1. You Can Be As Clean (Or As Messy) As You Want
Most people have experienced living with someone who is either extremely tidy or untidy, often resulting in silent battles and feelings of resentment. Living alone means you can keep your home as clean or as messy as you like, without ever feeling guilty. If you want to leave a bowl of food out for a week, you can. If you want to wash your curtains every other day, you can. This is your home, and you get to decide how clean it is!
2. How Much Fun You Have Alone
Even though spending time with your friends is a lot of fun, sometimes spending time alone can be just as awesome. You can choose everything, from the television show, to the snacks and the drinks. Or you could read. Or you could bake – either way, the choice is yours!
3. Sometimes You Don’t Wake Up On Time, Because There Isn’t Anyone To Make You Get Up
When you live alone you have to rely on yourself completely, which is extra hard when it comes to getting out of bed. When you live with other people, they can often help to (forcefully) motivate you to get out of bed. Now you live alone? You could sleep for 30 hours without anyone worrying – except your boss.
4. Clothing Isn’t Essential
Once you are through the door, clothing becomes optional. Nudity is always more comfortable, and you can barely remember risky naked runs to the bathroom from back when you lived with other people. Avoid the windows and enjoy your freedom!
5. The Tired Feeling You Get When You Think About Cleaning
Most people understand the concept of tidying up, but you became a cleaning expert when you started living alone. Everything repeatedly needs cleaning, from the taps, to the oven, to your clothes – and you have to do it all yourself. However, you never have to clean up anyone else’s mess, for which you are eternally grateful.
6. All Of The Food In The Fridge Belongs To You
One of the main problems with sharing your home is having to also share your fridge and cupboard space. But if you live alone, all of the delicious food in the fridge belongs to you – and you no longer live with the fear that your housemates will eat some of it while you’re not looking. That bag of mozzarella? Safe from prying hands.
7. Being Ill Is Somehow Much Worse
Living alone has lots of benefits when you’re not sick, but it can be a lot harder when you’re ill. You have to make your own hot drinks and soup, and there isn’t anyone who you can vent to. Although it feels very lonely at the time, when you’re better you feel proud that you can look after yourself. If you’re feeling particularly sorry for yourself, try making yourself this quick and easy chicken soup.
8. If You Forget To Pay For The Internet, You Won’t Get The Internet
One of the best parts of living alone is not having to rely on anyone – until it comes to bills. Living alone means if you forget to pay the bills, things start getting cut off. Thankfully, the fear of not being able to shower means you actually become great at keeping track of payment deadlines.
9. Talking To Yourself Is Totally Normal
Before you lived alone you rarely spoke to yourself, but now it is a daily routine. You’re happy to talk to yourself, or a spider, or your washing machine – anyone who will listen. There is never any fighting, and you agree with everything you say. Ideal!
10. Sometimes, You Miss Your Housemates Or Families
Even though you love your independence and freedom, you often find yourself missing snuggling up on the sofa with your family. One part of you loves having control of the remote (and the interior design), and one part of you misses the good-natured playing with your family. Oh, the conflict!
11. You Can Do (Nearly) Anything
During the time people live alone they often learn lots of new household skills. During your time living alone you may have learned how to repair broken appliances, or how to decorate a room. Toilet won’t flush? You know how to deal with that. Lightbulb needs changing? You could do it in your sleep! Living alone often teaches you useful life skills, while making you more self-reliant.
12. If You Don’t Make Dinner, You Go Hungry
One of the more challenging parts of living alone is having to cook every meal for yourself. While this often starts with burnt food in the bin and a chocolate bar in your hand, it eventually progresses to you learning how to cook some tasty dishes. Now you can cook whatever you want for tea, and the feeling of independence is nearly as good as the food.
Can you think of anything else that you experienced while living alone? Comment with your ideas below!
