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You know you’re a grown up when your to do list looks like this.

Posted by missmgrrl@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 38 comments

You know you’re a grown up when your to do list looks like this.
Taxes. Healthcare. House insurance. What’s missing… oh, death! “Prepare trust.” When the youth talks about “adulting” because they went to Home Depot, I laugh.

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KrunchyPhrog@reddit

My initial reaction at seeing your image was actually: "You know you're a GenX or Boomer when your to-do list was written on a paper notepad XD As a teen, one of the first software that I bought for my IBM PC/AT (purchased by my IBM engineer father upon release in 1984 at 50% IBM employee discount) was a text editor that basically was an electronic outliner called "ThinkTank". ThinkTank then quickly resulted in other PC outlining software copycats. ThinkTank was basically a "folding editor" that let you enter text in an outline format and you could expand each section of the outline, collapse sections, expand all, or collapse all. They advertised ThinkTank for use by everyone from authors to engineers to software programmers to students as a way to gather, prioritize, and expand your thoughts, ideas, and the user could just expand each section while collapsing all other sections. I had one specific ThinkTank "To-Do" file where I listed "Today's To-Dos", "This Week's To-Dos", "This Month's To-Dos", "This Year's To-Dos", and "Long-Term Goals" in ThinkTank's folding editor outline format, so various to-dos had further sub-to-dos listed below them. While there was an indescribable satisfaction in drawing a line through each to-do written on paper, my daily to-dos later went from the ThinkTank file on my PC to being recorded onto my Sony Walkman cassette player/recorder and later onto small digital voice recorders before smartphones arrived.
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tommymat@reddit

Written on a notepad in perfect cursive!
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Confident-Search-846@reddit

FAR from perfect. Good penmanship died after the 1950s
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SportTheFoole@reddit

Why did they call it COBRA. Those were the bad guys the Joes were always fighting.
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NefariousShe@reddit

Short for Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act.
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-CgiBinLaden-@reddit

Because it covers pre-existing, which means you know about something, and knowing is half the battle.
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FormerLaugh3780@reddit

Omg, you know your a geriatric boomer waiting for a room to free up at the assisted living when you are hand writing to-do notes. 
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missmgrrl@reddit (OP)

They can’t market to you when you keep your notes on paper.
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CitizenChatt@reddit

Everybody's going analog again. It's the way of the future
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missmgrrl@reddit (OP)

Disagree! Many youth write paper to do notes!
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Worth-Canary-9189@reddit

Pay COBRA or buy food.
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bjayasuriya@reddit

Where's the one about stopping at the pharmacy?
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missmgrrl@reddit (OP)

Home delivery!
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bjayasuriya@reddit

So smart!!
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allaboutaphie@reddit

Laughed at a weekend concert event where we camped out and had fun. Most discussions were centered about retirement and when/how and etc.. How things change..lol
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Carlito2393@reddit

I saw a Bare Naked Ladies concert a few years ago and it was sponsored by AARP.
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tinpants44@reddit

Bare Naked Organ Recital?
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missmgrrl@reddit (OP)

That and the “organ recital.”😅
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Yada-Yada-Yadda@reddit

Just called my doctor for a follow-up for a yearly physical. Growing up, my physical fitness was based on whether I could pass the Presidential Physical Fitness Test.
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Confusatronic@reddit

Leaning into the adult thing: Do you really need to pay COBRA? I know there are cases in which it is rational to choose it, but I also have a feeling many people go on it when it would be more financially rational to not go on it.
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missmgrrl@reddit (OP)

ACA plans are more expensive at the moment. In part because I’ve met the deductible for the year.
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Confusatronic@reddit

Ah, yes, that would be one of the cases. Just wanted to check.
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asfacadabra@reddit

If you depend on regular medical attention and medications to remain alive, you pay COBRA.
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missmgrrl@reddit (OP)

Truth. Not to mention the possible financial ruin if something bad happens health wise.
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DeadMetalRazr@reddit

Pay Cobra you say? ![gif](giphy|9ggYzzzzqxFIY)
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CitizenChatt@reddit

These are my people
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reachers_toothbrush@reddit

lol, my first thought was https://preview.redd.it/1r6htfmcnylg1.jpeg?width=257&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b7535138b1f55f2719d4ac7f15985f2f5c0f86f3
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BmanGorilla@reddit

I'd never actually write those things down. They're a pervasive thought.
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missmgrrl@reddit (OP)

Get it out of your head! Much better that way.
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c0pp3rdrag0n@reddit

NGL I thought the first line was tacos prep. That would be first on my list!
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missmgrrl@reddit (OP)

Tacos after taxes.
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x86_64_@reddit

Same, now I have to make a to-do list for dinner
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Difficult-Cricket541@reddit

you are a grown up if you can read that. young people cant read that.
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missmgrrl@reddit (OP)

Totally!
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First-Ad-7960@reddit

Ha! I asked my insurance agent to review our house insurance today.
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MaximumJones@reddit

![gif](giphy|LRYweW3N1XZp6rCNY9) Cobra Kai?
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punkdrummer22@reddit

You have to PAY to be a member of COBRA? No wonder the Joes are always winning
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Legitimate_Egg_2073@reddit

Thanks for the reminder OP 😹
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