/r/firstworldproblems
First World Problems. If it's a problem you can only have if you have money we'll feel bad for you. Then we'll feel guilty for having enough money to have the same problem.
About FWP
Does your HDTV take too long to turn on?
Is the air conditioning at work too cold during the summer and too hot during the winter?
Does your car's AUX input only allow for two devices?
Someone only give you a large shake, not a super-size?
Is the wireless internet you're stealing not very fast?
Did you have to go extreme lengths to avoid talking to or meeting someone?
If it's a problem you can only have if you have money we'll feel bad for you. Then we'll feel guilty for having enough money to have the same problem.
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/r/firstworldproblems
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The heated seats in my car are too hot on the high setting, but not quite hot enough on medium.
19:45 UTC
I want to buy a new Tennis Bracelet from Swarovski but I already inherited a nice one from my late mother. I don’t wear it because I don’t want to lose it though. But I want to wear one daily.
I feel if I buy another one it’s like I’m oddly betraying her?? 😭😵💫
I know that doesn’t make sense and I’d wear hers for special occasions where I won’t be walking around too much and potentially lose it. But i really wanna add one to my daily jewelry 😭
10:08 UTC
I can't sit comfortably on my stairs because the second stair is slightly too low and the third slightly too high.
I'm lying on the living room floor instead. This solves at least one of my problems.
22:39 UTC
My tv us too big
I wanted to get a 65” tv on black friday but when I walked into the store and saw an 86” for about $50 more I bought it without thinking too much. It’s wayyyy too big for my apartment and hurts my eyes. It was a bitch to setup and get in by myself. I don’t think I can put it back in the box to return it by myself. I want to return it so bad tho. Never thought I would say a tv is too big.
21:14 UTC
i’ve rejected so many spam calls, that I also accidentally reject incoming calls from people I know.
19:24 UTC
I have to stop drinking oat milk because it expires too fast
1 liter of oat milk expires after 5 days and I have to pour it down the drain because I can't finish it in time.
First time I wish there were more preservatives in my food. Or smaller packages.
17:03 UTC
Everyone filled up before the third turkey came out of the smoker :(
13:31 UTC
I have a beautiful 9 carat diamond ring that I inherited from my mother, but I can't wear it because I have an immune disease that makes my body think I'm allergic to everything, so I react to the metal.
Edited: the diamond itself is 9 carats and the setting is white gold.
05:58 UTC
I'm at about 40/100 recommended hyperbaric oxygen treatments, taking 2 hrs 5-6 days a week including travel. I want to just buy my own but we're moving into a 2 bdrm senior apt sometime next yr and don't know if we'll have room for it.
05:53 UTC
My husband never remembers how to use our fancy electric can opener properly so he uses our manual one, but our better one broke so he had to use the crappier one.
Edited for clarification: we've had two manual ones, but the better one broke so he had to use the crappier one.
05:47 UTC
Our horse has decided that he is now immune to the electric fences and wanders around the farm whenever he wants to.
I think he likes getting shocked.
16:16 UTC
The sound on my headphones is too realistic, so I get spooked when there’s a knock on the door in a show I’m watching.
11:23 UTC
I accidentally bit off both ends of a Hot Pocket, and have to make a Sophie's choice of which end to eat while the filling falls out the other side.
22:07 UTC
I have a good hoover but I want one of those broomhandle ones that make the stairs easy
19:54 UTC
We're running out of first world problems; this community is not as popular as it used to be.
18:54 UTC
Losing Access to my Tumblr Account
I tend to cling to my tumblr as a form of therapy due to the pressure from other social media apps that make me feel the need to perform and are centered by likes and the amount of interactions people have with the things you post.
Tumblr has always been a place where people discus real things and likes and interactions don’t matter. Your followers don’t actually know or see you in real life and there is no pressure to be accepted or acceptable.
This morning I woke up early and got on tumblr as it tends to be my dissociative app of choice and once I got up, started my day and got a few things done; l I sat down after having a moment of sadness to go through the app and it had logged me out. This was kind of shocking in the moment because I haven’t logged into this account for years and even when switching devices something in apple has always just set up to where I’ve been logged in to the account. I haven’t had access to the email in years and when I’ve tried to switch it, I’ve needed the password. Because I don’t remember the password I’ve never been able to update the email and because I don’t have access to the email I’ve never been able to reset the password.
I know it’s stupid to be upset and crashing out over this but I’ve had my tumblr since 2008. I’ve poured a lot of my feelings into it when I’ve felt that I’ve had no one else to talk to. I remember waking up on Saturday morning in high school and putting on crystal castles or mgmt on YouTube and going down the tumblr void while the YouTube algorithm recommended xxyxx or empire of the sun.
This truly may be the end of an era if I don’t get access back and I am sad and distraught and genuinely just want to cry.
16:01 UTC
Dry winter air causes ground coffee to cling to the plastic cup of the coffee grinder
Static electricity persists, despite having a whole house humidifier.
Thus after grinding the coffee, there's a fine powder that clings to the plastic. I don't want to wash it, that's too much work.
14:29 UTC
The struggle is real: Unfinished stories vs. posts that never get updated
I'm not sure which is worse--reading a well-written but unfinished Wattpad story or never getting an update on a compelling Reddit post. Both are frustrating.
23:12 UTC
My commute is so short
I can't listen to a podcast to completion.
12:19 UTC
Buying a game on my Switch wishlist doesn't remove it from the wishlist.
Now, I have to go into my wishlist and delete it.
01:30 UTC
I might miss out on a trip to Croatia because of a planned vacation to Hawaii
My grandma is taking me and two of my cousins to Hawaii this summer to see her siblings before they all get too old. My brother's tennis coach is supposed to get married in Croatia this summer and my family will definitely be invited. I just made the timing connection and now I am worried that I won't get to go to Croatia because I'm going to Hawaii.
23:42 UTC
By the time I finished configuring my VR headset to work with my game, the battery was flat.
Guess I'll have to wait until Wednesday to fiddle with it again :(
23:19 UTC
My new health insurance doesn’t cover massages or meditation sessions like my old one did.
20:44 UTC
I just returned from a weeklong vacation in Hawaii, and now I can't get to sleep because there isn't the sound of rain hitting the tin roof or the chirping of the tree frogs at night.
15:49 UTC
Qatar airways business q suite seats for a couple
08:34 UTC
No First Class Lounge
My husband and I are part of an exclusive flying club where one has to be invited. You can’t just join points or money or anything. You have to be invited by the CEO of the airline. Recently, when my husband was flying somewhere there was no particular lounge for this membership and so they roped off a corner of the Business Class Lounge especially for him and was given a waiter and proper menu, table service etc. The first world problem for him was sheer embarrassment! Life can be tough at the top…
00:38 UTC
I bought my girl a Dyson vacuum. I works too good and she can't push it.
22:48 UTC
I’m trying to get out of going to Chik-Fil-A with my family. So overrated.
17:16 UTC
Canada Post’s strike delayed the arrival of my new credit card which I was planning on buying a plane ticket with
It’s been a week now and it would have been nice to have that as my first purchase but oh well I’m too impatient
22:29 UTC