I know it can be a nightmare to dig through our tags and see all those asks and not the guides. So here is a handy-dandy list of all our “official” posts (plus a list of relevant asks at the end).
Apartments/Houses/Moving
- Moving Out and Getting an Apartment, Part 1: Are You Sure? (The Responsible One)
- Moving Out and Getting an Apartment, Part 2: Finding the Damn Apartment (The Responsible One)
- Moving Out and Getting an Apartment, Part 3: Questions to Ask about the Damn Apartment (The Responsible One)
- Moving Out and Getting an Apartment, Part 4: Packing and Moving All of Your Shit (The Responsible One)
- How to Protect Your Home Against Break-Ins (The Responsible One)
Education
- How to Find a Fucking College (The Sudden Adult)
- How to Find Some Fucking Money for College (The Sudden Adult)
- What to Do When You Can’t Afford Your #1 Post-Secondary School (The Sudden Adult)
- Stop Shitting on Community College Kids (Why Community College is Fucking Awesome) (The Responsible One)
- How to Ask for a Recommendation Letter (The Responsible One)
- How to Choose a College Major (The Sudden Adult)
Finances
- How to Write a Goddamn Check (The Responsible One)
- How to Convince Credit Companies You’re Not a Worthless Bag of Shit (The Responsible One)
- Debit vs Credit (The Responsible One)
- What to Do if Your Wallet is Stolen/Lost (The Sudden Adult)
- Budgeting 101 (The Responsible One)
- Important Tax Links to Know (The Responsible One)
- How to Choose a Bank Without Screwing Yourself (The Responsible One)
Job Hunting
- How to Write a Resume Like a Boss (The Responsible One)
- How to Write a Cover Letter Someone Will Actually Read (The Responsible One)
- How to Handle a Phone Interview without Fucking Up (The Responsible One)
- 10 Sites to Start Your Job Search (The Responsible One)
Life Skills
- Staying in Touch with Friends/Family (The Sudden Adult)
- Bar Etiquette (The Sudden Adult)
- What to Do After a Car Accident (The Sudden Adult)
- Grow Up and Buy Your Own Groceries (The Responsible One)
- How to Survive Plane Trips (The Sudden Adult)
- How to Make a List of Goals (The Responsible One)
- How to Stop Whining and Make a Damn Appointment (The Responsible One)
Miscellaneous
- What to Expect from the Hell that is Jury Duty (The Responsible One)
Relationships
- Marriage: What the Fuck Does It Mean and How the Hell Do I Know When I’m Ready? (Guest post – The Northwest Adult)
- How Fucked Are You for Moving In with Your Significant Other: An Interview with an Actual Real-Life Couple Living Together™ (mintypineapple and catastrofries)
Travel & Vehicles
- How to Winterize Your Piece of Shit Vehicle (The Responsible One)
- How to Make Public Transportation Your Bitch (The Responsible One)
Other Blog FeaturesAsks I’ll Probably Need to Refer People to Later
- Apartments (or Life Skills) – How Not to Live in Filth (The Sudden Adult)
- Finances – Tax Basics (The Responsible One)
- Important Documents – How to Get a Copy of Your Birth Certificate (The Responsible One)
- Important Documents – How to Get a Replacement ID (The Responsible One)
- Health – How to Deal with a Chemical Burn (The Responsible One)
- Job Hunting – List of Jobs Based on Social Interaction Levels (The Sudden Adult)
- Job Hunting – How to Avoid Falling into a Pit of Despair While Job Hunting (The Responsible One)
- Job Hunting – Questions to Ask in an Interview (The Responsible One)
- Life Skills – First-Time Flying Tips (The Sudden Adult)
- Life Skills – How to Ask a Good Question (The Responsible One)
- Life Skills – Reasons to Take a Foreign Language (The Responsible One)
- Life Skills – Opening a Bar Tab (The Sudden Adult)
- Relationships – Long Distance Relationships: How to Stay in Contact (The Responsible One)
[Note: This post will be updated as new guides are written, please click here to see the full, updated post.]
like trust me, 13/14/15 year old follwers i have
you are in a weird time of your life right now,
when you are 19/20/21 you’re going to look at yourself and just go “what the fuck”
and thats ok
I just want to warn you though.
also 19/20/21 year old followers
when you’re 24 you’re also gonna look back on yourself and go “what the fuck”
i think it’s just a lifelong process
I’m 35 and can confirm this continues to happen
when u start off the week with 0 dollars and you make it to payday
On God
Bless this truth. Bless it.
Spoiler alert: adulthood is 96% of you going “well, I hope this is how it works and I’ll keep doing it till someone yells at me”
being a grown-up
This is one of my favorite xkcds:
The whole time we’re kids, people are always telling us to “grow up”, when what they really mean, I think, is “calm down” or “stop having fun” or “you can’t have your pudding if you don’t eat your meat”.
I’m an actual, fully-functional, 100% real grown-up, and this weekend, it meant that I spent all day yesterday reading comic books, and then stayed up waypast my…
growing up sucks because you realize $1000 isn’t a lot of money
Growing up sucks because you realize $1000 is a fortune.
Growing up sucks because you realize both of these are true at the same time.
I feel like I gained a level in adulthood today.
My bills are paid. I have an appointment next week with a counselor and also the dentist. My performance differential (pay raise tied to performance) started today. My direct deposit towards savings kicked in today as well. There is still money in the bank and nothing I have to sweat about paying until next months rent.
Tomorrow I’ll get my car inspected and an oil change.
Woo.