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The Incredible Benefits You Never Realized About Living with Best Friends

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The Incredible Benefits You Never Realized About Living with Best Friends
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There’s nothing worse than getting stuck with terrible roommates, since waking up to no food or a trashed apartment gets old fast. If you get to live with your best friends while away from home, then consider yourself extremely lucky. Living with best friends is not only entertaining and fun, but close relationships with friends are actually good for your overall health, so go you! 

But whether you’re actually stuck in roommate hell or heaven, the following 10 reasons remind us all why living with your best friends is worth the move. 

1) Spontaneous Parties

Living with best friends makes your social life much more convenient. Instead of planning for weeks, suddenly you’ll find excuses to have fun anytime everyone is home. Spontaneous parties or nights out are a huge plus to loving your roommates, and might just help you have more fun in life.  

2) Sharing Take-Out 

The daily struggle to cook yourself something marginally edible is less stressful when you live with friends. Not only can you cook large meals together and save money, but there’s always someone to split ordering a pizza with. And who doesn’t love a Pizza House party with friends? 

3) Never Go Alone

Where you used to struggle to find someone to accompany you to last-minute events, your roommates are now an automatic date. They might put up a fight sometimes, but you know deep down they love being your plus one. 

4) Never Feel Lonely

Nights when you’re going home alone shouldn’t have to feel awkward. There’s nothing wrong with having a good time and keeping it at that. Living with best friends is a great situation for not feeling lonely, since they’ll be coming home with you no matter what kind of night you had. Plus, when you get home, you get to drunkenly swap stories over that leftover pizza you ordered last night. 

5) Making Boring Errands Fun 

Probably the best part of living with best friends is that daily errands become an adventure. Whether you’re headed to the grocery store, gas station or nearby fast food joint, you now have a bunch of passengers to help you holler along to the radio. It’s amazing how fast grocery shopping becomes a grocery store game when you’re living with best friends. 

6) Chores Together 

Life making errands fun; daily and weekly chores quickly become a social affair when living with best friends. You no longer need to feel silly singing while you clean, since you now have back up vocals and dancers. 

7) Binge Viewing Partners 

We all love to park it in front of the TV or laptop and spend a few hours with our favorite show. When you’re living with best friends, however, this scene is no longer lonely but borderline amazing. Even the simplest TV marathon becomes a party when you love your roommates, who definitely won’t judge when it’s time for just one more episode, six times in a row. 

8) Spontaneous Road Trips  

Last but not least, living with best friends will surely lead to at least one spontaneous road trip. Where you might have reservations if you’re trying to plan a road trip, no one can say no to waking up to a packed car. Throw caution to the wind and jump in - these days of living with your best friends will spawn some of your favorite stories for years to come.

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