Nothing in the world is better than being by the ocean on a hot summer day when you're a beach bum. Being a beach bum is a way of life, and shows in your everyday routine. Whether it is showing off your favorite beach brands, or just spending all your days in the sun and sand, we beach bums are a unique breed. Here are 12 things that all beach bums know to be true:

1. You will always find sand. Everywhere.

But, it's not even a bad thing. You have come to love the gritty feel of sand, and you know you'll be finding it for days after you think its all rinsed off.

2. Sunscreen and tanning oil often are interchangeable.

Since your days are spent in the sun and waves, you have built up a good tolerance for the sun and get a tan that was made for the gods. While all you're non-beach bumming friends lather on SPF 50, you may trade it out for coconut oil.

3. Non-beach bums don't understand why you are so obsessed with the ocean.

You've been in the surf for 4 hours without getting out, and everyone on land just wants to go get lunch. But, you're too preoccupied with bobbing in the waves.

4. No shirts. No shoes. No problem.

Enough said.

5. You almost always get compared to a mermaid.

This comparison is probably the most accurate way you've been described. If you are better suited to swim than walk on land, you are definitely in the mermaid club.

6. Your seashell collection is ever growing.

Love. Love. Love Seashells. No matter how many you have, there is never enough because each is too perfect not to save.

7. The beach is and will always be your happy place.

Your life is always better on a beach. Your hair looks better, your skin is tanner, and your smile is bigger.

8. Sunscreen is the best smell in the whole world.

Nothing can compete with the smell of your favorite sunscreen brand. As far as I am concerned, SunBum is the #1 best smell in the whole world.

9. As an avid surf shop goer... you most definitely have favorite brands.

Ripcurl, Billabong, Quicksilver, just to name a few. Checking through all the cute surf shops, you will without a doubt have a favorite beach brand.

10. You have a preference of which coast to be on, but at the end of the day, a beach is a beach.

I will always be a West Coast girl, but I'm still infinitely happy while in OBX.

11. Ain't no party like a beach party.

Again. Need I say more.

12. Summer is a state of mind, not just a season.

Live Aloha, summer doesn't end when the season does. You are always rocking beach vibes throughout life, and just prepping for the moment you can be back in the water.

So to all the beach bums out there, keep doing you because no one else understands the need to be on a beach.