stuff to leave behind when your turn 25

[ChrisRawk]

Your experimental noise band.

Buying most of your clothes at thrift stores.

Action figures.

[Joe Rogaine]

Reading comic books. What?

[fonpr]

Buying most of your clothes at thrift stores.

What?

[Jason from Huntsville, AL]

Replying "I'm 24" when some asks how old you are.

[Pidgeon]

Buying most of your clothes at thrift stores.

Assuming you can afford something else.

[Jason from Huntsville, AL]

Buying most of your clothes at thrift stores.

Assuming you can afford something else.

Being poor.

[cavorting with nudists]

Identifying yourself as "queer" when basically, let's face it, you pretty much like boys if you're female and girls if you're male.*

*No disrespect intended to self-identified queers who genuinely do feel same-gender attraction.

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[cutout]

i was trying to make a smart alecy remark about the condescending "just grow up already" direction this thread is clearly going in.

Sorry, didn't mean for it to come off that way. A tweet by Rob Delaney had made me think of Bukowski and I'd also been laughing at a Best Show where Tom was calling heavy metal music for children. Just kind of riffing off that, I guess...

[Denim Gremlin]

i was trying to make a smart alecy remark about the condescending "just grow up already" direction this thread is clearly going in.

Sorry, didn't mean for it to come off that way. A tweet by Rob Delaney had made me think of Bukowski and I'd also been laughing at a Best Show where Tom was calling heavy metal music for children. Just kind of riffing off that, I guess...

I might be getting kinda defensive. coincedentally I've experienced alot of condescension towards my youth lately. so it's been bugging me. I'm 25 myself and I've lived on my own and supported myself since I was 18. I don't think bullshit as frivolous as not buying your clothes at a thrift store or listening to heavy metal or whatever makes you some how more grown up. attitudes like that just make you sound like a fucking asshole. 

[yesno]

come on, I've lived on my own since I was 17, am 32 now, and have outgrown tons of shit *since I was 25*.  I imagine this will continue.

you can get amazing stuff at a thrift store if, like me, you live in an area with a lot of rich people who die.  for example, I recently bought a pair of shoes for $10 that would have cost about $600 new.  just my size, in fine shape.

[JonFromMaplewood]

Believing that adults know something you don't.

[Sarah]

That one will give some things up is inevitable; I just don't think there are or need to be hard and fast rules decreeing what those things will be.

[Paul DeLouisiana]

I'm 24 and I dated a 27 year old recently and while I was dating her I made a list of things like this. A new bed, healthier food, trying to eat out more, new standards in food clothes, films, music, art...

I broke up with her and things are all the same.

[Ike]

The work of any author whose books were sold in hip record stores when such places existed (Bukowski, Kerouac, Burroughs, Palahniuk, Rollins, that novel Nick Cave wrote)

Ding ding ding.

I would also add math rock, whatever that is.  Around 25 or so this stuff really, really lost its appeal, in a pretty harsh way.  I went to see Don Cab a few years ago (or whatever version of that band they are now), and I was easily, EASILY the oldest dude in the room, by, like, a lot.  Young person's game, that shit. 

I don't get the suit thing, though. 

That might be a class issue for a lot of folks--age doesn't seem to have much bearing on that.