We recently asked teenagers in the BuzzFeed Community to tell us questions they might have about adulthood. Here are the results.
1. "How am I ever going to understand anything about mortgages and loans when all they teach me in high school is geometry?"
2. "How do you learn to budget, deal with paying rent, and doing your taxes?"
3. "What's it like having to pay for your own food?"
4. "How do tax refunds work?"
5. "What is a credit score, what does it mean, and how does it work?"
6. "Why don't they teach us this stuff in school?"
7. "How does insurance work?"
8. "What is a budget and how do you budget?"
9. "How easy is is to go into debt?"
10. "Will I be able to pay off all of my college debt?"
11. "Is it hard to buy a house and a car?"
12. "How do mortgages and loans work?"
13. "What's a credit score and how do you know if it's good?"
14. "How do you even buy a house?"
15. "Why do you have to have credit? Why not just buy things you can afford so you don't have credit card debt?"
16. "Do you HAVE to know how to do your taxes, or can you hire someone to do them for you?"
17. "How do you avoid mountains of debt? Why don't we learn about being fiscally responsible in high school but we learn the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell?"
18. "Is rent really that complicated?"
19. "How much money do I need to make to ACTUALLY support myself?"
