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CLINKITY CLINK Movin' Out!!!
woohoo the time has come for this bird to fly his coop and move out of this institutional correction centre aka parents home.
although i just turned 38 (its okay im asian), i think im bout ready to live away from the folks cos they wont let me play my music loud. thats a good a reason as any.
who else here has moved out on their lonesome (or even with friends for that matter)? and to you guys, can you please offer me some advice or maybe hints/tips about the dangers/perks of this monumental occassion.
also peeps in melb, wheres a nice cheap area for 3 bedroom dwellings? (when i say cheap i dont mean doveton/melton cheap)
*cue theme to mary tyler moore show*
you're 38, azn, and moving out? shouldnt you be moving back in?
...thats what i did
hahaha. M. Shut. Up.
Mate you're about to take your first big step out into the real world 
If you're like most guys and mum has done your washing, cooking, cleaning and ironing since you were born, you're in for a bit of a culture shock. Use the last few weeks you're at home to learn these things. If cooking really isn't your thing, invest in a toaster and/or jaffle iron.
If money is going to be a bit tight, find mates to move in with. Living on your own sounds cool, but when all the housework can only be done by one person (you), you stop doing it pretty quickly. That's when things get messy.
Aside from that, I dunno .. make sure you get some furniture too. When I first moved out it was into a three bedroom house as well - your furniture looks pretty impressive packed into your bedroom, but spread it out across an entire house and suddenly you realise how little furniture you have. And for the first six months you'll be thinking "where's the
Enjoy 
haha thanks joel. everything that im dreading has been pretty much touched upon by you... washing, cleaning and... cooking?
thankfully i'm gonna share the place with 2 females... without wanting to sound chauvinistic... im gonna be living with 2 females. 
No probs
Living with two chicks = 
You can probably get out of most cooking (assuming they can cook) by offering to do the washing up, but you're probably still going to have to wash and iron for yourself. And at least do some cleaning (mow the lawn, that's pretty easy)
4 things for you to know jizza:
1) Milk Crates - these are a godsend!!! Need a table - 4 crates and a bit of chipboard - done! Need some more chairs - milk crate with a pillow on top - Done! Need a book shelf or desk - Yep Milkcrates are your man!! Acquire as many of these beauties as you can - its not a sharehouse if it doesnt contain at least 15 milk crates! (i currently have 4 milk crates stacked under my stereo as its support, 2 milk crates for my books, a milk crate for the laundry basket, 4 milk crates (with special foam top) for seats out the backyard, and about 8 milk crates for storing the bottles of our home brew kit! Milk crates never go out of fashion!!
2) Get a hold of "He Died With A Felafel In His Hand" by John Birmingham! He explains the true intricacies of sharehouse living....
3) On a more serious note, if u r a non-smoker and dont want to live with a smoker. Dont move in (or let one move in to your place) with a smoker even if they say they will smoke outside only. It never lasts! After 2-3 weeks the person will feel that the house is as much thiers as anyone elses and from that point on your house will smell like the inside of a crematorium!! Trust me just dont do it!!
4) Anything you take to the house becomes house property - im not going to explain this, its one of the joys (
)of sharehouse living, ill let you discover it on your own!!
learn to cook laksa or curry, cook it then freeze and eat it for the next three weeks
j/k i must say i'm a bit of a whizz in the kitchen...
...you could always become greek and not move out till your 45 and just married from a girl your mum set up from her village 
Anyways congratulations, let the good times roll i guess jizza!
my tips;
have your name on as little bills as possible. if you cant get out of it, shortest term possible. this means if you want to move on, ie, your flatmates suck, you can do so quite easily.
dont move in with friends, if you fight heaps, youll lose friends, if u move in with ppl that u dont know, doesnt matter if you leave on bad terms, you havent lost anythig.
be easy going, give more than u take (err or whatever), like if someone doesnt do their night of cooking or whatever, just let it go. dont make issues out of stupid matters, they build and fights happen more.
but obviously if someone isnt putting in, make sure they know.
and seriously, cook yourself, its so easy to get into habit of getting chinese / subway / pizza, but you go through shitload of $$s.
hrmm, go see ure parents on sundays or something "to keep in contact" but really, for a free meal - home cooking never tasted so good....
yer, living out of home is wicked, just expensive.
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| Originally posted by gumble be easy going, give more than u take (err or whatever), like if someone doesnt do their night of cooking or whatever, just let it go. dont make issues out of stupid matters, they build and fights happen more. but obviously if someone isnt putting in, make sure they know. |
good thread..
im sure a lot of people are in the same boat jizza or planning to do so in the not too distant future, I know I am. Also some good points made.
but 2 females to move in with.. dame lucky man!
Yeah I'll be moving out at the end of the year* 
*If i ever find a job.
Trust me guys moving out is one of the best experiences you can have (ive been living out of home for 4 years now!).......
However, once you move out of home your chances of saving ANY money are ZERO!! If you plan on trying to save for going overseas etc, stay at home because there ARE always hidden little costs that make trying to save almost impossible...
yeh i guess my main motivation in moving out is to fulfill a certain sense of adventure. i mean, i live at home at the moment with no expenses, spending far too much money on vinyl and "goin out" then finding im not quite satisfied. i couldn't save money if my life depended on it, this way at least i got something to show for it. i think i need this and if it doesnt work out i'll just come back to my loving asian family... and their communist ways.
damn dirty pinkos 
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| Originally posted by webmeister Also if you want cheap food, you can't go past Mi Goreng noodles. They taste reasonable and have zero nutritional value, but 10 bucks for a box of 30 can't be beaten |
yer im moving out once spring kicks back in, just in time for the summer months 
i know its going to be hard at times, but it will rock also, and i wanna prove that i wont come running back home so im out for good!
my tip for a shared house - until you know whether you can trust the other housemates, always keep you own spare roll of toilet paper somewhere.
and my tip for saving money - go to one of those chinese buffet takeaways, fill up your container with meat, go home and cook your own rice. Got me through uni. though at 38 you shouldn't have to resort to this sort of scrounging.
i'm not really 38.
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| Originally posted by jizza i'm not really 38. |
Ahh, leaving the nest...fun fun fun
My main tip is, don't buy any major pieces of furniture - make sure the ppl u move in with already have stuff....cos, I found that's what irritated me most when I lived outta home - buying a whole bunch of furniture, then getting the shits seeing it not being treated respectfully by housemates or housemates friends....sooo, if u want nice furniture, either wait til u have a place of ur own, or make ur housemates buy it *lol* I hate to say it, but I realised how right my mother was on that front - when I was young and treated her furniture like crap, she'd always say "just u wait and see how u like it when u fork out money for stuff and ppl don't treat it nicely!!"....damn mothers always being right *lol*
I lived outta home for 4 years....there was a whole lotta good about it, and some not so good - but it's well worth it - really forces u to grow up and be independent But I moved back home a year ago, to save money for Europe....and I have to say, if u get along great with family, living at home beats the shit outta bein out on ur own...hehehe
Oh, other major tip - never live with ppl whose friendship u don't wanna lose....cos soooo much can screw up friendships when ur living together 
living at home for me has its up n downs, sometimes it sucks whent he olds are at my case, other times they just let me be.
But the main reason for moving out is im sick of wasting 2.5hours a day travelling! and then on weekends again to go out somewhere decent 
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| Originally posted by jizza i'm not really 38. |
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| Originally posted by Sharpy I was gonna say...you have a very nice complexion for a 38 year old. If this move means you have to control your spending on vinyl i'm against it 100% |
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