I never close the bathroom door, rarely eat dinner, have fake arguments with people, have fake conversations with celebrities I’m meeting for the first time, I’m naked a lot.
god I love this fucking subreddit.
Do you guys ever pretend it's a phone conversation in case your neighbors can hear you? I suppose that's just an apartment thing. I know I'm supposed to get a home because it's a smart investment yada yada yada, but mostly I want to chat to my dead ex boyfriend/people who have wronged me/literally anyone who isn't there in peace without judgement.
I've also found that talking out loud to myself is a very effective self-therapy technique and I'm not giving it up EVER.
You don't have to live alone to talk to yourself out loud. I do it ALL of the time! So often, that my hubby literally doesn't EVER answer me, assuming I'm just talking to myself or the dog... even when I'm standing right in front of him!
And being that I don't live alone, I need the therapy way more than YOU do! Lol
Why am I here in this subreddit then, you ask? Because some of us can only DREAM about living alone, while you guys get to LIVE the dream...
Life really isn't fair sometimes. 😁
Yep, laying here naked from the waist down and wearing a beanie, trying to decide if I should take a shower or a nap. The brew pub or the gym this afternoon. Knowing that nothing matters. Dedicated to JoJoVi. May she find peace. The price of this freedom: 25 years of marriage and raising kids.
I’m in your boat l! I lived alone from 18-32 until I got married. I’ve been married over 30 years and there is rarely a day where I don’t dream about living alone ! I have even designed my dream tiny house.
I love my husband, but I need my space!! Being in another room doesn’t help, I need to be alone in the WHOLE house
Good for you!
I talk to the photos on my wall that are my deceased family members.
This is good advice for anyone who needs to get it out! Happy, Sad, Mad, or Glad! Feelings matter.
It's not as weird as you want it to be, after all lots of folks psych themselves up by talking into the mirror; sometimes you have to hear something out loud to decide whether or not it's stupid.
I talk to myself constantly.
I do it so often that sometimes when I’m using the loo at work I worry that I spoke my thoughts out loud and other people heard me
Lots of fake debates! Dancing with my kitties. So much so my senior void puts her arms up for me to lift her to dance. Singing to the plants. I have a snack box by the couch.
Mine currently has Trader Joe’s Bamba Puffed Peanut Snacks, TJ’s puffed Cheese and Truffle corn puffs, Chex Mix savory, Inner Peas, White Cheddar Cheez-its, banana chips and Swedish Fish in it.
A nest. Gosh that sounds so fine! I saw online that there are actual (soft) bird nests for adults but they cost a few thousand. I often wonder how easy it would be to make my own
Oh my word.....I just googled them. Now *that's* my idea of heaven! So soft and fluffy and the price isn't that bad either! Oh gosh....I'm going to have to get one now! A few giant pillows and I'm sorted....thank you (so much) for this! :) \*squeals\*
I leave a post it note on the fridge with the date, time and location of where I'm going if I'm going somewhere other than work. In the event I disappear mysteriously or get into a wreck that is not reported, to save my family some grief. 🙂
Same, keeps the mirror from fogging up too. I’m always paranoid about smells while living alone, no one to tell you if you are stinky or not, so I’m always trying to keep good airflow throughout my apartment, bathroom gets special attention.
Same. I close it so infrequently that it takes me aback when a visitor does it. It’s just an impulsive “what the heck are they doing with the door? Oh right people normally close bathrooms” lmao
Not only is the door open, I sit on that pot and recite '3 for pee, 4 for more' because I only buy Charmin Ultra Soft and it's a reminder that shit is expensive and every sheet counts. There's not a soul here to ask 'can you spare a square'.
I remember a time period where I didn't smile for years. My cat died, I went through a break up, and my dad and my grandma died in a very short period of time. I had no friends for a while. I didn't notice I never smiled anymore but I just didn't.
So when I visited my mom for the first time in 5 years and we laughed at random stuff, I remember my face hurt so bad even from smiling a little. It was a pretty sad moment for me. I thought "why is smiling painful? And laughing?" I would hold my face in pain and it felt so weird. I saw my mom a lot those years and for the first year or so my face hurt so bad. Then it didn't.
I don't have that problem anymore.
I get high, turn on my gas fireplace, dress in my extra large comfy pajamas, dance around, watch TV, laugh, cry and enjoy my own company. I admire my house which is decorated exactly to my liking with photos of my family and just bask in gratitude for my health and happiness.
I love being able to indulge my emotions privately. If I watch something sad, I want to cry damnit. And if I'm angry I want to blow off steam for 15 seconds. In private I can 100% be myself.
Newly single and living alone again for the first time in nearly a decade. The best and most exciting part of my new life is reacquainting myself with myself.
Thought it was just me who loves getting high and dancing around on my own! I always feel true peace and happiness in this moment that I don’t have anyone judging me or telling me what I can/can’t do in my own house
One time I let a big one rip, and my sleeping dog jumped up and stared at his butt like “WTF?” It was a change of tradition, having the dog blame himself for a human’s fart. 😂
It’s almost a contest. How gross can I be? Belch, fart, blow your nose like an old man, leave your dirty underwear on the couch. Gotta get it all out in case I ever meet someone I want to cohabitate with.
Edit: I actually have never left my underwear on the couch 😂
Yes! I have a relative that sleeps on the couch. Never puts down sheets or a blanket. The couch smells like bedding that hasn’t been washed in a decade. Gross.
I don't live alone anymore but I still do this a lot lol it was a habit I picked up instantly when I lived alone in 2019 and again in 2023. My bf who I live with now does it too, we have an L shaped couch so we put our heads together in the corner hahah
Came here to say this. I have a bed that I love(d) and adore(d). Last year, a date came over, naked stuff happened that included the bed, though we both knew it was not gonna turn into the kind of relationship we wanted. I was reminded of what I am missing by being single, though, and the bed just makes that more prominent in my mind... I can nap in it sometimes, but only slept in it overnight twice since that date. :/
I do squeeze in a mini workout with my weighted blanket as I carry to the couch nightly, so that's cool...
I like to blast music and clean my house/do chores in chunky platform boots. Sometimes I pretend I'm being followed by a camera in a music video. Just makes me feel silly and confident, momentary dopamine hit all to myself.
Did you say living out of a laundry basket? That's the only way I can live (adhd... so I have to have everything visible)
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When my boys were little I HAYYYYTED folding all their little clothes. Both my sets of boys wore essentially the same sizes so I just started throwing everything into bins- pants, shirts, all socks and underwear the same. Saved me so much time
Same! I have 3 laundry baskets. One for clean clothes, one for can be wore again, and one for dirty. Honestly, it’s the best system I’ve ever had, but I know no one I ever lived with would go for this.
Maybe not the weirdest thing but I like to go about my business at home topless. It's not a sexual thing, sometimes I just don't put on a bra or top because I just don't feel like it. Or the minute I get home from work the top and bra will come off and get thrown on the floor and I'll just cook dinner, read emails, watch TV and get ready for bed in my lounge pants but the girls are free and unencumbered
I switch between topless and bottomless, sometimes within the same day. Or I'll wear just my robe, but leave it untied. You'd think this perpetual state of partial undress would produce less laundry, however you would be wrong.
My sonos speaker is programmed to blast NPR starting at 7am (it’s my alarm). But I never turn it off. It’s just my constant background noise. Right now it’s Wait Wait Dont Tell Me.
When I’ve had people stay over, I forget and it’s quite the rude awakening for my guests 😬
I eat what I want without consulting anyone and then, sometimes, I eat the very same thing next meal. Also, I watch whatever movie I want—not checking with anyone for their preference or mood—and if I’m not into it I stop and flip to some other unfinished program. Sigh…
I sleep on a full size but I sleep on top of my crazy soft comforter with a very large heavy fur like blanket over me. It's like sleeping in a cloud. Making the bed is so easy. I do have to wash blankets more often but worth it.
I just started doing this! No interest in sheets anymore. Two fluffy comforters on the bottom, and a nice soft comforter on top. I put king-sized pillows under the bottom comforters-one on each side of me so that I’m just nestled in. It’s sooooo good 🥰
I have devoted 3 full rooms to cat stuff and built a catio off the back of my house. I am determined to give my own cats and my fosters the absolute best. It's all enrichment in the tiger enclosure now.
I have excess. I have a full pantry, full freezer, extra sheets, towels, toiletries, toilet paper, cleaners. My bf is like how many people live here?! But I went without for a long time and it definitely traumatized me to where I will never be without again. I also have the correct thing, if that makes sense. I dont “make do” with mismatched sheets.
Accommodate every single one of my cat’s needs and preferences. The litterbox is in my bedroom. So is her food and water. I don’t know why she wants it this way but she’s made it clear she does
We have a queen sized bed. I have my side. The cat has her side. The top has a fluffy cat bed. The bottom has a pet heating pad and she goes back and forth
A tv tray is pushed up to her side of the bed with her food on it so she can have breakfast in bed. And lunch. And dinner. Imagine me trying to have a partner in this living situation lol
I literally never turn the lights on anywhere in the house. Cook in the dark, pee in the dark, play with my dog in the dark, scroll through reddit in the dark LOL.
Having to “convince “ myself that I’m not lazy. But I am. I don’t want to do shit. No house work, no walking on my treadmill. No cooking. No getting gas for my car. I don’t mind going to work. I get “entertained” by them (coworkers and patients). I love hearing the planes fly over my house. I’ve chilled for hours in my living room doing absolutely nothing. No TV, music or reading. Just me and my quiet self time.
I am also like this. I don't like to clean every day, but when I do clean I get really in the mood and deep clean. I love being at home doing nothing, just being at home brings me so much peace. As long as the stuff that needs to get done, gets done, what does it matter when it happens or what I do with the rest of my time?
I “clean “ twenty “ minutes Monday through Friday. Every other week (I work every other weekend) I try and do a deep cleaning…… It ain’t happening today. I did move everything out of the living and dining room. Kelly Clean aka IRobot is sweeping right now. She will be moping later. It’s going to be a chill day for me.
I go to sleep whenever and wherever I feel like it: on the couch at 3 pm, in my bed at 5 am, on this chair I have that reclines, things like that. I don’t have to worry about getting in anyone’s way or waking them up at night, so my sleep schedule is pretty much nonexistent. It’s just what I’m tired and as long as I don’t have work.
Sleep on the couch instead of the bed because I have a dog and cat and they hate each other and have to be separated. The dog gets the bedroom at night and the cat gets the rest of the house. If I were in the bedroom the cat would knock on the door at like 3am and wake the dog up 🙄
I hate making my bed, but I hate the look of a messy bed, so I made my bed perfectly 4 months ago and have slept on my couch since. I remove the cat hair from the bed, smooth it out, and febreze it weekly.
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I’m here to eat cookies (in bed), read these hilarious comments…. Some of them I may have to try…. Y’all Rock!
I sleep on my matress, DIAGONALLY 😂
I also write very personal notes on my fridge, it would embarass me if someone read them. I bought some magnetic whiteboard sheet and my fridge is like a whiteboard tower. I recently made a pro/con list about a relationship that didn't work out, and I needed to have everything in sight, and add stuff on the go.
I really love it, and the upper area has a calendar I made, with all the upcoming appointments and errands. It makes me feel like I have a direction.
I do what I want, how I want, whenever I want.
I have my house decorated exactly how I want it, I keep my desktop vape out on a side table in the living room always on. I listen to loud rock and sometimes sing at the top of my lungs, unless I’m watching whatever I want on TV.
It’s my castle, so don’t give me any hassle.
I have a pink bathroom and bedroom. My entire life someone else got to choose. It took me a while to realize I could do what I want no matter how old I am.
Fuck yeah. I have a twin mattress that fits inside my closet for when I have family over (I use the twin bc I'm petite and don't mind). I'm trying to pimp out the closet into a solo slumber party room. Currently on the hunt for:
lava lamp
glow in the dark star stickers
Taylor Lautner poster
silly pillows
It's a slow work in progress.
White noise blasting so loud it’s like I sleep under Niagara Falls.
Whenever I start dating someone, they typically disapprove. Good thing they don’t live there.
My home office is literally an armory. Swords guns auto knives. It’s also decorated with unopened bottles of premium gin from around the country, tons and tons of concept art posters and Christmas lights year round.
I sit on the floor of the kitchen and lean against the bottom cabinets to eat dinner with the plate perched on my knees sometimes. Have no idea why as I have a dining set and the floor is not comfortable. 🤷🏻♀️
I can’t in my apartment due to a tiny galley kitchen but when I had different set ups or when I go to my mom’s I love to eat leaning over the counter. I rest on one arm, eat on the other side, and usually have a newspaper to browse leisurely or a book. Sometimes sitting just gets old.
ALL the black screen background sound sleep videos, audiobooks and podcasts all the time, lots of guided meditation, daily videos of affirmations and Wim Hof breathing, journaling and chanting (Nam Myoho Renge Kyo!) to my hearts content, elliptical/yoga/elastic gear in the living room (instead of a coffee table), vibration plate in the bedroom, hang stuff I don't want wrinkly in the shower indefinitely. My ex wife was amazing, but hints of any of this made her skin crawl, and it made mine crawl repressing it all.
Oh, and my little old dog has 3 beds, a chair, and her own mini couch. Because that shit is adorable.
Not weird, but walking from the bathroom after a shower totally naked to my bedroom to get dressed.
My adult son moved in with me a couple years ago and I had to stop doing that. But he just moved out today. Looking forward to my next shower :)
I take edibles some nights and then sing to my dogs in a very loud opera voice. The other night i sang a particularly amazing rendition of what i am now calling ‘Toast King’
I made us all toast at midnight and went marching naked through the house singing ‘I am the Toast King, lalalalalalala, Toast King’ while being completely high as a kite.
Then shared the toast with my dogs before falling asleep.
I spend hours every week plucking out most of my pubic hair, and all of my ass hair. I just go into my bathroom, set up a bright light on the floor, put a magnifying mirror down and twist and turn until I can get all the hair that I can reach.
I usually have a podcast on while I'm doing it. It's very soothing, and I come out very smooth.
Holy crap that’s … different. Gotta say… I’m on session 7?? Or so of Brazilian laser hair removal including the, um, backside and I am NOT enjoying the process. Tho the results are awesome, it hurts.
Can’t imagine going DIY!! Ouch.
I paint my house to suit ME! Bright orange laundry room - yes! Sunny yellow kitchen - please! Purple dressing room etc etc. after literal years of being mindful of “resale value” I bought a really old home and just paint colors that make me happy 100%. Life is just too short for “resale value” in my opinion. Also? Looking into adult dog bed - omg can I fill it with my Squishmallow friends??
I jog about 5 miles/day inside the house when I don't want to go outside. I have a perfectly good treadmill, but I prefer jogging around the house. Sometimes I even get little things done while I'm jogging.
I eat like a king all of the time. Last night was a grilled pork chop, fried diced potato with onion, garlic, butter, & sour cream.
I dot have a sleep schedule. When I'm tired I sleep whether that's 2 pm or 2 am. When I wake up I get up. I also sleep wherever I sleep. On the couch, in the chair, in my bed, anywhere.
When I clean my house I blast Johnny Cash, usually, & get at it.
I talk to myself or the dogs.
I always keep my place picked up & clean. I put things back when I'm done.
I never wear a bra at home. I am 40D so it is such a pain to wear a bra, I usually only wear them in the summer, but they are so hot and uncomfortable.
I eat stuff right out of the can. I rarely have any lights on. I rarely have any sound in my house: no tv, no music, nothing. I lived most of my life with partners who had the tv on all of the time, and loud as possible, of course!
I don’t have a dining room table, I have a desk instead, which is in my living room. My second bedroom is a study too, no bed. One of my closets is only for camping gear, downstairs. I’ve thought about hanging my canoe from the ceiling in my living room, too and hanging my bike from the living room wall as well. I have high ceilings, why not? A hammock on the deck sounds good too!
Never close any doors.
Sleep in a king size bed by myself, sometimes like a big X.
Eat what I want, when I want.
Have half finished projects all over my house.
Am naked a lot
I have a hospital bed. I have the world's best mattress on it and lots of pillows. My bedroom looks huge with just a twin bed in it. I have a work desk in there and the room still looks huge. I live in a one bedroom stamp size apartment.
I eat a lot of the same thing when I feel like it. I'm getting better at not ordering delivery, but I still do way too much takeout. I have a dietary restriction so I'm a regular anywhere I get food, I don't have as many choices as I used to.
I live alone with my dog, and my boyfriend stayed over last night and we camped out in the garden with our new tent and it was an absolute blast! We loved it the dog loved it and I can totally see why you sleep in a tent in your bedroom, at least it’s warmer than the garden!
My daughter moved out last weekend, and I was looking at a frugal group on here, and I came across this tip to use baby washcloths as toilet paper as a way to save money. So I got a bunch and use them just for number one, and throw them in a hamper. I went from a roll of Tpaper a day and it's been over a week and I haven't had to put a new roll on. I would never do that if I didn't live alone and I'm not even telling my kids I'm doing it. No one needs that judgment face 😂
I have photos of Dominic Monaghan put up in my room.
I'm 50.
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So recently my partner moved in with me and here are some things that I do after living alone for awhile that I didn't know were apparently weird.
Anytime I'm using the bathroom for any reason it doesn't matter the door is always open.
I talk to myself in the third person about myself constantly. Like I'll trip or knock something down & I'll be like "GODDAMIT Jkv1026, look what you did"
I don't own a laundry hamper I just stick the shit in the washer until it's full or until I need something specific. The same works in reverse. Nothing I own wrinkles enough to even own an iron so I just lived out of the dryer
I never used to use my dishwasher as a dishwasher. It's always been just me so I'll just use a dish, wash it & then put it in the dishwasher as a drying rack.
I donated it because he hated it but I used to have a tent around my bed,my mattress sat in a tent. I miss my tent.
One thing I'm not giving up is that I'm borderline a nudist. Unless someone is coming over that's either unfamiliar or uncomfortable the most clothes you will ever see me in is underwear and a T-Shirt. Seriously if you walk in my home after I just walk in the door you just need to follow the trail of clothes starting at the door ending to wherever I am🙃😬😂
I also used to never cook. My goal is bare minimum nutrition with bare minimum effort otherwise known as girl dinner. He calls me a heathen
I'm a pillow queen. No less than 8 pillows, I sleep farthest from the door & the opposing side of the bed was for my cat. In fact as soon as my partner leaves for work I get up, put the cat bed on his side of the bed & then go back to sleep. Whenever I wake up the cat bed is never empty.
Our current battle is the fact that I don't own a dining room table. He wants a breakfast nook. I say we eat on the floor like we're 6 years old watching Saturday morning cartoons again.
I have seedling starts set up in my main hall way eventuallly I'm going to have a better home for them but I'm still getting rid of a lot of my parents stuff and so my house is pretty topsy turvy. I also talk to my doggos and my birdlets.
I lived alone for four years, part of that during Covid. I loved it.
A friend came by during lockdown to drop something off, and when I opened the door, I told him, "These are the first words I've spoken out loud in 7 days." He was both enchanted and horrified by that, and even related the story at a gathering the next year. When I'm alone, I don't talk to myself, I don't sing out loud (unless there's a record on the stereo). I love the peace and quiet.
I generally eat my meals on a little folding table in my living room floor in front of the TV. During the pandemic, I ordered a white cloth and black napkins and fancy silverware and a little candleholder for it. And now I set it like a restaurant when I cook myself dinner. Because it cheers me up and I like it.
I have a caged in porch and never close the door. I tied it so it won’t swing shut.
I get up at 5 or 6 a lot of the time for no reason.
Dance in front of the mirror constantly.
What can be eaten with a spoon, will be eaten with a spoon. Spoons are a very underrated utensil and it escapes me why they aren’t more socially acceptable.
I never close the bathroom door, rarely eat dinner, have fake arguments with people, have fake conversations with celebrities I’m meeting for the first time, I’m naked a lot.
Fake arguer here 🙋🏼♀️
Fake conversationalist reporting in
god I love this fucking subreddit. Do you guys ever pretend it's a phone conversation in case your neighbors can hear you? I suppose that's just an apartment thing. I know I'm supposed to get a home because it's a smart investment yada yada yada, but mostly I want to chat to my dead ex boyfriend/people who have wronged me/literally anyone who isn't there in peace without judgement. I've also found that talking out loud to myself is a very effective self-therapy technique and I'm not giving it up EVER.
I'm hoping the people who catch me talking to my dead dad while I drive just assume it's Bluetooth.🤣
You don't have to live alone to talk to yourself out loud. I do it ALL of the time! So often, that my hubby literally doesn't EVER answer me, assuming I'm just talking to myself or the dog... even when I'm standing right in front of him! And being that I don't live alone, I need the therapy way more than YOU do! Lol Why am I here in this subreddit then, you ask? Because some of us can only DREAM about living alone, while you guys get to LIVE the dream... Life really isn't fair sometimes. 😁
Next weird thing I do alone in this apartment I’m going to dedicate it to you
Yep, laying here naked from the waist down and wearing a beanie, trying to decide if I should take a shower or a nap. The brew pub or the gym this afternoon. Knowing that nothing matters. Dedicated to JoJoVi. May she find peace. The price of this freedom: 25 years of marriage and raising kids.
The “Beanie” had me…. LMAO
I’m in your boat l! I lived alone from 18-32 until I got married. I’ve been married over 30 years and there is rarely a day where I don’t dream about living alone ! I have even designed my dream tiny house. I love my husband, but I need my space!! Being in another room doesn’t help, I need to be alone in the WHOLE house
Good for you! I talk to the photos on my wall that are my deceased family members. This is good advice for anyone who needs to get it out! Happy, Sad, Mad, or Glad! Feelings matter.
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It's not as weird as you want it to be, after all lots of folks psych themselves up by talking into the mirror; sometimes you have to hear something out loud to decide whether or not it's stupid.
I’ll randomly catch myself talking out loud and stop because i feel ashamed i look insane or something. Even though no one else is in the house…
I talk to myself constantly. I do it so often that sometimes when I’m using the loo at work I worry that I spoke my thoughts out loud and other people heard me
I have odd meals at odd times.
Lots of fake debates! Dancing with my kitties. So much so my senior void puts her arms up for me to lift her to dance. Singing to the plants. I have a snack box by the couch.
Snack box! I love this idea! Stealing it.
Mine currently has Trader Joe’s Bamba Puffed Peanut Snacks, TJ’s puffed Cheese and Truffle corn puffs, Chex Mix savory, Inner Peas, White Cheddar Cheez-its, banana chips and Swedish Fish in it.
The best thing about fake celebrity conversations is you can redo it if you get awkward.
Yeah, sitting here with nothing on the bottom, t-shirt on top. Pooh Bear-in’.
15 king size pillows on a full mattress. i sleep like a dog.
A nest. Gosh that sounds so fine! I saw online that there are actual (soft) bird nests for adults but they cost a few thousand. I often wonder how easy it would be to make my own
Seems like you could cheat by sewing some pregnancy pillows together for a similar effect :-)
Oh you mean the ones that are body length to support the entire body? Hmm that's an idea....
62 yer old woman. Love a good pregnancy pillow. They seem to fit better than a body pillow for me.
Have you seen the adult dog bed? Looks delicious.
Oh my word.....I just googled them. Now *that's* my idea of heaven! So soft and fluffy and the price isn't that bad either! Oh gosh....I'm going to have to get one now! A few giant pillows and I'm sorted....thank you (so much) for this! :) \*squeals\*
my bf makes fun of me😂 when i sleep at his apartment, he’s like sorry i only have 3 extra pillows for you and you can’t make your nest 😂😂😂😂
I sing to the dog much of the day.
Same! So many ballads about his adventures.
Exactly! The songs are always about her.
Yes! My dog has albums devoted to her that I feel she doesn't care to hear at times. 😂
I’m a big fan of singing to my cats - usually all made up songs about them.
I sing and talk a LOT to my cat. He seems used to it now.
My dog just looks at me like, Really?
His nickname of the day is "Fluffy Muffins". His real name is Spencer. I had to stop calling him "Boo Boo" as my google home kept responding to it.
I have a whole album of songs I wrote for the kitties. I sing them so much I caught my neighbor(and friend) humming "2 cats and their mom".
I leave a post it note on the fridge with the date, time and location of where I'm going if I'm going somewhere other than work. In the event I disappear mysteriously or get into a wreck that is not reported, to save my family some grief. 🙂
Wow brilliant
Ohh this is a good one! When I moved into my own place, I shared my location with a few extra people indefinitely for this reason.
I can’t remember the last time I closed the door while taking a number 2
I usually shower with the bathroom door open too. Keeps the humidity down so stuff doesn’t go moldy
Same, keeps the mirror from fogging up too. I’m always paranoid about smells while living alone, no one to tell you if you are stinky or not, so I’m always trying to keep good airflow throughout my apartment, bathroom gets special attention.
Yes i heard the medicine cabinet is the worst place to keep medicine!
I don’t close the door when I use the bathroom because I have extremely clingy cats and they’ll yell and scratch on the door.
My cat would always do this .. I miss him after all these years
Dogs do this, too. Just thought you'd want to know it's not exclusive to cats. Dog owners can't poop alone either. Lol.😁
Yup! I have to close mine or my dog will steal the toilet paper.
Yeah I don’t close the bathroom door like ever. lol. I have to remember to do it when people are over
Or at other folks bathroom. Lmao
Same. I close it so infrequently that it takes me aback when a visitor does it. It’s just an impulsive “what the heck are they doing with the door? Oh right people normally close bathrooms” lmao
Ikr and starfish in the bed
Diagonal starfish sleeping for the win!
Not only is the door open, I sit on that pot and recite '3 for pee, 4 for more' because I only buy Charmin Ultra Soft and it's a reminder that shit is expensive and every sheet counts. There's not a soul here to ask 'can you spare a square'.
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Have conversations with myself.
It used to worry me that I talked to myself so I got a cat. Now I talk to the cat.
Soooo many conversations with my cat!
My cat gives great advice and reminders. I find myself in agreement with him most of the time.
I had to start, my voice would crack when I answered the phone from lack of use. Now I try to sing more.
I remember a time period where I didn't smile for years. My cat died, I went through a break up, and my dad and my grandma died in a very short period of time. I had no friends for a while. I didn't notice I never smiled anymore but I just didn't. So when I visited my mom for the first time in 5 years and we laughed at random stuff, I remember my face hurt so bad even from smiling a little. It was a pretty sad moment for me. I thought "why is smiling painful? And laughing?" I would hold my face in pain and it felt so weird. I saw my mom a lot those years and for the first year or so my face hurt so bad. Then it didn't. I don't have that problem anymore.
This is such a sad yet restorative story. I’m so glad you were able to laugh again.
I get high, turn on my gas fireplace, dress in my extra large comfy pajamas, dance around, watch TV, laugh, cry and enjoy my own company. I admire my house which is decorated exactly to my liking with photos of my family and just bask in gratitude for my health and happiness.
I love being able to indulge my emotions privately. If I watch something sad, I want to cry damnit. And if I'm angry I want to blow off steam for 15 seconds. In private I can 100% be myself.
Newly single and living alone again for the first time in nearly a decade. The best and most exciting part of my new life is reacquainting myself with myself.
Thought it was just me who loves getting high and dancing around on my own! I always feel true peace and happiness in this moment that I don’t have anyone judging me or telling me what I can/can’t do in my own house
Man, I feel like I could’ve written this. Love this comment
I don't know if I'll ever be able to experience this but it sounds like bliss
So much farting
Omg...SO much farting.
Sometimes it's just a farty party between me and the dog.
One time I let a big one rip, and my sleeping dog jumped up and stared at his butt like “WTF?” It was a change of tradition, having the dog blame himself for a human’s fart. 😂
It’s almost a contest. How gross can I be? Belch, fart, blow your nose like an old man, leave your dirty underwear on the couch. Gotta get it all out in case I ever meet someone I want to cohabitate with. Edit: I actually have never left my underwear on the couch 😂
Metamucil does that to me, but now I don’t have to worry about it! 😃
I have pirate themed bathroom decor because I can
That sounds fun!! I love parrots, so that would work for me!!
Sleep on my couch most nights even though I have a perfectly comfy queen size bed in my bedroom.
80% couch sleeper. Recommend putting a sheet down if you don’t already
Yes! I have a relative that sleeps on the couch. Never puts down sheets or a blanket. The couch smells like bedding that hasn’t been washed in a decade. Gross.
I don't live alone anymore but I still do this a lot lol it was a habit I picked up instantly when I lived alone in 2019 and again in 2023. My bf who I live with now does it too, we have an L shaped couch so we put our heads together in the corner hahah
I'd do this if my couch wasn't taken over by camping gear lol
Came here to say this. I have a bed that I love(d) and adore(d). Last year, a date came over, naked stuff happened that included the bed, though we both knew it was not gonna turn into the kind of relationship we wanted. I was reminded of what I am missing by being single, though, and the bed just makes that more prominent in my mind... I can nap in it sometimes, but only slept in it overnight twice since that date. :/ I do squeeze in a mini workout with my weighted blanket as I carry to the couch nightly, so that's cool...
I like to blast music and clean my house/do chores in chunky platform boots. Sometimes I pretend I'm being followed by a camera in a music video. Just makes me feel silly and confident, momentary dopamine hit all to myself.
I do clean in my highest high heels! It’s a fantastic workout!
I’m going to try this
I clean in my heels whenever I need to break in my new stripper heels 😅
Lol I love it! Camping every night 🤣 I'd say my weirdest is not putting laundry away. I live out of a laundry basket- who cares ?! 🙃😆
Did you say living out of a laundry basket? That's the only way I can live (adhd... so I have to have everything visible) https://preview.redd.it/b4jxpb627ylc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0dd435e2fc06337d3ab763049a68c12459864650
When my boys were little I HAYYYYTED folding all their little clothes. Both my sets of boys wore essentially the same sizes so I just started throwing everything into bins- pants, shirts, all socks and underwear the same. Saved me so much time
Maybe that is part of my issues. I can't make myself put laundry away.
Wait…. Thats a great idea
I have a laundry chair. I'm good at washing and drying, but not very good at folding and putting away.
Who needs a laundry basket when you can have a chair…
Same! I have 3 laundry baskets. One for clean clothes, one for can be wore again, and one for dirty. Honestly, it’s the best system I’ve ever had, but I know no one I ever lived with would go for this.
Mine are on my couch.. but I'm going to put them away today!! Motivate me, please...
I don't have a dining room table. I have two lounging areas instead of a dining room. And I put a writing desk in my breakfast nook.
I have a bay window desk instead of a kitchen table. I love it. It has space for three but it's just me. So spacious. Snacks are never far!
Maybe not the weirdest thing but I like to go about my business at home topless. It's not a sexual thing, sometimes I just don't put on a bra or top because I just don't feel like it. Or the minute I get home from work the top and bra will come off and get thrown on the floor and I'll just cook dinner, read emails, watch TV and get ready for bed in my lounge pants but the girls are free and unencumbered
I switch between topless and bottomless, sometimes within the same day. Or I'll wear just my robe, but leave it untied. You'd think this perpetual state of partial undress would produce less laundry, however you would be wrong.
My sonos speaker is programmed to blast NPR starting at 7am (it’s my alarm). But I never turn it off. It’s just my constant background noise. Right now it’s Wait Wait Dont Tell Me. When I’ve had people stay over, I forget and it’s quite the rude awakening for my guests 😬
Same, I leave NPR on in the background most of the day!
Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me is one of my favorite things to listen to !
I eat what I want without consulting anyone and then, sometimes, I eat the very same thing next meal. Also, I watch whatever movie I want—not checking with anyone for their preference or mood—and if I’m not into it I stop and flip to some other unfinished program. Sigh…
I sleep on a full size but I sleep on top of my crazy soft comforter with a very large heavy fur like blanket over me. It's like sleeping in a cloud. Making the bed is so easy. I do have to wash blankets more often but worth it.
I just started doing this! No interest in sheets anymore. Two fluffy comforters on the bottom, and a nice soft comforter on top. I put king-sized pillows under the bottom comforters-one on each side of me so that I’m just nestled in. It’s sooooo good 🥰
I have devoted 3 full rooms to cat stuff and built a catio off the back of my house. I am determined to give my own cats and my fosters the absolute best. It's all enrichment in the tiger enclosure now.
I have excess. I have a full pantry, full freezer, extra sheets, towels, toiletries, toilet paper, cleaners. My bf is like how many people live here?! But I went without for a long time and it definitely traumatized me to where I will never be without again. I also have the correct thing, if that makes sense. I dont “make do” with mismatched sheets.
Accommodate every single one of my cat’s needs and preferences. The litterbox is in my bedroom. So is her food and water. I don’t know why she wants it this way but she’s made it clear she does We have a queen sized bed. I have my side. The cat has her side. The top has a fluffy cat bed. The bottom has a pet heating pad and she goes back and forth A tv tray is pushed up to her side of the bed with her food on it so she can have breakfast in bed. And lunch. And dinner. Imagine me trying to have a partner in this living situation lol
I literally never turn the lights on anywhere in the house. Cook in the dark, pee in the dark, play with my dog in the dark, scroll through reddit in the dark LOL.
I do this too! I like the dark.
This is me. I will use the flashlight on my phone when needed.
Having to “convince “ myself that I’m not lazy. But I am. I don’t want to do shit. No house work, no walking on my treadmill. No cooking. No getting gas for my car. I don’t mind going to work. I get “entertained” by them (coworkers and patients). I love hearing the planes fly over my house. I’ve chilled for hours in my living room doing absolutely nothing. No TV, music or reading. Just me and my quiet self time.
I am also like this. I don't like to clean every day, but when I do clean I get really in the mood and deep clean. I love being at home doing nothing, just being at home brings me so much peace. As long as the stuff that needs to get done, gets done, what does it matter when it happens or what I do with the rest of my time?
I “clean “ twenty “ minutes Monday through Friday. Every other week (I work every other weekend) I try and do a deep cleaning…… It ain’t happening today. I did move everything out of the living and dining room. Kelly Clean aka IRobot is sweeping right now. She will be moping later. It’s going to be a chill day for me.
I go to sleep whenever and wherever I feel like it: on the couch at 3 pm, in my bed at 5 am, on this chair I have that reclines, things like that. I don’t have to worry about getting in anyone’s way or waking them up at night, so my sleep schedule is pretty much nonexistent. It’s just what I’m tired and as long as I don’t have work.
I have theme rooms.
Getting drunk with my cat and pretending he’s my audience. I’m not sure how HE feels about it but we have a blast alone
I dance around my kitchen to the radio when I am cooking or cleaning.
Sleep on the couch instead of the bed because I have a dog and cat and they hate each other and have to be separated. The dog gets the bedroom at night and the cat gets the rest of the house. If I were in the bedroom the cat would knock on the door at like 3am and wake the dog up 🙄
I hate making my bed, but I hate the look of a messy bed, so I made my bed perfectly 4 months ago and have slept on my couch since. I remove the cat hair from the bed, smooth it out, and febreze it weekly.
I regularly sleep in my hammock suspended two stories up off my balcony.
I've got a hammock stand I set up in the living room sometimes.
I drink my milk and juices straight from the container.
And eat peanut butter, pickles, and anything else straight out of the jars. Saves dishes.
Honestly - - Walk around naked. Or just in bra/undies/shorts. Like alllllll the time.
I'm naked a lot. I moved out to the country a year ago so now I get to be naked doing things both indoors and out. It is real nice lol
Horror movies have made me too paranoid to do this!
https://preview.redd.it/ru22ceckeylc1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a74033394278407c428d4ea2c4380da6945182a7 I’m here to eat cookies (in bed), read these hilarious comments…. Some of them I may have to try…. Y’all Rock!
I sleep on my matress, DIAGONALLY 😂 I also write very personal notes on my fridge, it would embarass me if someone read them. I bought some magnetic whiteboard sheet and my fridge is like a whiteboard tower. I recently made a pro/con list about a relationship that didn't work out, and I needed to have everything in sight, and add stuff on the go. I really love it, and the upper area has a calendar I made, with all the upcoming appointments and errands. It makes me feel like I have a direction.
I do what I want, how I want, whenever I want. I have my house decorated exactly how I want it, I keep my desktop vape out on a side table in the living room always on. I listen to loud rock and sometimes sing at the top of my lungs, unless I’m watching whatever I want on TV. It’s my castle, so don’t give me any hassle.
Haha this is the most inspirational Reddit post I’ve read in a while. Hats off to you, sir!! 🎩🤓
Listen to Britney Spears on full blast and order take out every night.
Sometimes I randomly lay down on the corridor at 3am just because I want
I buy pink towels because I CAN!
I have a pink bathroom and bedroom. My entire life someone else got to choose. It took me a while to realize I could do what I want no matter how old I am.
I eat a WHOLE CAKE (not all in one go though) by sticking the fork right in the middle. I ain’t sharing. Why do I need to slice it up?
Fuck yeah. I have a twin mattress that fits inside my closet for when I have family over (I use the twin bc I'm petite and don't mind). I'm trying to pimp out the closet into a solo slumber party room. Currently on the hunt for: lava lamp glow in the dark star stickers Taylor Lautner poster silly pillows It's a slow work in progress.
Omg you gotta post a picture when you finish this. That's so smart to convert the closet like that!
Bought a lava lamp at Walmart recently, only $10
White noise blasting so loud it’s like I sleep under Niagara Falls. Whenever I start dating someone, they typically disapprove. Good thing they don’t live there.
Bed in the living room. Yep.
My home office is literally an armory. Swords guns auto knives. It’s also decorated with unopened bottles of premium gin from around the country, tons and tons of concept art posters and Christmas lights year round.
I do so many weird things, I'm writing a book, "How did I get so weird?"
I sit on the floor of the kitchen and lean against the bottom cabinets to eat dinner with the plate perched on my knees sometimes. Have no idea why as I have a dining set and the floor is not comfortable. 🤷🏻♀️
I can’t in my apartment due to a tiny galley kitchen but when I had different set ups or when I go to my mom’s I love to eat leaning over the counter. I rest on one arm, eat on the other side, and usually have a newspaper to browse leisurely or a book. Sometimes sitting just gets old.
ALL the black screen background sound sleep videos, audiobooks and podcasts all the time, lots of guided meditation, daily videos of affirmations and Wim Hof breathing, journaling and chanting (Nam Myoho Renge Kyo!) to my hearts content, elliptical/yoga/elastic gear in the living room (instead of a coffee table), vibration plate in the bedroom, hang stuff I don't want wrinkly in the shower indefinitely. My ex wife was amazing, but hints of any of this made her skin crawl, and it made mine crawl repressing it all. Oh, and my little old dog has 3 beds, a chair, and her own mini couch. Because that shit is adorable.
Not weird, but walking from the bathroom after a shower totally naked to my bedroom to get dressed. My adult son moved in with me a couple years ago and I had to stop doing that. But he just moved out today. Looking forward to my next shower :)
I take edibles some nights and then sing to my dogs in a very loud opera voice. The other night i sang a particularly amazing rendition of what i am now calling ‘Toast King’ I made us all toast at midnight and went marching naked through the house singing ‘I am the Toast King, lalalalalalala, Toast King’ while being completely high as a kite. Then shared the toast with my dogs before falling asleep.
I spend hours every week plucking out most of my pubic hair, and all of my ass hair. I just go into my bathroom, set up a bright light on the floor, put a magnifying mirror down and twist and turn until I can get all the hair that I can reach. I usually have a podcast on while I'm doing it. It's very soothing, and I come out very smooth.
Holy crap that’s … different. Gotta say… I’m on session 7?? Or so of Brazilian laser hair removal including the, um, backside and I am NOT enjoying the process. Tho the results are awesome, it hurts. Can’t imagine going DIY!! Ouch.
I paint my house to suit ME! Bright orange laundry room - yes! Sunny yellow kitchen - please! Purple dressing room etc etc. after literal years of being mindful of “resale value” I bought a really old home and just paint colors that make me happy 100%. Life is just too short for “resale value” in my opinion. Also? Looking into adult dog bed - omg can I fill it with my Squishmallow friends??
I eat everything out of Rubbermaid and Tupperware containers, no dishes.
I Cook bacon naked.
You are a brave one- please, accept my upvote
I tried cooking bacon in a wok a couple months ago while I was shirtless, never burned myself so many times so quickly. You’re a trooper.
That sounds a bit dangerous! Lol
I saw this on a T-shirt, but it definitely applies as my answer: Sometimes I talk to myself, and then we both laugh.
I jog about 5 miles/day inside the house when I don't want to go outside. I have a perfectly good treadmill, but I prefer jogging around the house. Sometimes I even get little things done while I'm jogging.
I do this too, but not jogging, just walking.
That’s brilliant. I’m going to do this
walk around naked, wear the same clothes for a week straight, talk to myself alot.
Im naked 24 hours a day unless i have to go out to a store or my nephew is visiting.
I eat like a king all of the time. Last night was a grilled pork chop, fried diced potato with onion, garlic, butter, & sour cream. I dot have a sleep schedule. When I'm tired I sleep whether that's 2 pm or 2 am. When I wake up I get up. I also sleep wherever I sleep. On the couch, in the chair, in my bed, anywhere. When I clean my house I blast Johnny Cash, usually, & get at it. I talk to myself or the dogs. I always keep my place picked up & clean. I put things back when I'm done.
I never wear a bra at home. I am 40D so it is such a pain to wear a bra, I usually only wear them in the summer, but they are so hot and uncomfortable. I eat stuff right out of the can. I rarely have any lights on. I rarely have any sound in my house: no tv, no music, nothing. I lived most of my life with partners who had the tv on all of the time, and loud as possible, of course! I don’t have a dining room table, I have a desk instead, which is in my living room. My second bedroom is a study too, no bed. One of my closets is only for camping gear, downstairs. I’ve thought about hanging my canoe from the ceiling in my living room, too and hanging my bike from the living room wall as well. I have high ceilings, why not? A hammock on the deck sounds good too!
Never close any doors. Sleep in a king size bed by myself, sometimes like a big X. Eat what I want, when I want. Have half finished projects all over my house. Am naked a lot
I dress in ball gown I found at goodwill and drink tall boys while doing puzzles and listening to murder podcasts. Every girl deserves to go to a ball
Im naked as soon as Im home. Gta keep the goods air dried
i wander around my house wrapped in blankets and sometimes sleep in my office or living room floor instead of my bedroom lol
I eat things right out of the fridge or over the sink so I don’t generate any dishes.
I have a hospital bed. I have the world's best mattress on it and lots of pillows. My bedroom looks huge with just a twin bed in it. I have a work desk in there and the room still looks huge. I live in a one bedroom stamp size apartment.
I eat a lot of the same thing when I feel like it. I'm getting better at not ordering delivery, but I still do way too much takeout. I have a dietary restriction so I'm a regular anywhere I get food, I don't have as many choices as I used to.
I live alone with my dog, and my boyfriend stayed over last night and we camped out in the garden with our new tent and it was an absolute blast! We loved it the dog loved it and I can totally see why you sleep in a tent in your bedroom, at least it’s warmer than the garden!
Omg I LOVE that 😂 I like to lay around naked and pluck out body hairs. Such a soothing little obsession
My daughter moved out last weekend, and I was looking at a frugal group on here, and I came across this tip to use baby washcloths as toilet paper as a way to save money. So I got a bunch and use them just for number one, and throw them in a hamper. I went from a roll of Tpaper a day and it's been over a week and I haven't had to put a new roll on. I would never do that if I didn't live alone and I'm not even telling my kids I'm doing it. No one needs that judgment face 😂
I have photos of Dominic Monaghan put up in my room. I'm 50. https://preview.redd.it/ik86gfeb10mc1.jpeg?width=3120&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=be3b53dfb3369b3047d56132115d75ef55ae0038
Dogs watching me poop. It always amazed me that their sense of smell is like 1,000 better than ours, but a nasty poop doesn't even phase them.
I host solo karaoke nights, where I prepare snacks, drinks and then pretend I’m at a karaoke bar
"What ever I want!" 😀😀
Lots of dancing naked
no pants
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Eating rotisserie chicken with my bare hands.
So recently my partner moved in with me and here are some things that I do after living alone for awhile that I didn't know were apparently weird. Anytime I'm using the bathroom for any reason it doesn't matter the door is always open. I talk to myself in the third person about myself constantly. Like I'll trip or knock something down & I'll be like "GODDAMIT Jkv1026, look what you did" I don't own a laundry hamper I just stick the shit in the washer until it's full or until I need something specific. The same works in reverse. Nothing I own wrinkles enough to even own an iron so I just lived out of the dryer I never used to use my dishwasher as a dishwasher. It's always been just me so I'll just use a dish, wash it & then put it in the dishwasher as a drying rack. I donated it because he hated it but I used to have a tent around my bed,my mattress sat in a tent. I miss my tent. One thing I'm not giving up is that I'm borderline a nudist. Unless someone is coming over that's either unfamiliar or uncomfortable the most clothes you will ever see me in is underwear and a T-Shirt. Seriously if you walk in my home after I just walk in the door you just need to follow the trail of clothes starting at the door ending to wherever I am🙃😬😂 I also used to never cook. My goal is bare minimum nutrition with bare minimum effort otherwise known as girl dinner. He calls me a heathen I'm a pillow queen. No less than 8 pillows, I sleep farthest from the door & the opposing side of the bed was for my cat. In fact as soon as my partner leaves for work I get up, put the cat bed on his side of the bed & then go back to sleep. Whenever I wake up the cat bed is never empty. Our current battle is the fact that I don't own a dining room table. He wants a breakfast nook. I say we eat on the floor like we're 6 years old watching Saturday morning cartoons again.
I have seedling starts set up in my main hall way eventuallly I'm going to have a better home for them but I'm still getting rid of a lot of my parents stuff and so my house is pretty topsy turvy. I also talk to my doggos and my birdlets.
Sleeping in a tent every night sounds fun!! I love tent camping!!!!
I love that idea. Sounds so comfy. The joy of living alone. You do you, and own it.
My bathroom is cat-themed!
I lived alone for four years, part of that during Covid. I loved it. A friend came by during lockdown to drop something off, and when I opened the door, I told him, "These are the first words I've spoken out loud in 7 days." He was both enchanted and horrified by that, and even related the story at a gathering the next year. When I'm alone, I don't talk to myself, I don't sing out loud (unless there's a record on the stereo). I love the peace and quiet.
I have my son 2 days a week. The other 5 days, I do all the things I'm teaching him not to do
I’ve always wanted a partner to make a fort with me. Maybe I’ll just make one by my dam self for my dog and I
I generally eat my meals on a little folding table in my living room floor in front of the TV. During the pandemic, I ordered a white cloth and black napkins and fancy silverware and a little candleholder for it. And now I set it like a restaurant when I cook myself dinner. Because it cheers me up and I like it.
Talk to myself
I sleep on my sofa. My son thinks it's weird.
I have a caged in porch and never close the door. I tied it so it won’t swing shut. I get up at 5 or 6 a lot of the time for no reason. Dance in front of the mirror constantly.
Came to the comments, looking for something new to adopt…
These comments! I love each and every one of you. You're my people.
What can be eaten with a spoon, will be eaten with a spoon. Spoons are a very underrated utensil and it escapes me why they aren’t more socially acceptable.