I knew i'd 'made it' in life when

[GrannyGrissle]

i realised 90% of the plant pots in my house/garden are terracotta, not plastic. I used to dream of this and have added to my collection year on year. I now feel immense pride in the quality of my plant pots! AIBU to ask what small/insignificant things signify to you that you too have made it in life? (Not interested in metal cans on wheels/dwelling structures made of bricks or stone/jewellery/trophy partners ).

Buying coloured bras. And not just because I had a specific dress I needed to match but just because I wanted them.

My Mum pretty much felt that all your bras should be white, with the possible exception of one black bra.

I was in a department store one day in my early 20s and thinking “I wish I could have nice coloured lingerie like that” when it occurred to me that I could.

I haven’t bought a white bra since.

Having nice flowers in the garden and bird feeders. Not fancy or anything, but I grew them.

We had lovely fitted wardrobes put in and I ordered wooden coat hangers - not a plastic one in sight!

I'm basically a joiner now.

A) buying a fruit bowl
B) actually eating the fruit contained within it!!

I'm told that a woman has made it when they have got to management and when she earns a lot of money and works a lot of hours.

I think a person has made it when they are happy with their life regardless of status, money or keeping up with the Jones.

When I bought a dining table I can actually have people over for dinner.

Feeling bad about my mug drawer

WHAAAAT??!! Who keeps mugs in a drawer?!

When I bought naice matching crockery that we use every day, not just for show when the in laws come over

At the end of last year when I bought the house I have now.

@MothQuandary I wondered too!

I am going to buy a proper desk this weekend instead of working at the dinning table , I is all growed up I is

I think any time somebody buys/receives/uses their own gravy boat is a pretty seminal moment

Someone recently posted a Facebook meme (yes, I know) about their life ambitions (the point was that it was fairly modest but involved rewarding work, a nice relationship and enough money without needing to be utterly loaded), and it was a perfect description of my life.

I am very old añd have JUST bough planters for the back yard and they all match each other, rather than a collection of assorted odds, sods and donations.
This s RIDICULOUSLY extravagant and so lovely

smeddum lol you grew bird feeders

My amazing gardens,people stopping to ask who's garden it is and saying how lovely it is and me getting to say it's mine and I'm the one who planted it all

Stop I’ve had a gravy boat for years but recently went a step further and bought little ladles for use with them.

DH didn’t understand at all.

When a grab lorry turned up at my house and lowered all the stuff needed for landscaping, into MY garden, over MY brand new fence that I'd paid for ! My very own grab lorry !!

Well, dayinlifeof, I had made it according to what you have been told and have now made it according to what you think

I have a gravy boat but no butter dish...

mammmamia ignore the haters, I have a mug drawer.
MithQuandary it's a design fault. It happens

Not made it as such but I realised I was either a) a grown up or
b) a sad bastard when I got excited about a new vacuum cleaner.

We're not there yet but DH says that he will feel like he has made it in life if we get one of those stair carpets that don't go all the way to the edge (ie a runner).

We're sticking with the ugly red carpets that came with the house for the time being, but one day...

I was ridiculously happy when I bought Le Creuset saucepans and stoneware.

I was convinced I would turn into Nigella overnight - didn't happen!

They are lovely though.

We have just moved house and all of the following have therefore recently occurred, I'm mid-forties....

We bought a dining table that wasn't from Ikea or second hand off eBay. And cutlery that wasn't from Ikea. And bedroom furniture not from Ikea...I think you can tell where I'm going with this .

I've also just potted my first ever tree to go outside the front door in a naice pot, which feels very fancy and like something a proper grown up would do.