We all know going home for Christmas break can be pretty exciting. Between the homemade food, seeing your pets, and relaxing after finals, it is what we wait for all semester.

By this point, our wallets are empty, our livers are damaged, and we are slowly balding from pulling our our hair during finals week. It is nice to be able to go home and recuperate after a semester of binge-drinking, binge-eating, and too much online retail therapy.

However, not every part of Christmas break is as nice as the feeling of finally sleeping in your own bed. Sometimes, being home for break can be just as stressful as a semester at college. Here are the 11 worst parts about going home for Christmas break.

1. Being a slave to your job.

With all the money you spent on pizza and alcohol throughout the semester, you need to work almost every day to have a hope of building up even a quarter of the money you spent.

2. Driving more and consequently paying for more gas.

Going to a school that has everything you could ever need in a 10-mile radius has its advantages, especially on gas. At home, you'll be using twice as much gas just to get to work than you do in two weeks at school.

3. Trying to see every person you went to high school with in a four week span.

Eventually, all that hard earned money will be wasted on overpriced coffee when you have to meet eight separate high school friends at your local café.

4. Spending more money.

Because you have to buy Christmas presents, get your hair, nails and eyebrows touched up, and, of course, eat at every single good food place in your area.

5. Chores.

It is no longer socially acceptable to leave a mountain of laundry on your floor or throw away dishes because you don't feel like washing them.

6. Responsibilities.

If you're like me, you're one of the older children in your house. This means dropping off your siblings at friend's houses or running to the store to get more milk. You're no longer just responsible for yourself.

7. Fighting over the family car.

You may be one of the older siblings, but your siblings may be close enough in age that they are also licensed drivers. If you don't have your own cars, this means fighting over who gets to drive the Jeep and who has to take the minivan.

8. Not seeing your college friends.

Most likely, your friends from college don't live as close as they do on campus. This means either dropping most of your savings on a plane ticket, train ticket, or gas money or not seeing them at all. You'll miss those wine nights and Netflix binge watching bonding moments after about a week of being home.

9. Trying to find a new Netflix series. 

Because you've already watched every good series on Netflix while you were procrastinating during finals week.

10. Using break to try and do all of the things you don't have time for during the semester.

Suddenly, you'll find yourself just as busy applying for summer internships, studying for the GRE, or reading that best-seller you've had sitting on your desk at school for four months.

11. Getting out of routine.

The first week back home is always exciting, especially because of the comfort of your own bed. But not having a gym within walking distance (or a gym membership for that matter), not having constant entertainment from your friends, and not having consistent college parties on the weekends takes a while to get used to. By the time you're used to the quiet and downtime, it's already time to go back to school.