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Dear Buck,

I make home videos. I have made over 200:) I want to know..how do you film/edit WhatTheBuck? How is it set up? I really find this kind of thing interesting, and your show seems really well put together. Thank you!

Dear Buck, I just joined marching band in school. I missed a week of band camp from vacation, and i am really behind. I am having trouble with the marching, and the technique. Do you have any advice on what i can do to improve? I really am humiliated by this, and i think everyone thinks i’m stupid. I don’t want to be singled out about it either…what do you think?

Help! My family hoards!! Dear Buck, My family is hoarders. My mom and I have that hoard mentallity and i hate it! My mom doesn’t get that its psychological, and just thinks we are slobs and she yells and complains everyday. It really puts me down and I can not take it. I really dont like her. Our house is so small and we have 70x more stuff than the house can hold. We save everything, even cars, our driveway is maxed out with 7 and we need to get rid of them. Do you have any kind of advice for me?
~ Anonymous Annie

Hey Buck! I’m 23 years old. I got sick a almost 3 years ago now and had to transfer schools. I had the hardest time making friends at my new school because I am so shy. I have since graduated (This past May) from that school and do not have many friends that I hang out with since I had such a hard time making friends. What advice can you give to be more outgoing and to make friends.

Thanks! LOVE you videos!

*your- Woops typos!

Dear Buck,

Next Monday will be my first day of high school and I’m very nervous. The high school I’m going to is the best in all of California, so it’s going to be very competitive! Do you have any tips or advice just to get through the first week or two?

Thanks in advance,
Kellen

Hi Buck!
I dated this guy (who was one of my best friends) from January to around the end of May, and we had a really strange break up that I won’t waste your time explaining. The short version is that I brought up the subject of breaking up, and he asked me to please wait, and asked if we could go out that weekend and see if I still felt we should break up. I agreed, but before we went, he came to my house and broke up with me. I was so confused. We didn’t talk for about a week after that, and then we would say a couple sentences to each other here and there. We had a long conversation via texts, in which we established that we both still wanted to be friends, but since summer started, I literally haven’t spoken to him once. I really miss him as a friend. I don’t want to date him, but I really, really want to be friends. Should I make an attempt to talk to him, like message him on facebook or something, or should I wait for him to come to me? I just miss him.
Thanks,
Maureen

Buck,

Please help. I have been getting pushed by family and friends to sue my doctor! See, I am 20 years old and had my first child June 19th. I had to have a c-section due to her heart rate kept dropping during labor. Everything went well so I thought. A week later I found out I had an infection. My doctor opened up my incision in his office did not put me on any pain medicine, NOR antibiotics. Let the infection fester in me for another two weeks WITH an open wound… I almost died and had to go to the hospital for another surgery. See, the problem is I feel I have gone through enough and I honestly do not want to deal with a whole law suit… but what should I do…? I am tired of everyone pushing, but I don’t want him doing this to another first time mother… or any mother ever again!

hey buck!
So 3 months ago, my boyfriend broke up with me after cheating on me. I still havent gotten over it and am really attatched to him. I know I shouldnt still like him because of what he did to me, but I forgave him and I just want to get him back. He just got a new girlfriend and I’m really jealous of her. I dont want to turn into one of those phsyco killers who kill people for revenge or something! I see them together almost every day at work and it kills me. Please help me get over him buck, and can you give me some advice on how to not be jealous of someone?
thanks buck
im a social!
-deenie

Dear Buck,

I have a crush on my friend, But, and he’s in love with this girl who keep breaking his heart, I keep trying to tell him that she isn’t worth the tears he has wasted on her,
He had began cutting because of her, my friend Katelyn and I keep trying to convince him to just leave her (because she’s been cheating on him. we haven’t told him this, we don’t want to hurt him)

Is there any advice on what we could to help him..?
I know that for something like this people would usually ask for advice on how to get him, but, I really love him, and I’m terrified what this girl is doing for his life, And I don’t want to end up loosing a friend because of this, this BITCH (excuse my language)
Help Please :[

Kellen,
I go to one of the top schools of my state too,
it’s my second year there, so my advice to you is to just relax and breath through it, you’ll get through as you do the work, and think things through, having friends with you usually helps so just try to be nice.

Or unless your school is like mine you may be adopted into a group like I was, Either way, you’ll make it!

-Nell~

Dear Buck,

I think you’re a great person who is very helpful. I have a lot of friends/acquaintances who don’t seem to appreciate me for me. I’m very loyal to them and would like to spend time with them outside of school but they won’t invite me. I’m not the sort of person who invites themselves to others’ events. Whenever they do begin to invite me, something small makes them stop. In January they stopped inviting me because they read a blog of mine that i vented on about this because the blog would help me with my depression. The only reason I still stay with these friends is because I know they can be good friends.

Please help,
Katie

Dear Buck,
I know this is probably less of a big deal then most of the comments you get, but I am really sad because, my friend Alyssa and her boyfriend broke up. She is fine with it, but I’m really upset and I don’t understand why. Alyssa and Steven(her boyfriend) are much older and live in a different city now. But over the years Alyssa has always given me advice on boys. She always told me all these great things about having good relationship and all of this stuff about her relationship. I feel like now that she and steven broke up that it doesn’t mean anything anymore.
I based almost all of my assumptions about love on them. They were like my role model couple. Whenever I had a crush on someone I would always think ‘What would Alyssa and Stevie do?’ I always pictured myself going to their wedding and bringing my own future husband there and in a way i sort of based all my relationships on their relationship (if that makes sense). We all even planned to have me move in with them after high school. But now I feel like everything is just gone everything has changed and I’m really hurt by this. Please help me Buck I could really use advice on this thank you!