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I live alone and sometimes this is almost crazily frustrating. Here are 40 of the reasons why. Add your own as you see fit.

1. I can not change fluorescent tubes or downlights.
2. Bracelets are hard to do up on your own wrist.
3. Ditto necklaces with fiddly clasps.
4. I can’t reach the shoes at the back of the closet without a chair.
5. Boys have tools, which come in handy at times.
6. Two people means I have to clean half as often.
7. There are some dresses that require the assistance of a second person.
8. I can not reach my own back for moisturiser and/or fake tan.
9. When I’m sick, I want someone else to make my cup of tea.
10. Generally, I want someone else to make my cup of tea.
11. No one asks how your day was when you live alone.
12. People who live alone are far more likely to develop alcoholism by drinking whole bottles of wine instead of sharing them.
13. Two people means double the DVD collection.
14. Other people can get rid of spiders. I can not. Even when I ask them nicely.
15. Boys t-shirts/hoodies are infinitely better and more comfortable than any oversized tee shirt/hoodie I will ever own.
16. Boys might not read maps but they generally have a better sense of direction without one than I will ever have with one.
17. There is always someone to blame when there is no food in the house.
18. I am sure I would have a better understanding of sports other than AFL if those sports were on my TV more often.
19. I could rearrange the furniture in my house more often if I had someone who could lift said furniture.
20. When the power goes out, I don’t know how to reset the TV channels.
21. When the hot water goes out, I don’t know where to find the pilot light.
22. As a fashion blogger, I need someone to take shots of my outfits sometimes (and a second opinion never hurts).
23. There is nothing you can buy fresh to cook for one.
24. Scary noises at night are less scary with someone else in the house.
25. Following said scary noises, there is someone else in the house to check them out.
26. There is someone to tell about seriously annoying TV commercials.
27. There is someone to tell about seriously funny TV commercials.
28. I won’t eat all the leftovers if there is someone to share them with.
29. If you are bored and no one is around to tell, are you really bored?
30. When you can’t sleep, there is someone to complain to.
31. There is someone to help carry groceries in from the car.
32. There is someone to call and ask to bring home milk/toilet paper/other last minute necessity that will always run out at an inconvenient time.
33. My Thai restaurant has a $30 minimum order for delivery. That’s a lot of Thai for one.
34. A problem shared is a problem halved.
35. The moment when you get in the bathtub and you realise you forgot your book/a towel/a bottle of water/music.
36. No one actually likes to exercise. Much more enjoyable with someone else and usually it is convenient if you can yell to this person in the next room, ‘feel like a run?’
37. Other people generally know how to do car stuff, like change a tyre or check oil.
38. If you lock yourself out, you are stuck. If you have a housemate, you can be rescued.
39. For when the hairdryer/straightener/curler breaks (this one is probably exclusive to female housemates…)
40. To have someone tell you to put down the jar of nutella and the spoon…..

Image credit: Kathryn Sprigg

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