So two months ago, I became an adult. I mean, I have two jobs and attend university full time, so I was halfway there, but I took the next step and moved out.
I moved into a flat – my very own personal private flat. Well, mine and the three other families who live below me and I haven’t met yet. It’s been two months. It would be too awkward to go down and introduce myself now.
Here are 10 things I’ve learned since moving out:
1. Rent is flipping expensive. Without my student loan to protect me, I’d be living on £50 a month. Do you KNOW how much groceries cost?!
2. You spend the first month panicking at any loud sound you accidentally make – I live on the fourth floor and am hyper-aware of how loud my TV/music/feet/singing are, just in case my downstairs neighbours hear me and get cross.
3. It gets lonely. I sometimes need to hop on a bus and go home to my mum, dad, sister and rabbits. I want a pet here – you really do need someone to talk to.
4. You deal with stuff yourself. I have an occasional visitor in the form of a mouse – I caught it in a sandwich box using a lot of my natural charm and a handful of coco pops. It escaped and is still living under my kitchen cabinets.
5. One person makes a LOT of washing up if you don’t do it all straight away.
6. Food goes out of date super quickly. Sometimes I fancy some toast for breakfast and have to deal with the age-old question – do I scrape the mould off each piece of bread, or walk two minutes down the road to Iceland to pick up some more? (Usually the scraping method wins out.)
7. Takeaways become a necessity – at one point I only had one lemon and some mayonnaise in my fridge.
8. You never have a set bedtime. Some nights I go to bed at 6pm. Some nights I’m huddled in my duvet den watching YouTube videos and playing Virtual Villagers (best game EVER) until 2am.
9. Visitors will no doubt do something to disrupt your peace. Maybe they left the toilet seat up. Maybe they left the milk out of the fridge. Perhaps they had the cheek to sit on MY side of the sofa.
10. You become your own best friend. Last night my bath was so slippy (I’d used a LUSH bath melt – not wise) that I stood up and fell straight back down again. I laughed (out loud, loudly) for about ten minutes, then congratulated myself for “looking like a tool”.
Live alone? What weird things do you do? Come on, they can’t be weirder than mine.
This is so great!! I indulge on all of the weird documentaries I enjoy watching, but wouldn’t want my friends to know about haha. I also never shut the doors between rooms. Who cares if I’m changing? No one’s in the living room to see!
– Courtney
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Hahaha! I never do that either! My Netflix history is pretty weird too ;)
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What a fun post! I’ve never lived alone, with my parents until I was 17 then I moved out and across The country with my now-husband. I’d probably die living alone, I would have a heart attack at the littlest creek at night!
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Omg I remember Virtual Villagers! Literally played on it everyday. I can’t believe you live alone though, go you for handling it for 2 months!! I cannot wait to move out xo
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I found it on the App Store haha I was so excited! Yeah living alone is weird at first but I’m getting used to it now! Xx
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I’ll be downloaded that then haha!! Good stuff xx
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