Living with your folks when you're an adult.

Pighead · 14-10-2009 10:11AM #1

Back in the summer of 99, through no fault of his own, a 22 year old Pighead was forced to return to the family abode in a sleepy village in the heart of County Louth. The reason for the return to the homestead was a harsh and severe break up with a girl who had stole Pighead's heart about a year earlier.

Things had been going great. for about nine or ten months but then as is usually the case in relationships, we started to row about the state of Pighead's underpants. They were a pair of green and yellow boxer shorts with a picture of an elephant at the front with the words "Nice Trunk" neatly written underneath said elephant. They had been purchased six years earlier in a men's clothes shop in Galway.

They were perfect. Not too tight, not too loose and just the right weight. Previous to this Pighead had been a staunch underpants supporter and thought that boxers were for show offs and pansies. Mammy wasn't too sure about the new boxers "They're a bit gaudy Pighead" but Pighead didn't care. He was 16 now and it was time to show her he was his own man now.

Anyway, Pighead pretty much continually wore those wonderful boxers for the next five or so years and indeed he was wearing them the night he snared his ex girlfriend back in 1998. She loved them back then even though they were faded and even though the writing on the front which read "Nic unk" didn't make much sense.

Sadly, over the next year as the pants faded, so too did our relationship. "Buy some new pants Pighead. There's a massive hole in the crotch area and the elastic in them is about to snap" Pighead refused all requests to part with his pants and eventually she hit him with that age old ultimatum "It's me or the pants Pighead"

And that is how Pighead ended up living with his Mammy and Daddy again at the ripe old age of 22. He only stayed a short while, until his heart had mended but it was kind of embarrassing being back at home again so soon after heading out all alone into the big bad world.

So has/is anybody lived/living at home in their twenties? Do you feel ashamed or do you actually enjoy being surrounded by the old familiar surroundings with which you have grown up with?

brummytom · 14-10-2009 10:20AM

Not at all. My Mammy makes a lovely dinner.

My cousin lives at home - she's never had a boyfriend and never left home for more than a week. She's Nearly 30.

It's pathetic

RoadKillTs · 14-10-2009 10:22AM

Not at all. My Mammy makes a lovely dinner.

My cousin lives at home - she's never had a boyfriend and never left home for more than a week. She's Nearly 30.

:eek:

Thats prity bad allright.

Pighead · 14-10-2009 10:27AM

I live on the streets with a hobo called Harry.

brummytom wrote: »

My cousin lives at home - she's never had a boyfriend and never left home for more than a week. She's Nearly 30.

It's pathetic

Jeekers, that's definitely heading towards "outstaying your welcome" territory alright. Does she have a job?

Mr Benevolent · 14-10-2009 10:29AM

It's only a short term thing.

Not bad Pighead, but why were you first 22 and then 16? Some Pigheadian time machine?

Seriously though, your thread has stirred deep and profound thoughts. I need new boxers.

brummytom · 14-10-2009 10:30AM

Not at all. My Mammy makes a lovely dinner.

Pighead wrote: »

Jeekers, that's definitely heading towards "outstaying your welcome" territory alright. Does she have a job?

Yep, she's got two.

She's in no hurry to leave home though

Super-Rush · 14-10-2009 10:30AM

I moved back in with my parents when i returned home(from Mayo) about 5 years ago. After being home a week they split up and moved out and i had the house to myself.

ScumLord · 14-10-2009 10:31AM

Not at all. My Mammy makes a lovely dinner.

I had to move home for a while after my world travels, it was a disaster. I just couldn't live their anymore. Whenever I brought people back to the house she got all thick about it. It's only 20 or 30 people and it's nearly dawn now anyway, lay off mom.

pow wow · 14-10-2009 10:35AM

I live on the streets with a hobo called Harry.

Moved 'home' last Summer, moved out and rented a place down the road about 3 days later. :rolleyes:

Pighead · 14-10-2009 10:39AM

I live on the streets with a hobo called Harry.

Confab wrote: »

but why were you first 22 and then 16? Some Pigheadian time machine?

Pighead wrote: »

Back in the summer of 99, through no fault of his own, a 22 year old Pighead was forced to return to the family abode in a sleepy village in the heart of County Louth.

They had been purchased six years earlier in a men's clothes shop in Galway.

He was 16 now

No time machines Confab. Pighead merely brought the story back 6 years to when the underpants were purchased.

And don't be so hasty in buying new boxers. A great pair of boxers is strangely enough extremely difficult to find. If you already own a great pair, stay loyal to them. Sometimes people don't know what they've got til it's gone.

Insect Overlord · 14-10-2009 10:50AM

Phase 1: find underpants
Phase 2: ? ? ?
Phase 3: move back in with your parents.

There's something wrong there...

pablomakaveli · 14-10-2009 10:56AM

An File wrote: »

Phase 1: find underpants
Phase 2: ? ? ?
Phase 3: move back in with your parents.

There's something wrong there...

Ya there is. You forgot PROFIT.

Lollipops23 · 14-10-2009 11:03AM

It's only a short term thing.

I'm still at home. It's mainly down to my lack of job-myself and the OH are dying to move in together but I just can't afford it right now:(

Havn't got the worst situation in the world though, the rents are easy going enough!

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 14-10-2009 11:06AM

If I was at home, I would be fatherless and probably be on my way to jail for a long time. If I had to live at home, I would probably kill him

nameproblem · 14-10-2009 11:14AM

Not at all. My Mammy makes a lovely dinner.

Moved home for the summer this yr, had a job and was saving for last yr of the MA but nearly cracked, couldn't wait to get back away. Thankfully out now, and don't intend to move home again if possible... will be careful to replace my boxers regularly though...

Krieg · 14-10-2009 11:22AM

I live on the streets with a hobo called Harry.

23 and currently at home. I did move out for 9 months when I finished school and I took a year out before college. I finished college last may and got a job 2 months ago and I have been on daft everyday looking for a place.

Most of my friends are still living with parents or have moved back in due to lack of jobs/money. So its not really and embarrassing situation for them.

My brother is pathetic, nearly 40 and living at home. My father encouraged him to buy a place and he did using the home house as collateral, that was 2 years ago and he still lives at home, his new house sits empty, his excuse? he cant afford to move in because he only makes 550pw....... :mad:

Pighead · 14-10-2009 11:23AM

I live on the streets with a hobo called Harry.

ScumLord wrote: »

I had to move home for a while after my world travels, it was a disaster. I just couldn't live their anymore. Whenever I brought people back to the house she got all thick about it. It's only 20 or 30 people and it's nearly dawn now anyway, lay off mom.

Pighead hears you ScumLord. He hears you loud and bucking clear.

Like Beyonce, Pighead is a fiercely independant kind of person so when moving back into the family home Pighead made absolutely sure that he take care of his own washing and bathing.

At this stage the trusty old boxers had finally given up the ghost. The hole in the crotch area meant that Pighead's lad's were no longer supported and the broken elastic meant they no longer fitted perfectly around his toned yet masculine hips. It was a sad day but Pighead realised he had to say goodbye to his trusty boxers and thus retired them to the back of the underwear drawer.

About a month later, Pighead returned from town to find his old trusty boxers laid out on the bed with the rest of his freshly washed and ironed clothes. Pighead was raging. It made him feel uncomfortable to think that she had been in his room and handled all his sticky stinky undergarments. But the anger sooned turned to amazement. Mammy had mended the boxers. The crotch area had been filled with some satiny white material and a brand new elastic fitted. The underpants had come back from the dead! Hallelujah!

A couple of months later Pighead again returned home to find Mammy tending to a pair of damaged underpants. This time they belonged to Daddy. What Pighead saw next made him reel and gag a little. She was covering the whole area with a piece material from an old pair of her WHITE SATIN KNICKERS.:eek:.

It was a horrible horrible moment of realisation. Pighead was standing in a room with his parents wearing a pair of six year old underpants which had been repaired with a piece of material from his mothers knickers. Freud would have had a fieldday had he witnessed the scene. It was at that precise moment that Pighead decided to get the hell out of dodge.

GavRedKing · 14-10-2009 11:24AM

It's only a short term thing.

Just turned 24 still living at home, have only been away from home on holidays and summers spent away with family and the like, so i dont have the feeling of freedom really and maybe thats why I have no desire at the moment to move on.

That and im always broke

NothingMan · 14-10-2009 11:31AM

It's only a short term thing.

I'm 24 and just about to move out now. Been good though, since I was 18 i've been living in a granny flat out the back. Private entrance, big HDTV, XBox and an alco neighbour meant lots of big sessions and parties over the years.

Now about to move in with the OH and my days of impromptu sessions will be at an end

.

Why do we have to grow up? WHY OH WHY??????????

Blazer · 14-10-2009 11:36AM

It's only a short term thing.

So pighead..are you still wearing mama's knickers..sry ur boxers?

magotch07 · 14-10-2009 11:37AM

Not at all. My Mammy makes a lovely dinner.

brummytom wrote: »

Yep, she's got two.

She's in no hurry to leave home though

jesus thats bad i thought I was bad i moved out last year at 23 bought my own house have to say its so relaxing living on ur own

Pighead · 14-10-2009 11:44AM

I live on the streets with a hobo called Harry.

Berkut wrote: »

So pighead..are you still wearing mama's knickers..sry ur boxers?

Unfortunately Pighead's a sentimental old fool and he has kept those pants in his undergarment collection throughout all these years. Although if truth be told there is no longer much of the original material left. It's basically just a white satin thong at this stage. But the waistband material is still the original so Pighead will continue to wear them until they finally call it a day.

Shryke · 14-10-2009 11:48AM

I live on the streets with a hobo called Harry.

I recently moved back due to the last place I was living in falling through.. I've been looking at places every week for a month and I think I'm about to take one of them today or tomorrow. I can't stand these ****ing people I'm living with.
It's not cool to be living with the parents but it's all about circumstance. I'm in my early twenties and I really dislike the fact that I'm stuck back here. And the commute to work is taking a two hour+ chunk out of my day.

Pighead · 14-10-2009 11:48AM

I live on the streets with a hobo called Harry.

magotch07 wrote: »

jesus thats bad i thought I was bad i moved out last year at 23 bought my own house have to say its so relaxing living on ur own

It would be even more relaxing if you used fullstops in your sentences.

Only messing magotch, if you don't want to use full stops that's entirely your business and no amount of snide comments from Pighead or his like should change you. Actually in Thailand they don't use full stops either and they're a lovely bunch of lads. Carry on magotch07. As you were.

Vegeta · 14-10-2009 11:48AM

It's only a short term thing.

I'd happily live at home til my dying days

Myself and my girlfriend live together in our own house (well the banks owns most of it) but if things went tits up I'd move back in no bother if they'd take me

Get on great with my mam, dad (who are pretty liberal) and three brothers (although only 2 still live at home now)

Whiskey Devil · 14-10-2009 11:57AM

brummytom wrote: »

My cousin lives at home - she's never had a boyfriend and never left home for more than a week. She's Nearly 30.

It's pathetic

Pics or GTFO.

PM her number.

SLUSK · 14-10-2009 12:00PM

I live on the streets with a hobo called Harry.

Im 28 and I moved home, my parents live in the summer house. I stay here for free until I get a job. Living at home is great!

I wear a tracksuit every day now.

Pighead · 14-10-2009 12:04PM

I live on the streets with a hobo called Harry.

SLUSK wrote: »

I wear a tracksuit every day now.

Living the dream SLUSK.

drdeadlift · 14-10-2009 12:05PM

brummytom wrote: »

Yep, she's got two.

She's in no hurry to leave home though

I bet you she has a fair few bob saved up in the bank!

Whiskey Devil · 14-10-2009 12:06PM

I left Galway when I was 18 and haven't lived at home since. I miss it a lot really, but I enjoy moving around the place like a traveller.

I'm 24 now.

SLUSK · 14-10-2009 12:09PM

I live on the streets with a hobo called Harry.

Pighead wrote: »

Living the dream SLUSK.

Nothin wrong with living at home and wearing a tracksuit.

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