I'm stressed but it's nothing overwhelming. Just... new. I can safely say I lived under a rock because I didn't "have the money" to try new things when growing up. Hell, we couldn't even afford $20.oo for high school sports. But we had food on the plate and not as much worry about the roof over our head so my parents made it pretty good for me. A bad side effect now though is that most of the world I see for the first time I have to do so on my own. Never got bills through the mail, never got a loan, never paid with credit, never wrote a resume, never been in a job interview... but now I am. Everyone goes through it so it's not particularly stressful to me and I'll get use to it all in time. It's simply my time to learn it now. My own place, my own car (and then BOOM no more car), my own credit, my own debt (but no more debt ^-^), my own bills; I'll get it down eventually. Oh and sometimes I drown my face in ice cream.