What was your first purchase that made you feel like an adult?

A cab fare, I think.

I am not saying this to be critical of you, @noelleptc , but I think it’s sad that buying cigarettes makes people feel like adults. Perhaps if it didn’t, fewer kids would end up with a habit that will kill them…

My Thermal Nuclear Warhead and first pair of non-sensible shoes! ;)

@noelleptc Ha, I wish. Nope, I just had no other forms of transportation. Mommy wasn’t there to drive me around.

This heavy Russian bitch when I was 18.

The first time I bought a Gurkha 1887 cigar, I felt pretty adult as well, in addition to when I bought my first cocktail and beer.

A snazzy tiger print posing pouch, at last I could dispense with the shuttlecock I had crammed down the front of my pants. Nothing like the real thing….“you want somma dis!” XD

Hmm, I think it was my mountain bike. I still have it.. lol.

@noelleptc, nope, but then again, I haven’t actually bought anything at a liquor store. I get beer from the grocery stores and liquor when I’m out or from my friends fo free.

Buying my Dragunov was the first purchase that made me feel grown up. And that wasn’t that long ago!

My 1968 Camaro when I was 17. I wish I still had that beauty!

My dad let’s me use his credit card when ever I go shopping. I remember the first time I used it I felt so grown up because I always see adults swiping there cards to make a purchase! I still feel that way sometimes, thought I’ve gotten more used to using a credit card.

$300 plane ticket when I was 15.

As a Sophomore I bought my first MG at 16 years old. I was feeling adult-ish buying it. But I surely didn’t drive it like an adult. Huh… I could practically say the same thing about the condoms I bought back then too.

Food, with my first paycheck. Sex, with half of my first paycheck.

I brought a beer when I was thirteen. And damn! Did that make me feel grown up!
I’ve always looked a few years older than I am, but that shopkeeper was probably drunk himself when he sold me that can ;)

well, you can drink in public when you’re 16 if accompanied by someone 18.
But you have to be 18 to buy a drink yourself :)

@queenie you have no idea how lucky you are!

I guess it was my house, which I bought when I was 27.

Before that I was living with my parents.

I didn’t so much say to myself, “Now I feel like an adult.”, as I did, “Alright! Now I can party without any concerns about parental intrusion!”.

@Julietxx3 LOL! How do you mean?

@queenie here in the U.S. the drinking age is 21, so it’s difficult for us to even be NEAR alcohol without being questioned! So it’s hard for us to get drinks for parties, etc.

@Julietxx3 lol! I didn’t know it was that high! Man, that sucks!

Probably alcohol and/or cigarettes.

@queenie , yeah it’s really bad. And, not to sound above my age, but kids these days tend to go against the law just for the heck of it. So since I’m usually the one that drinks the least, I have to clean up my friends vomit, and pick them up off of the floor, etc.

Something trivial with my first paycheck from my first job.

My first healthy white infant.

chill out fuckers. it was all legit. I bought him from a stork.

Signing a 30-year mortgage really put things in an “adult” perspective. Even more than my first marriage (which was over by then), or the first few cars I owned.

From the “NOT YET” department, on the day before my 21st birthday, in a state where that’s the legal age for buying liquor, for a big house party (unrelated to my birthday) I was buying a shopping cart full of bottles at a place I’d been to several times before w/o incident. Of course I got carded that time.

A box of toy cars. I’m pathetic.

The first time I legally purchased alcohol was the first one. Then a year and I bit later I got married and that really did it.

I bought a phone set and maintained a personal line in my room when I lived with my parents.

I was 15. I bought my own four man super cool, deluxe river raft and all my own gear…Oooh, it was a good summer with my friends on the river picking up boys. lol

In 6th grade I saved babysitting money to buy a maxi dress. I felt so grown up, buying it with my own money, walking to the Emporium and choosing it all by myself.
These days, people would get in trouble for letting an 11 year old babysit, but I was a very good babysitter.

Um. The one where I bounced the first check I ever wrote from my brand new checking account. On the optometrists, if I remember correctly. When I went in to pay them cash, they were very understanding and explained how it had happened. I think I was 16.

You go @Coloma!!!

@Dutchess_III

Oh we did, yep, the wild river girls picking up the poor innocent Jesuit boys. It was about time those Jesuit boys got molested. lol

@Coloma I snagged some a dem Jesuit boys on my horse, down on the ridin’ trails in miles of woods! (Oh, what a summer!) Actually…I’m thinking they were really bikers and not Jesuits like they said they was…but….oh well!

—@Dutchess_III—

High five sister! lol

High five back at ya! I’ve been pretty much blind since that summer @Coloma!

Um, @noelleptc yes, well…Vee Dubs are a tight squeeze too! Srsly!

LOL! AND it was a standard to boot! And a 1973 model…whew!

A six pack of Michelob, which was legal when I was 18. Sort of glad those days are long gone even though I had a blast at 18 it really is too young for beer.

Okay, okay…enough of the 1973 models. I’m starting to feel realllly old. hahaha
I was a freshman in HS in ‘73. OMG! I never think about this stuff! lol

Funny…I don’t recall ever really feeling like an adult.
Isn’t that odd?

@Coloma Yeah, about that! The car wasn’t the current years model by about 4 years but..you know! It was fun, wasn’t it! The summers, the running around. Seems like anymore all the kids are stuck to computers insulting each other. I never insult people. @SABOTEUR you said “Funny…I don’t recall ever really feeling like an adult.” That’s ‘cause you’re a guy. :)

When I paid an actual bill in the house I was growing up in. I think it was an electric bill for ~$25.

What did you do to piss your folks off so that you had to pay the bill @aprilsimnel?? Do tell!

@Dutchess_III, the household I was raised in was a poor one, so once I was old enough to contribute with an after-school job, I pitched in. I was 16.

My niece lives with her older sister, mother, and grandmother; yet she’s probably the most mature and functional member of that household.

@Coloma You sure we aren’t married?

@noelleptc Her name was “Matty” because of the Matador Red I painted it with. I had to sell her when in college where I could not afford the insurance. Tuition took a precedence. I walked and rode my bike the last 3 years of college!

@Dutchess_III I goofed. My previous answer was meant for you. If low attention span and poor eyesite means “feeling like an adult”, I feel like one now.

@aprilsimnel There ya go! Right on!

LOL @SABOTEUR! Took you long enough! Pretty sure we’re not married! Let me look again…nope. My husband is of Greek descent. (Convinced me he was a Greek God when we were courting, but turned out to be a Goddamned Greek!)

@Dutchess_III

Now, that’s funny. I love a woman with a good sense of humor.

I’m pretty sure we’re not married now.

@SABOTEUR

Hahaha..I was wondering what comparisons there were, did you chase Jesuit boys too? lol

Well, that would be Colma @SABOTEUR. Who’s right behind ahead of me! You two timer, SABOTEUR!

ROLLLLLing @Coloma!

I don’t know HOW this thread turned into this! I love this place but I got to go now. On that I have to ask…what IS a Jesuit Boy anyways? Can they be found in Kansas and stuff? Cause that’s where I was when I found mine. But they could have been imposters!

Good Lord…what have I started…?

As for a purchase, it might be when I bought insurance for my first car…both paid for out of my own pocket. Or it might have been when I bought a house. In these cases, it came down to my decisions, but under the tutelage and guidance of financially responsible family members.

In reality, the first thing that made me feel like an adult was finally realizing that I am not invincible bodily harm, like I used to believe as a child.

the day when I bought a pair of sandals for my mom out of my first salary…that made me feel like an adult and a responsible daughter..

My third car. It was the first time I took out any non-student loan (and the first time I didn’t buy a piece of junk). Reading a financing plan will age you right up.

@noelleptc Nah….don’t need a room. We were out in the woods. Besides, we were finished with them boys a long time ago!

Buying our first lawn mower, yesterday, made me feel sort of old ..lol.

@PluckyDog Naw…old is when you start hiring out your grandkids to do the lawn!!

Lol @Dutchess_III ..that may be true.