stuff to leave behind when your turn 25

[Jason from Huntsville, AL]

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.

I second that. In our area there are a couple good-size thrift stores adjacent to pretty ritzy parts of town. These folks buy nice things and are likely to get rid of them while there's still life left in them (unlike a slob like me who will wear/use something until it disintegrates.) My wife is a expert thrift store shopper and has done amazing things for our family of four with very little money by crawling those places.

[cutout]

Expressing anti-war sentiments through puppetry.

[Alex_from_the_woods]

Drinking until black-out. Oh, I thought you said 35.

I didn't really outgrow much of anything by 25. Didn't really start to get any maturity at all until 35 or so. I'm still a work in progress and always will be.

Before any of you 20-whatevers start getting pissed at me- I'm not saying no one is mature at 25, or 23, or even 20. I'm just talking about me.

[Sarah]

If eating out more is a sign of maturity, I am still in the womb.

[buffcoat]

If eating out more is a sign of maturity, I am still in the womb.

I think of it as a shell, Lubec.  A hermit-crab shell.

[Pidgeon]

Expressing anti-war sentiments through puppetry.

Or anti-meat industry sentiments through nudity.

[Denim Gremlin]

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.

I think we're kinda trying to say the same thing but you keep expressing it much more succinctly and clearly than me.

hahaha maybe I am just a stupid kid!

oh brother

[Gilly]

The thread should be called "Stuff I left behind at 25"

[Sarah]

Hell, TKC, I'm more than twice your age.  There have to be one or two benefits that come with that sorry state of affairs.

I think of it as a shell, Lubec.  A hermit-crab shell.

"You might very well think that; I couldn't possibly comment."

[cutout]

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. 

Everyone does stuff when they're younger and cringes at it later when they're older. Sometimes it's funny to laugh at. 25 was just an arbitrary number. Most people set the milestones subconsciously. I was just curious where you all stood. I thought a Best Show forum of all places would be receptive. Either way, just posted this to pass the time at work, didn't mean to make anyone feel defensive.

[ChrisRawk]

Let me amend the thrift store thing.  Re-reading it it doesn't sound right.

Let me replace it with "ironic t-shirts". 

[Gilly]

Stuff I left behind at 25:

Preferring bars to staying at home with wife and friends.
Trying to appreciate heavy metal
Any more attempts at rekindling my interest in baseball cards. 
A lot of friends. Not by choice, just because that's about the age that happens at.

[hardweek]

Drinking homemade juice out of mason jars in public....or private, for that mater.

[emma]

If eating out more is a sign of maturity, I am still in the womb.

OH MAN I get so annoyed (possibly unfairly) with people over the age of 20 who can't cook anything for themselves. Not everybody has to be a gourmet chef, but I feel like once you are a grown-ass man or lady you should be able to function without somebody else making the bulk of your meals for you.

This relates to, and might actually stem from, the fact that through several serving-type jobs I have encountered multiple dudes in their forties/fifties who described themselves as "picky eaters" or refused to touch any kind of salad or vegetable that came with their food. You are an adult, not a six-year-old; unless it is going to make you violently ill or eating it is against your religion or something, eat what is put in front of you.

All that said, last week at a party a dude gave me a 15-minute-long lecture about how when I'm 26, like he is, I'll look back on myself at 20 and realize how childish I was and how little I really knew back then. Because by 26 you've pretty much acquired all the knowledge and wisdom you're ever going to need. So check back with me in six years, I guess?

[Sarah]

. . . a dude gave me a 15-minute-long lecture about how when I'm 26, like he is, I'll look back on myself at 20 and realize how childish I was and how little I really knew back then. Because by 26 you've pretty much acquired all the knowledge and wisdom you're ever going to need.

Damn, I must have bypassed that age somehow.