Sure, you might feel like you’re all grown up the first day you head off to college and wave your teary mam and dad away with barely a backwards glance… but it’s the day you can claim ownership of these eight items that adulthood truly has arrived.
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A fancy corkscrew
One that wasn’t purchased at the same time you bought a bottle of wine and panicked.
A ‘stuff’ drawer
If it contains spare batteries instead of used batteries, you’re even more mature.
Spare sheets
Enough to fill a shelf in the hot press. Mammy would be proud.
‘Good’ luggage
Not necessarily designer or anything, but a step up from a €20 splurge in Penneys. Investment purchasing. ‘Sure I’ll have it forever’.
A folder
In which you keep neatly organised receipts for bills that have been paid on time, records of your NCT, tax statements – all the boring grown-up stuff.
Your own saucepans
Used approximately five times before you remembered how much you love takeaways and Pot Noodle. Washing up is a b***h.
A Billpay phone
‘Ten euro top-up will last me the month. Be grand.’ Remember those days?
A Value Club card
Have you SEEN how many points there are on carrots this week?
