What moments have made you feel like an adult?

[pontipinemum]

I'm married, have a house and a beautiful baby. But a full matching set of plates/ bowls/ cups and even a tea pot a few days ago made me feel very grown up 😂
Have you had an 'I'm a grown up moment'

(Yes I am bored and just about to make my afternoon coffee at work)

#buying a full matching set

Cleaning the slime from my shower drain, sink, toothbrush holder.

I'm 44, successful at work, adult DC own my own house. Never owned a matching set of decent towels and all matching crockery. The day I do, I will feel like I have climbed the ultimate hill of adulthood.

@JustAJokeLikeOnTopGear I put the tooth brush holding into the dishwasher once a week. But shower junk is mank! Worst thing is it's me that's the problem (long hair) so I can't give out!

@Plankingplanks I bought 2 bath towels and 2 hand the same from JYSK does that count.

It's funny at 35 I am very clearly an adult but I don't feel like how I thought adults would feel when I looked at them as a child.

Buying meat from a butchers
Parents evening
Hosting a play date

Doing all the boring shit that no one else wants to do - filling the dishwasher salt thing I’m looking at you.

When I buy flowers, put them in a vase and put them on shelves in the house. It just seems such an...adult thing to do!

I had one of those moments today. I'm 37 and today I bought a season train ticket for the first time. It's really random, but it was something in my head that I'd never don. I drive so its not even that big a deal haha - it just now works out cheaper to get the train rather than pay the fuel and parking for work.

Having my own allotment 😌

Getting a Costco card. Felt more grown up than getting a mortgage!

I never feel like a grown up. Maybe I'm doing it wrong

When the hospital handed over our first baby and said "you can go home now"

Like WTActualF! No instruction manual or personal maternity nurse for a decade or so!

On a more general basis thinking "it's a drying day today" for washing on the line

My younger self would be horrified. So I have stopped that and do washing when it's needed. Line dry, great, if not hang in house.

When I went to doctor without my mum 😂

Actually another washing one, washing a teddy bear.

The one time in 20 years when I remembered to order heating oil before the oil tank ran dry and we didn't have any heat or hot water. 😂Every house we've ever lived in has been old and dodgy and we've never had a working gauge so are forever just trying to look in the tank with a torch to see if it's low. I miss it/forget every time. Except one. Once I ordered well enough in advance and we didn't run out and have to bathe the kids in water from the kettle. I'm 42. 😂

Calling school to say "child sick" and they believe you.

Na, I have my own career/kids/house and still look for the grown up in a situation and in denial that i'm the grown up young people go and find.

House viewings. I try to stride around confidently looking like I know what I’m looking for beyond ‘omg cool kitchen tiles’
I have no idea which way my own garden faces!

Going from being called mummy to mum.

I bought a house with a garden and planted stuff.

I hired decorators rather than DIY.

Having a contract phone rather than PAYG (back in the days)

My own car.

Becoming a mother.

Getting called for jury duty.

Giving someone else a reference.

Going on a plane on my own.

Staying in a hotel on my own.

Cooking a full Xmas dinner for 10.

Taking charge of my parents health care has made me feel unpleasantly like a real grown up. Up until then I still felt like I was pretending to be an adult. I still live in hope that a proper grown up will come along shortly and sort things out for me 😬

when i turned 18 and legally became an adult

Attending university open days with my DC.

Celebrating silver wedding anniversary.

We found a lone young child on a boys night out, I was the only parent in the group so I was the nominated adult to look after them and phone the police.

When social services decided I was fit to be a parent and my son came home, although I did walk straight round a friends (who isn’t a parent) and ask “wtf do I do with it?”