A live in girlfriend with a good job so I could stay home, grow weed and play video games. God i was stupid

A spouse, because they would have (and still do) deserve better.

College.

My high school 'career' showed nothing but embarrassment, I long knew the risks and costs of college and I could've formulated a plan to attend a college had my grades and education improved. Unfortunately this never came to be and I never got so much of a sniff at college, even at community level.

But now with how colleges and universities are handled today, I'm glad I didn't attend any because the costs would far outweigh any benefit.

A perm. I wanted one so bad back in the 80s. Luckily my hairdresser, who was my whole family’s hairdresser and a friend too, refused. She was a tiny Thai lady who was a force of nature, had a little half basement salon in DC. We would all go and get our hair cut together, I think mostly because there was a pub nearby my dad could go have drinks at while he waited for us.

I’m sure that her reasoning was sound in that it would destroy my hair, but I also think both her and my mom knew how terrible it would look since I’m lazy af and wouldn’t style it. Over the years I’ve only ever dyed my hair a handful of times, never curled or straightened it, no product as I can’t stand the feeling of it. I think it’s helped keep it healthy and now as I’m hitting later 40s and finally know how to really care for it (and have a hairdresser that understands my curls), it’s FABULOUS. Very little grey, big curls and ringlets. It’s the hair I’ve always wanted. Still don’t do shit to it lol. Lazy ftw!

I was on the Tesla 3 waiting list many years ago. When I hit the top of the list I wasn't totally ready to buy it just yet so I stalled. Eventually I got moved to the Tesla Y list and again waited while family things sorted out. In the end, I got my reservation money back and I'm very very very glad that I didn't buy:

• A new car for no real reason (I drove my 2004 Subaru for another 10 years or so)
• A car product that's turning out to be of terrible longevity
• From a Nazi

Drove the 2004 Subaru until we sold it and moved to a country where we don't need a car at all. Much better way of life.

I don't know if a tattoo is material.. I guess the ink is, so I'll go with that.

Before coming of age I had plenty of ideas that I would be slightly embarrassed of today (and being slightly embarrassed is, as we know, the worst possible outcome with tattoos from a past you've outgrown).

I've changed my mind enough over time that I now know I could never decide on a permanent design. But right now I'm really into face spiders. Hopefully that notion fades by the time I feel secure enough in my career to do face spiders...

A luxury car complete with touchscreens, back when a touchscreen was magical and revolutionary. Car maintenance and privacy concerns have taught me to love the very opposite, a 90s Chevy.

This was in high school, but the way universities are going in the US right now, I'm feeling kinda vindicated in opting not to go to university.

A motorbike. I've had a few close calls in a car, I don't think it would have worked out well on a motorbike.

drugs

So many things. But for some reason the only one I can think of right now is in 2003 I wanted a memory foam mattress so urgently I could cry. We had no furniture whatsoever. But in retrospect I'm glad we didn't get a mattress because everything is temporary and everything I've ever acquired has poofed into oblivion anyway. Best to live without. Poverty builds character. I guess.