# Good things about living alone! What's your favorite aloneness self indulgence?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 30, 2003, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-things-about-living-alone-whats-your-favorite-aloneness-self-indulgence/204586 "2003-09-30T00:28:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-things-about-living-alone-whats-your-favorite-aloneness-self-indulgence/204586/41 "2003-10-01T05:46:07Z")

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I can walk around nekkid (indoors, of course.)

I can eat a huge bowl of ice cream any time I want.

I don’t have to share my bed.

Housekeeping can always wait until tomorrow…or the day after…or the day after that.

Laundry can be piled to the ceiling if I don’t feel like washing it.

I can make up oddball songs and sing them without having to explain them to anyone. Or just jabber incoherantly if I want.

I can leave my various projects out and not have them disturbed.

Dinner can be at 2 AM if I so wish.

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**Author:** ![elfbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b782af/32.png) [@elfbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfbabe)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-things-about-living-alone-whats-your-favorite-aloneness-self-indulgence/204586/42 "2003-10-01T06:00:16Z")

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Casual nudity! That’s a favorite. Also peeing with the door open, talking on the phone at bizarre hours, having lights on at bizarre hours, SLEEPING at bizarre hours, and washing my dishes precisely when I feel like it.

Also, I get all of the cabinet space!

Yummm. I will never, EVER live with anybody except family or my boyfriend again.

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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-things-about-living-alone-whats-your-favorite-aloneness-self-indulgence/204586/43 "2003-10-01T06:43:25Z")

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Oh, the meal thing. I forgot the meal thing. I eat _when I’m hungry_. No matter when that is. I might have six meals in a day, or two. Or none. I can have steak at 8 am or cereal at 2 am. No one cares.

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