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What are the things no one tells you about living alone?
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Jay Bazzinotti
, Be Here Now
Answered February 29

If you don’t have a pet, it’s quite lonely. Even a cat sleeping under the bed is more
comforting than an empty house. It drags you down.

If you drop something on the ground, it will stay there for 30 years unless you pick it up and
put it away or throw it away.

The only person you have to satisfy is yourself. Everything you do is good enough, if it’s
good enough for you.

You get used to seeing the same things day in and day out and as a result you don’t see
things that are worn, dirty or out of date. Get a good friend to point these out to you. The
number one thing you will miss but that everyone
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Evie Miller
, School Student (2005-present)
Answered January 26

I moved out to London five months ago. Until then, I’d shared a bathroom and sometimes a
bedroom for 18 years. This is more of a what no one tells you about living alone for the first
time.

1. You can poop with the door open. You can literally put your laptop outside
the door, put on Netflix and watch Brooklyn 99 on the toilet. Heck, you
could seat there and watch an entire episode, and no-one will know about
it (unless you put it on Quora, obviously).
2. Being financially independent is…terrifying. For example, you can spend
£150 on a new tattoo and then eat powdered mac & cheese from
Poundland until
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Adrienne Sadiq
, CNA Med Tech at Erickson Living (2018-present)
Answered August 7, 2019

How truly liberating and amazing it is. This can be different for those who get lonely, I don’t.
It is truly surreal not having anyone to call your name, just being able to relax and do what
you want whenever you want. No one is pestering you. You only have you to cook for. It’s
great. You can have company when you want and not have any when you don’t want.
Meditation is a synch.
I absolutely love it. I won’t be able to live alone again for many many years as I have
children now and they are small. But believe me I can not wait until the day.

The children I don’t actually mind. They are fun to h

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Chris Jones
, studied Human Behavior at University of Toronto (1990)
Updated March 3

The following are things that people don’t tell you about living single.

 Money is tight, and all the rent, utilities, food, insurance, groceries and
taxes are paid by you. You can’t get fired, laid-off or have your hours cut.
  All the cooking, cleaning & laundry tasks are performed by you alone,
however, on the plus side, you are the only one making the mess.
 The TV remote belongs to you and you can watch whatever you want.
 The thermostat belongs to you and no-one is going to adjust the heat
when they get home.
 The bed belongs to you and you can sleep in the middle or on the side,
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Lynne Joyce
, Retired Teacher and Councillor
Answered July 28, 2019

Why would anyone tell you anything? Nobody did when I was forced to live alone, but then
again I didn’t know anyone who lived alone.

There are things about living alone that came as a surprise to me and shall list them here.

I was shocked at how expensive living alone is! Having nobody to do the tasks that my late
husband used to do and that I can’t do means that I have to pay people to do them for me.
I don’t have any family so I can’t get help there. I just have to pay up.

Weekends, public holiday times and traditionally family times are especially tough when you
live alone especially when you 
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Paul Baines
, lost my wife to cancer
Answered October 6, 2019

Here are some things I have noticed from the perspective of living alone after becoming an
empty-nester followed not long after by the death of my wife:

- You get used to your own company

After almost thirty hectic years of family life I now only have myself to think about. At first it
was bewildering and a little scary. Of late I am starting to get used to my own routine--and
even beginning to enjoy it a little. There are times (especially on returning to an empty
house) when the loneliness hits me in the chest, but this is happening less and less.

- You become a little selfish

When the house was

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Robert Van Nest
, B.S. Industrial Arts Education & Art, Florida Southern Collge (1961)
Answered October 15, 2019

I am 81 and I have been living alone since spring of 2014 in August my wife of 35 years got
a divorce because I asked her to we put the house in reverse mortgage in order to get the
house committee rather than her and so that the my all the money that we got from the
reverse mortgage was used to buy her out I got the house and my big General shop and
then three years ago I build another shop strictly for woodworking because that's how I
make money on the side I repair furniture refinishing design anything that somebody might
want build it and that's why I need the shops plus I do my own Remode
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Dania Hakim
, Food Photographer
Answered October 7, 2019

Living alone increases your productivity. If you work from home, have a side hustle, or have
any kind of hobby then you’re gonna be a lot more productive living by yourself. For me,
my productivity almost tripled after living alone.

The amount of time wasted working around the house is going to be cut significantly when
you live alone. I did my laundry in two loads once every two weeks, and on most days I had
only one cup and one plate in the sink so doing the dishes was never a burden.

Anytime can be a good time for a nap. I napped in the morning, at noon, and in the
evenings sometimes just bec
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Suzanne Slavich
, studied Social Behavioral Sciences & Psychology at Portland Community College (1983)
Answered January 21 · Upvoted by 
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, Been alive for 40+ years

The things that no one tells you about living alone are huge. For starters, when adults
between the ages of 40–60 live alone, they are regarded as social freaks. Because, you know,
it’s abnormal for healthy adults to want to live alone. Some of us live alone because we lost
a significant other and either can’t or won’t move on. Others, like myself, had to go through
a lot of self inflicted torment early on in adult life. I didn’t want to have a normal life, and let
me tell you, I didn’t. My parents were unfortunately not good role models for marriage, or
divorce, but that’s another story. Cons
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