16 Signs You're An Official "Grown Up"
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16 Signs You're An Official "Grown Up"

You realize none of us have any idea what we're doing.

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16 Signs You're An Official "Grown Up"
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There are instances in our lives when we finally begin to feel like an adult. Getting your license, turning 18, buying your first alcoholic beverage, or getting your first apartment. While all of these things are steps in growing up, let's be honest, you can do all of these things and still not be a "grown up". Here are 15 signs that you're not just a legal adult, but an official grown up.

1. You own a crockpot.

Crockpots are the best and you know it.

2. You've used coupons.

Every blue moon you find one you'll actually use and it's a good day.

3. You've bought your own vitamins or supplements.

Being a grown up means you do what your mom always told you and buy vitamins.

4. You routinely add money to your savings account.

Having a savings account makes you an adult. Using your savings account makes you a real life grown up.

5. You get excited about sales at the grocery store.


I get way too jazzed now about sales on chicken breast, so yeah, I'm a grown up.

6.You've paid taxes.


I don't even want to talk about this.

7. You actually make the recipes you've pinned.

After a while, your dessert recipes turn to crockpot recipes and you become a boring grown up overnight.

8. You've funded your own vacation.


Saving, saving, saving, saving, VACATION.

9. You have a budget (and you actually use it).


Anyone can make a budget, but grown ups actually attempt to stick to it.

10. You have your own cookware and you love it.

I honestly love my Pyrex and my tupperware and my skillet so much.

11. You've been summoned to jury duty.

No nose goes...

12. You're too busy to be watching Netflix (but that doesn't always stop you).

You seriously have so many obligations, but every once in awhile you have to avoid them all. Oops.

13. You pay for your own phone.

Like, I'm sorry, but this is ridiculously expensive. AND you're not even getting unlimited data are you kidding me?!

14. You've actually spent time choosing cleaning products at the store.

I've spent way too much time in the cleaning supplies aisle just trying to decide on a tub cleaner. This is it, this is my life now.

15. You've had a mental breakdown about your job, bills, and/or life in general.


No shame, no shame. Grown ups cry too.

16. You still have no idea what you're doing.

Literally though, this is me. No idea what's happening, when I grew up, and who thought it would be a good idea to let me fend for myself.

When we were kids, we thought grown ups had it all together. We thought they were mature, smart, and fearless. Now that you're a grown up you realize we're all just faking it till we make it.

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