Being an adult doesn’t necessarily come with a predetermined age. Sure, you’re no longer a minor at 18, and at 21, you are finally able to drink, legally. But experiences shape and affect all of us differently. Some of us are fully adulting at 13. Yes, adulting is a verb now, meaning you’re doing adult things. If you do any of these 10 things, you’re on your way to becoming an official adult.
1. You enjoy going to the grocery store
You're shopping for yourself. You go to the grocery store by yourself and find yourself enjoying shopping for food, planning out your meals, and buying cookies you probably shouldn’t be buying.
2. You hate pumping your own gas
Unless you're from that weird state New Jersey, you’re probably an adult if you have to pump your own gas. In the snow, bitter cold, wind or rain, you have to get out of your warm car, pay, and sit outside for far too long pumping your gas until you can’t fill your fingers and then go on your way, probably to work.
3. You go to the bank to make deposits and withdrawals by yourself
4. The job search
Resume building, writing cover letters, interviewing, owning a blazer--the hunt for the job for the rest of your life is on!
5. Drink wine at family dinners and be the least drunk
Maybe you just turned 21 and it’s your first time drinking with your family and everyone’s hammered but you…oh wait…that’s what happened to me.
6. Make your own appointments
Your mom and dad refuse to make your appointments so you have to call and schedule a doctor or hair appointment yourself.
7. Having to file taxes
Remember the first time you owed the IRS money back? Yikes...
8. Do your laundry
Having to decide if you want to separate whites and colors or put everything in the washer together and just put it on delicate? I never realized how sucky doing laundry can be, but thanks, Mom, for doing it all those years. And still doing it whenever I come home.
9. Spring cleaning
Spring cleaning isn’t a thing you’re forced to do anymore; you actually look forward to it. Nothing like a nice clean house to start off the season.
10. Stay in and watch a moving instead of going out on a Friday
When you're young, partying is your thing. And partying can still be your thing when you get older too, but you’re a true adult when you pick staying in over going out.
There’s plenty of other signs that you're an official adult, but these are just a few. And according to this, I’m probably about 50.