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I'm always threatening to go live on my mom's couch and eat cereal all day. It's kinda of a vent for me--I started college at 17 and never really moved back home. I have a tough job and if they get rid of me, I will go live on momma's couch, she said I could!
I'm old school. I left home at 18 and never went back. I view it as a sign of total failure no matter what the circumstances. Mooching off your parents is for teenagers, not grown adults.
have a goal to save for a house or something while you live there. Is it one parent or both? Are they elderly where you would be HELPING them? Those things make a difference. If you get a long go and save your money, help them out too.
Even if you're in a situation that you're forced to go and live with your parents (and no, it is not a sign of "total failure"), that doesn't mean you have to be a deadbeat. Do chores, buy groceries, put money towards utilities. Life is hard, it's good to have that option because at 25, there's no way my mother would let me live with her even if I were totally destitute.
I'm old school. I left home at 18 and never went back. I view it as a sign of total failure no matter what the circumstances. Mooching off your parents is for teenagers, not grown adults.
I'm old school. I left home at 18 and never went back. I view it as a sign of total failure no matter what the circumstances. Mooching off your parents is for teenagers, not grown adults.
Even if situation drives you to beg on the highway ramp with a sign card?
Even if situation drives you to beg on the highway ramp with a sign card?
Oh please. There would have to be very extenuating circumstances to make an adult go back home, for example staying at your parents place after living overseas, or becoming very ill and unable to take care of yourself.
I see people going back home to 'save money', which is a pitiful excuse. Do they not think their parents like having the house to themselves after countless years of raising kids?
What we're seeing is a new generation of useless people unable to stand on their own two feet.
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), that doesn't mean you have to be a deadbeat. Do chores, buy groceries, put money towards utilities. Life is hard, it's good to have that option because at 25, there's no way my mother would let me live with her even if I were totally destitute.
