What was your biggest struggle when you left home?

[Spinneret]

Keeping the place tidy

 

[BrianL]

Honestly, when I bought my house, I think I just had trouble getting over the idea that I still had enough money to live and didn't have to jsut eat ramen noodles and stuff all the time. It just felt so weird because I had a mortgage payment and all my own bills (though I had been paying a few of the bills at home for a while so that wasn't new). I just had to get used to it.

 

[White Cat]

None.

 

[TippyThomas]

Walking away from the only stability I'd ever had in my life. There was a giant learning curve for me.

 

[luvnwdwgal]

Living in a 130+ year old house that had been gutted and was being renovated. We didn’t even have drywall up on all the walls and had plywood floors. No kitchen sink, cabinets or counter top. No washer or dryer. It was a mess.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Probably some financial. Just learning to adult.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I never left home. After it was just the two of us and we were best friends by that point in our lives, my mother and I rented houses together for the rest of her life and we split bills evenly. After she passed away I came here.

 

[tvguy]

Don't remember any struggles, just differences.
Went from my parents house to a house I shared with my new wife. So living with a spouse was different than living with just a roommate like I did in College.
Having to pay all the bills. Not a struggle, just different.

 

[Magical2017]

Financial responsibility. I ignored what I was taught at home. I wanted to live in "the manner I had become accustomed to" while at home while on a recent college grad's salary. That was a great learning experience but it stunk at the time.

 

[Colleen27]

Cooking. I had huge issues with handling meat, to the point of spending about two years as an almost-vegetarian (I did still eat things like pepperoni on pizza when we could afford take-out) rather than have to touch raw meat to cook. So I ate a LOT of mac & cheese, salads, and pasta with marinara in those first couple years of cooking for myself.

 

[Meriweather]

Money.
Left home hen I got married and we were both going to school

 

[goofyernmost]

Staying alive, my first year was spent in Vietnam.

 

[bcla]

Honestly, when I bought my house, I think I just had trouble getting over the idea that I still had enough money to live and didn't have to jsut eat ramen noodles and stuff all the time. It just felt so weird because I had a mortgage payment and all my own bills (though I had been paying a few of the bills at home for a while so that wasn't new). I just had to get used to it.

Strangely enough I never really worried about it. I ate really cheap anyways, and as a single guy with a car I did silly little things with my money like spend $15 at arcade games at night. Can't do that with family of course.

It feels really weird too because at the time I got a 30 year adjustable. I can' t believe that I was paying almost 9% APR back at the time.

 

[MrsPete]

Money.
But maybe that's not a difference because that was also our biggest struggle as a child living at home.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

At first I was so scared to spend the night by myself.