Favorite Single/Living Alone behavior
 

I have to share the best thing about living alone: the dishes from last nights dinner are still in my sink. All day long, I walked by, looked at them, and kept on going. I'll probably feel like doing them tomorrow. I was talking to my friend and we decided that it's one of the great thing sabout living alone. If I lived with someone else, no way would I do it.
My other favorite things about living alone:

-I get all the hot water
-I can do pedicures in the living room
-i can put on my Britney CD, turn it up, and dance around:D

It's great! I don't know what I'm going to do when Mr. ChiOJenn and I move in together...

I still live at home (i'm 17) but i can imagine that having your own bathroom is a major plus. My step brother washes his face every morning and when he comes out of there, the WHOLE sink counter is wet....we're talkin a 5 ft long 1.4 feet wide counter. I don't know how he does it. And it also seems like nobody but me knows how to take an empty toilet paper roll off of the dispenser thingee and put a new one on. I guess you still have to do this if you're alone, but it wouldn't bug me so much if there weren't other people around for me to get frustrated with.

Being up in the middle of the night (3 am) and having the TV blaring-and there is no one to complain about it b/c it is just me. This is my social time-all of my friends are up at this time and if I lived with someone else I just don't think they would understand (unless they had the same night schedule).

I can relate!!
 

I finally closed on my house loan last week, and moved in. I went from living in a 50 person fraternity house/my parents house with my sister at home part time, to having a 2 bedroom house to myself. the best part is being able to leave stuff lying around, whether it's dirty dishes, dirty clothes or whatever. that's not to say my house is a pit, but i can take my socks off and leave them on the floor for a day or so, and there's no one to gripe at me!

Well I'm not single anymore but here is what I miss...

-The days of being able to come and go without having to leave notes.
-Having a "me" day when I get up in the morning and do everything from coloring my hair all the way down to giving myself a pedicure.
-Staying up all night and sleeping during the day.

ok people!
 

Ok friends. You know you do it and I'm shocked someone hasn't said it already! The best thing about living alone is the freedom to romp around your apartment/house butt naked and know that a roommate isn't gonna walk in with three friends! No need to put on a bathrobe to get the jeans out of the dryer, or even to cook dinner. The whole place is YOURS!

Tara

Re: ok people!
 

THANK YOU! I am amazed no one else said it. Walking around your own crib butt booty nekkid is the bestest!

Re: ok people!
 

I still get to do that :D

The food boss...the food
 

My nice roommate just recently moved out and my evil one went home for the week (thank GOD!) so I am alone for right now. It gets lonely but it is really nice. I don't hear anyone elses noise. Just the other day, I was in the shower and realized that I had left the new bubble bath I bought in my room. I didn't even need to put a towel on to go get it! :D

Haha. The naked thing is quite nice. I have to admit that when my roomate went home on weekends, I would do this all the time. Or if you have a pool to yourself, swiming sans restrictive suit is marvelous.

Oh... or bringing friends home after parties or bars and not worrying if your roommate will wake up as you search for the baking sheet to make a pizza at 3AM. Or in my case waking up the roommate (and anyone within a 5 mile radius) by means of a blaring fire alarm with your attempts at making a garden burger and fries still INCREDIBLY inebriated in the wee hours of the night. BAD IDEA. Smoke filled the kitchen as I remained completely oblivious watching TV in the other room. Repeat...BAD IDEA.

I did almost the exact same thing! I came home from partying and decided to make scrambled eggs for some reason, and something slipped into the grill part and caught on fire! My roomies got up and smelled smoke and I told them what happened. Needless to say, I was banned from the kitchen forever. (But then there was the time I tried to make Easy Mac while I was inebriated and forgot to put water in the bowl. More smoke).

The last few days before summer I had the apartment all to myself, so I got to have all my friends over for loud drinking games and getting ready to go out and then everyone crashing at my place. It was so great.

We really are sisters, eh? :rolleyes: ;) Just be glad we weren't living in a chapter house at the time. Haha.That would be not one or two but 40 or 50 girls not so ecstatic with our late night Julia Child ventures!

PPLM,
pbpck

The only time I lived alone was in the dorms, but since I'm not a fan of clothing I definitely took advantage of the naked thing then (don't get me wrong, I wear clothes, I just think it's more comfortable not to wear them). I can imagine that one advantage to living alone would be that I could get ready at 7:00 AM and not have a roomate who is sleeping in the living room complain about the noise ;) Another advantage would be that I could go on a cleaning spree anytime I wanted to and not have to worry about moving anyone else's stuff (i don't like clutter in the living room) and that everything in the kitchen would be just as I left it and my dishes would all be washed correctly, by me of course, but then there would be nobody else using them!

Emily

LOL. That's probably why the kitchen in my chapter's house is ALWAYS locked. It's to protect us from ourselves.

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