I can still freely do most of these. This post made me appreciate my girlfriend.
Exactly. Now they should do all the positives of being ina relationship and add it to that list.
I can’t lie, being accountable to nobody is pretty damn good. Like any action I take I don’t need to consider someone else’s feelings.
Or maybe just let people who choose to live alone have their thing without making it about you and your different choices?
We’re discussing “highly underrated advantages” not actually being unique to people who live alone.
So yeah I can let them think only single people have those freedoms if you like. I’m responding to someone who is making the same point as me.
Meh. I live alone and can tell you from a biological standpoint it’s not healthy. People have to be around others because we are hardwired for it. Loneliness is more destructive than smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, and that’s a hardwired consequence you can’t get around with your worldview and moral outlook. Those who live alone live shorter lives on average.
Yup, people live alone and think it’s fine but they don’t realize that it’s making their mental health sooooo much worse than i could be if they had people around them.
My ideal is to live in a dorm-style area, where you have a minimal apartment to be alone in and then most other things are communal so it’s easy to balance the need for privacy with the need for human contact.
Who said they weren’t in a relationship? You do understand that people can be in a relationship and live alone?
I meant living in the same house as your SO. I think people got what I meant.
I did most of these when I lived in a student dorm lol
Right? The only one that doesn’t really apply is cooking for 1, but I like cooking and cooking for 2 is often the same amount of effort.
the horror of putting twice as much spaghetti in the pot
The real horror is that the extra portion ends up on my plate and I still somehow manage to finish all of it!
Aw, that’s sweet :)
Wait, but cooking for one sucks. Cooking for 10 sucks harder, but cooking for 2-4 is better than for 1 imo, unless you want to eat the same dinner a few nights in a row
I might be biased because I was raised in an extended family and cook for a living, but I find 8-16 servings to be the ideal amount of cooking. You’re already doing the prep, so utilizing the equipment doesn’t require extra cleaning or extra cooking time, and if there’s fewer mouths than servings, it reduces future cooking needs.
But then there’s the dreaded wasting of food when it goes bad…
Modern refrigerators and freezers solve that problem.
Freeze what you won’t eat that week, the rest goes in the fridge.
Now you’ve covered some far future meals too and you’re not gonna get bored eating the same thing for 10 meals straight
I usually cook enough to have 2-3 dinners out of it and then “leapfrog” throughout the week so ill have dinner 1, dinner 2, dinner 1 again, and so on. Works pretty well and I don’t have to do as much dishes.
This is what I do, sometimes I’ll make 4 portions out of 1 dinner when it’s something like curry and store 3 in the freezer.
I currently have 8 meals ready to go that I cooked myself, I can go a whole week without cooking, it’s so much easier cooking for 1.
Nah, I want to cook for just me. Adding in even 1 other person means I no longer want to cook.
That is truly wild to me. I’m the exact opposite. If I’m the only one, I have no motivation to cook - I’ll just order food or graze until I’m full. If there are other people I’m suddenly very interested in making dinner. But perhaps that’s a result of me living alone
It’s one of the reasons I enjoy living alone. I can eat what I want, when I want, and don’t need to consider anyone else’s preferences.
life hack: do more exercise so you can eat larger portions, then you can get the best of both worlds while also being swole.
I’m a big fan of meal prep. With a freezer you can freeze the extra portions and then thaw things overnight from your built stash. Without I used to just eat the same several days. I don’t mind and it was just me :)
Cooking for one is kind of a pain. You still make more or less the same amount of washing up in terms of cooking bits (not plates and cutlery obviously), and you have to use small portions that leave lots leftover. You’re stuck choosing between making a large amount of one thing and eating only that for the next few days, or having lots of little bits in your fridge and struggling to use it all before it goes off.
That’s why I cook half for me and half for the freezer. Modern problems with modern solutions
Every time I cook I make 2 or 4 portions, then put the rest in the fridge or freezer.
If I cook 3 days in a row, I can then go the rest of the week without cooking. It’s great.
And always eating frozen food? No thanks. Then it’s better to do some one pan dish.
i don’t find this to be the case at all, sure if you for some inexplicable reason insist on cooking the same way as you would for 4 people i guess that would happen but the solution is to just… not do that?
Or do you just… consider 2 pans to be a lot of washing up?
If i’m home alone i boil those italian pillow things with cheese and tomato in then, throw in some pesto and eat straight from the pot i used to heat it up.
Only need to clean the pot and a fork.
When the wife cooks…my god, even when she’s home alone. She always manages to use every single plate, bowl, pots and silverware we own and leaves it.
I’ve refused to buy more silverware etc because i know for a fact she is going to use that too and stack it on top of all the other dirty dishes.
So you don’t clean after she makes you dinner?
I actually don’t most of the time, but i’m not going to explain our dynamic to some weirdo on the web just to protect myself against something that has less than zero consequences in my life.
Can you help me understand what less than zero consequences looks like, in terms of your life?
Being able to install OpenWRT on a router without needing to explain “why Netflix is not working”
I’m here and trying to explain why my PiHole is blocking the first Google search advertisment links…
Had the exact same conversation with my wife about this. I ended up manually setting the DNS for my devices instead of setting it in the router config 😮💨
Setup Whoogle in docker. Default theme looks very similar to google. Redirect DNS/DNS Rewrite in PiHole.
Redirect DNS/DNS Rewrite in PiHole.
Does this even work for Google? They enforce TLS, and it’s not possible for you to get a valid TLS certificate for Google.com unless you install your own root certificate on all devices.
I thought you could just do a redirect rewrite. But I just tested with AdGuard Home and it doesn’t work. My mistake. I don’t have people I’m trying change their habits. I guess just change their default search to Whoogle then would be easiest!
Sounds interesting. I’ll look that up, thanks!
Yes this and home automation with your own undocumented logic.
Say what? Netflix doesn’t work with OpenWRT?
No but the few hours I would set it up Netflix would not work. Btw Netflix is cancer. Use it only to screencast videos and share with otherrrr comrrrrads ;D
Lolol my coworker and I just went through this. He had to wait until everyone was offline. I could do it at my leisure.
I feel like anyone in a good relationship can do most/all of these.
Yeah this was probably written by someone who’s not in a good relationship.
But having two naked people walking around is better.
#11: No one asking dumb questions like “Why is the bathroom looked from the outside?” or “Why are you painting the floor black AGAIN?” or “Where is that irony smell coming from?”
Seriously, ever since my old roommate moved to Paraguay without telling his family or contacting any authorities and leaving all of his stuff behind, my appartement has been so much nicer
Had me in the second half!
I have always called this the turn the key experience.
When you get home and turn the key in the front door, whatever is on the other side, good or bad, is all yours.
Left the place in perfect order? That is what you return to.
Food in the fridge? Yep, still there.
The place is a mess, at least it is your mess.
Increased risk of depression and lack of socialization hindering your mental state to the extreme
No need to live with someone to socialize with people.
Win win
Not sure living alone feels better for my mental state
“Leftover alcohol”!?!?
Do you finish the whole bottle every time you open one? I buy big bottles so I can make lots af drinks. Over the curse of months.
I also use the same bottles over a period of time but I don’t think about it like I’m drinking leftovers most of the time. You might think I do but I just consider them pre-opened bottles or not even that. They’re just bottles, in very similar state to when they were opened. I’m not thinking about it like oh, this is the leftover from when I bought and opened this bottle.
That’s a Freudian slip right there. You doing okay?
it’s just the classic alcoholics joking about being alcoholic because they think it makes them funny and relatable rather than sad
Lolwut
ITT some people who are so uncomfortable by the mere thought of living alone that they can’t help but jump up in defence of relationships on a post that never even mentions them. 😂
Not everything is always aimed at you, and if something isn’t, it’s ok to move on without making it about you.
Reasons why the head side of a coin is best.
Also no one ever asked you to think about the tails side of the coin.
Except this was created as validation for living alone. The whole thing is rather sad really, considering that this was written by someone to justify why they’re living alone.
Lol, project much?
A list of things people enjoy about living alone can only be “sad” and “justification” to someone who, as I said above, is so uncomfortable by even just the thought of not only existing, but enjoying being alone, that your first and only response is a knee jerk defensiveness of your own sensibilities.
But it’s the other people who are sad… Right. Whatever makes you feel better dear… 😂
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asocial, not antisocial. People confuse the two too often.
If you like being alone, you’re asocial.
If you vandalize property, shoplift, etc., you’re antisocial.
This is goddamn real. I decided to take a break from dating after my last long-term relationship. That was over three years ago, and I’ve never felt better. I really can’t imagine going back at this point. I would have to give up most of the peace of mind I’ve gained, and it isn’t worth it.
Knowing that you can leave tge house as messy as you need without worring about anyone because you are the only one that will suffer from it :)
This is a slippery slope for me. I’d do that and it’d be like that for weeks because avoid inviting people because I’d need to clean up everything which accumulated.
Me too! I just slip anyway
#8 is bullshit unless you live out in the country and you can make as much noise as you want
eh provided the building isn’t absolute dogshit (american buildings seem to be made of cardboard and styrofoam) even apartments can let you make quite a lot of noise without it being audible even the next room over.
I live in a bog-standard swedish million-programme apartment, which is basically just concrete, and i can play music louder than is healthy for my hearing and if i go one room over it’s like half as loud without even closing the door. It takes the upstairs neighbours dropping quite heavy things on the floor for me to remember that they exist and if i ever hear someone talking it’s because the sound travels out from their balcony and in through mine lol.
which is basically just concrete
This is why.
A lot of European countries have thick concrete or brick walls, especially in older houses. American (and Australian, New Zealand, etc) houses are generally a wood frame with drywall for the walls (also referred to Gyprock, gypsum board, plasterboard, or other names). It’s relatively thin, doesn’t block a lot of sound, and you could punch a hole in the wall given enough effort. Interior brick walls, when we do have them, are generally pretty thin.
