Moving back home

[Kandy-Sugar]

So for those of you who have moved out of home, have you ever moved back home before?

Next year Steve and I are possibly moving back to my parents in order to save money for a house of our own.

It's too hard to save money for a house deposit when we have to spend $300 on rent every week plus pay off our other loans.

We figure it will take us a couple of years to get where we want to be if we stay at my parents four those couple of years.

Whereas it may take us double that if we keep doing what we're doing now.

Yeah it might be a bit awkward with using the same bathroom, kitchen etc etc, but it should be worth it hopefully. My brother and his soon to be wife will be moving in sometime next year too. So it's really going to be a full house.

Just when mum and dad thought they'd only have two kids left, they get back the older two plus their partners. XD

But they were actually the ones who offered and have been offering for a long time now and we've only just decided now that it would be a good idea. We're not really getting anywhere doing what we're doing now.

We really want to build/buy at the Gold Coast!

We will be living in a seperate complex to my parents on the same property, but it won't have a bathroom I don't think. Only a toilet. >.< They haven't actually finished doing it up yet, so I don't know what it will be like when finished.

The only thing I'm worried about is the big Gum Trees near the complex.

 

[Bambi]

ive been back to my mums 2 or 3 times, since i moved out the first time, ive never lasted long though, after a couple of months ive just wanted gone again, i think once youve moved out, its impossible to go back really, youve had that freedom, then youre back to being moaned at and told what to do. I cant imagine ever going back now, unless summat goes really wrong

 

[Squid]

I lived with mum until I was 21-ish and then moved into my house, I have lived here for over a year now and i can never see myself moving back in with mum unless i had to. I love having my space, I love not having her nagging at me every hour, the only thing i do not like is not having her there to palm the chores off to, but sometimes when she visits I still do that /smug.

Sometimes she even asks me if she can move in with me. I am like "Lulz fuck off mum."

The only way I'd move back with mum was if I ran into terrible money problems or something.

 

[Lirael]

I lived at home full-time 'til the age of 18, then went to Uni, though I returned for a month during Christmas, Easter and for three months during the summer.

I'm now living at home full-time and it can be a little stressful, but it's actually better than Uni. I was on my own at Uni which was a) lonely and b) led to boring meals. It's so hard to cook healthy food for one person! Mind you, I often have to eat a one-person meal anyway 'cause my parents eat meat and I don't. I can't eat as freely, though, because my parents monitor what I eat. They seem to think I don't eat enough, even though I've actually gained weight since coming home.

Food isn't too much of a problem now that I'm working, though! I'm rarely home for dinner.

The main issue for me is not being able to move about after 9:30. My mum likes to get an early night because she has to wake up at 6/6:30 during the week in order to arrive at work on time. She has a 1 hour commute each way. She's a light sleeper so my dad and I can't really do anything after 9:30. Even going to the toilet annoys her, though there's no way I'm going to stop doing that.

It's harder to have Chris over for the reason above, but I can go to his house and there's never a problem, so it's not too bad.

 

[Kandy-Sugar]

It is a pain.

I have literally had nightmares about moving back home and never being able to leave again.

In my nightmares Steve leaves to go somewhere one day and never comes back and for some reason I don't notice until a long while after. I must get brainwashed or something when I get back home and don't remember anything after moving out the first time. XD

Anyway, my biggest fear is that I will not be able to move out again for a long time. The last thing I want is to have to share my space so closely with all my family again for a long time. Especially seeing as this time Steve will be with me.

But I'm sick of renting so I'm gonna have to suck it up for a couple of years.

 

[Amabdaan]

Its hard to move back home, you sre used to only answer to yourself and you have privacy and you don't have to walk around on eggshells. You are not able to do the same things as you could before, you are loosing your freedom. Even though you and your parents have all the good intensions in the world, those intensions may not be accepted very well...privacy and freedom are a gift one should treasure...especially with only on bathroom
My advise is that you and your partner should save money on other things, like your transportation, food, cinema, cafe's clothes, videogames ect ect ect.... If you can, ride bike instead of car = also loose a few lbs, dont eat out and no sweets or soda, rent a game instead of buying an so on...Then in a matter of notime you have saved enough for your deposit

 

[Jack's Smirking Revenge]

i still think moving out was the best thing i ever did, and i could never go back. i've moved a couple of times since i first left, and i've always gone home for a few weeks while in between places and it didn't take long for me to hate it. it's the freedom of it being your own place and your own rules that i love, and i can't go back to being under somebody else's roof.

 

[Not of Rust]

We lived with my wife's parents twice.

First time when we moved back to the Philadelphia area from Texas so we could save for our first house. That was about 6 months as it took us a while to find a house and my job was really hectic.

Second time was after we sold the aforementioned house but hadn't found our new house yet. We ended up in a contract about 3 weeks later but the sellers wanted 75 days to close so we ended up with them for the whole summer.

It had it's ups and downs. Obviously privacy is compromised but there's so many household chores that were great to get away from for a while.

 

[Tyler Breeze]

Oh gosh...

We've had to do this a few times during our time as a family. My parents went to Gamma's (Mom's Mother) house when I was a newborn baby. We stayed there for a while. but eventually, my Gamma kicked us out. So we moved into our own place after that.

There were a few more times in between, another time we went to my Dad's Mother's house in 2002. Which is actually an apartment. There must have been at least 13 people crammed into a 2 bedroom apartment. Holy cow that was horrible.

Then there's the time we went back to Gamma in 2006. All I'll say about that is that this stay made me want never see them again. I got to see for myself just how horrible they are. I'm glad my Mom finally stood up to her.

Finally in 2008 we went back to Dad's Mom's place. We had just come back from Florida at the time and needed a temporary place to stay. Boy, me and Grandma were fighting about something everyday. She just loved picking on me and my smallest Broski, but the other Broski got a pass. Whatever with that. I'm glad I've never had to see her again either.

Yeah so it's happened a lot for us. It will never happen again luckily. At least not while I'm in the house. Only 4 more years until I move out! XD