As someone in a house with a pool I couldn't agree more!

I feel you, my stationary bike is now a very sturdy coat hanger.

As a child I couldn't wait to grow up. As a working adult, I couldn't wait to retire and I'm finding it isn't what I had hoped. It is easy to focus on the what you will gain in the next phase of your life, but you don't realize what you will lose. Just enjoy the good things in each day.

Ex husband had one of these. I really didn't want a small section of ocean in the living room, OK. A year later: SO MUCH MONEY. SO MANY DEAD FISH. SO MUCH FREAKING OUT OVER MONEY AND DEAD FISH. Then he got into reptiles.

Been keeping them for 25 years... They are a money pit, but they are so worthwhile. Teach your kids to love aquariums and they'll NEVER have money for drugs!

Anything that involves water will take a lot of maintenance.

This is another thing I had as a teenager, and loved. We lived on the ocean, and I did a Lot of diving, so I caught all the fish myself. And a water change involved carrying buckets from the dock. I did not mind doing the maintenance, because it was just cool. If you enjoy doing the work, it is just fine. The same goes for classic cars. If you have the tools and knowledge, and enjoy working on them, they are great to collect. It is very different if you have to pay others to do it.

My brother and SIL spent loads of money and time on their reef tank. The Halloween Blizzard of 2011 wiped it out completely. If you live where the power goes out during storms, you shouldn't have a reef tank unless you also have a generator.

Don't over think it, wet dry sump filter, protein skimmer, salinity meter, good sea salt, 55g tank at the small end, read books, talk to the store owner and his/her best employees, start small instead of every living thing in the store at once, and don't over think it.

Like a backyard pool, unless one has a caretaker to maintain the tank regularly and properly, they are WAY more hassle than enjoyment.

90 gallon tank.. 2 different piranhas separated by a bubble screen... all's well until it becomes a mess.

Your local aquarium dealer would be able to recommend a service that will maintain your Salt water aquarium.

Geez, I got 3 goldfish for my backyard pond and I’ve spent hundreds on them and they cost me $5 each originally. But I figure since they’ve survived this long I owe it to them to take good care of them. Last summer they had babies, two of which I have left. Didn’t know they would eat their own babies if I put them together in their winter tank. I’ve even given one of them Epsom salts baths to heal a skin condition. That was Herman. Muenster. The others are Lily (she’s white and could be a boy, I don’t know) and the other is Eddie.

Once you get the ecosystem set up properly, a salt water tank is the easiest to care for. I changed filters twice a year for about 8 years on my tank until I moved

I love having an aquarium but I have a dog,cat and guinea pig to take care of,I don't need any more living creatures to be responsible for other than them and my four year old.

Freaky Fishy Fishy I'm so Freaky Fishy Fishy I'm so freaky, like a Tank I'ma

Anyone in the US that reads this. Very few professions care about what school you went to. Or even physical locations. The few I can think of are doctors, hyper specific job that are also based at MIT, ect. For everything else. Get your generals done through a community college. History and math 101 are the same there as they are at Harvard only way cheaper. Do as much online as possible. And if you are still in highschool. See what programs/classes your school offers that will count as college credits. If you stack your classes right you could walk out of HS with an associates degree. Also also, once you start the Bachelor's degree things at least get funner. They are classes you care about. Because they are in the field you are interested in.

I found the opposite to be true. I'm a metal fabricator that I started as a hobby. I now do it for a living and now I have access to equipment that I would never have been able to afford let alone have room for. I have also become so much better (there's so many people who are better than me) than I would have if I had kept it just a hobby

This is sad. I wonder if finding a different way to structure the business would be better. Such as making products upon order. So you have a menu of a few products that can be made with a more limited ingredients list and get customers to place a order for that product to be made and ready for pick up. That way ready-made products aren't going to waste. I always wonder how much of the products I see in bakeries get sold.

The experience of living alone is a valuable one to have, if you are fortunate enough to be in a position to manage it. It's possible to have that experience and still be in a committed relationship though.

Put it on your dashboard and catch all those bad drivers.

It's a hole in the water that you throw money into.

Depends on the meds, some are literally to keep you alive, but some like pain meds need frequent dry spells, and steroids can be similar.

My loss was a bit more pleasant: Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith; the list goes on. :)

I had one when I was a kid, they were all the rage back then and I loved it. Haven't tried one as a grown up, but you're laying down on water, how can it be uncomfortable?

And it kept getting in the way of picking your nose, didn’t it?

Day 12 without a cigarette. I sure would like to smoke a cigarette.

I don't understand this, can someone explain?

I can't understand this attitude. I, unfortunately was forced into disability myself. My culinary career was my entire life. I would get up in the morning, dress and head off to work. I would spent the entire day, often until late at night there, go home, shower, go to bed and wake the next morning to gladly start it all over again. This was my way of life and I adored it. My health improved a bit, so I began volunteering in one of the local kitchens cooking for the homeless. Last summer alone I put in over 100 hours for them and others and was happy as a clam again. Things have taken a bit of a downturn again, but I still look for ways to help.

$2995 later…

My husband and I agreed to having an open relationship. It was one of the WORST decisions I ever made. If anyone is contemplating trying an open relationship, DON'T!

I found a good compromise : living in a medium city, working at the country. Both benefits: able to find peace and calm on my daywork, and everything I need in the evening. But it's France, a human sized country

"hell of a week" i thought that was at least 3 months

"The hours are pretty good, but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.”

Never meet the people behind your "heros"...

Same with begging for Bakers unsweetened chocolate. How is it good enough in cookies but not on it's own?

Sometimes you won't realize exactly how beautiful someone is until you get to know them. Beauty on the inside turns into beauty on the outside.

As long as I'm away from them, I'll take any kind of weather. I live in a place with two weeks of summer, but at least I'm not even within driving distance.

I don't like Reese's and I don't like peanut butter. I've been called a freak.

LOL ... it will grow back in no time

Anyone impressed by an expensive watch is not someone I want to know.