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You’ve got to hand it to adults. They know how to make a living, pay taxes, and keep their house in order. They know how to cook, clean, and get to their appointments on time. They know how to be responsible and accountable, other than understanding the importance of savings accounts and paying off their debt.

Yeah, no. This would be true if we lived in a perfect world where everything worked as it should, but reality can be so much harder! Adulting means you’ve got to make all those hard choices now, and most of the time, you just want someone else to do them for you, like when you were a kid.

Sometimes the only way to get through growing up is to laugh at it with some adulting humor! So here we’ve collected a list of relatable adulting jokes about the daily challenges of young adults and the struggles of dealing with those responsibilities we’d rather ignore. Can you relate too?

#1

Joke on adulting Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the street and then getting hit by an airplane.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This needs to be on a t-shirt. It also needs to be a bumper sticker. I'd put on my car. (If I had one.)

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#2

You know you're an adult when the thing you get most excited about is extra sleep.

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#3

Maybe adults aren't afraid of monsters under the bed anymore because we know that if we get eaten by one we won't have to go to work the next day.

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#4

Used to sneak out my house to go to parties, now I sneak out of parties to go to my house.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

which has prepared me for sneaking into the bathroom, bedroom, closet, or where ever so I can get a few seconds away from my wonderful children.

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#5

Joke on adulting Still don't understand how people my age have children. I'm children.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In 36 and I'm still waiting to feel like an adult. My mind doesn't, but my back in the morning definitely does!

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#6

Being an adult is mostly being exhausted. Wishing you hadn't made plans, and wondering how you hurt your back.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You guys are making plans? I just want to survive the weekend doing groceries and cleaning.

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#7

How do people work 10 hour a day then come home and workout and cook? Adulting is an extreme sport.

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#8

Being an adult is mostly going to bed when you don't want to and waking up when you dont' want to.

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#9

Joke on adulting You know you’re an adult when going to bed early with clean sheets is more appealing than going out on a Friday night.

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If replacing a dirty dish sponge with a new one puts you in a good mood, you’re officially an adult.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sometimes I replace the sponge earlier than needed, just because I can. And I enjoy that like hell. Am I rebel or is it just... sad? 🙃

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#11

I used to think that adulthood was one crisis after another. I was wrong. As it turns out, adulthood is multiple crises, concurrently, all the time, forever.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You simply arrange them in order of urgency, then ignore them accordingly.

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#12

I wish I was still a kid so I could just take a long nap and everyone would be proud of me.

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#13

Joke on adulting How come everyone my age seems older than me?

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#14

The retirement age needs to be lowered to 25. I’ve had enough.

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#15

Being an adult is just finally getting why your mom was upset about stuff when you were a kid.

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#16

I’m an adult, and I can eat whatever I want whenever I want, and I wish someone would take this power from me.

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#17

Joke on adulting Being an adult is having the "We have food at home" talk with yourself.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But the urge to have someone else make you some nice hot fries and a burger 🤤

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#18

"I'm just gonna get gas in the morning." Is one of the worst decisions you make as an adult.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, these days deciding to get drunk in the morning instead seems like a cheaper idea.

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#19

About 33 years ago two people had sex and now I have to work everyday.

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#20

I don't run for my problems. I sit on my couch, play on my phone and ignore them like all other adults.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't even run for my health, definitely will not run for my problems lol... ....and I'll see my way out now...

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#21

Joke on adulting Birthday at 18: Takes 12 different shots from 12 different bars.
Adult's birthday: Takes two different pain relievers because I literally hurt myself sleeping.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hurt myself sleeping this very week. I didn't really know it was a thing until it became a thing.

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#22

Me as a kid: I can’t wait until I’m an adult and nobody can tell me what to do.
Me as an adult: Someone please tell me what to do.

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#23

Adulthood is like losing your mom in the grocery store for the rest of your life.

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#24

The horrifying moment when you're looking for an adult but then you realize that you are an adult. So you look for and older adult, someone successfully adulting. An adultier adult.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've become the adultier adult. I am now annoyed by adults who are less adulty.

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#25

Joke on adulting True mark of adulthood: instead of your parents scheduling your doctor’s appointments, you just avoid going to the doctor and hope u don’t die.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As an adult living in the US, sometimes I wonder am I afraid of going to the doctor in and of itself or am I more afraid of the bill that follows?

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#26

The cool thing about being an adult is that you can go to bed at 9.30p.m and still feel completely exhausted the entire next day.

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#27

Being an adult is like being a Quentin Tarantino movie: it starts out real cool, there’s lots of cursing, it’s very confusing, everyone dies.

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#29

Joke on adulting This is not what adulthood looked like in the brochure.

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#30

Being an adult is basically a "choose your own adventure" book, but every choice sounds terrible.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do I want to be healthy and cry into my stupid dinner lettuce hating life, or gorge on delicious spicy Mac and cheese and curse the universe while setting the toilet on fire and still hating life?

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#31

Remember when you were little and you fall on the trampoline and everyone would keep jumping so you couldn’t get back up? That’s being an adult.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I miss the joys of a trampoline. From my early teens I had to stop using them because I literally got whiplash every single time :(

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#32

Adulthood is wanting to cry for 4 days straight but not having the time.

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#33

Joke on adulting Most adult friendships are just figuring out whose turn it is to cancel plans.

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#34

While hanging your duvet cover, remember to use your energy sparingly. It's a marathon, not a sprint. Make sure you stay hydrated. Don't panic.

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#35

You know you're becoming an adult when you realize literally nobody feels like an adult.

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