Stuff you do now because you couldn't when you were a kid. . .

[racerx]

Ok. Now that I'm all grown up, and managing my own household there are some things I do simply because I couldn't when I was a little girl.

The most obvious activity is my disposal of ziplock bags. I always toss them after one use. It wouldn't be so odd, except that I reuse grocery bags and always take my own mug to the coffee store and stuff like that. The only reason I throw ziplocks away is because when I was growing up we always rinsed them out and reused them and I hated it!

So. . . anyone else do stuff just because you can now?

[CrankyAsAnOldMan]

When I go to a movie, I buy a drink, always. An overpriced, oversized drink. And often I buy popcorn too. It doesn't matter if I've just eaten a huge thanksgiving dinner, or imbibed 64 ounces of carbonated fluid in the car. Damnit, I am gonna buy something at the concession stand!

We weren't poor growing up, necessarily, but my mom was tight with the buck. Drinks at movies were an unnecessary extravagance.

[Mortish]

Most of my indulgences are about food. Food was an issue growing up, for a number of reasons.

I will buy junk food. I will eat it for breakfast if I want to. I will eat in the middle of the night if I want to. I will eat until I think I'm gonna burst if I want to.

I read in semi-darkness. I was never allowed to as a child because I was supposed to be asleep in my bed, and my parents were convinced it would ruin my eyesight.

When boys come over, they are allowed in my room. <g> Hahha, seriously, when I lived with my parents, boys were not allowed in my room unless I left the door wide open. :)

Neat question, racerx!

[Hugh Jass]

eat peanut butter flavored cereal

[Lyllyan]

You mean besides running with scissors, drinking from the carton, leaving all the lights and the tv on when I'm not in the room and sleeping til noon? I don't force my family to eat leftovers. Growing up, you always knew that if there was anything left at dinner, it would re-run the next night. And we had to wash out the bags too, I hated that. And dinner was always at 6:00 without fail. Now I fix dinner anywhere between 5 and 9:00. And if I want pizza or chocolate cake with Pepsi for breakfast, by god that's what I have!

[scraps]

Well racerx, this is a little embarassing, but I havn't made my bed in I won't tell you how many years. Don't get me wrong, I changed the sheets regularly. But unless I know I'm having company over who may wander upstairs I don't see the point. I'm only going to mess it up again that night. Fortunatly, my husband has has the same opinion on the matter. My mother was a neat freak growing up and we could not do anything else before our beds were made. One more thing, I make lots of long distance phone calls too! That was taboo in my house growing up. Not that we couldn't afford to make an occational ld phone call,my father was a lawyer, but my mothers favorite store was Woolworths. It just about killed her when she had to spend somthing like $200.00 on a dress for my wedding. So I guess my mom was a cheap neat freak!

scraps

[GraceTX]

I order a Dr Pepper at a restaurant. When I was a little girl, my parents would take us out and we always had to have water or tea because the refills were free. Back then you paid for refills and the 'rents had five kids so we were never allowed to have soda. I love iced tea, but I still order a Dr Pepper just because I can.

Ditto CCAOM about drinks and popcorn at the movies. Sometimes I'll splurge and buy candy too.

[poohpah chalupa]

we were too poor to go to the theatre regularly...and when we did, we had to sneak food in...theatre snacks were too expensive. now, big bucket of corn. and big ass sodas.

other stuff:
milk shakes and desserts
staying up late if I want to
long distance phone calls
pizza anytime

and, for awhile, Playboy, although it's been awhile...

[Kat]

Eat in the living room or the bedroom
Buy brand name ice cream
Leave stuff all over the place (clothes on the living room couch, books on the kitchen table, etc.)
Throw out leftovers

[rjung]

Oh, the same thing everyone else does -- read porno magazines, go to strip bars, hang out in unsavory parts of town...

(Of course the rest of you do that too! Admit it! :D )

[Tapioca Dextrin]

DRINK BEER

DRINK BEER


DRNK BER

DRNK


Post while dunk.......I mean drnk......no, post zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[SwimmingRiddles]

Every other night, my father and I would switch off doing the dishes. Not a big deal? It is when your parents are poor hippies, and refuse to buy any paper plates or cups, and your mother LOVES to cook. Unfortunately, she also loves to use every dish and utensil available.

I hate, hate, hate, hate doing dishes. So I usually don't. Then I'll run out of something, plates or knives and become disgusted with my slobbiness and do all of them in one marathon washing spree.

I eat marshmellow fluff.

My hair is long. It is curly, and my mom's solution to this problem when I was a wee Swiddle was to keep it in a pageboy cut. For 12 years. One hair cut for 12 years is too much.

I sleep in late. My dad is up at 8 AM every morning, and he's not a quiet man. I love the guy, but he thumps and drops stuff. My bedroom was right above the kitchen. Hence, if dad was awake, EVERYONE was awake. So now I wake up, roll over, fall back asleep. Lather, rinse, repeat.

[exchicagoan]

Run with scissors.
Sing at the table.
Stick my head out of high speed trains.
Run down halls.
----Thank you GEORGE CARLIN!------

Say "fuck" a lot.
Don't EVER clean house on Saturday.
Don't EVER wash clothes on Monday.
Talk back to people all the time!
Pull up my skirt in front of boys.
Go out before my room is clean
LOTS of food stuff.

Must say though-----I STILL wouldn't jump off a cliff if everybody else did. Truth be known----I'M AMAZED when people say that THEY WOULD!!!! WTF?????

[straykat23]

I turn down the pages of books.

I make notes and underline passages in books.

I lay books face down, thereby destroying their spines.

I make my bed only on the days I change the sheets.

I don't go to Mass, nor do I believe in God.

I never say to my daughter, "When I was your age..."

I stay up until two and get up at ten.

[MrVisible]

Have I mentioned...

I'm going to DisneyLand! (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=79340)

Though, to be fair, I went to DisneyWorld once when I was seven. But we travelled a lot, so we just didn't seem to ever take actual travelling vacations. So now I'm all grown up, I'm trying to get myself used to the idea of taking time off and going somewhere.

Preferably someplace childish.

[JadedNaive]

I used to love soda, and drink it whenever I had the opportunity, because we never had it at my house. We never really had junk food, either. So as soon as I was out of the house I drank only soda and ate donuts and chips and stuff. . . for about two weeks. Then I realised that I don't even particularly like soda and chips, and I only like donuts infrequently.

So now I just smoke :D

[TiffTZell]

have sex

[Barbarian]

Originally posted by straykat23
I turn down the pages of books.

I make notes and underline passages in books.

I lay books face down, thereby destroying their spines.


You shall be taken out behind the barn and shot for your impudence. Defiling books! How cretinous!

I don't drink milk. I also re-use ziploc bags and other assorted containers. I don't have junk food at home. I eat food that tastes good.

[miamouse]

I go to church when I feel like going to church.

I buy the sugared cereals.

I go barefoot as much as possible.

I wear pajamas all day.

I leave the dishes/washing/sweeping/etc. for when I want to do them.

Ditto on the making the bed thing......

[Rue DeDay]

I have a membership to Sam'd Club. This is so great. I can get a 5 1/2 pound tub of chocolate chip cookie dough. Sometimes I will actually bake the cookies before I eat them.


-Rue.

[Rue DeDay]

That would be, of course, a membership to Sam's Club.

[TroubleAgain]

Stay up till 3 o'clock reading. Read at the kitchen table while eating. Go lots of fun places that we didn't have the money to go to when I was young. Have lots of cats (of course, that's not JUST because I couldn't when I was a kid.)

[Kiki]

I buy Cap'n Crunch and Fruit Loops because growing up all my mom would buy was Cheerios, Rice Krispies, and Corn Flakes.

I also don't re-use my zip lock bags. My mom still rinses and re-uses hers and it drives me nuts!

I drink chocolate milk every day and my kids do too.

I'm gonna let my kids do lots of things my parents didn't let me do and eating sugary cereals and drinking chocolate milk is just the beginning.
<evil laugh> MWAHAHAHAHA </evil laugh>

[Sealemon88]

Drink alcohol.

Go to clubs.

Rent pornos.

Go to strip clubs.

The thing is, Except for my friend's bachelor party at a strip club, I haven't done any of those things lately. But it's cool knowing that I can.

Things I still do now include:

Having sex.

Drinking every now and then.

Staying up as late as I freakin' want to.

Seeing R rated movies.

[tevya]

I drag my feet when I walk if I feel like it.
I cut my hair very short.
I use paper towels with abandon.
I get any kind of pet that I want.

[Bubble Girl]

My mom was a neat freak and drove me nuts! So now I have completely rebelled against everything she taught.

I leave my glass sitting directly on the coffee table and not on a coaster

I leave my dirty clothes laying on my bedroom or bathroom floor until I feel like doing laundry

I leave dirty dishes in the sink for days at a time

I eat cereal or ice cream for any meal that I want to

I only take whatever ice cubes I need out of the tray and then put the half empty tray back in the freezer (she hated this one and I take great pleasure in doing it)

I never make my bed, ever

I never realized what a rebel I am.

[Podkayne]

I often wish that my mother had made me clean my room and make my bed. . . maybe then I'd be less of a slob. Or, judging from this thread, maybe not!

Anyway, about the only thing that I do that my mom wouldn't let me is eat sugared cereal--for breakfast, lunch, and dinner if I feel like it.

I also eat pasta and rice and cous-cous and quinoa and millet and bulgar, because my dad insisted on meat and potatoes every single night. Variety is good. I even eat meat and potatoes sometimes. :)

[Lyllyan]

Originally posted by Rue DeDay
I have a membership to Sam'd Club. This is so great. I can get a 5 1/2 pound tub of chocolate chip cookie dough. Sometimes I will actually bake the cookies before I eat them.


-Rue.

Wh-wh-what? You mean your suppose to bake that stuff before you eat it?

[slortar]

Impulse buy computer stuff and electronic gadgets. Seriously, my parents were really tight with that stuff.

[Sublight]

I stay in the shower for as looooong as I want to.

And yes, I am playing those damn computer games again.

--sublight.

[Winnie]

Eat sugar cereal (never even had it until age 14 when staying at a cousin’s house).

Eat pizza or any regular food for breakfast.

Sit at the “adult” table during family or holiday dinners. I still get bumped from time to time if the “adult” table is a bit squished, but at least I’m sitting with family members who are my age.

Watch r-rated movies without having to wait until my folks leave.

Listen to my OWN music on the living room stereo.

Not worry about what time I leave the club or bar because there’s no folks at home peering through the curtains at 2 a.m. waiting for me and worrying up a storm.

[xizor]

Originally posted by Rachelle
I buy Cap'n Crunch and Fruit Loops because growing up all my mom would buy was Cheerios, Rice Krispies, and Corn Flakes.


Are you my sister? Those are the exact same cereals my mom bought and I also rebel by now buying stuff with marshmellows in it.

I also buy name brand sodas instead of store brand crap.

And since I now have my own money, I buy all the Star Wars action figures I never had as a kid. I don't play with them or display them or even open them, but I buy them anyway because I can.

[Pnuk Guy]

Originally posted by Lyllyan
Wh-wh-what? You mean your suppose to bake that stuff before you eat it? [/B]

What? You mean you bake it after you eat it? ^_^

[Tomcat]

I go to concerts now and buy t-shirts and posters and CD's and all that. I never had spare cash to go to concerts when I was a teenager, so I missed a lot of cool bands coming through (I missed the Beastie Boys first tour, a David Bowie, U2 3 flippin times, etc.). Now, I go to all the cool shows (I have a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds rainjacket! Do YOU?)

I drink real soda, not that Safeway Value stuff.

I buy Nike's or Adidas or ???, but not Target shoes.

If there is something on my plate that I don't like, even at other people's houses, I don't eat it.

-Tcat

[ChiefScott]

Use sticks of butter instead of oleo in 5 lb. tubs.

Real, whole (not 2%) milk not blue, watery powdered milk.

I'm more than willing to pay someone to do the shit I don't want to do. "Here's 20 bucks. Cut the damn lawn."

I don't freeze meat.

I don't put the peanut butter in the fridge.

The Hershey's syrup goes in the fridge.

If'n I can afford the best of something, I buy it.

I will not try on clothes before I buy them (flashing back to the 1976 marathon school clothes expedition).

I hate, hate, hate, despise, despise, despise K-Mart, Walmart or any other retailer that uses "bins" as a display scheme.

These are my knives. These are my pots. Goget your own fucking stuff to destroy.

[FairyChatMom]

I buy and use paper towels.

I don't save the bags the the bread comes in.

I don't make my bed.

I rarely iron - and NEVER iron pillowcases.

I don't freeze leftovers for stew.

I call long distance and don't fret about it.


It's bizarre - my mother thinks nothing of going out to nice restaurants and dropping big $$$, but if we're on the phone longer than 10 minutes, she has a fit... I guess I'm not worth 8 cents a minute or whatever she pays...

[FalconFinder]

xizor, I'm glad I'm not the only one! I have WAY too much Star Wars stuff around my house due to my own purchases, along with my friends' helping out with my habit.

I don't eat liver ::shudder::

I don't eat anything I don't want to. (We were forced to eat EVERYTHING on our plates, regardless)

I make my bed once a year for my Christmas party so that people can put their coats on it and find them later.

I do dishes when I need one of them or when I feel like it.

I DON'T dry my dishes (except glass glasses and silverware since I hate the spots)

I go to friend's houses really late at night (well, the latest was 11pm) [Perhaps I should add that this is when they invite me that late. I don't just show up at ungodly hours... :D]

I talk on the phone for HOURS (I have call waiting so I don't miss anything important when I'm just yakking) My Dad HATED it when I was on the phone for more than 3 minutes.

I'm sure there's more. My parents were pretty strict...

[PinkyDVM]

GROW MY HAIR LONG! At the beginning of every summer, my mom would say, "Don't you want to cut your hair short for summer? It's so much easier." "Uh, OK." Got mistaken for a boy all the time, won't even go into the issues this caused about feeling feminine or attractive.

I rarely iron, either! It's amazing what you can do with the dryer and a wet washcloth.

Actually, I've become more of a neat feak than even my mom, but it has more to do with my mother-in-law. Until I had spent some time at her house, I never realized how truly awful a place can be when you NEVER clean or throw anything away...

[BunnyGirl]

Use sticks of butter instead of oleo in 5 lb. tubs.

Real, whole (not 2%) milk not blue, watery powdered milk.

Preach on, brother!

[Cyn]

I order 2 or 3 beverages at restaurants. A soda AND a milkshake! And coffee, even, if I want.
I read in bed until I have a headache or the book is done, whichever comes first.
I read in the bathroom---I keep books in the bathroom for the specific purpose.
I read at the table while I eat, with the book propped up.
I read while I eat in bed, with the book propped up.
I sleep with the radio on.
I sleep over at a friend's house. (This was forbidden to my siblings and I---kids could sleep over, but we couldn't go to slumber parties. As I get older, I have to wonder about this and what connection it had to my mother's refusing to have us kids anywhere near certain of her relatives...)
I sleep late on Sunday mornings and don't go to Mass.
I have my own box of cereal that is all mine and I don't have to wonder if there's any left. If I ate it all, then it's gone.

[Eo Echo]

I drink Sprite. In fact, I drink it by the liter. When I was a kid my grandfather worked for the local Pepsi bottling plant. As a result, our house was always full of free Pepsi, but I was also strictly forbidden from drinking any Coke product, including my favorite soda, Sprite. So I used to have to take my allowance down to the corner store and buy it there. "Do you want a bag?" the clerk would ask. "No thanks," I'd reply, "I'll drink it here." For years, Sprite was a guilty pleasure, one that I couldn't enjoy openly until adulthood.

So perhaps it's ironic that now I drink Sierra Mist, which is in fact a Pepsi product.

[Little Bird]

I bought a cage full of rats.

I stay up late.

I watch tv before doing my studying.

I watch tv with swear words.

I open one package of cookies, then open a different one before finishing the first. Also goes for cereal.

Growing up is good. :D

[Stuffy]

This reminds me of the first thing I did when I got my first apartment. I whistled the diddy form Snow White Fopr reasons I can't fathom whistling wasn't allowed in the house.

My house contains no oatmeal, unless in teh form of a cookie.

I slide down railings

I put whatever I want in my ear

I try to heat the outdoors whenever possible

[Podkayne]

Originally posted by PinkyDVM
Actually, I've become more of a neat feak than even my mom, but it has more to do with my mother-in-law. Until I had spent some time at her house, I never realized how truly awful a place can be when you NEVER clean or throw anything away...

Eerie! I had the same experience. *Shiver* It caused me to clean our apartment and buy a guest bed. I never want any guest at my house to feel as grossed out and uncomfortable as I was at her house. I wore my socks the whole time. Even in the shower.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

From the time I was a small child I wanted a pet snake. This was not going to happen in my mothers house. When I first lived on my own, I had a pet python before I had a stereo or a TV.


The food things in my life are pretty trivial.

I buy more than one box of cereal if I like it.
I eat peanut butter and marshmallow fluff with a spoon, right out of the jar.
I regularly eat spaghetti, chili, or pizza for breakfast.

[MsRobyn]

I had some rather permissive parents, but I am about to leave a fairly regimentated place for my own apartment, so I'll share what I'm looking forward to:


Eating what I want, when I want. If I feel like having chicken for dinner, guess what? I'm eating chicken for dinner.
Coming and going as I please. Not having a strict curfew. Being able to go to a party or a baseball game or a date and not have to worry about being in at a certain time, nor account for my whereabouts.
Not having to go to religious services. If I want to go, I'll go.
Being able to lounge about all day in my nightgown.
Not having to keep my place spotless.


Can y'all tell I'm excited? :D

Robin

[Tyklfe]

I don't think anybody else said it so:

I sleep buck Naked!

I also walk around the house buck Naked!


Yea :D

[SpoilerVirgin]

Let me second the walking around buck naked! I love that.

Wear black (my Mom would never let me wear black when I was a kid.)

Stay up all night.

Jump on the furniture.

Eat dinner in front of the T.V.

Not get dressed/shower until 3:00 p.m.

(Shhhhh....) Shower every other day.

Use paper plates and utensils so I can just throw them away instead of washing them.

Rarely eat vegetables.

[TheLoadedDog]

I eat bananas caveman style. Y'know, the way my mum thought was uncouth - peeling it in four strips, but only halfway down, and holding the unpeeled part. My mum always insisted I take the banana right out of its peel first.

I love travel because my parents never took us anywhere.

I always have a bottle of coke in the fridge because it's NOT an occasional luxury, dammit.

I'll have a third helping of dessert.

I sit too close to the television.

I have long showers.

The walk may do me good, but bugger that - I've got a car.

Sex, drugs, and Rock & Roll.

Cigarettes and coffee.

Oh yes, and I hereby swear never to clean a child's face in public with the handkerchief / spit method (what gives with mothers and that crap?).

[phouka]

I've been living with my parents for the past year while I've gone to school, and it's been pretty traumatic. Sometime in the next month, I move into my new place. (Cue Hallelujah Chorus.)

Play my music on the stereo as loud as I like, dance through the house while I do chores.

Watch The Pretender without having to explain or defend it to Dad.

Watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel without having to explain to Mom what happened since she fell asleep halfway through the last episode.

Cook actual vegetables in such a way that they're edible and still possess most of their nutrients.

Wash the dishes or let them pile up, however I feel like it at the time.

Eat a snack when I'm hungry without getting that look from Dad.

Eat dinner at a godly hour instead of an ungodly one.

Put my altar together and actually take part in my own religion as opposed to shutting up about it because it makes the parents uncomfortable.

And maybe, just maybe, one day have sex again. (Wouldn't that be lovely?)

Oh, I could go on and on . . .

I'm not bitter, but I am way the hell ready to get out of here.

[imthjckaz]

Lemme see, I stay up as late as I want, even if I have to get up early, that's what alarm clocks are for.

I don't separate colors and whites in my laundry.

I vote.

I don't wait an hour after eating to go swimming, I never really understood that one..

I eat what I want, when I want, as much as I want.

I spit into the wind, look directly at the sun, drink beer, have sex, sleep naked and whole lotta other stuff that I was told not to do.

Being a legal adult is cool.

:)

[Jeffro]

Buy fireworks!!!!!!!!! :D

[tevya]

Originally posted by stuffinb

I try to heat the outdoors whenever possible

This reminds me of another thing.

I walk in and out of the house as many times as I want when the air conditioning is running. Sometimes I walk outside and then walk right back inside several times without making up my mind if I want to be in or out because the damn air conditioner is running.

[Medea's Child]

Wow.

Other than bedtimes I pretty much agree with the house rules.

Share limited resorces fairly. (I may grump about having to share the internet when I'm home, but I can't complain that they are being unfair about it. I'm just spoiled.)

Tell people where you are going and when you think you will be back. (So they can call the police when you get left in a ditch.) I'm very trusting. So far I have walked into and out of potentially dangerous situations just fine. But its always good to know someone will notice if you don't turn up.

Other than that, my stuff and space at home is given enough respect that if I want to clean my room, I do, but if I don't my mom ignores it. just about the living conditions I have on my own.

Food wise, my mom has a philosophy of making people happy. As long as you get basic nutrients daily you can drink Coke, eat brownies, whatever. She'll buy it if you will take care of it.

We wear our hair they way we want. We wear the clothes we want. If we are happy, healthy, capable people, she doesn't see anything wrong with what we are doing. (She says she can't see stepping in unless we are doing something morally or physically dangerous.)

My mom rocks.

[Lyllyan]

Originally posted by Pnuk Guy
Originally posted by Lyllyan
Wh-wh-what? You mean your suppose to bake that stuff before you eat it?

What? You mean you bake it after you eat it? ^_^ [/B]



ya know, it made perfect sense to me when I posted it.



I no longer have to marathon shop at Sears for school clothes - and don't but winter coats in July.

[Lyllyan]

or buy them either.

(preview is your friend only if you actually read what you wrote)

[tsarina]

I say "fuck". All the fucking time. Fuck fuckity fuck. Fuckin' -ay.

Once when I was a kid and thought I would go without underwear for the day, my mom chided me into wearing it. So now I hardly ever wear underwear.

Sometimes I go bra-less, too! *gasp!*

[ITR champion]

I drink chocolate milk and eat sugary cereals, while avoiding liver, squash, and eggplant.

I wear clothes that are really worn out and should be thrown away.

I sleep with my clothes on, and wear the same clothes two days in a row, if I feel like it.

I sleep until 2:00 PM during summer, and stay up until 3:00 AM, mainly because that's the only time when my favorite MB isn't too damn slow.

And I use profanity.

[Rilchiam]

I can keep a clean and neat house. I know this sounds funny, but my parents were slobs. I mean, for a while they were edging towards the Langley brothers: they never threw anything away, just stacked up more and more junk. My mom didn't do dishes: I did them. Laundry: I did it. For years, I tried and tried to get some kind of organization, but my mom was like, she'd read the newspaper, drop it on the floor next to her chair, and let it pile up until the chair wouldn't recline. Then I'd hit my saturation point, clear them away to reveal a gray carpet, bundle them up for recycling...and she'd scream because "There were things in there I wanted to save!" My dad was more agreeable: when I swept up the peanut shells that surrounded his workbench, he'd smile and say, "It's about time somebody did that."

Yes, they were lunatics. Luckily, I married another control freak. Everything in our apartment, down to the extra soap under the sink is organized.

[Nimue]

Add me to the sugar cereal and junk food list. I never got that stuff growing up, except for at the occasional party. I don't actually eat junk food all that much, but I have an undying love for cocoa puffs. And I have BIG servings of it. Mr Nim refers to my bowl of cereal as my "trough" -- I have tripple or more the serving size, and then skip lunch.

I throw away twisties (those little strips you twist to close bags) after one use. My parents had a whole drawer dedicated to these things.

I'm not afraid to have a damned good cleaning out of my wardrobe every now and then, ruthlessly taking out everything I don't wear anymore, even if it still fits.

I will fix the same thing for dinner 3 or 4 times in one week if I'm really enjoying it.

I'll play the same cd half a dozen times a day every day until I'm tired of it.

Every now and then I'll impulse buy things that I want but don't at all need.

I'll watch trashy stupid television shows.

When my husband is away (every other set of 6 weeks) I eat dinner on the coffee table in the living room in front of the television. And I time dinner so that a trashy stupid television show is on -- they seem to be conducive to enjoying dinner when alone.

I'll go to bed at 10:30 and stay up past 4am reading.

If I'm not going out, I won't bother getting dressed, brushing my hair, or making myself at all presentable, beyond brushing my teeth. (It's only embarrassing when the postman comes to the door -- doh!)

[nightshadea]

you know having mother that should of never had kids i always wondered what it was like to have normal parents now i realize i should of appreicated my mother more althouhg she did make me do a few things i didnt want to to ie dishes and laundry and after a few years even most of that ended

my mother was like someones favorite aunt she let you do 90 percent of what ever you wanted when you wanted to do it

good for a once a year visit maybe raising kids i wouldnt think so

the schools and social services never approved of this attitude either althouhg every kid on the block was usually at out house


of course it was amusing when my step dad pointed out to me on my 18th and 21 birthday that they werent any special ocassions since i had been doing those things since i was 14 anyways

the only downside is shed occasionaly forget she had offspring and would leave us somewhere or soemthing like that or in a conversation have to remeber who we were and where we were

but even though my mom was a certified space cadet knew nothing of housekeeping and such reading some some of these posts make me glad i had her

[Spider Woman]

I became vegetarian, which my parents would not allow me to do when I was a teenager.

I think that most of the things I couldn't do when I was a kid, I don't want to do now.

I think I am boring.

[tevya]

My husband wanted to add these:

He votes Democrat.

He doesn't go to church.

[LightTracer]

I was never allowed to own a real gun while living with my folks and as soon as I got my first apartment, I went out and bought a . 22 caliber, semi-auto rifle and scope from WesternAuto.

A couple of times, just for the heck of it, I walked around my place nude -- not allowed as a kid.

I repaired car parts on the kitchen table.

Set off firecrackers inside.

Stay up real late most of the time.

I've had pizza, soup, ice cream or soda for breakfast, or no breakfast at all.

Painted the tiny spare room in one apartment flat black and installed black lights, glow-in-the-dark stars on one wall and colored lights and used it as a party room.

When I got my first apartment, along with buying a gun, I went out and bought booze and stocked it in the place! Then I partied a lot.

Played my stereo loudly.

Took off whenever I wanted, day or night. (MY folks had a strict rule: Under 19, you do not just come and go as you please without letting Mom and Pop know and they often would veto middle of the night wanderings under threat of harsh punishment.)

Slammed doors. O-boy! That was not allowed in my family home. Slamming doors would bring Great Wrath down upon your head and one day, after moving out, I slammed a door, winced and expected a shout, but getting none, realizing I was in my own pad, I walked around and slammed every room door, just for the heck of it.

Mowed the lawn when my car started to disappear in the grass. My folks required the lawn to be mowed once or twice a month and I hate mowing lawns.

[Pammipoo]

We could never afford fast food (my mom was single going to college raising 2 kids), so now whenever I go out, I order happy meals. I'm making up for lost years of toys.

I also order desserts when I go to restaurants. And I don't always take my leftovers home in a doggy bag.

And I stay up all night...no more 8 pm bedtime for me!

[NutWrench]

Pizza! Every night!
So there! :)

[daffodil]

Hey! I found another smoker. :)

Do you live in the USA Loaded Dog?

[racerx]

Originally posted by Spider Woman
I became vegetarian, which my parents would not allow me to do when I was a teenager.

I think that most of the things I couldn't do when I was a kid, I don't want to do now.

I think I am boring.

Spidy, are you kidding?! I think eating vegge is super cool and tres interesaunt.

All this talk of pizza is making me hungry.

[Traveler]

I've got plenty but don't want to list them all here. My SO had about the same restrictions growing up so we have fun at our own place. We do not have it messy but we are not clean freaks.

Turn up the Heat or run the A/C whenever we want, how cold or how hot we wanna make it.

Leave lights on, TV on, radio on, computer on, etc. no matter how late or how early. Sometimes we have the TV on all night. We do go to sleep but hell if we wanna watch a late night movie, we will do it.

Go to sleep whenever we want to and sleep in late on Sundays or do whatever on Sundays, no Church goings unless we say so.

Leave and come home whenever we want to without reporting in.

Sleep anywhere in the house be it on the floor, chair, bed, table, sofa, outside patio, etc. One time when I was younger there was some friends over and we decided to sleep out on the enclosed patio. Well I got hell for that and we had to go inside in the beds. No there wasn't anything wrong going on, it was just too HOT out and it was nice there but NO we had to go inside in THE BEDs.

Drink Chocolate Milk!

Eat Whatever for Whatever Meal :)

[LightTracer]

I smoke.

I still go to sleep with the TV in my room on. It only gets shut off when I leave the house and if it goes off at night, like due to a power flux, I wake up and turn it back on. Now, when I wake up for a snack or smoke, I just roll over and watch the tube.

Eat in bed. I do it all of the time.

Several times I charged out of the house around 1 or 2 in the morning, ran to the store and bought a quart or half gallon of chocolate milk and guzzled most of it down when I got home. I did the same thing for ice cream a couple of times.

Coming home drunk and sprawling out on the living room carpet to sober up. The folks would not allow that at all!

On a cold day, soaking for hours in my warm bathtub with no one pounding at the door to use the can.

Buying what I want to eat at the grocery store. (Down with you, Liver!!) Being able to eat hot-dogs cooked or raw for days if I choose and having as much soda as I want along with chips!

Being able to call in sick for work, even if I'm not, without those irritated looks and questions folks can give you if you do that.

In absolute control of my own air-conditioning and heating!

I once, on a rainy day, set my habachi up on my kitchen table, opened the widow above it, poked a big box fan in there, and cranked open my bedroom window. Then I BBQ'd ribs. :D The fan carried the smoke out and the cross current kept it from getting into everything.

[Spider Woman]

Originally posted by racerx

Spidy, are you kidding?! I think eating vegge is super cool and tres interesaunt.
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Thanks, racerx!

[sulamith]

I get pure satisfaction from:

Opening a new loaf of bread before the old one is gone.

Turning on all the lights in the house.

Drinking orange juice any time of day that I want it.

Putting the pitcher of tea or milk jug back in the frig with only 1 swallow left.

Eating my dessert first.

Sleeping on the sofa if I want to.

Running my dishwasher with two plates and fork in it if I feel like it!