13 Tiny Victories That Make Adulting Worth It

Adulting can be a constant onslaught of clusterfuckery and chaos. Your appliances all crap-out at the same time, you run out of money before you run out of month, you threw your back out because you sneezed, and if you do your taxes wrong you could be sent to prison.

Adulting is hard.

We take time out to celebrate big accomplishments and wins, like having a child, buying a home, or surviving another circle around the sun. But there's a lot of stress-inducing shenanigannery in between those celebrations.

So we need to celebrate the micro wins.

Celebrating the small wins of adulthood is how we cope. It also keeps us from doing something crazy, like taking a romantic bath with a toaster, or setting up a catapult to try to shoot our boss to the stratosphere.

To help you celebrate the small wins, here are some micro wins that can put a smile on our faces and a little pep in our humdrum steps:

1. Groceries in a Single, Superheroic Trip

For the stubborn amongst us, groceries must be carried into the house in a single trip if it's humanly possible to do so. And if it isn't, we'll try anyway. Yes, there may be a baguette stuck down our pants, and the ice cream is nestled into our hoodie's hood, but we'll Tetris our groceries onto our bodies like marines to make it work.

We'll have grocery-bag indents in our fingers by the time we're done, and we may have partially dislocated a shoulder -- but it's all worth it for that superheroic single trip.

Will the chipped tooth bite you in the ass financially because you tried to carry that last bag with your teeth? Yes, but a win is a win.

2. Beating the Microwave

There's a sweet feeling of winning in an epic battle of food-heater-upper when you can catch it on the last second of microwaveitude, right before it beeps.

Of course, a game of beating-the-beeper can only be celebrated when you weren't standing in front of it for the last 30 seconds...