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Originally Posted by bpenniman
I was given my 8000 dollar savings to save for the next 2 years. I am 21 and I am bipolar.
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My son is 21 and not bipolar so far, and I do not have money (I am in debt), but if I had money, I would still not give him so much at once. He is a very reasonable boy and he probably would carefully plan his expenses and use the money wisely over 2 years and not 2 months, but I still would not give him the money because it would be
tempting.
So I am unclear who gave you the money and if that person knew your age and your bipolar diagnosis, I would say that that person was totally irresponsible.
You cannot return the dog, but you can return many of your purchases since they were made in the last 30 days. I think that while you are looking for help, you need to:
- get a list of all your purchases (I realize that a manic or mixed bipolar person who is only 21 years old is probably not the most avid user of lists, but now is the time to start) in a spreadsheet:
- column A - items,
column B - price, if you have the receipt
column C - store,
column D, Y/N on whether you have a receipt,
column E - date of purchase if you have a receipt, and the first day on which you started your shopping spree if you do not have a receipt. Make sure the format of your cell in column E is DATE and not plain text.
column F of your spreadsheet, put the number of days in the return policy if you have the receipt (the return policy is usually printed on the receipt, but sometimes it is on the back side) and ? if you do not.
Name your columns. Make the top row frozen and the left column frozen. Insert filter across the column headings. Filter on column F, only getting the ? marks. This would give you a subset of your purchases for which you do not have receipts. Find the website of each store (store is your column C) and navigate to the return policy on the website. Replace the ? in column F with the number of days in the return policy which you will read on the website. If the item is not returnable, put 0.
Release the filtering in column F. The cell format in column F is number.
Now, in column G, insert the formula
SORRY I have to go but I will log on later to finish the description - it only sounds messy, but in reality can be done very quickly. The goal is to output a schedule for you so that you can return whatever is returnable starting from the most urgent item first. I realize that you are inside an episode and this may require too much focus for you - I will make a spreadsheet for you to fill out if you let me know. I will log on again in a couple of hours.
You made a mess but there is still time to clean it up.
- corral most of your purchases in one place - those that are easily movable
- go to the website of each store (see column C on the spreadsheet) and look up their return policy.