# No kids, no honey, what's next?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kids-no-honey-whats-next/611370>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 1, 2012, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kids-no-honey-whats-next/611370 "2012-02-01T01:10:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kids-no-honey-whats-next/611370/21 "2012-02-03T00:21:20Z")

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> [@drewtwo99](#):
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> Get yourself an e-reader and read! Lots and lots of reading 😃

Already there!

See, I guess I already have quite a bit of free time on my hands. If I want to eat out, then I do it. If I don’t want to take Hallboy with me, I just tell him I’m going out. This past summer, I took vacation without him.

He’s truly a very low maintenance kid and I tend to have a lot of free time as it is.

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**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kids-no-honey-whats-next/611370/22 "2012-02-03T00:22:20Z")

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> [@Janetda](#):
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> I don’t think things change all that much. By the time they leave home, they’ve already spent a lot of time on their own, not needing you too much. For me it the greatest change was dinner time. I still find it hard to cook for one.

I’m wondering if cooking for one is going to be the most challenging aspect of this entire adventure. It took me YEARS to figure out how to cook for two.

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kids-no-honey-whats-next/611370/23 "2012-02-03T02:37:18Z")

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If I were you, I’d keep cooking for two and just freeze a lot of dinners.

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