To declare this being officially an adult?

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It's my birthday coming up, and I am genuinely hoping for socks.

That's it, isn't it? This is the point when one is absolutely an adult. Non of this turning 18 bollocks.

Just to compound the point, I also make a strange "oomph"ing noise when I get up and I went into a pub the other day and said, with no irony, "Music's a bit loud."

I also have an unexplainable desire for a steam mop.

AIBU?

I realised this when I got excited at the prospect of buying an oscillating garden sprinkler.

White hanky on a stick.

I get excited when I can put a wash out on the line

The final frontier of adulthood for me was finding out exactly how much proper curtains cost.

My friend and I excitedly whatsapped each other photos of our new domestic appliances (her oven, my fridge).

I realised this when I got up on the 27th of December a few years and was genuinely excited to go to the John Lewis sale because I might get the table settings and runner no one had gotten me for Christmas.

I'm officially hard of hearing in Nando's now too the music is too loud.

I also get excited when it's dry enough to wash clothes outside. A few years back I just had a floordrobe and gave things a sniff

My lovely mum gave me a big lecture at Christmas that she wanted to buy me a gift that was expensive, something I wouldn’t justify spending money on myself but that I really really wanted.

I chose these: www.josephjoseph.com/en-gb/nest-storage

One way ticket to Boring Old Fartville. Population: Me. On the plus side, every time I open the cupboard and there’s no tidal wave of lids I smile happily to myself.

Putting the washing out for the first time of the year - for the last few years I've posted a photo of this wonderful annual event on facebook.

My shame is a matter of public record.

Yanbu. You’re all grown up .

I was listening to the radio recently and said, like you with no sense of irony, “this modern music doesn’t even sound like music to me. It’s just noise” .

I know the desire for a steam mop. I keep looking at them thinking how much fun it would be to steam my carpets with..

Buying a gravy boat was a milestone for me.

I also like a potter round a garden centre.

I bought a freezer. Second hand from BHF.

I now own a fridge and a freezer.

For some reason, I feel proudly grown up.

I wanted (and got) slippers for Christmas. happy sigh

I always understood the final measure of grown-up-icity to be when you could get the yuck out of the kitchen sink plughole without using rubber gloves. Sadly, I have also now achieved this height of adultness.

My moment came one December when my baulked at the idea of a chocolate advent calendar as you open them in the morning and that's just too early for chocolate.

In common with others, I also need to stop viewing warm, sunny days as good drying weather and hoofing it down to the washing machine.

Are you hoping for bamboo socks? I know about them because I recently met up with a friend and we had a conversation about socks. Not who’s shagging who, or what we’re doing on Friday night, or what festivals we have tickets for over the summer, no. But types of socks. We’re officially old as fuck.

When I chose to watch the news over Hollyoaks. I thought I was an adult then. I had no idea...

For my last birthday I asked my eldest for socks without a hint of sarcasm. I knew then that it had happened.

When it snowed and I was excited as it meant I could put the contents of the freezer in the garden and defrost it without everything thawing out.

I think I was born old. Sigh.

I'm contemplating a second freezer, it will go in the garage and be used to stock up on things as our fridge freezer is too small. Does considering it make me an adult or am I only one when I've purchased one? I'm not sure which, but it's definitely the turning point for me

Not sitting in a beanbag in case I can't get up again. And going into Toast and thinking "oooh, elasticated waistband..."

dojo fucking genius! I feel like Iv missed out on something fabulous now

OP, make sure they get you bamboo socks...so cosy.

When I started using the attachments on a vacuum instead of chucking them out as poncy clutter.

I think I officially became an adult at 22 when I got excited about buying a new fabric conditioner fragrance.

I just plumbed in the washing machine, after going to screw fix to buy a waste pipe