If you’re young, try not to get involved with the “too cool” crowd. That quickly becomes the crowd that’s too cool to work hard, too cool to take chances, and too cool to succeed.
“What they did not want you to ever find out is that your generation, the generation born between 1980-1995, actually outnumbers the Baby Boomers. They knew that if you ever turned your eye towards political reform, you could change the world. They tried to keep you sated on vapid television shows and vapid music. They cut off your education and fed you brain candy. They took away your music and gave you Top Ten pop stations. They cut off your art and replaced it with endless reality shows for you to plug into, hoping you would sit quietly by as they ran the world. We as a society are only as strong as our weakest link. Give ‘em hell, kids.” - Agata Truskawka
Can I haz it?
Advanced adulting: Have emergency provisions in your car
It’s time for a wonderful guest entry from former park ranger and all-around badass Mary, who has compiled an amazingly comprehensive list of things that can and should live in your car. Yes, you may not use them often, but nothing ups one’s confidence level like knowing you can handle everything short of the zombie apocalypse with materials already on-hand. Mary?
If you’ve been following Adulting for a while you know that Kelly has already touched on emergency preparedness when she told us all in step 57 to start putting an together an emergency kit for our houses, but we never really talking about what should be in a good emergency preparedness kit for a car.
So let’s take a look at some items to include in your car emergency kit.
Adulting: Step 209: Be able to cook at least four dinners really well →
(photo via suavehouse113)
And now, an excellent submitted step from Erin of Gingero.us fame, a wonderful blog that everyone should surf on over to, assuming you like cooking and photography and crafts and well-curated link roundups. Erin?
As an adult, one will often want to enjoy…
“Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates.
At the first gate, ask yourself, ‘Is it true?’
At the second ask, ‘Is it necessary?’
At the third gate ask ‘Is it kind?’” - Sufi Saying
Adulting: Step 199: Have basic first-aid supplies in your apartment →
I am pretty certain that, with $30 and 15 minutes at Rite-Aid, you could go from having nothing to being decently set up for minor emergencies.
Here’s what I see as being on the list of things that it’s good to have in one’s medicine cabinet; feel free to add any I’ve forgotten in comments:
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