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There’s nothing like the relief of being home alone. The peace, the quiet, and the freedom to just let loose and do whatever you please—it’s the best feeling.
These Redditors know exactly what I’m talking about. In a recent thread, they opened up about all the weird little things they do in private. And who could blame them? From having imaginary arguments to setting up hammocks indoors just because, here are some of their most memorable posts.
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#1
I generally eat my meals on a little folding table in my living room floor in front of the TV. During the pandemic, I ordered a white cloth and black napkins and fancy silverware and a little candleholder for it. And now I set it like a restaurant when I cook myself dinner. Because it cheers me up and I like it.
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#2
I dress in ball gown I found at goodwill and drink tall boys while doing puzzles and listening to murder podcasts. Every girl deserves to go to a ball.
#3
I sleep on a full size mattress in a camping tent in my bedroom. It took me five years of living alone to finally decide I'm gonna do whatever I want to do, and that's sleep in a tent every night. I love it.
#4
Learn dance routines and then show them to my dog and 2 cats. They don’t seem to appreciate all the hard work I put in.
#5
I paint my house to suit ME! Bright orange laundry room - yes! Sunny yellow kitchen - please! Purple dressing room etc etc. after literal years of being mindful of “resale value” I bought a really old home and just paint colors that make me happy 100%. Life is just too short for “resale value” in my opinion. Also? Looking into adult dog bed - omg can I fill it with my Squishmallow friends??
Janissary35680 1 year ago
After a period of time that I figured was sufficiently long enough not to ruffle any family members' feathers, I completely redid the living room, bedroom, and kitchen according to the mantra "It's my fn(house) now."
#6
I have devoted 3 full rooms to cat stuff and built a catio off the back of my house. I am determined to give my own cats and my fosters the absolute best. It's all enrichment in the tiger enclosure now.
#7
Sometimes when I'm bored, I'll narrate my activities David Attenborough style.
#9
I eat a WHOLE CAKE (not all in one go though) by sticking the fork right in the middle. I ain’t sharing. Why do I need to slice it up?
Howl's sleeping castle 1 year ago
Me realising that I can order a birthday cake on a random day and eat all of it by myself was one of the best moments of my life
#10
I like to blast music and clean my house/do chores in chunky platform boots. Sometimes I pretend I'm being followed by a camera in a music video. Just makes me feel silly and confident, momentary dopamine hit all to myself.
#12
Sometimes I just sit in random corners cuz I pay for them lol.
#13
What can be eaten with a spoon, will be eaten with a spoon. Spoons are a very underrated utensil and it escapes me why they aren’t more socially acceptable.
#14
Im naked 24 hours a day unless i have to go out to a store or my nephew is visiting.
#15
I have a buddy that sleeps in a hammock that he hung in his bedroom. Note: he is almost 50 and single. 🤷♂️.
Juanita, the ginger cat 1 year ago
It's pretty common here in Brazil's north and northeast regions.
#16
I have excess. I have a full pantry, full freezer, extra sheets, towels, toiletries, toilet paper, cleaners. My bf is like how many people live here?! But I went without for a long time and it definitely traumatized me to where I will never be without again. I also have the correct thing, if that makes sense. I dont “make do” with mismatched sheets.
Boo 1 year ago
I'm the same, I have 2 duvets for my bed (a double and a king that goes on top) and 6 pillows. There are 3 different matching duvet sets for winter and 3 different sets for summer along with all the matching pillowcases and sheets. Is it excessive? Yes....yes it is, but I freeze in the winter, so each duvet is 15 tog (heaviest I can buy) and too hot in the summer (so have the lightest I can get). I also have 2 mattresses on the bed frame and it is sooooo comfy that I always look forward to going to bed.
#18
Accommodate every single one of my cat’s needs and preferences. The litterbox is in my bedroom. So is her food and water. I don’t know why she wants it this way but she’s made it clear she does
We have a queen sized bed. I have my side. The cat has her side. The top has a fluffy cat bed. The bottom has a pet heating pad and she goes back and forth
A tv tray is pushed up to her side of the bed with her food on it so she can have breakfast in bed. And lunch. And dinner. Imagine me trying to have a partner in this living situation lol.
#19
I have full on conversations with my cats. Idgaf I will argue with those f****n’ weirdos that live with me rent free.
#20
I have theme rooms.
My master bedroom has the color scheme that I wanted to have when I was a kid. I have a picture of the sunset the day I moved in. I want to paint that on the wall too. My basement is being turned into my own gym. I am excited about that. Though omg the money spends so quick.
Dragonscatsandbooks:
Same! My completed bathroom is "evil sea witch". My 1/2 completed bedroom is "galaxy night" with Galaxy wallpaper on the ceiling. And my kitchen/living room is gothic cottage core. My master bedroom and bathroom are just going to be full on red and black Gothic, I'm letting my inner teenager run rampant (I bought a black toilet I'll install when I renovate)
NO ONE CAN STOP ME, MWAHAHA.
#21
Having to “convince “ myself that I’m not lazy. But I am. I don’t want to do s**t. No house work, no walking on my treadmill. No cooking. No getting gas for my car. I don’t mind going to work. I get “entertained” by them (coworkers and patients). I love hearing the planes fly over my house. I’ve chilled for hours in my living room doing absolutely nothing. No TV, music or reading. Just me and my quiet self time.
#22
I host solo karaoke nights, where I prepare snacks, drinks and then pretend I’m at a karaoke bar.
#23
I leave a post it note on the fridge with the date, time and location of where I'm going if I'm going somewhere other than work. In the event I disappear mysteriously or get into a wreck that is not reported, to save my family some grief. 🙂.
#24
I like to sleep in a macgyver’ed sensory deprivation chamber. I make the room cold because I sleep best in the cold, pile on tons of blankets, turn on a box fan for that wonderful grey noise, lights completely out in the entire apartment, unplug every single electronic in the room so there are no running lights or buzzing noises, draw the blackout curtains so no moonlights gets in, and then pass out in absolute peace.
I’m aware it is insane, but I’m single and I live alone so I do whatever the hell I want.
#25
I procrastinate tons of stuff that I need to get done and wallow in the joy of not having anybody around to call me out on it. It's truly awesome.
Rachel Pelz 1 year ago
Is it possible to procrastinate stuff that does not need to be done? Asking for a friend.
#26
15 king-size pillows on a full mattress. I sleep like a dog.
Tiger 1 year ago
I currently work in a hotel store. Today my boss told me I looked sleepy, handed me a room key, and told me to go take a nap for a couple hours 😂 it’s such a chill place to work. I’d never stayed in the rooms because I’m a local, but we have king-sized pillows - OH my GOD. They’re INCREDIBLE. I slept like a baby for 2 hours of my 8 hour shift 😂
#27
I set up my hammock right in the middle of the living room.
#28
Have fake arguments with people, have fake conversations with celebrities I’m meeting for the first time.
#29
I dance around my kitchen to the radio when I am cooking or cleaning.
Petro Roos 1 year ago
I've lived with my partner for almost 10 years, and I still do this, the only difference is that I now use headphones, instead the just blaring the music a loud. I noticed I cook better when I have music and am dancing and not really payng too much attention to what I'm doing.
#30
I can’t remember the last time I closed the door while taking a number 2.
Tiger 1 year ago
I have cats, I can’t close the door while going #1 or #2 😂 when you have a cat, you never poop alone.
Janissary35680 1 year ago
I can’t remember the last time I closed the door, full stop. (My dog wouldn't let me anyhow.)
sbj 1 year ago
No! The toilet roll has been put on the wrong way, it doesn't matter even if you live alone, this is unacceptable
Rednose 1 year ago
In general I'd agree, but if you have cats, this keeps them from unrolling the toilet paper.
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Foxglove🇮🇪 1 year ago
Even if I close the bathroom door, the dog opens it and comes in anyway!
Suck it Trebek 1 year ago
Just being able to use the bathroom whenever I want without waiting. One of the biggest things I miss from living alone.
Rolando Gonzales 11 months ago
Funny thing: it became such a habit for me to not close the bathroom door, that sometimes I forget to close the door while at work and living with other humans
Michael Danhauer 1 year ago
So if someone stops over they just smell your feces wafting through the air? I bet you don't get a lot of repeat visitors.
Lenore Jean Jones 1 year ago
I do this when my housemate is away, but when she is home, I close the door for her comfort. I often have to wait while a cat or two follow me in, though.
Dogcat vet (retired) 1 year ago
My one dog likes to get between the toilet and the shower while Im communing with the toilet gods...still not sure where that came from but he leaves hits little rear end out so I can see his tail wagging
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
I only shut and lock one door, and that's the one to the mutual hallway.
#32
I have pirate themed bathroom decor because I can.
etchedchampion:
My shower curtain is a cat with a trident riding a T-Rex.
MissPinkieDee:
My bathroom is themed clown!! no one can tell me no! lol
#33
White noise blasting so loud it’s like I sleep under Niagara Falls.
Whenever I start dating someone, they typically disapprove. Good thing they don’t live there.
#34
I eat like a king all of the time. Last night was a grilled pork chop, fried diced potato with onion, garlic, butter, & sour cream.
I dot have a sleep schedule. When I'm tired I sleep whether that's 2 pm or 2 am. When I wake up I get up. I also sleep wherever I sleep. On the couch, in the chair, in my bed, anywhere.
When I clean my house I blast Johnny Cash, usually, & get at it.
I talk to myself or the dogs.
I always keep my place picked up & clean. I put things back when I'm done.
#35
I sleep on my matress, DIAGONALLY 😂
I also write very personal notes on my fridge, it would embarass me if someone read them. I bought some magnetic whiteboard sheet and my fridge is like a whiteboard tower. I recently made a pro/con list about a relationship that didn't work out, and I needed to have everything in sight, and add stuff on the go.
I really love it, and the upper area has a calendar I made, with all the upcoming appointments and errands. It makes me feel like I have a direction.
#36
I'd say my weirdest is not putting laundry away. I live out of a laundry basket- who cares ?! 🙃😆
#38
I sleep in a 6ft beanbag filled with memory foam chunks. It's the best investment I've ever made.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
I sleep on a Japanese shikifuton on the floor. It enrages and baffles my mother, but it's the best sleep I've ever gotten. I just don't sleep well on a bed and I never have. I've tried plenty of mattresses over my life (my mom even forced a TempurPedic on me for a while) but I return to the floor. It just works for me.
#39
I make bacon just to have the place smell like bacon.
I use a cardboard theater standee of Han solo to vent frustrations to.
#41
Maybe not the weirdest thing but I like to go about my business at home topless. It's not a sexual thing, sometimes I just don't put on a bra or top because I just don't feel like it. Or the minute I get home from work the top and bra will come off and get thrown on the floor and I'll just cook dinner, read emails, watch TV and get ready for bed in my lounge pants but the girls are free and unencumbered.
#43
I eat things right out of the fridge or over the sink so I don’t generate any dishes.
#44
Once I ate cake in bed with my hands. no fork.
#46
I sleep on a full size but I sleep on top of my crazy soft comforter with a very large heavy fur like blanket over me. It's like sleeping in a cloud. Making the bed is so easy. I do have to wash blankets more often but worth it.
Belle_Pandamonium🇧🇻l 1 year ago
Wow! This is the way i sleep too. Lovely thick soft easy-to-wash blankets all the way ! Love it 🥰
#47
I don’t flush after every number one. i don’t pay for water so it’s not a cost effective thing personally, but still think it’s wasteful to flush after each go.
#48
I literally never turn the lights on anywhere in the house. Cook in the dark, pee in the dark, play with my dog in the dark, scroll through reddit in the dark LOL.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
I'm the opposite. I cannot stand the dark unless I'm trying to sleep/actually asleep, so I turn on all the lights in whatever room I'm in XD I dislike dimly-lit restaurants as well. Maybe I have vision problems in low-light :x
#49
I hate making my bed, but I hate the look of a messy bed, so I made my bed perfectly 4 months ago and have slept on my couch since. I remove the cat hair from the bed, smooth it out, and febreze it weekly.
Rachel Pelz 1 year ago
Let me tell you a secret: one can sleep well in an unmade bed. Sounds unbelievable, I know.
#50
I don't live alone anymore, but anytime I sneezed I'd say "bless you!" to myself out loud.
#51
I go to sleep whenever and wherever I feel like it: on the couch at 3 pm, in my bed at 5 am, on this chair I have that reclines, things like that. I don’t have to worry about getting in anyone’s way or waking them up at night, so my sleep schedule is pretty much nonexistent. It’s just what I’m tired and as long as I don’t have work.
#52
ALL the black screen background sound sleep videos, audiobooks and podcasts all the time, lots of guided meditation, daily videos of affirmations and Wim Hof breathing, journaling and chanting (Nam Myoho Renge Kyo!) to my hearts content, elliptical/yoga/elastic gear in the living room (instead of a coffee table), vibration plate in the bedroom, hang stuff I don't want wrinkly in the shower indefinitely. My ex wife was amazing, but hints of any of this made her skin crawl, and it made mine crawl repressing it all.
Oh, and my little old dog has 3 beds, a chair, and her own mini couch. Because that s**t is adorable.
#53
I read a lot and find myself reading out loud. Kinda nice not to have anyone around to judge that.
#54
Getting drunk with my cat and pretending he’s my audience. I’m not sure how HE feels about it but we have a blast alone.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
I get drunk with my stuffed giraffe. Groot has seen and heard many things...
#55
I have a hospital bed. I have the world's best mattress on it and lots of pillows. My bedroom looks huge with just a twin bed in it. I have a work desk in there and the room still looks huge. I live in a one bedroom stamp size apartment.
Tiger 1 year ago
Once I was in the hospital and they made me change into a gown, I also got these incredible hospital socks. Ugly as hell but they went up to my knees, hospital green and soft & warm as heck. Please don’t judge me but they magically ended up in my purse and they’re my favourite socks to this day 😅
#56
I don't have a dining room table. I have two lounging areas instead of a dining room. And I put a writing desk in my breakfast nook.
#57
My sonos speaker is programmed to blast NPR starting at 7am (it’s my alarm). But I never turn it off. It’s just my constant background noise. Right now it’s Wait Wait Dont Tell Me.
When I’ve had people stay over, I forget and it’s quite the rude awakening for my guests 😬.
Jenn Smith 1 year ago
I never ever turn off NPR on my bathroom radio! Wait wait Don't Tell Me, and A Way with Words are among the best shows!
#58
I jog about 5 miles/day inside the house when I don't want to go outside. I have a perfectly good treadmill, but I prefer jogging around the house. Sometimes I even get little things done while I'm jogging.
#59
Bed in the living room. Yep.
#60
I sit on the floor of the kitchen and lean against the bottom cabinets to eat dinner with the plate perched on my knees sometimes. Have no idea why as I have a dining set and the floor is not comfortable. 🤷🏻♀️.
#61
I eat a lot of the same thing when I feel like it. I'm getting better at not ordering delivery, but I still do way too much takeout. I have a dietary restriction so I'm a regular anywhere I get food, I don't have as many choices as I used to.
#62
Never set up dining room. Instead that room is used for my toy collect (Transformers), massage table, and dance pole. I'm a straight guy, so don't dm me lol
Set a wooden chair next to the dresser to get dressed without having to get up for every clothing item.
Second bedroom is the home gym.
#63
When I live alone, which is almost always, I don’t necessarily wash a dish before I use it to cook with again. I’m slightly concerned that if I move in with someone, they may catch me doing this out of habit and bc I forgot I don’t live alone anymore. I do regularly wash my dishes tho, just maybe not *every* time.
#64
I have seedling starts set up in my main hall way eventuallly I'm going to have a better home for them but I'm still getting rid of a lot of my parents stuff and so my house is pretty topsy turvy. I also talk to my doggos and my birdlets.
#65
Sometimes I randomly lay down on the corridor at 3am just because I want to.
Tiger 1 year ago
Sometimes I lay down in random spots around my home because the whole room looks different from the floor. It gives me different perspectives of my own apartment that I’ve lived in for years. I’m like “oooh, this is what my cats see”. 😂 (yes I usually smoke a fatty before doing this)
#66
I wander around my house wrapped in blankets and sometimes sleep in my office or living room floor instead of my bedroom lol.
#67
My bathroom is cat-themed!
#68
I don't purchase the typical furniture. My living room is a home gym, I have no kitchen/dinning room table.
I don't want to say I'm a minimalist but I guess I am when it comes to furniture.
#69
Sleep on my couch most nights even though I have a perfectly comfy queen size bed in my bedroom.
#71
I like to lay around naked and pluck out body hairs. Such a soothing little obsession.
#72
My daughter moved out last weekend, and I was looking at a frugal group on here, and I came across this tip to use baby washcloths as toilet paper as a way to save money. So I got a bunch and use them just for number one, and throw them in a hamper. I went from a roll of Tpaper a day and it's been over a week and I haven't had to put a new roll on. I would never do that if I didn't live alone and I'm not even telling my kids I'm doing it. No one needs that judgment face 😂.
#73
It’s almost a contest with myself on how gross I can be — belching, farting, blowing my nose like an old man, leaving my dirty underwear on the couch. I gotta get it all out in case I ever meet someone I do want to cohabitate with!
#74
My home office is literally an armory. Swords guns auto knives. It’s also decorated with unopened bottles of premium gin from around the country, tons and tons of concept art posters and Christmas lights year round.
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NatalieC 1 year ago
No judgement because I am guilty of some of these. But still, some of them are kinda sad.
Panda McPandaface 1 year ago
I found the whole thing rather reassuring. Nice to know other people share some of my wierder habits!
Tiger 1 year ago
Living alone is really fun as an adult. I wish everyone could have the experience 😊 I’m nearing the end of my living-alone-while-young time (going to move in with either bf or roommates soon) and I’ll always remember these years with fondness, it’s so nice to walk around naked and eat food straight from the pot and fart with free abandon and no judgement.
Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year ago
I find myself going back to the post a few times so I can reread and say "you know what, I think I'm going to try doing this next" :-) Tonight, I'm setting up a tent in the living room, taking all my house plants and setting them all around, pinning up a bunch of LED twinkle lights around the ceiling and I'm going to go camping in my house.
Child of the Stars 1 year ago
Most of these are perfectly fine, but I really don't understand how people can't have a regular bedtime/morning schedule and still function. My schedule is topsy-turvy right now due to things outside my control, and I can really feel the negative impact to my mental health.
A Jones 1 year ago
My bed is always a mess and I like it that way, feels like my own "goblin nest" that I can just lay in random times of the day/night when I'm not. Not even sleep, just lay there contemplating life or silly thoughts. I lost count of how many blankets and hoodies are stuck in that "goblin nest". I also wear a giant faux-fur night gown on cold days. It has a bit pocket for snacks.
The Shark 11 months ago
All these posts reminded me exactly why my BF and I mutually think we're better off not moving in together! 😂 We're both loners that need our space. Living closer to each other would be cool (instead of 40 miles), but considering we've been together for 8 years and can still laugh and play and happily enjoy each other for who we are without constantly being in each other's space, we must be doing something right!
Glasofruix 1 year ago
I've 3d printed a bunch of cats doing various activities and i've plastered them all around the house.
Kristal 1 year ago
I mean, I don't really do anything different than if I was living with a significant other; no pants, talk with the cat, talk to myself, eat while watching streaming ... uhhh I suppose I leave dishes out occasionally cause it bothers no one and my cat doesn't mess with them (if nothing exciting is on them). So, leave non-hazardous messes out overnight and get to them when I get to them. Yeah, that's it.
Learner Panda 1 year ago
When I am driving alone, I pretend I am demonstrating how to drive very smoothly, as if there's a bowl of trifle on the passenger seat.
Donald 1 year ago
I haven't had a door to my bathroom for the last 6 months. I tripped getting out of the shower, went head first into it and blew that hollow core POS door to pieces. I thought about getting a new one for a few days before I came to the conclusion that IDGAF that door was only there for show anyway.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
I have quite a lot of glow in the dark stickers in my room now. Landlady approved.
Maisey Myles 1 year ago
The weirdest thing for me is realizing I live alone now- it’s been 40 years
NatalieC 1 year ago
No judgement because I am guilty of some of these. But still, some of them are kinda sad.
Panda McPandaface 1 year ago
I found the whole thing rather reassuring. Nice to know other people share some of my wierder habits!
Tiger 1 year ago
Living alone is really fun as an adult. I wish everyone could have the experience 😊 I’m nearing the end of my living-alone-while-young time (going to move in with either bf or roommates soon) and I’ll always remember these years with fondness, it’s so nice to walk around naked and eat food straight from the pot and fart with free abandon and no judgement.
Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year ago
I find myself going back to the post a few times so I can reread and say "you know what, I think I'm going to try doing this next" :-) Tonight, I'm setting up a tent in the living room, taking all my house plants and setting them all around, pinning up a bunch of LED twinkle lights around the ceiling and I'm going to go camping in my house.
Child of the Stars 1 year ago
Most of these are perfectly fine, but I really don't understand how people can't have a regular bedtime/morning schedule and still function. My schedule is topsy-turvy right now due to things outside my control, and I can really feel the negative impact to my mental health.
A Jones 1 year ago
My bed is always a mess and I like it that way, feels like my own "goblin nest" that I can just lay in random times of the day/night when I'm not. Not even sleep, just lay there contemplating life or silly thoughts. I lost count of how many blankets and hoodies are stuck in that "goblin nest". I also wear a giant faux-fur night gown on cold days. It has a bit pocket for snacks.
The Shark 11 months ago
All these posts reminded me exactly why my BF and I mutually think we're better off not moving in together! 😂 We're both loners that need our space. Living closer to each other would be cool (instead of 40 miles), but considering we've been together for 8 years and can still laugh and play and happily enjoy each other for who we are without constantly being in each other's space, we must be doing something right!
Glasofruix 1 year ago
I've 3d printed a bunch of cats doing various activities and i've plastered them all around the house.
Kristal 1 year ago
I mean, I don't really do anything different than if I was living with a significant other; no pants, talk with the cat, talk to myself, eat while watching streaming ... uhhh I suppose I leave dishes out occasionally cause it bothers no one and my cat doesn't mess with them (if nothing exciting is on them). So, leave non-hazardous messes out overnight and get to them when I get to them. Yeah, that's it.
Learner Panda 1 year ago
When I am driving alone, I pretend I am demonstrating how to drive very smoothly, as if there's a bowl of trifle on the passenger seat.
Donald 1 year ago
I haven't had a door to my bathroom for the last 6 months. I tripped getting out of the shower, went head first into it and blew that hollow core POS door to pieces. I thought about getting a new one for a few days before I came to the conclusion that IDGAF that door was only there for show anyway.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
I have quite a lot of glow in the dark stickers in my room now. Landlady approved.
Maisey Myles 1 year ago
The weirdest thing for me is realizing I live alone now- it’s been 40 years
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