Is Living Alone Making You Weird?
 

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I LOVE living alone, it's easier on everyone!!!

As for quirks, I like my cereal to be opened and eaten ONLY by me...

unique sleep habit cycles without a routine schedule

weird meal habits i.e. eating the same thing for breakfast, lunch and supper (hey, it was on sale) or having doritos as a meal

~ leaving the bathroom door open (which apparently is a habit we might take with us when we visit others)---- so far I haven't left the bathroom door open when visiting someone lol.

running stuff by our pets who are notorious good listeners
yeah they are good listeners and rarely talk back lmao , however they do let me know what they need.

unique home only outfits
Hey ya have to be comfortable.

7 out of 9...LOL

Unfortunately, my cats haven't been much help in the advice arena. Maybe I should get a dog.

~ walking around naked at 2am eating peanut butter from a jar while drinking OJ from the carton
Uh, no. What would be the point? I hate drinking out of any container that has a slight bit of liquid left and someone has drank out of it directly. Can you say backwash?

~ unique sleep habit cycles without a routine schedule
Meh, i'd do that anyway, if i'm not going to work, i'm damn sure gonna sleep in.

~ weird meal habits i.e. eating the same thing for breakfast, lunch and supper (hey, it was on sale) or having doritos as a meal.
I do tend to have several favorites for breakfast, but I vary them. Never had doritos as a meal. I don't particularly like chips.

~ leaving the bathroom door open (which apparently is a habit we might take with us when we visit others)
Guilty, yeah, but not at someone else's house. Plus, four animals living here will open the door or paw at it if I even attempt privacy.

~running stuff by our pets who are notorious good listeners
I talk to my pets but then again, so does any friend who comes here, and they aren't necessarily single or living alone.

~drinking champagne in the shower at 8am
I don't drink champagne and never had the urge to have beverages in the shower. That's just doubling the risk of drowning.


~washing vegetables while showering
Uh, ew.

~playing video games for days without sleeping
Nope, I don't play video games and I wouldn't give up my sleep for anything.

~unique home only outfits
Nope. I have an ever-present possibility of a friend dropping by unannounced. I also notice if I dress grungy (when i'm sick, which is rare), it makes me feel worse.

I think I started out weird. But indeed, living alone for twelve plus years does tend to exacerbate weirdnesses.

I make up little songs about the most mundane things I am doing, and torture my animals with them. I think their favorite is the 'time to feed the girls' song!

When lounging about the house, I wear some incredibly horrible outfits. I seem to only dress half of me for the most part. I will put on a nice shirt and no pants or I will put on nice pants, but no shirt. Sometimes just boxers, boat shoes, and black T-shirt (I call this a "B" day). I just can't seem to pull an entire ensemble together.

I often sleep sideways on the bed or upside down (feet where head should be or vice versa). Just to break up the monotony.

My stovetop must be pristine, while a small spill in the fridge can languish for a couple of days. Countertops must be uncluttered, yet the kitchen island will be littered with canned food cause I like to read the labels when I eat.

I have an entire kitchen drawer designated for candy and nothing else is allowed to be in that drawer. I do not buy candy for the drawer. So it sits, never to fulfill it's destiny.

I could go on and on, but will keep the truly odd things that are me, for me.

Lol my cat's say more than my dog does.

I can't wait to live alone. When The Boy is gone I seldom put on clothes. I already leave the bathroom door open when I know The Boy is asleep. I already wear quirky home alone outfits, I don't care, I even go out and walk the dog in it. Honey badger don't care what she looks like.

I think its human nature, not living alone. I'm sure there are folks that live alone and still get up and dress every day, shower, prepare themselves 3 meals, etc. because it's their nature to be tidy and neat.

I, personally, love my solitude. I love it when The Boy sleeps in and its just me. I'm sure i'll miss him when he's gone maybe...not really that sure LOL I just hope he doesn't move so far I can't see him every few weeks. That would make me sad. But I would still love living alone. LOL

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I guess i do the peanut butter out of a jar thing, but I use a spoon and i dont do other things at the same time. So I dont know if it counts reallyyyy.

Let's see, wierd? Perhaps!

I usually wear T-shirts around the house ( no panties) or my oversized, white, fluffy bathrobe when alone...

Before my dogs died, I had running conversations with them-now I can't pretend that they are listening, I am plain and simple-talking to myself...

I have a king-size bed. When I sleep alone (ahem) I sleep in the middle, surrounded by pillows on all sides. When I sleep with my honey, I do eliminate the pillow fort on my right side...

More often than not, I have had cold cereal for dinner...

Bathroom door open? What is the point of closing it when you are by yourself? I do, however, close it when not alone...

This is all I care to disclose!

people who don't live alone, ... do all of these things lol. seriously. maybe lol.

all i can think of is, whether i live alone or with others, i need space. i need for certain things to be mine. and for certain things to be a certain way. like lady snow not wanting others to touch her cereal. she needs that space.

i don't think it's weird. it's just the way it is.

I would agree that I just am a bit weird, full stop; and living alone neither makes me more or less so.

I do think living alone makes me lazier though. I do chores as and when they suit me. In fact I do everything in my own time, to suit my own schedule, whims and needs - when I live alone.

I do talk to my pets. I play my music too loud and I dance about the house in my undergarments. I procrastinate mopping the floors and I allow the recycling to pile up. I fold all of my laundry but then leave it stacked in my bedroom. I'm often to be found in mismatched outfits, manky old slippers and a bit of left-over mascara smudged cross my face on weekend mornings.

And when I'm feeling particularly self-indulgent (like this morning) I return to my bed (after my dog walk): in my pajamas, with my dodgy hair, a pot of french press coffee, the back catalog of EBTG, a stack of fashion porn, my laptop propped in front of me, my iphone lit up with texts, two cats practicing the art of napping beside me, a new book and absolutely no plans nor obligations. It's quite blissful. :)

I also love that when I come home from a long and rough day - I can find peace and solace, a deep sense of quiet in my own space. It helps me recharge and allows me to regroup.

We must be soul sisters...you just described my life in detail. Blissful is a beautiful word for it.

I was a weird little child, and I certainly didn't live alone growing up. But yeah, with no one around to modify the behaviors, my eccentricity tends to flourish.

I know every restaurant that will deliver to my house. I've ordered a pizza at 11PM just because I wanted a coca-cola.

Yes! Whenever my chihuahua rolls on his back and bends his body around in the shape of a comma, I break out into a rousing chorus of "comma comma comma comma comma chihuahua" (sung to the tune of Karma Chameleon).

And really, it seems more eccentric to close the bathroom door when you're the only one home...though maybe I'll start doing it now that I know the possible consequences. :|

With all of us stepping forward to admit this stuff, maybe it's not so weird after all?

Sometimes I eat cereal out of the one of the big mixing bowls in the cupboard because:

1. I like lots of milk with my cereal
2. I don't feel like washing dishes
3. I want to.

~ walking around naked at 2am eating peanut butter from a jar while drinking OJ from the carton

At 2am I'm dead asleep... and I'm not a PB fan =P

~ unique sleep habit cycles without a routine schedule

Yup

~ weird meal habits i.e. eating the same thing for breakfast, lunch and supper (hey, it was on sale) or having doritos as a meal

I'll do that living single or not; I'm a creature of habit!

~ leaving the bathroom door open (which apparently is a habit we might take with us when we visit others)

GUILTY! Guilty as charged! Well I wanna be able to hear the voices on the TV duh!

~running stuff by our pets who are notorious good listeners

I run stuff by to my computer from time to time... does that count?

~drinking champagne in the shower at 8am

I don't like champagne... nor do I drink or eat in the shower... how can you??

~washing vegetables while showering

Yuck... NO!

~playing video games for days without sleeping

Been there, done that, got the fat to show it!

~unique home only outfits

I got that, single or not.

I will be living by myself for the first time in a very. very. long time in the next week or so... i'll get back to you w how weirder I've become ;-s

I am a loner by nature. I enjoy living alone. I need space. Does it make me weird? Hmm... Well, I do talk to myself. :blink: But I know how to behave when outside. That being said, I have had to catch myself when making quirky noises. I am very particular about my space, how things are organized and cleaned. I wouldn't say I'm a neat freak but others might.

Some might consider my eating habits weird. They seem normal to me. lol I eat what I want, however I want, when I want. If I feel like using a mixing bowl for my cereal or whatever I'm eating I do. If I feel like using a nice plate I do. Closing doors to use the bathroom? Why? There's no one here. But I remember my manners when outside of my house. As for clothing, I will just say I am always comfortable and leave it at that. *smirk*

But isn't this what being grown is about? Having your own place where you set the rules and are 100% free to be you without judgment? I'm a quirky guy and living alone means enjoy being quirky in peace no matter what that looks like on any given day.

amen to gentle tiger's post.

i'm living alone for the first time in my life and i love it. when my partners move here in the next year we're getting a house together but til then i have a whole two-bedroom apartment all to myself (one bedroom's an office). i've always lived with roommates before this.

i have weird house-only outfits...they're called "pajamas." (i.e. tank tops and plaid pants i would never wear in public but i wear them all the time if i'm staying home all day or working from home.) i don't think that habit is THAT quirky. lol.

i eat weird things sometimes but i try to eat pretty regularly and eat normal stuff. i do sometimes have a strange sleeping cycle and i leave the bathroom door open, but i do that whether i'm alone or with a partner - it doesn't really matter. my partners have weird sleeping cycles too.

So... I thought I wanted to reply, but honestly, my weirdnesses are mine. They are weird and probably make me unappealing on so many levels, but I'm glad to see that some of my eccentricities are shared by others (bathroom door open, eating out of jars, declaiming ingredients lists as one would a monologue, etc.)

Maybe there are things I do which I don't find weird, but others would. That's the scary bit!

Technically, I don't live alone. I have a housemate, who is also one of my best mates, but he isn't here about 50 percent of the time because his work takes him out of town or out of state quite often.

Living alone doesn't make me weird. I've never really been bothered by it. It does make me lazy about inside chores (I love doing work outside), as some of have mentioned. I do chat with my dog from time to time. I like being able to lounge about in my boxers and a tshirt and watch baseball whenever I want. I like being able to have my own schedule, though lately I am not as good about sticking to it.

Lately, I have found myself having brief periods of acute loneliness. I've started working on it in therapy to try to determine the root of it. It has only started in the last couple of months. I think part of it is a lot of my local friends now have kids who are older and more involved in after-school things, like sports or the arts, and they are all wrapped up in that. And while I do occasionally go to a high school swim meet in support of my friends' daughter, I do miss our more care-free days of potlucks and cook-outs.

i forgot to add! one of my other weirdnesses is that i eat on nice dishes all the time. when i first moved into my new place i couldn't bring a lot of my previous possessions, including cheap dishes. i got a few plastic plates just in case until i got settled, then my neighbor gave me two huge boxes of gorgeous antique chinese dishes, cups, and bowls. and a friend gave me some crystal plates. and i figure why let them sit around and go un-used? lol :) so if you eat dinner at my house you'll get the fancy schmancy stuff. even if it's just for pizza.

i sleep on a mattress on the floor and i actually like it that way. i have a bed frame with box springs but when i moved the bed from room to room the box springs wouldn't fit around the corners. so i tried to convert the bed frame into a platform bed. that didn't work out so well. so i just put the frame in a closet and now i sleep on the floor. i'm looking into buying a new platform bed (i want a bigger bed) at some point, but i'd still prefer for it to be low to the ground even if not on the ground. sometimes getting up and down is hard, but on the upside it encourages my crippled behind to stretch in the mornings.

i'm not sure if this is weird but i close all the doors when i'm sleeping. open doors kinda freak me out.

i do get lonely a lot with working from home and living alone. i love living alone for work purposes - i get a lot more done than when i had roommates or when i'm with a partner. but i can go days without seeing anyone, which is really unhealthy for me. i try to get out as much as possible.

Nope, just living makes me weird:bolt:

Going organic!
 

Ditto :cigar2:

I love living alone. It's having my Mom live with me thats making me weird.

I don't think living alone makes Me weird , I was born this way :)
I have lived alone for some time , I believe it gave Me a chance to get to know Myself and grow as a person .. :)

I blame the strangeness that goes on in my house on the eccentric dog that I live with.....

The NY Times needs to get with the times - weird is the new normal and normal is the new wierd.

Personally, there's nothing new about any of this. Typically, if living alone, we have more freedom to act how we want and when we want to.

However, it's no different to someone who lives as part of a large family i.e. their behaviour will be very different in that family setting to when the rest of the family disappear and, similarly, their behaviour will typically be different when at work i.e. to a certain extent, we adjust our behaviour to varying degrees depending upon the social circumstances and expectations.

When living on your own, you're clearly less restricted in that sense. Is that weird? To me, it seems weird to want it any other way ....... as someone who works intense hours in a crowded city, has an active and rather intense life outside of work, I love to be able to shut the door to the world, to escape people and just be my natural grumpy and curmudgeonous self.

I actually don't find any of these behaviors to be weird. I do not live alone, and I do most of these things. I do not drink champagne in the shower at 8am. I don't like champagne, and I takes baths, not showers. I have, however, eaten many meals while soaking in the bathtub. I think it makes sense to wash your vegetables while in the shower since it saves water. Having them share a soaking in the bathtub with me, is much less appealing, I must say.

Weird is normal
Smooches,
Keri

Okay... Here's an observation. Right now I am staying at my best friend's place with another close friend and my best friend's mom. We all live alone and are all the creative sort. Throughout the day we've spent mainly together, we've all silently yet mutually agreed that for a half hour, here and there, we need to retreat and do something solitary. Play a game, take a nap, read, knit, whatever. I mentioned it and nobody thought it was weird, apologised, etc. I'm going to assume that it's because we take these lapses of solitude as our way of personally regrouping whilst thrown together.

Oh, and all of us, within 5 minutes of getting in the door, take our bras off.

Dressed in my "oh hell no only at home" wear, doing dishes with ipod in tow, my inner cuban/pole/?? dancer decided to come out. My cats think I am fantastic.

Kitchen is clean and the cats aren't talkin. EVER.

Make the bed? Who makes the bed????

Living alone...I am an expert. I've lived alone for most of my adult life, taking time out for the few live-in relationships I've had - most long-term. But I adapt very easily to going it alone - yet again.

Sometimes I think it would be nice to have a live-in partner, but I think again and reflect:

I would be expected to have a neat & clean house (I do for the most part - but am a lousy housekeeper, and only do it when I absolutely can't stand it anymore).

I would have to deal with eyerolls every time I wanted some wine - which is often. Hey, you're not paying for it, nor do I expect you to, so piss off!!

I'd have to consider someone else before making any decisions...I don't like that at all. I'm too used to pleasing me, and of course my puppy - but she's easy - for the most part.

I'd have to get out of bed to pass gas at night - which is often.

I'd have to close the bathroom door - something I never do, unless of course, I'm visiting (which is never), or have company, which is maybe once or twice a year.

Go out when I don't feel like it.

Control my impulse buying - I hate that one!

Have to consider someone else's opinion/desires when decorating - something that is anathema to me! Or for that matter, on anything!

...and the list goes on and on, but this will do for a start. Wow! What a surprise that I'm single! lol