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I''m having a little trouble adjusting to being by myself. I graduated college on Saturday, and moved into my new apartment in my new city on Monday. Dad was around for a few days, but he left yesterday and I''m having a rough time. So instead of moping around, I thought I''d come here and see what you lovely ladies like the best about being on your own so I can think of things to look forward to, rather than moping about not being in VA anymore.

So, everybody, what is/was the best part about living alone?

(I''m currently getting all my internet access from Panera, so please don''t be offended if I don''t answer back right away. I''m in the process of trying to get my internet set up.)
 
IT'S CLEAN AND ORGANIZED!

My former roommates, whether they be exes or sisters or girlfriends, could never keep up with my expectations of cleanliness.
I love living alone.
 
Hahahaha, oh Starset, that cracked me up.
 
Dancing around and acting crazy without giving a care in the world about what anyone thinks. Also, being able to walk around in undies was nice.
 
Oh let me count the ways.....

You can look like crap at any given moment and nobody can see you.
You can cut and paint your toe nails anywhere in the flat.
You can eat crazy things at crazy times and nobody says: ugh you don''t eat marmite do you?
You can reajust your knickers from your backside without having to hide what you are doing.
You can leave your dirty panties on the floor and not stuff them down the side of the laundry basket.
You do not have to fold your laundry if you do not want to.
If you read at night, having the light on does not bother anybody.
You do not have to share...ever.
Nobody changes the alarm time on your clock and forgets to tell you until you realise you are 3 hours late for work.
Nobody forgets to tell you that they used the last of the loo roll when you really needed to use the loo and you just sat down.
You can make a rude-ie in bed at night and not be embarrased.
Everything is where you left it.
You do not feel guilty about leaving an empty house alone while you go out shopping or to dinner.
Peace & Quiet! Bliss......
You do not have to watch crap on tv.
You can control the bills.
Nobody leaves the lights on when they are not supposed to!
The cat can only love you.
You can have a nap in the afternoon without anybody bugging you to do something.

Ah... I could go on and on.

Enjoy this time, it is a right of passage...
 
What Steel said. What I miss most was having it clean unless I messed it up. Which was never. Now....I love FF and all, but if he''d just clean up after himself...but academics are notorious for being messy, and he is no exception.
 
Date: 5/15/2008 5:52:55 PM
Author: Steel
Oh let me count the ways.....

You can look like crap at any given moment and nobody can see you.
You can cut and paint your toe nails anywhere in the flat.
You can eat crazy things at crazy times and nobody says: ugh you don''t eat marmite do you?
You can reajust your knickers from your backside without having to hide what you are doing.
You can leave your dirty panties on the floor and not stuff them down the side of the laundry basket.
You do not have to fold your laundry if you do not want to.
If you read at night, having the light on does not bother anybody.
You do not have to share...ever.
Nobody changes the alarm time on your clock and forgets to tell you until you realise you are 3 hours late for work.
Nobody forgets to tell you that they used the last of the loo roll when you really needed to use the loo and you just sat down.
You can make a rude-ie in bed at night and not be embarrased.
Everything is where you left it.
You do not feel guilty about leaving an empty house alone while you go out shopping or to dinner.
Peace & Quiet! Bliss......
You do not have to watch crap on tv.
You can control the bills.
Nobody leaves the lights on when they are not supposed to!
The cat can only love you.
You can have a nap in the afternoon without anybody bugging you to do something.

Ah... I could go on and on.

Enjoy this time, it is a right of passage...
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Plus...
No one else''s dirty laundry to do or pick up.
Only MY dirty dishes (not scattered throughout the house)
Peace and quiet
MY music
Matinee Movies alone (no distracting sounds from crunch munchers)
 
Clean apartment, all the privacy I could ever want/need, decorating the way I like...!

I lived without roommates for a little over a year before moving in with FI. As much as I love living with FI right now, living by myself was soooooo nice. Plus, it made me feel super-independent. I loved that feeling.
 
Oh goodness...where to start...

Ordering takeout and eating it while sitting on the floor in front of TV - Fridays and What Not To Wear were sacred (and actually, since DH works most Friday evenings, they still are!)

Taking FOREVER to get ready without ridicule

My old apt had a little balcony...I used to love to come home from work, drink a cocktail (and at the time I was a smoker so that was part of it, but I don''t recommend that part!) and read a book until it got dark

Going to bed whenever I want, waking up whenever I want without interruption.

Knowing that I''m the only person in my cat''s life - this is big. My cat still loves me the most, but I get really jealous sometimes when he decides to curl up with DH (luckily, DH''s cat is a complete attention wh*%& so there is always feline love).

OMG - here''s one I forgot - eating the whole pan of lemon squares or brownies or carton of hagendaas without anyone knowing but me. It''s not healthy, but man...I miss that. And knowing that the last piece of dessert will be there when I get home. The first time my husband ate the last piece, I nearly stopped talking to him, haha.

Being able to pull out every cute outfit in your closet and try it on even if the event you''re dressing for is weeks away.

Letting insane amounts of laundry build up, but it doesn''t matter, because you can hang your bras and jeans from any surface in your house.

Dishes piled in the sink are yours and seem less gross because they''re yours.

Honestly, what I miss the most is my Classic Winnie-the-Pooh bathroom, my lavender bedspread with 10 throw pillows, my floral curtains, my great-grandmother''s victorian chair and couch in the same room (now the couch is in our study, the chair was deemed OK for the living room)...I had the cutest, girlie, single-girl apartment.

The Christmas tree with only MY ornaments on it.

In the bathroom, your toothbrush is where it should be, everything is stocked, nothing has moved...

You can watch the Style Network so long that it repeats programming and nobody hounds you to change the channel (this is how I got work done in grad school).

You can wake up to NPR blaring - and it''s been blaring for about 45 mins but nobody tells you to turn it off.

ALL the mail is yours!! (Order bunches of catalogs - then you get MORE mail!)

You can re-arrange things in your place WHENEVER you want.

I can''t tell you how lucky you are to be where you are. I''m not going to lie - there are times where living alone can be lonely (the summer before grad school started was BRUTAL for me - I stayed at my alma mater for grad, so my friends had all graduated/moved away and I had yet to meet new people - there were many times I hated it). But the time you have for YOURSELF is so priceless - and being able to make every decision about how you live is a wonderful feeling. After I moved away from my first place and moved in with DH, I literally cried the first time I drove past the old apt. It was such a wonderful, growing-up experience that I''m so glad I had - and that I still miss sometimes now. :)
 
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that's pretty much it.

Other than that, living with FI hasn't been much different, though living with a roommate certainly was. He and I have pretty compatible schedules and habits. Good thing I can still sit down for an episode of Paradise Hotel 2 (um, YES) because I got him hooked, too!
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I *loved* living alone. You can be as noisy as you want. Watch whatever you want on TV (no one around to judge your choices). It is YOUR space. No sharing anything. Privacy.....it''s so nice....
 
I looooovvvvvved living alone, even in my first tiny 500 s.f. studio apartment... but it''s hard to pinpoint exactly why!

I think I just liked having my very own space in the world. Which meant decorating it exactly how I wanted, and keeping everything as neat (or as messy!) as I wanted. Mostly, I loved coming home at night and having it be MY space, MY stuff, MY time, to use as I pleased. I could put on the TV, order Indian for dinner, spend time online or reading, try on clothes for the next day, take a long bath, bake a tray of brownies... all without having to consider another person''s wants/needs.

I think living alone means you can be totally, simply, justifiably selfish... but it''s the good, healthy, nurturing kind of selfish! And as soon as you get to know your new city, and make the space your very own, you will love it... I''m sure.
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I do exactly what I want whenever I want.

I spend my money without a moment''s thought of anyone else.

My dog loves me unconditionally.

My decor does not have to include anyone else''s possessions.

I can live where I want, or move if I feel like it.

My career is entirely in my own control.

It''s all about meeeeeeee
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everything Steel said. I love living alone! I love knowing where my things are as no ones moved them, I love just
having to cook for myself, the peace and quiet, being able to lounge on the couch and watch tacky tv...I just love it.
 
Oh there are so many things....

1) Not having to ask anyone is it was OK to get 2 cats
2) TV, can watch any stupid mindless show when I want
3) Decorating....no compromise
4) Dinner time is whenever I want
5) Not having to clean up after anyone (except the cats and myself)
6) Not having to ask anyone if it is ok to throw a party
7) Not having anyone wake me up or me worring about waking anyone up if I come in late
8) Not having to share a small kitchen when cooking (cooking is rare for me but sometimes happens)
9) All the closet space is mine
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10) can talk on the phone as laud as I want and not worry about anyone elce hearing my conversation

I am sure I can think of more. But just to give you an idea
 
Paradise Hotel 2, Musey? I loved PH1 (I even watched the whole season AGAIN about a year ago when they showed it again on Fox Reality), but I haven't caught PH2.

FF makes fun of my TV watching and won't let me watch CNN anymore because he's sick of the politics. So watching whatever you want, whenever you want is HUGE.

ETA: eating whatever, whenever. Now I have to make enough food for 2, and worry about what he's going to eat too instead of just me...
 
Getting up and watching all-night trash TV because I can''t sleep, and not having to explain that to anyone.
 
Favorites:
* not having to make an official dinner at an official time
* going to bed when I want to w/out anyone fussing
* getting up on the weekend mornings whenever I want w/out anyone fussing
* not feeling guilty because I''d rather not be entertaining or hanging out with those who are fussing
* watching rated R chick flicks and not covering little kids ears every time someone says the "f" word

So many others. It''s easy to reminese about the old days. So long ago. . . .
 
Being able to pull out every cute outfit in your closet and try it on even if the event you''re dressing for is weeks away.
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mmm. . . this reminds me. I miss the days when I could take clothes out of my closet, organize and play with them and then put them back. Now, I mostly have to HIDE the ones I have so DH doesn''t realize how many items I have and how much I''ve spent on them!

You know, I live with three guys. It''s too much for one mere mortal woman. Also, my cat is overdemanding. What would be ideal it to buy a duplex and have my husband and kids in one unit and me and the cats in the other! The cats are about all that one can take.

The cats, chick flicks, free people outfits and a walk in closet. That is ALL a woman needs.
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walking around in my undies, spending the entire day in a towel, and peeing with the door open.

i''m trying to do these three things as much as possible before my FI becomes my DH and ruins my party.
 
Date: 5/15/2008 11:22:30 PM
Author: MC
Being able to pull out every cute outfit in your closet and try it on even if the event you''re dressing for is weeks away.
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mmm. . . this reminds me. I miss the days when I could take clothes out of my closet, organize and play with them and then put them back. Now, I mostly have to HIDE the ones I have so DH doesn''t realize how many items I have and how much I''ve spent on them!

You know, I live with three guys. It''s too much for one mere mortal woman. Also, my cat is overdemanding. What would be ideal it to buy a duplex and have my husband and kids in one unit and me and the cats in the other! The cats are about all that one can take.

The cats, chick flicks, free people outfits and a walk in closet. That is ALL a woman needs.
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That duplex idea is fabulous! (I need an extra walk in closet for my shoes...)
 
Date: 5/15/2008 11:33:09 PM
Author: FrekeChild

(I need an extra walk in closet for my shoes...)
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Me too. It wouldn''t be an issue if I could just have the walk in closet to myself. Why must my husband hang his clothes in there? Can''t he find somewhere else?
 
NO SNORING!!!!
 
No snoring, an empty sink and less laundry:)
 
Seriously, why is it that most homes aren''t built with 2 closets in the master bdrm? Our rental is perfection: a (small, pseudo) walk-in closet on one side and another small closet on the other side of the master. I have the big closet to myself and then my out-of-season clothes are in the back of DH''s closet (along with all of his clothes). When we were on the househunt earlier this year, almost NONE of the houses we looked at had two closets in any of the bedrooms! The only house that I really liked had a TINY bedroom next to the master that a very smart woman had converted into a walk-in.

When I married DH, my biggest complaint was that I had to give up my huge walk-in in my old apt. That thing was bliss - NONE of my clothes were ever in storage, and neither were my shoes. Everything was in plain view - I felt like Mariah Carey or Kimora Lee. Now I have clothes and shoes stashed all over our house, under the bed, in the basement...yuck. Again, another thing that I still miss.
 
Hi princesss. Congrats on graduating. What a cute idea to ask for everyone''s favorite things about living alone to help you get your mind off of being alone.
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You were in VA? Where are you now? (My parents retired in VA and I lived there for a while, too.)

I loved living alone. I loved being in control of everything! The t.v., the cleanliness (or messy-ness!) of the place. I loved being able to fall into bed straight after work if I was exhausted; then waking up at 9pm to eat dinner and watch t.v. or read. I loved having all the storage space in my tiny apt. just for ME.


I also like what LtlFirecracker said about not having to ask anyone if it was OK to get 2 cats.
 
Um. I also like being able to sing at the top of my lungs while I''m cooking and listening to my ipod without disturbing someone who is grading finals.
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(BTW I was cooking 2 kinds of lasagna for his department party that''s tomorrow night. At his request. Vegetarian and non vegetarian. And tomorrow I''m going to make cupcakes for it too, but mostly just because I want to make cupcakes.
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It''s peaceful and serene.
I am not accountable to anyone for anything.
I can go anywhere I want, do anything I want and buy anything I want without having to discuss it with somebody first.
 
Date: 5/15/2008 5:52:55 PM
Author: Steel
Oh let me count the ways.....

You can look like crap at any given moment and nobody can see you.
You can cut and paint your toe nails anywhere in the flat.
You can eat crazy things at crazy times and nobody says: ugh you don''t eat marmite do you?
You can reajust your knickers from your backside without having to hide what you are doing.
You can leave your dirty panties on the floor and not stuff them down the side of the laundry basket.
You do not have to fold your laundry if you do not want to.
If you read at night, having the light on does not bother anybody.
You do not have to share...ever.
Nobody changes the alarm time on your clock and forgets to tell you until you realise you are 3 hours late for work.
Nobody forgets to tell you that they used the last of the loo roll when you really needed to use the loo and you just sat down.
You can make a rude-ie in bed at night and not be embarrased.
Everything is where you left it.
You do not feel guilty about leaving an empty house alone while you go out shopping or to dinner.
Peace & Quiet! Bliss......
You do not have to watch crap on tv.
You can control the bills.
Nobody leaves the lights on when they are not supposed to!
The cat can only love you.
You can have a nap in the afternoon without anybody bugging you to do something.

Ah... I could go on and on.

Enjoy this time, it is a right of passage...
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LOVE IT!
 
My DH is out of town right now so I''m reliving my "alone days" and MAN do I miss it! Yeah, yeah, marriage is great... but you know what''s also great? Cooking dinner and having it last through the next 3 meals because there are actually leftovers! Sorting the laundry and knowing it will stay the way you stacked it! Sleeping in the middle of the bed! and letting the cats pile in too because DH isn''t there to kick them out! Watching chick flicks unapologetically! Not picking up my socks!

Of course, he left me with a bit of a quandry... having people over on Sunday so I have to clean the whole house by myself. It''s harder to enjoy my alone time when I''m folding his undies while watching chick flicks.
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