what's up you guys it's Adrienne welcome back to my channel in today's video I'm
gonna talk to you guys about adulting 101 adulting life hacks growing up life
hacks I am now going into senior year of a dull ting which is so scary like oh is
that time already gone by also what's after that like after senior year
resulting are you like in your freshman year of grad school of adulting where
are you then just like an actual full-fledged at all because that freaks
me the hell out so going into my senior year for dole ting I do have some
experience now but I'm also still a total child Hey just wanted to know if
you cut off my gas card cuz I tried to get gas and it didn't work that being
said I do have some good experience that I'm going to share with you guys today
how to adult how to get your life together how to get your priorities in
order as a full-blown adult number one life is about balance we're
so healthy mmm juice a few minutes later
see Palance life is about balance in general and also in terms of diet having
a balanced diet how do you even have a balanced diet I think one of the biggest
burdens when it comes to health and finances as an adult is learning how to
get groceries and cook at home as much as possible the goal here is to not let
anything go back this time and not eat out
this is then a slow transition for me to say the least
I've tried meal prepping I can't eat the same food every day for a week so that
doesn't work for me but I will say I finally got in a pretty good routine of
knowing what groceries to get having like certain breakfast lunch and dinner
meals that I love building and getting the right groceries to cook them and
making them regularly it saves me so much money on food out and I just I feel
like doll
apparently
so so I recommend doing that as well if you can come up with like a couple
things you like for breakfast lunch and dinner keeping those ingredients in your
house however just make sure that the stuff that goes bad first is being used
first that is still something I struggle with through this day 25 years old and
still don't know how to keep groceries fresh yay I'm working on it still and
you can too number two budgeting and getting your finances under control
adults totally do this okay I'm old and I still have the hardest time doing this
but it's 2018 I decided to stop being a child and really start getting my
finances together once and for all something I've learned this year is how
important it is to stay on top of your credit I think that since graduating
college I have gotten better at budgeting and keeping track of my bills
and paying my bills on time but something that was always kind of a big
question mark to me was credit your credit score or how to figure that out
what it means things like that so I'm so thankful that in today's video I'm
teaming up with credit Sesame to show you guys how easy it is to stay on top
your personal finances and all of the free educational tools and resources
that they have online for you for free something I've realized is that whether
you just graduated whether you're about to take out student loans whether you're
about to make a big first purchase like a car or a house it is always a good
time to stay on top of your credit because this is something that you're
gonna need for the rest of your life I've always heard mixed things about
credit like what dings it what doesn't ding it I seriously don't know who to
trust I've heard so many different things credit Sesame in particular is
helping me manage my student loans and making sure I'm like paying the right
amounts to be saving the most amount of money on interest as possible which is
super awesome I also read some articles on CDs which are like a way to invest
your money and a certain savings account back I just really didn't know a lot on
so I'm not only like being able to manage my finances better for free but
I'm also really being educated about it because again this is kind of the one
hazy saw in my life of adulting it was kind of like credit your credit score
things I should be doing to save money because you hear all these different
things so one of my top life hacks for adulting it's definitely to be on top of
your credit if you guys want to head over to credit Sesame com sign up for
your free credit score check and once you sign up you get free identity theft
protection up to $50,000 so you're definitely gonna want to do that
especially in this day and age of creepy date of breaching and cybersecurity
malfunctions and why not I will leave the link down below in terms of general
budgeting I've learned there are very many things you can do to save money
normally you can use a budgeting app or a financial spreadsheet that you create
to really keep track of your bills and make sure you don't pay things late
because just a simple late fee you can just rack up and you're paying so much
more money than you need to pay I have some videos also that I'll link down
below they can help you save money number three exercise I would honestly
say that keeping my health and fitness in check during adulting has been one of
the hardest things I've wasted money on gym memberships that I never used I've
paid way too much for gym memberships that I do actually use but I finally
found this sweet spot where I found a very cheap gym membership so that way if
I don't go I'm not really losing a whole bunch of money but if I go I'm using my
money's worth so I recommend doing the same thing if
you can find a cheap gym membership that way like if you don't go which you
probably won't let's be real you won't then at least you're not wasting that
much money or you can always do at home workouts I do these all the time well do
some youtube cardio workouts do some dance workouts learn some hip-hop dances
because they're really exhausting and really fun also you can whip them out at
the club with your friends except we don't club because we're adults
number four is time management if you can work on time management and master
it you are truly an adult good job exhibit a of being horrible at managing
time I feel like everyone can relate to this going to target to get one thing or
two things and ending up looking at the entire store buying the entire store and
spending hours in the aisles of Target
yeah I know something I've started doing to really help with my time management
is writing hour by hour to-do list the night before so that way like when you
wake up you're not scrambling to figure out like what am I supposed to do today
that I have all these things you wake up and you automatically just look at your
list and start doing things and that way it's also easy to delegate time towards
like the tasks you need to do to keep the lights on so like making money and
your job and all that but also it allows you to really schedule time for those
bigger projects or passion projects or hobbies that you want to do number five
drinking in moderation as an adult it's very tempting to consume alcohol and to
go be social and have dinner parties and go to brunches because we're adults and
we like to do things like that and we can do things like that legally yes I'm
for sure guilty of it too I wasn't saying it wasn't but it's really
important to do this in moderation trust me from someone who went to college had
all the partying in the world still parties sometimes doing it in moderation
will save your wallet save your time save your health and fitness and I mean
what more could you ask for number six get your car washed this is
like probably the weirdest one on this entire list but let me just tell you
children have dirty cars adults have clean cars when do you meet an adult a
fully-fledged adult corporate professional worker person who has a
dirty car you don't it's also very embarrassing when you pull up to valet
at meetings or events and your car has bird poop on it in five spots me Exhibit
A here we are being adults getting a car wash out which is do we do $8 $11 the
underbody
I know it's small I know it's stupid but seriously just little things like that
cleaning your room cleaning your car just being organized helped you feel a
lot more like an adult and helped you actually get things done a lot more
quickly and easily like an adult and finally number seven call your family
again this is one that you're probably like what the heck how does that have to
do with adulting well let me tell you when you're 18 and you want to leave the
house and go to college or just move out and do your own thing it's because
you're like my family I'm done with you love you but like you need some space
and that is all very true and very real however I will say that once you're gone
you will definitely miss your family you'll miss the home cooking you'll miss
the laundry you'll miss everything and these people did literally birth and
raise you so the least you can do is give them a phone call but I will say
with busy lives and busy schedules it's hard to like makes it's time to call
people so I've started kind of implementing like 10 to 15 minutes
little windows where I call my family members regularly so that they remember
that I love them you know it's little things like these that also just teach
self-discipline I think like it's so easy to just pick up the phone and call
your mom for five minutes so if you don't then you just have a huge issue
with I guess self discipline and time management so you guys those are my
seven life hacks for adulting for growing up I hope that you learned
something from you today we're all just in this relatable spot of
not being perfect it's really hard to like get into these routines and to be
honest I'm probably gonna be doing this till I'm 30 like really working on this
really not knowing what's up these are your transition years don't be hard on
yourself if you're not a perfect adult right now if you don't know how to do
your taxes or manage your finances I'm just giving you tools that are gonna
help you do better at it so remember to check out credit Sesame comm if you guys
want to get your free credit check and I highly recommend doing it keep all this
in check and without I almost said without further ado but with nothing
else to say let's go be adults together okay cool
i'll see you guys in my next video and love you so much bye