move out of my parents' house

... I’m a little ambivalent about leaving home. On the one hand, it feels so limiting, but on the other hand I’m scared of all the things that leaving entails: I’d have to get a car, car insurance, buy all my own food, fix all my own food, I’d have to remember everything on my own. I’m not worried about cleaning up after myself (laundry/dishes/etc), but I’ve ruined two different pans by leaving them on the burners for hours after forgetting about them.

I am extremely forgetful, and being on my own leaves me vulnerable to everything from forgetting appointments to accidentally starting a fire.

So, there’s a couple of things that have been holding me back from moving out:

1. Guilt that I’ll be leaving two elderly people to take care of themselves.
2. Not having a full-time job because I’m still in grad school.

So, I have to get over my guilt and get a full-time job…then I can move out and get a dog. :-)

Okay, I’m officially trying to save up for this (for rent, that is). I don’t have a real steady income, so it may take some time.

yeah, my parents, I think, are ok with me being here. Its all me wanting to get out. I am really independent and its hard to rely on other people so much when I want to stand on my own two feet.

My plan is to move out by December.

I don’t think this is worth doing.

Everything seems to be revolved around getting my license.. which wont come until October, but once I get it, my real goal is to move out of my parents’ house. I’m not being childish when I say they’re pushing me out, and they hint at it every day. At nineteen years old, being homeless for almost a year was my way of starting out, until they began to beg me to come home. Save some money. Get my life on track. I’m saving money, on my way to my future, and they’re already trying to push me out. I’m going to start looking for apartments/places to live soon to move into in late October.

I am seeing the place for the first time today. And we’re moving in tomorrow. I am going to be paying rent and whatnot. So that’s a start. After I look and land a full-time job. And I’m there for about 3 or 4 months. I’ll look for my own place. Or just move to PEI, NS or Ont. Either way, I’ll have somewhere to stay.

I’ll make it on my own soon enough. ♥

Maybe its a little late when you are 26 years old, but it was the first time i felt ready and not afraid og being all alone. I am doing fine now, maybe i dont have so much money to have fun, but at least I can pay my own bills and feel like an independent woman.

It took a while for me to get out of the nest…

It took a lot of hard work, perseverance and learning…

Standing on your own is a difficult task, specially when things are all too different (it’s like being a salt water fish trying to make it in fresh water).

I’ll have done this at the weekend. So I won’t be online for a while (apart from if I pop into somewhere with internet)..