Adulting
How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps
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Just because you don't feel like an adult doesn't mean you can't act like one. And it all begins with this funny, wise, and useful book. Based on Kelly Williams Brown's popular blog, Adulting makes the scary, confusing "real world" approachable, manageable - and even conquerable. This guide will help you to navigate the stormy Sea of Adulthood so that you may find safe harbor in Not Running Out of Toilet Paper Bay, and along the way you will learn:
- What to check for when renting a new apartment - not just the nearby bars, but the faucets and stove, among other things
- When a busy person can find time to learn more about the world - It involves the intersection of NPR and hair-straightening
- How to avoid hooking up with anyone in your office - Imagine your coworkers having plastic, featureless doll crotches. It helps
- The secret to finding a mechanic you love - or, more realistically, one that will not rob you blind
From breaking up with frenemies to fixing your toilet, this way fun comprehensive handbook is the answer for aspiring grown-ups of all ages.
©2013 Kelly Williams Brown (P)2013 Hachette AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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Graciousness is practicing the arts of kindness, thoughtfulness, good manners, humanity, and basic decency. As a bonus, it makes your life and even the world (or at least the room you're in) much lovelier. It's not about memorizing every rule of traditional etiquette to a T (though there is so much there to explore!) or spending all your time maintaining a spotless house. It's about approaching the world with compassion, conviction, self-confidence, and wholeheartedness, whether you're at the Met Gala or saying good morning to a convenience store clerk.
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Wow! Don't miss it!
- By MidwestLady on 06-30-17
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Welcome to Adulting
- Navigating Faith, Friendship, Finances, and the Future
- By: Jonathan "JP" Pokluda, Kevin McConaghy
- Narrated by: Jonathan "JP" Pokluda
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
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Every day, another Millennial becomes an adult. For many young people, the transition is a bumpy one, fraught with opportunities to make mistakes and bad choices. The clear expectations they had at home or in school are gone, and they may feel unprepared to face what comes next. But sometimes we make it harder than it has to be. Combining entertaining stories from his own experience, insights from the Bible, and compelling evidence from research, "JP" Pokluda lays out a roadmap for how to navigate life as an adult.
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Better than I expected!
- By Rob on 09-26-18
By: Jonathan "JP" Pokluda, and others
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The Young Adult’s Survival Guide to Living Independently
- Life Skills for Getting a Job, Moving Out, Managing Money, Budget Building, Home Making, and just about everything in between
- By: Eli Williams
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
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Congratulations! So, you’re all grown up and ready to spread your wings and leave the nest. But what’s next? How much will it cost? How do you build a career that will support you and one day a family of your own? As you have gotten older, you’re now taking on more responsibilities, and it will be 100% up to you to accomplish them all. There are many life skills that are NOT being taught in school! Do not worry; with or without a starting budget, you can do this!The good news is with this book you’ll be able to avoid many pitfalls and start with a strong foundation of knowledge to ...
By: Eli Williams
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Adulting 101: #Wisdom4Life
- By: Josh Burnette, Pete Hardesty
- Narrated by: Ramón De Ocampo
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
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Basic life skills go mostly untaught in classrooms, so graduates are on their own to figure out how to live successfully in the world. Without any guidance, where do you start? Adulting 101 is a clever, practical, and timely guide to how to find a job and be wildly successful at work, buy the items you need as an adult (apartment, car, insurance), and more.
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you don't have to be Christian to be successful!
- By sean on 07-28-18
By: Josh Burnette, and others
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Easy Crafts for the Insane
- A Mostly Funny Memoir of Mental Illness and Making Things
- By: Kelly Williams Brown
- Narrated by: Kelly Williams Brown
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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Kelly Williams Brown had 700 bad days. Her marriage collapsed, she broke three limbs in separate and unrelated incidents, her father was diagnosed with cancer, and she fell into a deep depression that ended in what could delicately be referred to as a “rest cure” at an inpatient facility. Before that, she had several very good years: She wrote a best-selling book, spoke at NASA, had a beautiful wedding, and inspired hundreds of thousands of readers to live as grown-ups in an often-screwed-up world, though these accomplishments mostly just made her feel fraudulent.
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Resilience
- By shellie on 12-23-23
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Adulting for Dummies
- By: Gencie Houy PhD
- Narrated by: Sofia Willingham
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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In Adulting For Dummies, Gencie Houy, independent living educator at Texas Tech, walks you through every critical part of adulting on your own. From basic life and household tasks to managing your finances and health, you'll learn how to achieve your goals in each area of your life that matters to you. You'll also discover how to balance the different parts of your life so you don't get overwhelmed in any one area.
By: Gencie Houy PhD
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Gracious
- A Practical Primer on Charm, Tact, and Unsinkable Strength
- By: Kelly Williams Brown
- Narrated by: Kelly Williams Brown
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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Graciousness is practicing the arts of kindness, thoughtfulness, good manners, humanity, and basic decency. As a bonus, it makes your life and even the world (or at least the room you're in) much lovelier. It's not about memorizing every rule of traditional etiquette to a T (though there is so much there to explore!) or spending all your time maintaining a spotless house. It's about approaching the world with compassion, conviction, self-confidence, and wholeheartedness, whether you're at the Met Gala or saying good morning to a convenience store clerk.
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Wow! Don't miss it!
- By MidwestLady on 06-30-17
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Welcome to Adulting
- Navigating Faith, Friendship, Finances, and the Future
- By: Jonathan "JP" Pokluda, Kevin McConaghy
- Narrated by: Jonathan "JP" Pokluda
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
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Every day, another Millennial becomes an adult. For many young people, the transition is a bumpy one, fraught with opportunities to make mistakes and bad choices. The clear expectations they had at home or in school are gone, and they may feel unprepared to face what comes next. But sometimes we make it harder than it has to be. Combining entertaining stories from his own experience, insights from the Bible, and compelling evidence from research, "JP" Pokluda lays out a roadmap for how to navigate life as an adult.
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Better than I expected!
- By Rob on 09-26-18
By: Jonathan "JP" Pokluda, and others
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The Young Adult’s Survival Guide to Living Independently
- Life Skills for Getting a Job, Moving Out, Managing Money, Budget Building, Home Making, and just about everything in between
- By: Eli Williams
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
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Congratulations! So, you’re all grown up and ready to spread your wings and leave the nest. But what’s next? How much will it cost? How do you build a career that will support you and one day a family of your own? As you have gotten older, you’re now taking on more responsibilities, and it will be 100% up to you to accomplish them all. There are many life skills that are NOT being taught in school! Do not worry; with or without a starting budget, you can do this!The good news is with this book you’ll be able to avoid many pitfalls and start with a strong foundation of knowledge to ...
By: Eli Williams
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Adulting 101: #Wisdom4Life
- By: Josh Burnette, Pete Hardesty
- Narrated by: Ramón De Ocampo
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
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Basic life skills go mostly untaught in classrooms, so graduates are on their own to figure out how to live successfully in the world. Without any guidance, where do you start? Adulting 101 is a clever, practical, and timely guide to how to find a job and be wildly successful at work, buy the items you need as an adult (apartment, car, insurance), and more.
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you don't have to be Christian to be successful!
- By sean on 07-28-18
By: Josh Burnette, and others
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Easy Crafts for the Insane
- A Mostly Funny Memoir of Mental Illness and Making Things
- By: Kelly Williams Brown
- Narrated by: Kelly Williams Brown
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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Kelly Williams Brown had 700 bad days. Her marriage collapsed, she broke three limbs in separate and unrelated incidents, her father was diagnosed with cancer, and she fell into a deep depression that ended in what could delicately be referred to as a “rest cure” at an inpatient facility. Before that, she had several very good years: She wrote a best-selling book, spoke at NASA, had a beautiful wedding, and inspired hundreds of thousands of readers to live as grown-ups in an often-screwed-up world, though these accomplishments mostly just made her feel fraudulent.
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Resilience
- By shellie on 12-23-23
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Adulting Life Skills for Young Adults: Beyond the Basics
- Tools to Navigate Through High School, College, and Into the World with Inner Knowledge and the Ability to Thrive
- By: Jaqui Meyer
- Narrated by: Kim Miller
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
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The ultimate adulting guide for every teen and young adult – empower yourself with over 15 life skills today! Let’s face it, adulting is hard. While this might sound like a cliché, it does ring with truth. The moment your childhood years come to an end, you face a transitionary period of life – the teenage years – when you have to figure out where you fit. And in all this, you also need to struggle with the idea of living independently, preparing yourself for the life ahead.
By: Jaqui Meyer
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Adulting Life Skills for Teens
- How to Money, Budget, Bank, Pay Bills, and Everything You Need to Know about Finances
- By: Tory Hunt
- Narrated by: Kara Hayden
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
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In school, you’re taught about the causes of World War I, the intricacies of The Great Gatsby, and how to compute the area of a circle. Yet, practical everyday life skills that you’ll need for the future–such as how to handle money–are rarely discussed.
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Master the Basics of Money Management as a Teen
- By FitFreak on 04-25-23
By: Tory Hunt
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101 Secrets for Your Twenties
- By: Paul Angone
- Narrated by: Kyle McCarley
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
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Every 20-something needs a little black book of secrets. Our 20s are filled with confusion, terrible jobs, anticipation, disappointment, cubicles, breakups, transition, quarter-life crisis, loneliness, postcollege what the heck, and moderate success sandwiched between complete failure. We need a worn and weathered guide stashed somewhere close by to help shed some light on this defining decade.
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Too much God stuff.
- By Dani on 02-03-18
By: Paul Angone
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Almost Adulting
- All You Need to Know to Get It Together (Sort Of)
- By: Arden Rose
- Narrated by: Arden Rose
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
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For fans of Grace Helbig and Alexa Chung comes a fresh, hilarious guide to growing up your way from social media influencer and lifestyle vlogger Arden Rose. In Almost Adulting - perfect for budding adults, failing adults, and eaters of microwave mug brownies - Arden tells you how to survive your future adulthood.
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Pretty good
- By Amazon Customer on 07-25-17
By: Arden Rose
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Mistakes Were Made
- By: Lizzie Post, Kelly Williams Brown
- Narrated by: Lizzie Post, Kelly Williams Brown
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
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Kelly Williams Brown, author of Easy Crafts for the Insane and the New York Times best-selling book Adulting, and Lizzie Post, co-president of The Emily Post Institute and author of Higher Etiquette, team up in this Audible Original for a hilarious romp through other people’s most embarrassing moments - plus a few of their own. Tapping into years’ worth of etiquette knowledge and experience, Kelly and Lizzie consider stories from friends, family, and strangers alike where things go hysterically wrong.
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So incredibly bad.
- By Jessy on 03-07-22
By: Lizzie Post, and others
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Unf*ck Your Adulting
- Give Yourself Permission, Carry Your Own Baggage, Don't Be a Dick, Make Decisions, and Other Life Skills
- By: Faith G. Harper PhD LPC-S ACS ACN
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
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Dr. Faith explains the fundamentals of adulting in this expanded version of her mini pocket zine. Keep these hot tips around for when you're making big decisions, dealing with difficult situations, or to give to a friend or kid who's making any kind of big life transition.
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Sounds fine to me
- By Johnson on 10-30-20
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- Michael Ngo
- 05-11-16
Some good advice
Some great advice in here and I feel like I was at the right time and place in my life to read it.
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- brittney
- 03-11-16
intriguing, funny and very informative
loved this book kept me laughing yet thinking about the choices I have made or can make. highly recommended this book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-22-20
gave perspective
I liked it
kinda made me realize how much chance and circumstance is involved in adulthood
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- Diland0712
- 09-16-16
A very good read
It took me a while to get i to it but this is a very good book to help you get off of your bum and out i to the real world like a grown-up.
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- Aseela
- 05-19-16
intresting
good read for teens and early 20 somethings. none the less well written and easy listen
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- Taylor
- 03-08-16
I loved it
It was funny and quirky. There were very good tips with some obvious tips. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
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- sleepingbeauty03
- 02-01-19
ONE OF THE MOST USEFUL BOOKS AROUND
Thank you Kelly Williams Brown for sharing this great wisdom and your fabulous witty personality with us. Would have loved to listen to the updated version - 536 easy-ish steps. Now I’ll have to skim through the book and figure out what I’m missing! I could use a review of this amazing life manual anyways. I’ll be sure to keep your book handy - cause I know I’ll be needing it. Thanks again! - From A 24 year old wanna-be-adult. :)
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- Jan_mt
- 04-23-17
Confused by the audio quality
Would you listen to Adulting again? Why?
Good contents, but i just don't really understand, after I purchased the audio book and audio sounds differently than the audio sample even the chapter they're reading. Hmm so confused. I am expecting the same audio quality as the sample.
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- Catherine
- 06-19-13
Funny, relevant, and surprisingly helpful!
What made the experience of listening to Adulting the most enjoyable?
I loved everything about this book. I bought it on a whim and with severe skepticism because I'm from the generation of current urban twenty-something's who feel too cool for "self-help" books. What a lucky impulse buy! It's hilarious, and feels more like chatting with a trusted older girl friend than a preachy or cheesy self help book. There are several one liners or tips from the book that keep popping into my head since I've read it, and I honestly feel like I learned helpful things from this book. If you like Mindy Kaling and Lena Dunham, you will like Kelly Williams Brown, and you might even get motivated to actually have the oil changed in your car.
What other book might you compare Adulting to and why?
It reminded me of "Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?" by Mindy Kaling, in tone and format, but of course to different purposes.
Have you listened to any of Anjili Pal’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
I adored Anjili Pal's performance. She hit it perfectly, and she sounded like I was talking to a good girl friend. I kept having to remind myself that she was not in fact the actual author.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
YES.
Any additional comments?
Hilarious. Honest. Helpful. Truthful. Witty.
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- Kindle Customer
- 08-19-14
Common Sense and Thank You Notes
So far a lot of the advice in this are things I already have under my belt or had heard before and stored away in mind for future reference. For instance - whole chapter about moving, domesticity, cleaning... Got it down. Well, all except the consistently cleaning bit; it comes in spurts. Whole chapter about kitchen and cooking - I got the supplies and well-stocked ingredients, smart shopping, recipe following etc down, though in reality my fiancé does most of the actual cooking, and we've never hosted any kind of house/dinner party. Whole chapter about social adeptness - being patient and kind with strangers (like people who cut in line), be comfortable by yourself in public/at social gatherings, be informed/know local and national news ... Those things I have down (yay for podcasted newspapers for listening while on public transportation!). Whole chapter about having/getting a job- I got it down, or at least have managed it at least once since college, though the networking part is fledgling still. Whole chapter about money and budgeting - I have got that SO down that it's second nature. Finances are one thing I think I can say I have got under control. Some things have arisen in her tips that I have not done though, like devoting time to do something you care about, like volunteering ... Not something I had given thought to lately. So far making me feel pretty successful at the whole being adult thing.
Second half of this book was more if the same kind of things, standard stuff that helps out day to day (like a whole chapter on maintenance, i.e. laundry, cars, plants, pets etc., much of which didn't apply to me at the moment, though I did take special note of a few stain fighting tips) and then several chapters on people and relationships (including the whole gambit from friends and family to lovers and significant others). Some good advice about emergency prevention and preparedness (though, again several things here I know because of where I grew up but that don't currently apply as I don't have a car). She couldn't stress the thank you notes enough.
Overall, not a bad read, but not something I think I'd feel the need to read again. I fit the target audience demographic, and have already independently achieved many of the steps outlined, noted down a few tips about the things I haven't yet (like on buying a and maintaining car, even though that's not going to be in the budget any time soon). This would be kind of book for an aunt or older cousin type to give to a recent college grad, someone who has never lived on their own before. It is full of the kinds of stuff that will help them in starting out, but that I have already passed in my few years since I graduated.
The reader did fine, nothing remarkable, and I think she captured the author's tone well throughout (sometimes sarcastic) and deftly adopted a few pop culture speaking patterns when they came up but - my one issue was that she never once did anything vocal to distinguish quotes from others in the text, which often left phrases sounding weird or out of context until you suddenly caught a quick "...so and so said" tagged on at the end.
Probably more useful for reference or just pursuing step by step in print form, rather than audio. Also, there is occasional gratuitous swearing. It helped her point sometimes, and reinforced her voice as an every-woman 20-something with attitude making her way... and several references to rap and hip hop singers. She and I have different tastes, to say the least, but she got the message across.
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