Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 535 Easy(ish) Steps

Kelly Williams Brown

May 2013 · Sold by Grand Central Publishing

About this ebook

From breaking up with frenemies to fixing your toilet, this way fun comprehensive handbook is the answer for aspiring grown-ups of all ages.

If you graduated from college but still feel like a student . . . if you wear a business suit to job interviews but pajamas to the grocery store . . . if you have your own apartment but no idea how to cook or clean . . . it's OK. But it doesn't have to be this way.

Just because you don't feel like an adult doesn't mean you can't act like one. And it all begins with this funny, wise, and useful book. Based on Kelly Williams Brown's popular blog, Adulting makes the scary, confusing "real world" approachable, manageable—and even conquerable. This guide will help you to navigate the stormy Sea of Adulthood so that you may find safe harbor in Not Running Out of Toilet Paper Bay, and along the way you will learn:

• What to check for when renting a new apartment—not just the nearby bars, but the faucets and stove, among other things.
• When a busy person can find time to learn more about the world (It involves the intersection of NPR and hair-straightening.)
• How to avoid hooking up with anyone in your office—imagine your coworkers having plastic, featureless doll crotches. It helps.
• The secret to finding a mechanic you love—or, more realistically, one that will not rob you blind.

Ratings and reviews

this book is a ghost writing sham...a personsl attack against someones family member. is there a resolution for self help..no...the real writer works for a lawyer and her mom is an x english teacher. it was a personal attack against poor infividuals(not her a functioning alchoilic) and mentally ill that love animals. dont buy this book youll sell your soul to the devil. the house that she is talking about had many deaths in it...bad karma...its about her boyfriends family. this message is freedom of speech

Great book! Love her sense of humor. Read this over the course of many, many miles on a treadmill at the gym and got many awkward stares from my impromptu bursts of laughter. Adulting feels just a little bit less scary now. :)

So many valuable and helpful things in here we all have learned the hard way (or are still learning). And such a comical, easy relatable read.

About the author

Kelly Williams Brown is the New York Times bestselling author of Adulting, Gracious, and Easy Crafts for the Insane. A former reporter, ad copywriter, and Bourbon Street bartender, she lives with her giant, neurotic dog in Salem, Oregon.