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7 Stages Of Being Home Alone

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7 Stages Of Being Home Alone

Whether you are home for the summer or still living in your college town with your roommates, at some point you are bound to face some alone time. Being home alone can sometimes be the best thing, or it can be the absolute worst. Either way, when you are home alone there are several stages you go through.

1. You're free!

This is the point when you take off your clothes and run around the house because, hey, you are home alone and there is no one there to judge you. You can just let everything hang out. When you do decide to take you clothes off -- just make sure the windows are closed, or don’t. You do you.

2. You turn on your favorite show.

Whenever there are people home, you have to use this weird thing called consideration and commonly agree on something to watch in the living room, but when no one is home you are able to turn on your guiltiest of pleasures and not have the shame of knowing someone’s eyes are rolling so far back in their head that they might actually hurt themselves.

3. You're still free.

Just when you start to feel weird for sitting around with no pants on -- like someone is about to tell you that’s not allowed --you remember -- there's no one home. And you start prancing around in the nude singing your favorite songs at the top of your lungs.

4. Boredom strikes.

After about four hours of being home alone, the freeness of dancing around naked has worn off and you are searching for something to do. You take a look in your room and contemplate cleaning it. You know you haven’t seen your floor in about a week and it could really use a deep cleaning, but you decided against it.

5. When cleaning fails.

When you decide to clean your room, you’ll eventually stumble across something that was super important to you when you were in the seventh grade. You will sit on your bed staring off into the distance and reminisce on your past and how fast time has gone by.

6. Nap time.

When you get tired of cleaning your room you will remember how comfy your bed is, and you will probably end up take the best nap, ever. Everyone knows the best naps are taken when no one is home making any noise.

7. You miss your roommate or parents.

Eventually, the time will come when all the fun of having the house to yourself wears off. This is when you start counting the minutes -- even the seconds -- until your roommates or parents get home. And as soon as it hits the time they are supposed to be home, you will start to blow up their phone. Because, well, you are bored and you really hope that they are in the mood to go get some food with you when they get home.

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