Whats the worst thing regarding.....

Pighead

.... not living with Mama and Papa in the comforts of the family home?

Pighead realises that this will only apply to about 14 people on boards but what do you hate most about living away from home?

For me it would have to be shopping. Pighead hates it with a passion. I also miss the hugs at night when I'm off to bed.

Dont be at yourself

The fact that I have absolutely no idea how to use a washing machine.

Kiera

The only thing I miss about not living at home is asking mammy to do some ironing. I hate ironing. Love all other house-work but that. Don’t know why I didn’t move out sooner tbh. Its nice going home every so often for mammy’s dinners but that’s as much as I can handle. I’m the youngest so still get treated like a 10 yr old even tho I’m turning 27.

toffo

Having to do my own washing, not 2 mins away from the shop and the pub.

KTRIC

NekkidBibleMan wrote:

The fact that I have absolutely no idea how to use a washing machine.

What do you mean you can't use a washing machine !!!

Men instinctively know how to use machines without reading instructions. A washing machine is a machine.

Check your pants and make sure everything is where it should be

fade2black

The old quote about trying to wash the dishes and breaking my leg comes into play here...

Pighead

NekkidBibleMan wrote:

The fact that I have absolutely no idea how to use a washing machine.

Ah come on its fcuking simple. Throw the clothes into the drum, ask one of the chicks in the house what setting to put it on, close the door and then press the start button. Piece of piss. Just as a matter of interest do you know how to work a clit?

AOR

my worst thing is not being automatically entitled to a sunday roast/or having to travel 63 miles to get a mammy made one

Deer

There is nothing I can think of.... no nagging (when this does happen all you have to do is hold the phone away from your ear), you can shag your arse off all night with half the population and not having to worry about your mother walking in on you, you can create a mess just for the hell of it, you don't have to do the dishes if you dont' want to, you can come in at whatever time of the night or morning you wish and the milkman's not going to threaten to tell your daddy. Oh yeah - you can get as drunk as you want in your own house without mammy and daddy checking you into rehab.

PS. I still get my sunday dinner if I want it at home - and my clothes washed if I really pushed it - not that I would:D

danniemcq

dinner

plus i have a double bed at home although i'm gettin one of them when my housemate moves out

connundrum

Pighead wrote:

Just as a matter of interest do you know how to work a clit?

The answer is in the question

/enter X Files music

Pighead wrote:

ask one of the chicks in the house

I don't know that I miss that much... I do very little cooking so I would love to have 2+ home cooked dinners a week, and ya can't beat the Sunday dinner

Another thing is when something gets broke, I have to fix it ie. the gas heating timer, the vacuum cleaner, the fridge :mad:


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Agamemnon

Doing housework sucks ass. Ironing and cleaning eat into my precious pub-time. I bought a clothes horse yesterday and it makes me feel old.

Beruthiel

I also detest the weekly food shop

and when I'm hungover, I'd kill for me Ma's roast beef, mushie peas, mash potatoes and gravey

skywalker

KTRIC wrote:

What do you mean you can't use a washing machine !!!

Men instinctively know how to use machines without reading instructions. A washing machine is a machine.

Check your pants and make sure everything is where it should be

No a washing machine falls into another catagory altogether. An evil woman-made catagory that we men have no right knowing anything about. I can honestly say Ive never used a washing machine in my life (and wouldnt have a clue where to start with one either) and that will stay the case as long as I have any say in the matter.

squrm

agamemnon wrote:

Doing housework sucks ass. Ironing and cleaning eat into my precious pub-time. I bought a clothes horse yesterday and it makes me feel old.

^ What (s)he said ^

hoovering is the most stupid pointless thing in the world, ever.

Hobbes

You know in the case of tesco you can order the food online and they deliver it to you.

dr.bollocko

I miss living with my parents just for the kinda warm bosom of the family thing. But I really wouldnt miss pretending that i was a functional non-**** up.
I did miss the cooking, but then I started myself and I love cooking. I happily chop things for hours. I discovered that Cumin seed is more than just a hilarious play on words. I can now recognise a mango.

Re the washing machine, no matter which machine I have used, its always either 4, or d you turn it to.

KTRIC

squrm wrote:

hoovering is the most stupid pointless thing in the world, ever.

Call me strange, but I like hoovering.

squrm

KTRIC wrote:

Call me strange, but I like hoovering.

Strange

damonjewel

going around in creased clothes, and coming home from the pub to an empty fridge.

scojones

Kiera wrote:

The only thing I miss about not living at home is asking mammy to do some ironing. I hate ironing. Love all other house-work but that. Don’t know why I didn’t move out sooner tbh. Its nice going home every so often for mammy’s dinners but that’s as much as I can handle. I’m the youngest so still get treated like a 10 yr old even tho I’m turning 27.

I have to agree. Ironing is a disaster. I'm absolutely terrible at it. I don't mind anything else. Shopping is grand and I love cooking. The cleaning is grand too, nothing worse than a dirty apartment. There's no need for it really.

I moved out about a while ago and I miss these things

Having a few cans with my dad after a hard day at work and catching up with him!
Chatting to my brother and sister
Visiting my godson as he goes to bed early and I always miss him
Being nearby to all my aunties and uncles
My bed even though my double bed is bigger I like my bed at home
Having two wardrobes, two chests of drawers, two bookshelf’s and enough shoe space to hold at least 60 pairs of shoes and boot’s.

That’s it really I only moved out because I clash with my mam

But now I have my own big room and big double bed and immense freedom and I’m not cross examined by every time I leave the house or harassed if I come in drunk!

Being able to make something, order something or drink something without the whole family saying, What’s that? gizza bit ah, go on!!!
I had to downscale my stuff and some of it is still in boxes because I literally am always just running in and out and don’t get home till really late but I’ll get around to sorting it eventually 

I'll get over not being as close to my family but it's definitely worth it

Mrs_Doyle

My folks have been away on holidays, they get back today -THANK GOD!
I am starving!
I can't cook, and all I have eaten for the last 2 weeks is pot noodles, microwave meals and take aways.
I have never craved a simple meat and veg dinner so much in all my life!
I don't think I will actually be able to survive life without my folks.

Jotter

Im perfectly happy being out in the big bad world thank you - although I do miss the dog!! Since moving out parentals are so happy to see me coming that its all love n hugs and cups of tea instead of oh its you, decided to come home did we, your room is a state, im sick of you treating this place like a hotel, youre drinking far too much, your dinner is cold now, whos rang here at 5 in the morning its not on you know - need I go on to all you with rose tinted glasses of how life was!!!

Pighead

Mrs_Doyle wrote:

My folks have been away on holidays, they get back today -THANK GOD!
I am starving!
I can't cook, and all I have eaten for the last 2 weeks is pot noodles, microwave meals and take aways.
I have never craved a simple meat and veg dinner so much in all my life!
I don't think I will actually be able to survive life without my folks.

Ha Ha! Poor Mrs Doyle. You are obviously a bloke Mrs Doyle, that post reeks of desperation and panic.

Hobbes

Hobbes wrote:

You know in the case of tesco you can order the food online and they deliver it to you.

I love this service, I use it all the time very handy!

Ruu_Old

Has to be the shopping thing because I'm terrible about remembering when I'm out of whatever food and such. The horror when I open the fridge and end up having to eat pot noodle or some such rubbish for breakfast. Ruu knows Pighead has done this on many an occasion.

seamus

There's not a whole lot I miss to be perfectly honest.

If someone else was doing the shopping, there'd always be a whole pile of food in the house, and I'd end up eating it.

I like to cook to my own food.

I like not being woken up at 9am on a Saturday morning by my Dad playing James Last at full volume. In fact, it's great not having anyone else in the house who gets up before I do.

I would feel guilty at 24 years old to let someone else pay all the bills and do all the cleaning, so I'd probably be doing more cleaning than I do now.

There's something strangely satisfying about letting your dirty clothes build up until you've almost nothing left, and then cleaning them all in two days, and suddenly having a wardrobe full of clean clothes.

Actually, there were some things I missed:

Scabbing a lift to wherever on a Saturday night.

I missed not having my dog, but now that she's left us it's not an issue anymore.

Jotter

Jotter wrote:

oh its you, decided to come home did we, your room is a state, im sick of you treating this place like a hotel, youre drinking far too much, your dinner is cold now, whos rang here at 5 in the morning its not on you know

Ye that's about right only it was repeated to me over and over and over again and only after I'd been in work!
Oh I so don't miss this!!!!


Oh yeah and what seamus said I miss getting lift's,ah but sure i can sneak a few taxi's reciept's on expenses:)

galah

Miss my mams cooking. Miss having a glass of wine with mam and dad, just chatting. Miss going out with them for dinner (and them paying..;-)).
Miss the fact that my mam actually does the ironing (and yes, she even irons towels, and socks) - I hate ironing, you'd have to pay me to do it...

Miss the antics of my little brother and the various girlfriends he manages to drag home...

Miss smoking lots of cigarettes wit my grandma while she bitches about her neighbours and fills me in with family gossip.

Miss my friends. Miss the weather. And the cheap prices...

Damn - why am I still here? Oh yes, I have a nice job here. And friends. And a boyfriend. And a nice life...:)

Pighead

seamus wrote:

There's something strangely satisfying about letting your dirty clothes build up until you've almost nothing left, and then cleaning them all in two days, and suddenly having a wardrobe full of clean clothes.

You aren't wrong sir. Pighead can't put his finger on it either but it definitely gives you some twisted sense of house pride. As you look into your once again full wardrobe you tend to forget about the previous 2 weeks of smelly underpants mountains and dirty sock hills.

Beruthiel

Hobbes wrote:

You know in the case of tesco you can order the food online and they deliver it to you.

Oh believe me I've tried them, you get the bruised fruit, out of date bread and if they don't have a particular item you asked for they just throw in something else that they think is ok.
In short, a crap service.

Ironing is for people with nothing better to do with their time.
You wash your clothes and as soon as the machine stops you take them out before they have time to crease. Hang them straight onto hangers, voila, no ironing. I haven't ironed in 15 years.

Degsy

The only thing i miss is having a clean house without having to do it myself.There's dirt in my house from when i first moved in and my ma notices it every time she calls around.Also how do socks manage to show up in such strange places when she's a-visiting?And bottle tops,unpaid bills and assorted other filth that never escape her eagle eye,i dont know how she ever kept the family hous eso clean when there was six of us living in it,my place is like steptoe's yard and there's only me.

scojones

Beruthiel wrote:

Oh believe me I've tried them, you get the bruised fruit, out of date bread and if they don't have a particular item you asked for they just throw in something else that they think is ok.
In short, a crap service.

Ironing is for people with nothing better to do with their time.
You wash your clothes and as soon as the machine stops you take them out before they have time to crease. Hang them straight onto hangers, voila, no ironing. I haven't ironed in 15 years.

I've tried that - it doesn't work. Shirts and jeans come out of the washing machine / dryer with more creases than jacko has had kids in his bedroom.

Beruthiel

sjones wrote:

I've tried that - it doesn't work. Shirts and jeans come out of the washing machine / dryer with more creases than jacko has had kids in his bedroom.

Do you shake them vigoursly before putting them on the hangers?

scojones

Beruthiel wrote:

Do you shake them vigoursly before putting them on the hangers?

I sure do. I always manage to hit myself in the nuts with the jeans when I'm shaking them out too. I dunno, maybe I put them on for spin too long?

seamus

Beruthiel wrote:

Ironing is for people with nothing better to do with their time.
You wash your clothes and as soon as the machine stops you take them out before they have time to crease. Hang them straight onto hangers, voila, no ironing. I haven't ironed in 15 years.

I've heard this said, and I'm convinced that it only works for women's clothes. Men's shirts come out of the washing machine creased. No amount of hanging will remove the creases.

That said, I don't think I've ever waited around for the exact instant that the washing machine stops. Some of us have to leave the house at least once a day

LadyJ

It's weird. I live at home in the house I've lived in all my life but it's kinda like living alone anyway. Apart from the fact that someone else buys the soap and the toilet paper,nothing much else is done for me.

My aunt and uncle live here now,since my granny died. Before that though,it was just me,granny and my grandaunt so I was kind of looking after them.

I own the house now as it was left to me in the will so maybe some day the old folks will leave the nest but me,I'm staying right here!

Beruthiel

seamus wrote:

Men's shirts come out of the washing machine creased. No amount of hanging will remove the creases.

It works for me froggies shirts

That said, I don't think I've ever waited around for the exact instant that the washing machine stops. Some of us have to leave the house at least once a day

My german washing machine washes the clothes in an hour and goes into an anti-crease cycle for another 30mins.. It also beeps when it's finished. It's the business

Kiera

Beruthiel wrote:

It works for me froggies shirts

That said, I don't think I've ever waited around for the exact instant that the washing machine stops. Some of us have to leave the house at least once a day

My german washing machine washes the clothes in an hour and goes into an anti-crease cycle for another 30mins.. It also beeps when it's finished. It's the business

I find if you put them on the rads as soon as you take them out of the washing machine the heat takes the creases straight out (obviously only on cold days or you'd die from the heat)

My mam loves ironing. She’ll stand and iron while watching Corrie. So anytime I have loads of ironing I ask her to call over for a cup of tea and leave the ironing basket where she can see it. I’ve never once asked her to do it

Giblet

Ironing. I Iron and when I'm finished nothing has changed ;(

Smellyirishman

Kiera wrote:

Anytime I have loads of ironing I ask her to call over for a cup of tea and leave the ironing basket where she can see it. I’ve never once asked her to do it

Sponge .

Oral Slang

Beruthiel wrote:

Ironing is for people with nothing better to do with their time.You wash your clothes and as soon as the machine stops you take them out before they have time to crease. Hang them straight onto hangers, voila, no ironing. I haven't ironed in 15 years.

Thats exactly what I do. The cycle I put my clothes on lasts about an hour, so I only put it on when I know I'll be there to take them out immediately & hang them either on the washing line or on the rads. Only iron about once or twice a year - for weddings or holidays or stuff. Can't understand people wasting their time ironing everything - such a pointless waste of time!

The main thing I miss about living at home is the location. Used to live in the countryside & now live in an estate in a ****ty area! That said, my parents don't live there anymore either (both live separately in housing estates) so wouldn't have it anyway even if I still lived at home.

Lone Wolf

I was back home last for the first time in a couple of weeks, got some of my mums cooking, some of her homemade strawberry cheesecake it was great.

I miss the cheesecake

aonfocaleile

I miss having someone serve me a fry on a Sunday when I'm nursing a hangover......also, being able to open the wardrobe and select something clean, ironed and folded/hanging to wear without having any of the worry of whether I've washed, ironed and put things away myself.

Sleepy

I hadn't had the Irish mammy washing my clothes and making sunday roasts thing since I was about 13 when she went back to work having decided we were old enough to take care of ourselves to some extent so I don't really have any of that stuff to miss.

The only thing I can think of that I miss in my mother's house is the well equipped, well-stocked kitchen where there's a big enough freezer and enough people in the house for buying loads of fresh fruit and veg not to be a waste of money (or result in a stinking mess at the bottom of the fridge!).

Dreamer 7

I dont miss that much funny enough, although its only when i drop in on sunday i realise I havent had a roast dinner in months. Everyday at home dinner was cooked in my house he is lucky if we have dinner twice a week! And the obligitory fry on a Sunday morning is something I brought with me

Plus in my house i dont have wear clothes, god i hate clothes they r so restricting! Esp bras, work of the devil:)

Miguel_Sanchez

Well it's been a while since I lived with my parents but I'd have to agree that it's the shopping bit that you miss.

I detest food shopping. I always forget what I was planning to buy and end up buying too much of everything (and it all goes off) or too little (and I'm buying stuff down the local Spar for twice the price later that night).

And the people in the supermarket who know what they want! I hate them. They're so smug, looking at me, judging me, while I wander around with a basket and a vacant expression on my face trying to figure out which is the cheapest pasta sauce and then trying to remember what the hell pasta sauce goes with again anyway.

banaman

Having to pay bills. Why can't he pay his own?
That and having to think up an excuse for not letting a load noisy piss-heads come back to your place.

joe_chicken

I miss:
A full fridge
A working washing machine
A powerful shower
A bed that doesnt have lumps in it


Other than that... I'm peachy

ferdi

shopping and ironing.