More adult stuff

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     - Change clothes somewhere between every day and three days.
     - Brush your teeth (mostly for health, although you can do things about bad breath).
     - Wash your clothes. You can wear them two or three times before you wash them, especially for pants, but it works better if you let them air out in between wearing them.
+    - Haircuts. You don't have to go to a barber, but there's some kind of level of neatness you need.
 - Go to the dentist and doctor at least once a year. You don't have to, but the less often you go, the worse problems can get and the more expensive/impossible they are to fix.
-- Clean the place you live. Apparently this is not as mandatory as I think, but I think it's pretty great. I mean like, pick up things and wash dishes, nothing fancy. Vaccuum, maybe. I mostly get other people to do anything past that for me.
+- Clean the place you live. Apparently this is not as mandatory as I think, but I think it's pretty great. I mean like, pick up things and wash dishes, nothing fancy. Vaccuum, maybe. I mostly get other people to do anything past that for me. If you don't clean for a long time, the most common problems are fungi, insects / bugs (ants and cockroaches), bad smells, and social costs ("ickiness").
 - Go shopping sometimes (once a week / month depending if you want fresh food). You have to get like, food and things (well, if you eat at restaurants or order delivery you can almost get by without). If you don't like going outside, or live somewhere where you need a car and don't have one, you can get most stuff delivered by mail. A lot of the stuff you buy is once-per-house stuff like owning a plate, and then sometimes you run out of toilet paper / food / sponge is gross / you want things.
 - Live somewhere. It's socially uncool to live with your parents. Pretty much anywhere else is fine, but most cost lots of money. For sucky reasons, it's actually illegal not to live in a house and live on the street / a car, so you can get into trouble. If you live with other people (parents especially), you might have to do other things to make them happy, so I advise not living with your parents or you'll end up grumpy and subservient all the time.
 - Eat. What you have to eat is complicated but if you eat the "wrong" things no one else will care, and your body provides pretty good feedback if you're malnourished somehow.
-- Get money somehow. This is needed to have a place to live, food, internet, etc. If you have more, you can do things like pay someone else to do things, or buy meals at restaurants, which can make stuff easier. I personally hate having a full-time job, so I try not to.
+- Get money somehow. This is needed to have a place to live, food, internet, etc. If you have more, you can do things like pay someone else to do things, or buy meals at restaurants, which can make stuff easier. This is basically the most important thing on this list, especially since I'm omitting a lot of things you "have to" do that actually just make life cheaper. It's a little unfair, but I want to write this based on my experience, and life is just a little easier as a programmer.
+- Get a bank account. It's not completely mandatory, but close to. A lot of jobs will pay you by direct deposit or check, which is easier with a bank account. You also get checks (which are useful to mail money to places) and a debit/credit card, which you can use to buy things online.
+- Keep important documents. These include licenses, insurance cards, medical records, bank cards, and tax records. They're variously inconvenient and expensive to replace, and not having them can make you liable for some things.
+- Have medical insurance. If you don't, you have to pay more taxes. I pay more taxes.
+- Register for the selective service if you're a male between the ages of 18-25.
 - Do taxes once a year. This really isn't that hard as people make it out to be, especially if you have a normal job. If you work on your own for lots of people, or move between states a lot, it's a little worse. It's about 15-30% of your income. If you can't pay you can usually can get it delayed. You also don't have to pay anything if you don't make much money, you just have to file paperwork.
 - If you want a car, it gets rid of a lot of problems (backup home, makes travel to/from work easier, etc).
     - Have a driver's license. This needs renewed every 5 years or so with your state, and requires taking a written test and a test where you have to drive.