20 Defining Moments Every 20 Something Has Experienced

1. Moving out of home... with the help of your parents, their huge people carrier and probably a good wedge of their money, too. You're SO grown up.

2. Doing your first food shop... and feeling like you did when you were allowed in the sweet shop with your pocket money. You buy all the treats. You eat all the treats. You feel sick. ​You stick to plain pasta and Dolmio sauce going forward.

3. Renting with your friends for the first time... or complete strangers. Either way it's a whole new world of eating dinner off your lap in front of Bake Off and you love it.​

4. Buying your first car... sure, it's a second-hand banger with more issues and miles on the clock than acceleration power but it's yours and it means you don't have to get the bus anymore.

5. Graduating... and spending the next three years of your life wishing you were still a student so you could justify eating beans, cheese and chips and getting up at 2pm.

6. Travelling the world... to extend your unemployed status for as long as possible and expand your horizons (by spending your entire time in Vietnam with Billy from Manchester)​

7. Doing your first job interview... which is TERRIFYING and apparently requires a brand new skirt suit that your mum makes you buy.

8. Taking your parents out for dinner... with money that isn't theirs. My, you've grown.

9. Breaking up with a long-term boyfriend... and instantly feeling like your world is over. Until you discover being single in your twenties is actually AMAZING and you're basically way better off without him.

10. Going on your first big fancy holiday​... which you've bought with your own money slash overdraft.

11. Getting your first proper pay check... and spending all of your money in the first two days on clothes and Jaegerbombs. #YOLO.

12. Paying off an overdraft... and having a takeaway to celebrate the end of austerity.

13. Renewing your passport... and feeling SO relieved you no longer have to look at 'Goth Jess' anymore. Those were dark days.

14. When you stop just ordering the house wine... on special occasions, anyway. Second most expensive wine it is!

15. Buying your first piece of Ikea furniture... and putting it together yourself! Three hours very well spent.

16. Going to your first wedding... and feeling SO grown up and also like you shouldn't really be there at the same time.

17. When your first friend has a baby... which means you get to buy loads of tiny, tiny clothes.

18. The steady decline of your hangovers... from barely touching the surface to some of the worst days of your life. Welcome to the real downside of adulthood, kids.

19. When something breaks and you fix it yourself... you're basically Bear Grylls.​

20. Hanging out with your family... because you want to, not because you have to. ​