I'm a big kid now!

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• [Deleted User] member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  i bought a house and home insurance.

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• Wrkn925 member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

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  [QUOTE]i bought a house and home insurance.
  Posted by CocoBellaF[/QUOTE]
  
  You win. 
  
  Some day for me....some day. 

  

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• paintgirl member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  I sold a house. So I've officially bought, lived in, then sold. I've gone through the whole cycle. It's a bit overrated...

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• jemmini6 member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  Not me in particular, but one of the girls I graduated college with just announced she is pregnant.  I know a lot of people I went to high school with that have several kids, but for some reason, the people I went to college with starting to have kids makes me feel like we are all actually 'adults'.  I think it's that a lot of people I went to high school aren't doing anything with their lives, working minimum wage jobs, most of them aren't married, they have several "baby daddys", etc where as the people I went to college with actually took the time to get their $hit together before having families.  Now that they are, it's like...wow, we've been out of college for a few years, working, buying houses, and now having kids...crazy.

  
  

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  January 2011 edited December 2011

  In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_not-engaged-yet_im-big-kid-now?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:136Discussion:e02922d9-95a4-4377-b181-6c43798781f2Post:fde356d3-ad86-4cdc-8191-e1050fb35d54">Re: I'm a big kid now!</a>:
  [QUOTE]In Response to Re: I'm a big kid now! : You win.  Some day for me....some day. 
  Posted by Wrkn925[/QUOTE]
  
  it's okay...  the whole career/health insurance/benefits/retirement thing was really exciting and overwhelming when i was going through it. 
  
  getting married + house makes me feel much older than i'd like. 
  
  when i got a dog, and had to actually take care of her and clean up her messes...  that made me feel a little grown up.  granted, i was still in college then so it didn't take much to make me feel grown up.  but gosh, i was getting up in the middle of the night just like new parents do!  ;)

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• heyimbren member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  I don't think I've done anything recently, really. But in the past year I've gotten my first CC and started investing chunks of money. It didn't seem like much at the time, but then I realize how few people my age have done any of that. I have friends who don't take their paycheques to the bank or fill out a school form for financial assistance (their moms do it for them).

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• skyler1108

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  I wish I could buy a home right now. It looks like it will still be between 1-2 years before we are able to do that.
  
  I know this is really small but any time I get practical stuff as a present it make me feel like an adult. Like when I got baking dishes and a Crock Pot for my birthday.

  
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• heyimbren member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  Oh, I thought of a couple little things:
  I bought my gramma jewellery for Christmas. Legit jewellery, too.
  I hosted my first dinner party.

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• motoLyn member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  LOL, Wrkn I went through that two weeks ago.  It was such a weird feeling.  I had to find my own financial advisor.  After talking to him and looking into stock and investment options i felt so weird cause it was like a big sign that I was no longer some wide eyed 20 something messing around.  I'm planning my retirement.  Bah!  The next big thing that looms on the horizon is buying a house.  That scares me a bit. 

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• kdwyer4

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  The FI and I organized our closet yesterday after taking down all of our Christmas decorations, that I've had up for the past 3 months. It was nice to see what we could get done together. This is the first week he is home off of night shift so we are finally getting things done around the house.
  
  
  update- I had vented about him not helping around the house, when I got home last night he had taken the decorations off of the tree, put them away and washed our wood floors in the living room. I thought for sure he did something wrong and was trying to suck up for it haha.
  
  I look forward to the day we get to buy a house- wont be until he is done nursing school.
  
  Wrkn nice work with the IRA, that makes you not only an adult but also a responisble adult!!

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• leia1979 member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  Good for you on the IRA, Wrkn! FI still needs to get himself a retirement plan. Just keep sockin' some money away.

  
  
  
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• bourgehm

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  Well as with a pp, I got a crockpot and pots and pans, kitchen towels, and a spice rack for Christmas, and I was really happy with it. That made me feel grown up, since I will have an apartment next semester at school instead of the dorms.  Also, this past week FI moved into an apartment too near his job (just graduated college), and it made me feel pretty grown up going over there instead of having his parents around, like the have been since he graduated.

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• GreenPepperBurger

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  I totally heard the Flinstone's Vitamin kid say the subject of the post. Or is it Pampers Pull Ups? One of them.
  
  I am starting to seriously consider grad schools and it's freaking me out. Especially since it means I will be leaving the state I was born and raised in and really get out on my own. Makes me want to crap my pants, TBH.
  

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• AudgiePodge member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  Fly with DD by myself. It made me feel adult-like.

  I'm not good at feelings.
  
  

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• kdwyer4

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_not-engaged-yet_im-big-kid-now?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special Topic Wedding BoardsForum:136Discussion:e02922d9-95a4-4377-b181-6c43798781f2Post:3c76217f-f41e-4c6e-9e45-995e7d16bec3">Re: I'm a big kid now!</a>:
  [QUOTE]I totally heard the Flinstone's Vitamin kid say the subject of the post. Or is it Pampers Pull Ups? One of them. I am starting to seriously consider grad schools and it's freaking me out. Especially since it means I will be leaving the state I was born and raised in and really get out on my own. Makes me want to crap my pants, TBH.
  Posted by GreenPepperBurger[/QUOTE]
  
  Where are you thinking of going?

  "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Eleanor Roosevelt

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• GreenPepperBurger

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  The schools I'm interested in are in California (that's my first choice), Florida, Boston and Philadelphia.

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• calindi member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  Coming home after visiting family for Christmas, it really felt like a bit of a relief as the plane landed.  I wasn't going back to a roommate, I was headed home with my boyfriend.  It was an odd feeling - my parents' home was no longer my 'safe place', and I was relieved to be back in my own space with him. 
  
  Even when I had graduated college and lived in apartments, the house I grew up in was still "home".  Now, it's no longer "going home", it's "visiting my parents".  That's a weird thing.
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Wrkn925 member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  GPB, It's pull ups.
  
  Cali- I get you on not calling your childhood house 'home'.  I've been doing it for a few years, but it was odd to get used to.

  

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• GreenPepperBurger

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  "You know that point in your life where the house you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of a sudden, even though you still have a place to put your s--t, that idea of 'home' is gone. You'll see one day when you move out it just sort of happens one day and it's gone. You feel like you can never get it back. It's like you feel homesick for a place that doesn't even exist. Maybe it's like this rite of passage, you know. You won't ever have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I don't know, but I miss the idea of it, you know. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people that miss the same imaginary place."
  
  If anyone can tell me what movie that is from, I'll buy you a beer.

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• calindi member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  It was more than just what I call it - it was the distinct feeling that this is my home now, and that is not.  That was what was odd - I finally felt like THIS is my home.
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

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• PaigeMcC member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  I turned 25 yesterday.  That made me feel like I was really grown up.
  
  We also started RRSP (registered retirement savings plans) and we have 30% of what we need for a down payment saved. 
  
  So growed up.

  
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• paintgirl member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  Reading this post makes me feel old... My parents' house hasn't been "home" for over a decade. And it doesn't bother me. In fact, I've lived in four states since then. I've bought a house, lived in it, sold it, and bought another. And I'm on my second crockpot.
  
  Yep. Old lady. Right here.

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• calindi member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  I got a food processor and a breadmaker for my birthday.  And I LOVED it!
  
  And after this year's birthday, I decided I would rather spend future birthdays with a quiet dinner with only 4-5 people max.  No more crazy parties.
  
  I now own an ice cream maker, a popcorn maker, a rice cooker, a food processor, a breadmaker, a french press, a crock pot, and a very nice matching set of pots & pans.  Not sure if that makes me old or a kitchen goddess... I prefer the second!
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

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• paintgirl member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  Cal - You're safe. You're old when you send all those appliances to Goodwill in favor of a whisk and a hand mixer. And when your pots and pans no longer match because you've moved, lost things, ruined things, broken lids, etc.

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• calindi member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  Oh, I already had that.  My pots and pans were a mess - dented, missing tops, teflon peeling, mix & match from roommates stealing pieces or inheriting pieces from ones roommates forgot.... so my parents got me a brand spankin' new set for my birthday.
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

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• sparkles88 member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_not-engaged-yet_im-big-kid-now?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:136Discussion:e02922d9-95a4-4377-b181-6c43798781f2Post:4957dd74-3406-486a-a9db-46fb5fed192f">Re: I'm a big kid now!</a>:
  [QUOTE]Not me in particular, but one of the girls I graduated college with just announced she is pregnant.  I know a lot of people I went to high school with that have several kids, but for some reason, the people I went to college with starting to have kids makes me feel like we are all actually 'adults'.  I think it's that a lot of people I went to high school aren't doing anything with their lives, working minimum wage jobs, most of them aren't married, they have several "baby daddys", etc where as the people I went to college with actually took the time to get their $hit together before having families.  Now that they are, it's like...wow, we've been out of college for a few years, working, buying houses, and now having kids...crazy.
  Posted by jemmini6[/QUOTE]
  
  The same thing happened to me! Not with babies though. One of BF's friends just got engaged. I felt very caught off guard by it. It was the first real engagement I knew of and not an oh-crap-we-accidentally-got-pregnant engagement. That made me go, "Oh wow! I have reached the age where things like this will start being a normal occurrence around me!"

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• Wrkn925 member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  Paint, you're on your second crockpot??  Jeeez, how old are you??
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   Kidding, but they do last a long time.

  

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• leia1979 member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  GPB, you must come to Cali.  Not that I'm biased. 
  
  I'll warn you, though. My dad came here from NYC and never went back.
  

  
  
  
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• paintgirl member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  Wrkn - Not the way I cook darlin'! Burn one good pot of queso in that thing, and it's GAME OVER.
  
  Where are you in KY? I've got kinfolk there.

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• motoLyn member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_not-engaged-yet_im-big-kid-now?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:136Discussion:e02922d9-95a4-4377-b181-6c43798781f2Post:76ea4c21-8ce0-43f4-9333-b611ba995ca4">Re: I'm a big kid now!</a>:
  [QUOTE]GPB, you must come to Cali.  Not that I'm biased.  =) I'll warn you, though. My dad came here from NYC and never went back.
  Posted by leia1979[/QUOTE]
  
  I second that, *Darth Vader voice*  coooome to the west side!!!

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