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20 Signs You're Basically Ready for Fall

Speaking of basic...

Abby Brunn
Sep 01, 2016
Pooler, Georgia
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20 Signs You're Basically Ready for Fall
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If you're basic like me you're probably geeking out over the thought of upcoming fall activities. Not sure if you're this basic? Here are some signs you're in the awkward Christmas-store-decorations-before-Halloween-decorations transitional stage:

1. You've started to pull the pumpkin spice candles out of storage. Some days your bathroom smells like warm summer nights on the pier. Some days it smells like a cup of coffee by the fireplace. There is no in-between.

2. Your pantry is piling up with random pumpkin spice goods. And when I say random I mean unique. Like pumpkin spice marshmallows unique.

3. And your fridge is now home to delicious pumpkin spice creamer...

4. Because you have eight days until Starbucks releases the pumpkin spice latte.

5. (You know this because you follow the @TheRealPSL Twitter page. Year-round.)

6. And you plan to get one of those lattes as soon as they come out.

7. Just like you plan to talk about them nonstop and mock the obligatory Instagram posts even though you yourself will probably share one of those obligatory posts.

8. You've been re-tweeting all those cheesy Tumblr pictures about all the things that come with fall (i.e. boots, fireplaces, pumpkins, lifelong memories and bundles of happiness).

9. SCARVES.

10. (Especially trying to wear scarves, saying they are just for cute accessory when really you're still dying of heat but it's okay cause it's fall, right?)

11. You've been paying visits to Bath & Body Works waiting on all the seasonal scrubs, lotions, and (guess what) candles.

12. Oh! And the hand sanitizers. You find some strange sense of comfort in the fact that pumpkin spice and candy apple hand sanitizers exist.

13. Speaking of candy apples, you probably have candy apple flavored lip gloss.

14. You've been forcing it to an extent. The light sweaters and ankle boots have reappeared from the depths of junk in the back of your closet, and you wear them despite being overheated all the time.

15. You get excited whenever you walk outside in the morning and feel a slight breeze.

16. Then feel subsequently depressed when the 1 PM heat reminds you that the randomly sweating struggle is still real.

17. You start to feel oddly sentimental.

18. Because there is something about the smell of fire and leaves that leaves you with existential questions.

19. And you wouldn't trade it for anything... at least until Christmastime rolls around, and fall is a thing of the past.

20. Until then you are planning to read countless other cheesy fall posts exactly like this one.

And just like those cheesy posts I'm obligated to close with a "HAPPY FALL, Y'ALL!" Here's a pic of pretty leaves:


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