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?

My Grandad was the same toomuch he was always getting cuttings from gardens and tbf he did have a very beautiful colourful garden

I asked for a hoover for Christmas last year (in fact I've asked for that for the last 3 Christmas'!) But I've always asked for practical stuff even as a teenager - shampoo & conditioner was the staple present from parents for about 6 birthdays and Christmas'. I basically ask for things I need so I don't have to spend my money on necessities and can get my hair done or go out for meal with the money instead!

But I think I realised I was was a grown up when my SS was listening to music and I thought 'that's just noise, you can't even understand what they are saying' Give me Rod Stewart and Elvis any day (I'm only 24)

Yes to Knittedfairies:

'Being grown-up is having nowhere to go on a Saturday night, and being pleased about it. Ditto when the phone rings and it’s not for you.'
That just about sums it up.

Last night we had a meal at the local pub. We were overjoyed that service was brisk and we were back home in just over an hour, glass of wine in hand and MasterChef on the telly.

I'm sure I'm not the only one, who on a Friday night, is watching Jane McDonald, and enjoying it.

My dm also is obsessed with taking cuttings.

When she asked what I’d like for my birthday and I said a new vacuum cleaner ! He did double check but that’s what I really want.

I'm not an adult yet. I will be an official grownup when I have passed my driving test, but not before.
I'm nearly 45. My driving test is next month.

M&S seem to agree. For my birthday this year, as a member of their loyalty scheme, they sent me a voucher for £10 worth of socks. I think it was my favourite present

Good luck with your driving test, Schlimbesserung. I passed mine when I was 42. It didn't make me feel like an adult though. Judging by all the things on this thread, none of which I can relate to at all, I am still a teenager ... just a very, very old one. A very old teenager who listens to an awful lot of Radio Four.

When I and a friend who I've known since we were teenagers were discussing our pensions..
We both stopped, looked at each other and made low keening noises at the same time - then roared with laughter at the idea of how horrified our teenage selves would have been if they could hear us..

Ah good. My people.

I have had 2 steam mops, both disappointments. No substitute for a bit of Flash and elbow grease. None of these new-fangled gadgets for me now.

Apart from the cordless Dyson of course. I love my cordless Dyson with a burning passion. When the rotating brush head recently broke I refused to come to terms with my loss and, with the help of YouTube and a very tiny screwdriver, I fixed it. Fucking chuffed with myself I was.

I stockpile Persil non-bio 70 wash "family pack" boxes when they are half-price in Tesco. Hoofing the massive fuckers in and out of the trolley and car is no obstacle to my sense of satisfaction with my cost per wash.

I have a selection of slippers for different weathers.

I hate going out. Have to go to dinner tonight and I'm currently lying on my bed in denial.

My idea of a fun thing to do on a day off now is to go to supermarkets and look at cleaning products. I no longer have any interest in shopping for clothes or make up. Also I often exchange texts with my friend discussing characters from The Archers as though they are real people we both know. And I have a window cleaner who comes every 6 weeks. For some reason I am completely unable to get over this. Look at me! Recognising that my windows need cleaning and doing something about it!

I have a selection of slippers for different weathers

Me too

I'm pleased I've bought all my 'new' furniture, including filing cabinets, from charity shops and I don't have to try and make my way to IKEA.

When your oh has already gone out, and your dd and her friends are getting ready to go to the pub, and you can't wait for them to clear off so you can have a nice quiet evening at home on your own...

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ahhhh, they've gone... bliss........

Oh yes, and earlier today my friend and I had a conversation about how she is going to go and look at slate for the garden tomorrow, and did I want to go too?

I do want to go too.

Today I found the perfect small plastic jug for the kitchen, which will fit with the rest of my range of plastic jugs and (being plastic) won't break when I inevitably drop it (a lot).

And it was only A POUND in a wonderful hardware shop that we found quite randomly. I spent twenty highly contented minutes in there, occasionally making delighted snuffling noises like a pig after truffles.

When my mum got us a heated clothes airer for Christmas and I love it!

I recently went shopping for a tea pot and tea cosy. I think I bypassed adult hood and went straight to middle aged

Yup. My people.

When I found the mumsnet housekeeping hints page I made a noise I used to make about finding the perfect pair of uncomfortably high shoes.

First wash of the year outside gets instagrammed here. I'm not SO OLD that I only do Facebook.

... in a wonderful hardware shop that we found quite randomly. I spent twenty highly contented minutes in there, occasionally making delighted snuffling noises like a pig after truffles.

I've done that after a job interview in a tiny town in the Shropshire Hills.

Old fashioned enough to have bare concrete on the 'man side', patterned lino for the 'lady side' and a smell of paraffin from the dispenser at the back of the shop.

I was, coincidentally, looking for something which the shopkeeper couldn't help me with, but he directed me to a lovely shop in a neighbouring town.

When I got to the place he directed me to, I found a fine establishment, where customers had to stand at a u shaped counter, describe what they wanted and staff climbed up and doen ladders looking for it.

Think Two Ronnies fork handles/four candles sketch.

They didn't have it either, but directed me to a third shop where staff took my instruction, invited me to sit down in the chair provided and took a long, leisurely stroll through a giant workshop of bits and boxes before returning with the item I'd been looking for for over 4 years.

Readers, I was ridiculously thrilled.

That sounds AMAZING. The shop I was in today was in Shropshire! It doesn't sound quite like either of those though.

My birthday is in August. If I start petitioning NOW, by then I'll have persuaded DH to take me on a birthday tour of hardware shops of the Shropshire hills. Perfection.

I knew i was old when i recieved a greenhouse for mothers day and compost for easter. I turned 32 this month. I knit,crochet, sew, adore my slow cooker and steam mop and like a pp i think 99.9% of modern music is endless noise. Now do excuse me i am off to bed at 10pm on a saturday.

I’m getting stand mixer for my birthday. Very excited about it, but not “I’m an adult now” way. Still haven’t had the realisation. Maybe because I’ve been adulting since preteen.

When I'm in the car listening to the radio and the news comes on I now turn it up instead of down.

@DoJo I cannot believe how fucking genius that is!!! I am now kicking myself for not having thought of it. Hoping for some more snow purely for this reason.

If the first one is still there, it's in Church Stretton.

Second place is in Shrewsbury

Third place ian't showing up on Google.