Adulting Hats

Adulting is a real word with a real pedigree. Oxford Languages shortlisted it for Word of the Year 2016, defining it as the practice of behaving like a responsible adult, especially accomplishing mundane but necessary tasks. A YPulse survey found 22 percent of millennials counted their first vacuum as a coming-of-age moment, and a calendar called I Adulted! Stickers for Grown-Ups, by Robb Pearlman, shipped 100 stickers to reward things like making the bed and eating a vegetable. The jokes are about the gap between the word and the feeling. Adulting Would Not Recommend tees sell at Walmart, Life Can't Adult Today is already on a trucker hat, and a widely shared tweet observes that being an adult means having a favorite stovetop burner that nobody ever mentions. These adulting hats are the umbrella identity for that whole feeling. ADULTING is the badge, and the sentence designs carry the confessions: adult by accident, the refund on adulthood, a plunger owned and used, and cake for dinner as the best perk. They are written in the wearer's own voice, as pride in the chores and a dry admission that nobody checked. Each design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one for the next errand run, or give one to the friend who just bought their first vacuum.