How many of us here are self sufficient?

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My wife and daughter's dentistry bills, so am I. As for my rather ground down teeth, they can disappear and I can then graduate to dentures; my looks are not my fortune after all.

I'm 100% self-sufficient, even though I'm soon fired from jobs and spend periods of time on unemployment.

I have no one who might help me, no family or friends, so I have no choice but be completely independent in every sense. I've been since my early twenties, when I moved to the other end of the world.

I have excellent executive functioning, organization, resourcefulness and planning talent. I'm a zero at any kind of human relations.

Really? Although I am trying to understand how tasteless food would 'taste'? I think I understand, its a non-tasty taste ...

I've been independent since 18 but self-sufficient is harder to gauge. I think self-sufficient since 29? Before that I lived with roommates and boyfriends. So for the last 7 years I've been on my own and paying my own way and doing all my own chores. My apartment has no "style" but it's clean and tidy and there's always toilet paper and hand soap. None of which could ever be counted on when I co-habitated. I seriously love living by myself!

I'll just drown the cardboard in more vinegar and flamethrowers sauce

No, not yet. I'm living at my house, but I pay rent from my child support (even though I'm 20 I'm still getting child support from my father). It is the reason why my mom can keep the house, but yet I'm not able yet to do enough stuff to be able to live on my own. I think that when I move out, it'll be with my boyfriend, not by myself. I think I would be really scared to be alone.
I don't know if/when I'll be self sufficient. I just get so overwhelmed, so easily. I had such hopes for myself, and now I'm just stuck.

I'm a horrible mess of a person. Don't work, bad hygiene, messy room, irritable, and suicidal.

^^^
i hardly feel any better.

A tip for all you with out of control lives; think of life as a contact sport (rugby, american football, martial arts, boxing etc) or that you are in Valhalla and you are a super star or eternal Viking. Every morning just pump your psyche up and go hit the day like its the biggest day of your life. Okay, so I don't quite maintain that sort of adrenalin pumping madness every day, but I certainly have transferred that anxiety energy into the channelled rage of a pro sportsman. It works for me although some people think I'm a bit intense at times and at other times I'm like the tree sloth. No moderation in my case. Omg but this wine tastes good.

I am pretty self-sufficient. I have a mortgage on a nice flat with my wife and work full time in a software development role. I am less sure how well I would do without the support of my wife though. She does a lot of work around the house and manages the budget and shopping...and drives for us both...and keeps me from getting too stressed about stuff. ...and reminds me about all the stuff I keep forgetting. ...Actually, I wouldn't survive very long at all without her before regressing to some sort of cave-man. Better stick with her I think!

I'm not self sufficient since 2011 (contract of temporary work ended). I can't have my own home, I have always shared it with other people or I have lived with my parents. To pay an apartment you need a lot of money, you can't pay it with the low salaries of here or the high rates of unemployment. If you get a job, the contract is only for 3-6 months and normally is only part-time contract. You can't organize your life on these conditions. Young people only can have own apartment if they have a girlfriend/boyfriend and if both of them have a job, so they can afford the rent. Single young people have to share apartment with two or three people. I lived alone once because rent was not very expensive (it was not cheap either), but it was only 10m2 (it was a studio in very good conditions, but too small).