrades that are obtained by dragging your people to shoot barrels to earn upgrades or increase troops, but whoever is playing the ad is either dyslexic or has parkinsons or both. They make the most retarded decisions then at the very end some giant fat fuck zombie and his loser friends show up and destroy the players team in one sweep. Then when you download it you see it has nothing to do with the game it's just another shitty CoC base building clone. Then the comments are a bunch of little spergs with no friends commenting "nIcE tRy dIdDY" trying to be funny.

Then there is pull the pin puzzle games like evony or garden scapes. You have to pull the pin in order to reach the goal a simple puzzle but like the "Run and Gun" games the player is fucking special and makes Homer Simpson look like Einstein and screw up the most basic puzzles. It's more common in Evony ads they probably do it on purpose so we as the viewers can say "Ha ha! No, silly. You’re supposed to pull the pin so the Minotaur falls in the lava, but instead, the lava destroyed the treasure and now the Minotaur is about to shove it's horns up your ass durr durr." and those gardenscapes ads some bimbo and her stupid daughter get kicked by the dad because he found some hotter bitch and there is pull the pin levels on the ads then mother is holding the money jar but again in the ad the player is sped and the money get's wasted or it will show some bald idiot named Austin who likes this chick for whatever reason idk what he sees in her. He ends up in crazy situations and there are quicktime events where youre giving an option and you must choose the right one.

Or there is match 3 puzzles. FUCKING ROYAL MATCH THIS DUMBASS KING ENDS UP IN SAW TRAPS AND THE PLAYER MUST MATCH 3 TO SAVE HIS STUPID ASS BUT AGAIN THE PLAYER IS SO FUCKING STUPID HE CAN'T MATCH 3!!! And again the comments are all friendless idiots who have never touched a pair of tits in their fucking lives spamming "nIce tRY dIdDY" GOD DAMMIT I MISS THE OLD INTERNET WHERE IT WAS WHOLESOME AND PEOPLE WERE FUNNY AND OLD MOBILE GAME ADS THAT HAD THOUGHT AND CREATIVITY!!! Now it's just complete AIDS.

Actually happened to me

Instacart shopper grabbed the wrong apples I requested sugarbee apples. Augh received Fuji. Yuck. Should have checked last night when it was delivered. But nope went to grab one for work, and utter disappointment. Also is it really that difficult to tell the difference between a regular cucumber and an English cucumber? Not one Instacart shopper gets the boring regular ones, they always switch it out for the plastic wrapped English ones. Maybe this belongs on the #aita.

It's an American show and I don't speak French.

So now I feel guilty about getting a free magazine, but do enjoy the articles and the cartoons.

Used to live in a flat where this wasn't a problem. We moved a couple weeks ago to a flat with higher ceilings and therefore higher cupboards, which she cannot reach since she is ~1.50m (5f) tall. I bought a step stool for her but that doesn't help so much.

Oh well, I still got other interviews as this isn't the only opportunity.

Very annoyed that my Twitter take can’t be seen by the world as they don’t allow social media takes posted on the sub

Their wireless is fast though.

It was a major coffee emergency: there was a shipping delay from my normal coffee supplier, Philz.

So I went to Starbucks and bought two pounds of beans.

However, when I returned home, I spotted the Philz on the front porch. Ugh.

Now I have six pounds of gourmet coffee beans on hand, and all this coffee would barely fit in the kitchen cabinet.

I even stopped by a nail salon and had them trimmed and I can still feel them

Mass "@ing" has never been cool. Why has facebook suddenly enabled this?

Decided to buy a “smart” lightbulb because, apparently, regular lightbulbs are for peasants. Installed it, set it up with my phone, and felt pretty tech-savvy.

Fast forward to last night, I decided to turn it off using the app. Except, the app wouldn’t load because the Wi-Fi was down.

So there I was, lying in bed, staring at my glowing ceiling like I was trying to summon a UFO, because the “old-fashioned” light switch doesn’t work with it anymore.

Long story short, I had to unscrew the lightbulb manually like it’s 1875. Technology really is amazing.

Here's my First World Problem:

So I'm sitting here and it's Sub-Zero weather in a nice warm house, and I've got a Prius Prime Advanced sitting in the attached three car garage. It's got remote start, but while it's plugged in just the electric motors run to heat up the interior. Well that's all fine and good but every once in awhile I have to start up the internal combustion engine just to keep things going like the small 12 volt auxiliary battery that's independent of the large Hybrid battery.

Worse yet? The garage is unheated.

So I'm thinking of using the remote start to at least warm the interior of the car, but then I'll have to freeze from the time I open the side door of my fully stocked kitchen until I actually get in the car to turn it on and kick over the internal combustion engine to let it run a bit, while remembering to first open the garage door so I don't get carbon monoxide poisoning.

Now I do have a coat to wear and its a pretty warm one at that, but it just seems silly to put that on just to open the kitchen door and to go into the garage and then get in the car...

So do I put the coat on and head for the garage, or would it be better to just forget the whole thing and order delivery pizza with the smartphone app and rent another movie to watch on the big flat screen TV? Keeping in mind also that there's plenty of beer in the fridge in our OTHER kitchen, though that is a good sixty foot walk...

Come think of it, I now actually have TWO First World Problems because there's actually a third fridge in the garage itself and of course that's full of beer too. And it's so cold that the beer in that fridge might actually freeze which will ruin it, and I must say: That certainly has cast a bit of a cloud on the afternoon now hasn't it?

But I will still have the beer in the other two refrigerators so I guess that's a good thing.

The whole house automatic backup generator hasn't come on yet so that's also good thing I guess...

With first world problems I find that while they are a bit hard to troubleshoot, one does indeed need to sum up both the positives and the negatives.