50 Painful But Accurate Memes That Practically Everyone Over 30 Years Old Can Easily Relate To
With so many ups and downs during this decade, there are also plenty of things to laugh about.
Turning 30 has a way of making even the funniest everyday moments feel a little too real. Bills, body aches, social plans, and the slow realization that staying in sounds better than going out all start to hit at once.
That is exactly why these memes from the Coping With Not Being 29 Instagram account land so well. They poke fun at the awkward, exhausting, and oddly comforting parts of life in your 30s, especially for millennials who are trying to act grown while still laughing at the chaos.
Scroll through for 50 painfully accurate jokes that make adult life feel a little less serious.
1. I don't need much to be happy
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4. Lol... Tattoos and kids are permanent
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5. Milk your goats
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6. Cool ID
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7. I'm laughing my a** off at this post
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8. The handsomest man in the world?
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9. What this person wants for their funeral...
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10. Lol... The irony of it all
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11. My future is very bright
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12. Choosing dogs over motherhood
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13. The irony
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14. Swooping in after the divorces
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15. Turning to look at something
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16. Kids can be a handful
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17. What's your sexual fantasy?
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18. A dry clean only sweater
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19. Beards are the male push-up bra
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20. How to tell you're an adult
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That “built different” energy is similar to the vintage grandparent photos where safety was basically optional.
21. A favorite thing about myself
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22. I got a free scarf
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23. How I paid off my tuition
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24. It's important to think about it
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25. I am into resting
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26. Entering your twenties versus leaving them
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27. I statistically avoided one divorce
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28. Spicing up comments with random quotation marks
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29. It's been more than two decades since Clueless premiered
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30. Guarding your heart
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31. It's heartbreaking, really
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32. True story
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33. Where is my headache from?
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34. Do you have baby fever?
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35. Count me in because you can never tell
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36. I've never been so turned on
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37. An ugly sweater competition
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38. I can so relate to this
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39. Oh well...
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40. What adulting is all about
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41. It is so nice
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42. You have to learn first
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43. Permanently unimpressed about a lot
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44. You've arrived when you're thrilled by this
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45. It's Gen Z you want
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46. A lot of respect
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47. You go really hard
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48. Doing my taxes
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49. I've been avoiding people ever since
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50. Did we actually stop with corn?
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Even though the 30s are a time to mature and become the adult you always aspired to be, they should not deprive you of the fun you had in your 20s. When one reaches the age of 30, there are obviously more opportunities in life.
We hope you had a good time with these memes and jokes. Let us know in the comments which ones resonated with you on a deeper level.
Before you say “I don’t have an awkward phase,” check out these school photos that prove everyone had an awkward picture-day moment.
