Some of you may or may not know, but I just moved into my first house last week! While I am extremely excited to begin this new chapter, if only for a summer, we have definitely hit a few bumps in the road. But first, I list the awesome things about living in your own house with your friends!
- No RAs :) - sorry to my RA friends
- You can literally do anything you want with decorations, furniture, setting up drawers, and more
- I CAN COOK MY OWN FOOD - those of you who know me know that this is a really big deal!
- I can really have control over what I put in my body - I'm trying to only buy real food, not the freezer stuff full of chemicals, and I can decide to not keep sweets in the house
- We can host parties, pregames, and more!
These are absolutely awesome things about having my own place. It also allows you to get to know your roommates even more than living in a sorority house. When responsibilities are greater, like dishwashing, cooking, and yes, laundry too. You learn more about your friends' habits than you ever wanted to either :) With that, it brings me to the not-so-great things about house living,
- Instead of RAs, you can get the cops called on you (whoops!)
- You have a lot of space to decorate, and not nearly enough money to do it
- With cooking your own food, it can really take a lot of time out of your day, time that can be spent running errands, doing homework, and studying
- With buying real food, it can get expensive, and adding that to rent, water, electricity, cable, internet, and everything else, it all adds up really fast
- With hosting parties, someone has to clean up after...
I mean, the good things definitely outweigh the bad, and the more time I can spend with my friends, the better! Our house is still in the works of being unpacked and set up, and hopefully we can do it by this weekend. If you're looking to living on your own (aka not in the dorms) I highly recommend choosing to live with people who like to cook and appreciate food, it makes it a lot easier to entertain :) as well as setting down house rules and chores so you don't have those awkward moments when you have washed the dishes every day of the week and don't know how to ask someone else to do it (haven't reached that point yet, hopefully we don't get there) but this is definitely something I wish we did, and there's still time!
Living in your own place is a huge step in adulthood (my god, who let me be an adult?), and adulthood definitely has its perks. We bought a bar the other day just for kicks so we can entertain like the classy women we are (just ignore the fact that it's stuffed with red solo cups). But living like an adult means acting like an adult, and that's sometimes really hard to do when all you want to do is sleep all day and have your mom make you dinner, especially when your parents are really good cooks, and not to mention, they send me pictures of the amazing (expensive) food they make, which is probably the worst part about being away from home. Anyway, I'm so excited to see where this summer goes, and now that I'm in a house, hopefully a lot of parties can be held and a very good time can be had!
Thanks for reading!
Kim
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