B.E.D.A Day 25 - Dissatisfied Shopper

So today my mum took me and my brother to our local large shopping centre to get us some clothes for the summer and also to buy us an "Easter gift" as my mum calls it, which is essentially my mums way of saying she'll play for something for us if we ask her to. Now as we were trawling round the various shops, first of all through my personal favourites, Game and Waterstones, before moving onto areas that were of more interest to my brother than to me such as Next, Repulic and Superdry (or Superwet as I insisted on calling it :P) It was at this point that the fact that I really despise clothes shopping hit home to me, I had known it before of course, due to years of ingrained hatred from being pulled unwillingly around clothes shops by my mum when I was younger. However I was suprised to find how much I stil disliked it, i've grown to appreciate it in certain areas such as T-Shirts of course, but for the majority of clothing I still had little to no interest.

Now seeing as im now rapidly approaching the age where you are expected to step out of your parents shadow and make your mark on the world as they say, I was slightly alarmed at the amount of things I had not yet learnt to do that due to either being used to my parents doing it for me or because simply I was not aware of it until recently. Things like, to go back to the blogs original topic, buying clothes, eventually im going to end up growning out of my current clothing and will need to see about getting new things myself, now I know little of my bodys own measurements, so i don't know what waist width I am or what my chest size is and its things like this that I will probably need to know at some point in the future. Also is the idea of various taxes and payments that need to be made for various things in life, that ive only recently become aware of and realised that i have little to no finanacial planning skills, which makes dealing with tasks like that a little daunting.

Im sure it will end up fine in the end, but here at the tipping point into those things, its a very large element of unknowns and if there's one thing I hate, its unknowns....

Question: How did you/are you preparing for life beyond your parents?

DFTBA