I remember back in the day, as a newly minted adult asking my mom for advice on doing my taxes. She said, well, you'll get a bunch of things that say tax information, and just use those. At the time this advice seemed, well, lacking.
But, as I was trying to solve a missing document housed online, as an experienced tax filing person, I mostly kinda look for all the forms that arrive that say tax information.
So, thanks, Mom.
Of course many of the things and trappings of adulthood are bureaucratic and sometimes byzantine, as well as shrouded in secrecy.
I never had to take a personal finance class in school, but a friend of mine did and she said learning things like budgeting, and just getting used to terms and processes was helpful.
My parents were firmly of the we are adults and some of the things we do are not your business camp, and so some things, like figuring out how to turn on or off utilities, or file taxes seemed like mysterious processes that I was on my own to figure out.
Some days it feels like adulthood is the long process of figuring out which of the things your family did were normal, and which wasn't. And deciding which were weird for good reasons, and which weren't.
