Grown Up

I don't think I'm particulary grown up but to check if I am there is this test you can do (Ok it may not be a scientifically a test but you know, I may have borrowed it from Mrs M)

Anyway here are the questions:

1. Having a mortgage - no, don't own on house either

2. Mum and dad no longer make your financial decisions - yes even though I do ask my dad if I don't understand something

3. Paying into a pension - yes,through work and a good one too so if Neb ever bumps me off for being annoying and doesn't find out him and the kids will be fine

4.Conducting a weekly food shop - yes,

5. Written a Will - no, and I know I need to do one so back off!

6. Having children - yes two little demons angels

7.Budgeting every month - have tried but fail miserably (every single time)

8. Being able to cook an evening meal from scratch - yes loads of them!

9. Getting married - yes 

10. Having life insurance - don't know, but you know he gets the pension anyway (see 3!)

11. Recycling - yes

12.Having a savings account - yes not that there is much money in it

13.Knowing what terms like 'ISA' and 'tracker' mean - ISA yes , tracker not sure erm is it a snack bar?

14.Watching the news - yes

15. Owning a lawn mower - no, no lawn mower but we do have a borrowed strimmer (its my god mothers!)

16. Doing your own washing - unfortunately, yes

17. Taking trips to the local tip - yes, I bag them and Neb sends them

18. Planting flowers  - yes

19. Being able to bleed a radiator - not a chance

20. Having a joint bank account - yes

21. Having a view on politics - yes, except its possibly the same view as I've had all my life

22. Keeping track of interest rates - no, should I

23. Finding a messy house annoying - no I'm a messy person and I don't love it but I don't hate it either

24. Being able to change a light bulb - that'll be because I'm tall and I don't have to use a step then

25. Owning a vacuum cleaner - yes

26.Holding dinner parties - we've had one and then we moved and then we had a messy house but I would love too

27. Listening to Radio 2 - guilty as charged

28. Enjoying gardening - I plant things, they grow all by themselves

29. Spending weekend just 'pottering' -is that the same as lazying around then GOD yes

30. Mum starts asking you for advice - would be hard wouldn't it!

31. Carrying spare shopping bags just in case - I have a bag that's big enough to be a shopping bag if needed 

32 .Like going round garden centres - Um, yes and no !

33. Wearing coats on a night out - not always then Neb makes me (because he is really OLD)

34. Going to bed before 11pm - sometimes on a work night because if I don't I turn into a gibbering wreck

35. Making sure mum and dad are phoned at least once a week - I ring my dad and he's never in so will Facebook him!

36. Classing work as a career rather than a job - Yes, not that anyone here seems to want me to have a career (will not bitch about work!)

37. Repairing torn clothing rather than throwing it away - not a chance

38. You iron - No, I burn myself and then probaly the clothes so NO NEVER

39. You wash up immediately after eating - not all the time and then Neb has a fit!

40. Enjoy cooking - YES

41.Buying a Sunday paper - Used to but now try and have a lie in instead (well till 9am anyway!)

42. Always going out with a sensible pair of shoes - I have wide feet, all my damned shoes are sensible!

43. You like receiving gift vouchers - always!

44. Work keeps you awake at night - only when some idiots wind me up

45.Filing post - FILING = BIN? I do put my tax return in safe place

46.Having a 'best' crockery set - is that the one that still actually matches then yes but its not that posh

47.Being able to change a car tyre - I don't drive so NO

48.Being sensible enough to remove make up off before bedtime - I don't wear any make up

49.Being able to follow a receipt - yes

50.Owning 'best towels' as well as 'everyday towels' -No

 

Most of the answers seemed to be Yes so I assume I've passed but as I'm only 35 I  think I'm allowed to be a little bit slack?

 What do you think? Do you think I'm a grown up? Or are you?

 

BNM