What are you really looking forward to doing when you move out?

Piste · 20-09-2009 12:31AM #1

A lot of you may be living alone for college, but most of you probably still live at home with your parents (like me). One thing I'm really, really looking forward to doing when I move out is getting a puppy and a kitten. Despite my pleading my parents wont budge and get either a puppy or kitten so I'm left with trying to entice cats and hedgehogs into the garden. Is there anything you can't wait to do once you move out and are your own boss?

Daysha · 20-09-2009 01:08AM

Yup, a dog for me too. A nice big golden labrador would be brilliant to have around. I used to have a dog years ago but had to give it away (after lots of kicking and screaming!) and I've been dying to have one back ever since.

Pigwidgeon · 20-09-2009 01:43AM

being able to sing along really loudly to whatever and not have my family looking at me strangely.
being able to wear my onesie from penneys without being laughed at!

loads of stuff really... just can't think of things now..

caseyann · 20-09-2009 01:48AM

Dont move out

I am warning yous dont do it. Wait as long as you can,

Futurism · 20-09-2009 01:53AM

If I think I'll be there for the long term, then I'll get a dog. Most likely a GSD.

Other than that, I really want to be able to just roll and smoke a joint anywhere in the house at any time I want.

soccymonster · 20-09-2009 03:17AM

well, in a few years, ill be hoping to leave clare forever.:)
Sorted:D.

norwegianwood · 20-09-2009 10:45AM

Yep, as long as I can leave cork and never come back, I'm happy.

phasers · 20-09-2009 11:30AM

I'm not sure tbh.

I have 2 dogs already, I live in Dublin, I drive, can come and go as I please and my mammy makes me dinner :pac:

I'm sure I'll move out eventually but nothing is really pushing me.

hmm, maybe I'll get a kitten

suitcasepink · 20-09-2009 11:34AM

I don't know what I'd like.. I never really thought of it. I wouldn't like to ever leave Waterford though, despite it being.. Waterford lol

I'd like to live in some countryside area, something about fields surrounding me, entices me

Sophsxxx · 20-09-2009 12:53PM

Being able to go out and come stumbling in at whatever hour I please. Also being able to chill out watching telly without one of the parents going mad about the piling dishes in the sink!
And my absolute fave...being able to have a pyjama day with out everyone pulling the piss and lecturing about how I should be doing something outside....I cannot wait until next year!!

FredBaby! · 20-09-2009 01:05PM

in order of importance;

singing loudly

watching skins without my mam coming in and tutting about the kids of today

eating nutella with a spoon

being able to go on the computer without my dad throwing me out of the study when he needs to check his email.

D4RK ONION · 20-09-2009 02:05PM

Three words

Twenty...
Megabyte...
Broadband...

*wets self*

Ginja Ninja · 20-09-2009 02:06PM

enjoy living at home while you can kids.:cool:
You'll not realise all the nice bits that make it home until you leave:
;not having to think about what dinner will be
; not having to do your own shopping/cooking[and yes,you WILL learn]
; not having money when you need it and a craving for something nice
It's not all bad though:Drinking any time you want,coming and going as you please.

But listen to the cliché:Home is home,you'll never have quite the same comfort as you do in the good ol' homestead.Why do yoou think students come home at the weekends?

D4RK ONION · 20-09-2009 02:14PM

Meh, having been through 2 years of college now, I have to say, I enjoy the cooking, shopping. One thing I still don't do is my own laundry. Not looking forward to that conversation with my Mother.

mum- "Now, D4RK ONION, when a boy gets to a certain age, he starts to have urges, like say, the urge to do his own laundry. Now, do you know what this is? *points to washing machine"

ElectroJazz · 20-09-2009 02:23PM

Strut around in my birthday suit :cool:

Pigwidgeon · 20-09-2009 02:39PM

ElectroJazz wrote: »

Strut around in my birthday suit :cool:

only took 14 replies but someone finally said it..

Nettie · 20-09-2009 02:47PM

Being able to have people stay over whenever you like. And being able to leave the house and come home when you want. It'll just be a lot more free!

Insect Overlord · 20-09-2009 02:49PM

The one thing I'm genuinely looking forward to the most is being able to bring people home with me.
Sleeping in the converted attic of my parents' house for the last two years with a cheap, squeaky bed and thin walls has put restrictions on any chance of enjoying the full potential a bedroom has to offer...

Aisling(",) · 20-09-2009 03:24PM

being able to have people over without wondering about parents coming home or walking in.will be so much better!

lou91 · 20-09-2009 05:31PM

ElectroJazz wrote: »

Strut around in my birthday suit :cool:

It didn't work out too well for Rachel in friends...
Ross - "So you weren't trying to entice me with your nakedness???"

Having people over whenever would be great though.

OneArt · 20-09-2009 09:54PM

Not-living in Ireland anymore.

Germany here I come!

TheCardHolder · 21-09-2009 02:29AM

Walking around naked.

Bringing 'guests' home:p

Coming in at any hour I like making as much noise as I want :pac:

Pygmalion · 21-09-2009 02:49AM

I can go to the shop without spending 10-15 minutes each way.
Can visit friends (once I make on campus friends that is) without needing a lift from my mother.
More than a handful of buses a day to more than 1 destination.
Hmmm... These all seem like a list of reasons to hate Wexford more than reasons to love living by myself.

hunter164 · 25-09-2009 01:58AM

Going for a shower when I like, going to bed when I like without having listen to the Ma n Da giving out. Drinking cans when I feel like it. Listening to porn loudly. Doing what I like, when I like. And obviously sex without having to wonder if your Ma n Da can hear.

Davidius · 25-09-2009 07:34PM

Being able to make cartoon voices without being told to stop making cartoon voices.

That and no longer having people constantly walking into my room for no apparent reason and often without knocking.

Also having my own room.

almostnever · 25-09-2009 08:32PM

Dublin in general!

Professey Chin · 25-09-2009 09:38PM

almostnever wrote: »

Dublin in general!

Be sure to use protection

Crumble Froo · 26-09-2009 02:15AM

one thing i couldnt wait for at all was just being able to come and go as i pleased. my parents were quite strict and were big on curfews etc. even by the time i was in college, when i was living with them, they had to know where i was, when i'd be home,etc. suffice to say, i moved out pretty quickly once i had a job.

captainspeckle · 27-09-2009 03:53AM

kateos2 wrote: »

being able to sing along really loudly to whatever and not have my family looking at me strangely.
being able to wear my onesie from penneys without being laughed at!

loads of stuff really... just can't think of things now..

that will only happen if you live in an underground cave, alone, for eternity.

shame on you!

Pigwidgeon · 27-09-2009 11:30PM

captainspeckle wrote: »

that will only happen if you live in an underground cave, alone, for eternity.

shame on you!

you know you're just jealous...
best €10 i ever spent...
so comfy!

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 27-09-2009 11:56PM

ElectroJazz wrote: »

Strut around in my birthday suit :cool:

I was going to say that! Gwan the naked electros

Since I've moved out the things that have annoyed me about being at home for any extended period are;

1. Being told to get up. Yes I know it's noon MOM, however, I was up til 6am, so go away

2. Dinner times. I love coming home and being fed, but if I'm there for long the whole "dinner is ready now, you have to sit down now, and talk" I always read/watch TV while I eat, and having to talk to my family through a mouthful of food about how my day was (main bullet point: I did nothing) is crap.

3. Slow internet. How did I live with that for so long?! How do my parents STILL live with it?

4. No swearing. Feck off.

5. Having to get lifts/buses everywhere, stupid countryside.

I realise this makes me sound like a nasty moody cow to live with, I'm not really! I love going home for the odd weekend, and I'm quite fond of my family actually, I just dislike having to live in somebody else's house.

What are you really looking forward to doing when you move out?

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