High school vs. College

High school was such a simple time.  You'd wake up at 7:00 am 5 days a week, maybe work a part-time job or go to an extracurricular activity after school, then have 2 days off to do whatever you wanted.  I was a very busy teenager with school, dance, work (sometimes I'd keep 2 jobs at once) and homework, but I still wish I could go back to high school because everything was so easy.
A few things change when one goes off to college.  Here are a few things that changed about me, thanks to the increase in responsibility that college gave me.

1) I never do laundry

I look back and think about when I lived at home and there was a laundry machine FOR FREE at my disposal everyday and how I took advantage of that.  I would throw my clothes that I wore once in the hamper or even shirts that I tried on but didn't want to wear or hang up again.  I ended up needing to do laundry every 3 days because my hamper got full so fast.  It's the same with towels.   I used a towel ONE TIME before washing it.  Today I use the same towel for 2 weeks before washing it.  I can't believe my 15-year-old self.  Now that I'm living on my own with no laundry machine, I just do laundry when I'm running low on clean underwear (which isn't very often because I have a panty addiction, brought on by those darn sales at Victoria's Secret).

2) Leftovers are my favorites

This is another example of my carelessness in high school.  I never ate leftovers.  I wish I could slap teenage me upside the head and say, "Oh, you're too GOOD for leftovers? You don't like free food?  You think it tastes BAD the next day? Looks like you forgot to put your crown on today, Princess Zoë." Seriously, today if I found an Olive Garden box in my fridge with leftover pasta in it I'd be thanking the refrigerator gods.

3) Manicures are for special occasions

Being the high maintenance brat that I was, I had acrylic nails in high school and would refill them every 2 weeks.  I would also get a new set every couple months.  That's 20 dollars every 2 weeks and 45 dollars every couple months just for my FINGERNAILS.  Don't get me wrong, I'd still love to be able to do that but I have more important things to pay for...like food and gas and electricity.  I miss when my mum would give me a blank check and leave me at Hollywood Nails when I spent all the money I made at my two jobs on clothing.  If I asked mum for that today she'd be like "LOL no."

4) Online shopping comes second to paying bills

Just kidding, I still online shop...all the time.  Oops.  Some things never change I guess.

xoxo,

Princess Zoë