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One of the more terrifying life adventures that many postgrads experience right out of school is the dreaded “apartment for one.”
It is a whole different ballgame when you don’t have four or five roommates bothering you all the time. Sure, you get a lot more freedom in terms of messiness, but a lot more loneliness comes with it, too. So much loneliness, in fact, that it could drive even the most even-keeled individual to the brink of insanity.
But let’s not talk about the negatives right now — as I’m sure many of you currently live alone whether you want to or not. Let’s talk about the advantages of being in your own place. Here to help are dozens of internet strangers who shared their favorite things about living alone.
Any of these sound familiar?
From Reddit:
No need to think about anyone else for meals and mealtimes. If I feel like eating the same thing 3 days in a row I will. If I don’t feel hungry enough to have dinner until 10pm, or so hungry I want it at 2pm then that’s when I eat it.
Stouffer’s french bread pizza, again? You’re damn right.
No one to answer to. No one asking you when you’ll be home or blaming you for using up the last of the toilet paper or drinking the last of the milk. It is the most glorious freedom in the world.
It’s truly liberating.
You are entirely responsible for yourself and your environment.
That, and nakedness whenever.
I’m naked on the couch right now. I bet it would be better if I lived alone.
Masturbate whenever the mood strikes.
In the kitchen, in the living room, in the bathroom. Wherever!
With the volume on the porn at an audible level while not wearing headphones.
Surround-sound porn.
Peace and fucking quiet.
An underrated benefit.
You don’t have to share your pizza.
And no one will judge you for getting a large.
Having things left exactly where you leave them.
Not having to put on clothes if you forget your towel in the shower.
There is organization in disorganization.
Open door pooping, it’s a whole different experience.
It’s like the whole place is one elaborate bathroom.
Complete freedom to slide into a soul crushing depression where all you do is work, come home, lay in bed and masturbate/watch youtube.
The life!
No one to judge me for laziness
I love me for me.
“Hey lets stop playing this super fun video game and go for a 2 hour boring pointless walk that doesn’t even accomplish anything” said no one in my house ever.
Walks suck.
If you are in a great mood, you can stay in a great mood. There is no one there to bring you down.
Except for that inherent depression.
Not having to share a kitchen. I love to cook and so do my roommates but we don’t cook together because we don’t like the same food. So whenever dinner time comes up its a race to the kitchen an if your second, chances are they haven’t cleaned up yet.
I can’t relate to cooking because I only know how to make cheese quesadillas but this sure would be nice, I bet.
You don’t have people turning up the heat while you’re asleep. Go to bed nice and cozy under blankets, wake up early, feeling like crap, heat turned up and no one awake. (Why yes, this did happen last night.)
Control of the thermostat. Can’t put a price tag on that.
No compromising
It’s my way, all day.
loud sex
Yeah, or loud masturbating?
You can eat anything you want for any meal.
This can’t be emphasized enough.
Got your own advantages? Share them in the comments. You can read the rest of this thread HERE..
[via Reddit]
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Your place is as clean as you want it to be. You don’t have some degenerate making everything disgusting unless that person is you.
And on the other hand, if you want to leave your dress pants draped over a chair right inside your front door overnight no one is going to have a shit fit at you.
Open door pooping + TV you can see from the can = never miss a big play.
It seriously is the best.
Next level is to have mirrors set up accordingly. Sometimes a direct angle isn’t feasible. But with one well placed mirror, problem solved.
If I leave my medicine cabinet just slightly ajar, it eliminates the need to lean harshly to one side to watch football while pooping. It took me about 6 months to figure out, but I’ve been the happiest man in America since.
You encounter your greatest freedoms and your biggest demons
It’s really nice now to not have your roommates unemployed buddy hanging out all the time and eating all your food while your at work.
Seriously though guys, open door pooping changed my goddamn life. You simply haven’t lived until you have watched sports from the shitter
You can peacefully do copious amounts of drugs while scrolling through social media and seeing all your engaged and married friends and then coming to the pinnacle of thought where you realize that they’re actually more alone and dead on the inside than you are. And then you don’t have to worry about lifting or putting down the toilet seat.
You had me at ‘peacefully do copious amounts of drugs.’
It’s the best part. I really liked people for awhile, I have them the chance but now I’m starting to lean toward liking drugs more because drugs don’t ask where you’ve been. Instead, drugs are like “hey, come with us, we’re gonna go on an epic adventure and see cool shit and you don’t even have to go anywhere!”
I appreciate the no judgment zone when the occasional 5 (hopefully a 6.5 with beer goggles) stumbles out in the morning.
Man I miss living alone. Did it for a year and then moved in with the girlfriend. Not a day goes by where I don’t reminisce.
My roommate moved out and now I’m on the hook for all of the mortgage, HOAs and taxes of a 2 bedroom condo. PGP
Went to slap some of my organic PB in toast this morning to find roomie had eaten the entire tub… In the space of two weeks. Bring on the apartment for one