18 Things Thirtysomethings Won't Miss About Their Twenties

    Raising both hands in celebration.

    1. Opening your refrigerator to a limited dinner selection.

    2. Realizing all your furniture you either had to build yourself…

    3. ...or reluctantly inherited.

    4. Having this for more meals than you'd care to admit.

    5. Waiting in line for things you knew deep-down was not worth the wait.

    6. Obsessively scheduling your weekends around apartment hunting.

    7. Having friends over to break-in your new ~grown-up~ place.

    8. Solely communicating with your roommates through passive aggressive notes.

    9. Actually believing that your roommates might one day clean up after themselves.

    10. Spending countless hours trying to land your first job interview.

    11. Shopping for appropriate, good-looking interview outfits on a Forever 21 budget.

    12. Attempting to make your resume look more accomplished than it really was.

    13. Budgeting for a wedding season that felt like it had no end.

    14. Shopping at stores that looked more like ransacked garage sales.

    15. Facing sticker shock the moment you went off your parents' insurance.

    16. Seeing one of these at every dinner party you went to.

    17. Elbowing your way to the front of the hottest new bar in town.

    18. And, finally, wondering what life would be like after 30.