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Living alone can be a fabulous adventure! — Living lonely can exist a fabulous adventure!

Faith Mullen

Things to Have as a Woman Living Alone

If you are a daughter but starting out on your own, you are in for an awesome adventure. Y'all are now complimentary to nail that annoying vocal you lot love as frequently as y'all desire (until the neighbors object), consume any yous want (direct out of the jar!), and hog the bathroom for hours without anyone complaining. But you will also observe yous have a new set up of responsibilities. That trash will keep on piling up until you accept information technology out, and that lite bulb that burned out won't fix itself.

Whether yous are leaving for higher, moving into your start apartment, ownership your get-go dwelling, or but finally getting a identify without roommates, there is much to learn nigh living solo. Ensuring you accept a few household essentials will make your life easier equally you attempt to find the residual between newly plant freedoms and responsibilities.

The post-obit 10 items are absolute must-haves for every girl who is living lone:

It's time to admit it, girls: That hair in the drain belongs to us. — It'south time to admit information technology, girls: That hair in the drain belongs to us.

In one case you live lonely, there is no one to arraign that ho-hum-draining h2o on merely yourself. There is besides no 1 around but you to fix it. Save yourself from biweekly plumber fees by purchasing a zip-it bleed-cleaning tool. The flexible plastic wand covered in barbs can just be pushed downwardly the drain then pulled back up to think runaway pilus. While you are at it, invest in a plunger and some Drano every bit well for even less pleasant bathroom emergencies.

When your doorknob falls off, being able to fix it will feel awesome. — When your doorknob falls off, being able to ready information technology will feel awesome.

Living lone does not hateful you demand to go the ultimate Ms. Gear up-it (unless your heart so desires), but having a few bones tools volition relieve you from future frustration. When your oven handle jiggles, or your dresser knob falls off, being able to fix it yourself is very rewarding. Tool kits marketed toward women are bachelor if y'all would like your tools in pinkish. Just brand sure your kit includes these most-needed tools for household repairs:

Screwdrivers (Phillips and slot-head)
Hammer
Record measure
Utility knife or scissors

Buy yourself a jar opener before the craving for a tightly sealed snack strikes.

3. Jar Opener

Some people seem cursed with an inability to open jars and bottles. I have suffered many unmet cravings, unable to open a canteen of sports potable or jar of pickles in dire times of need until I finally bought myself a simple jar-opening device. Don't make the aforementioned mistake. Purchase yourself i of these inexpensive gadgets earlier you strike a craving.

Keep a fly swatter handy for those creepy crawlies. — Go on a fly swatter handy for those creepy crawlies.

4. Fly Swatter

Do you know how y'all used to telephone call your dad or your blood brother when a spider showed upward in your room? I'm sorry to be the 1 to accept to say this, but at present it's on you. (Not the spider. The job of killing it.) Buy a fly swatter then you tin can slaughter that creep from a distance. (Not your brother. The spider.) Discover a fly swatter likewise close for comfort? Buy a broom. Or one of those bug-sucking vacuums that continue yous from having to perform post-mortem cleanup. And some paper bags for recovering from hyperventilation may be a good thought, too.

Essentials in a first-aid kit for a girl living alone. — Essentials in a first-aid kit for a girl living solitary.

five. First-Help Kit

Moving out ways Mom will no longer be there to put on your band-aids and rut upwardly your tea when you lot're sick. You may still be able to convince her to bring craven soup over when you get the flu, simply make certain you lot at to the lowest degree accept the following get-go-help essentials so you lot can accept intendance of yourself.

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6. Flashlight

You'll never get me to admit that I'm afraid of the night, but if the power goes out, this girl wants a backup calorie-free. Ensuring that yous accept a flashlight on mitt volition non only relieve you in ability emergencies but is also nice for finding items that have fallen into cracks and searching backside the mountains of shoes in your closet. Invest in a heavy Maglite, and it tin can double as a weapon. Also these applied uses, how else volition you lot make shadow puppets when you get bored at nighttime?

Emergencies happen. And maybe one day you'll want to mop the floor. — Emergencies happen. And maybe one mean solar day you'll want to mop the flooring.

7. Saucepan

No, I'1000 not talking nearly the KFC diverseness (though you may find yourself peckish good chicken when your mom is no longer at that place to make your meals). I mean an bodily bucket—the kind that yous can stick below a dripping ceiling or a pipe that springs a leak. You'll exist thankful that you accept ane if a h2o emergency always occurs (and they do). A bucket tin can too come in handy equally a cleaning tool should you ever decide to mop those dirty floors.

Stock up on spare bulbs and batteries ahead of time. — Stock up on spare bulbs and batteries alee of time.

8. Spare Bulbs and Batteries

Remembering to purchase toothpaste can be difficult. Remembering to buy batteries and light bulbs is nearly impossible. Go on extras in stock so that burnt-out lights and dying smoke detectors can be dealt with right abroad. Otherwise, you may be living with safety hazards (or worse—dead Telly remotes) for absolutely atrocious lengths of fourth dimension.

Keep a spare key in a convenient place in case you lock yourself out. — Keep a spare key in a convenient place in example you lot lock yourself out.

9. Spare Fundamental

While information technology's dainty not having roommates, y'all might miss them when you forget your central. Depending on your edifice management/landlord situation, information technology might be hours earlier someone can come to unlock your door. So do yourself a favor and keep your spare somewhere both handy and prophylactic—in your car, for example, or with a family member or expert friend.

Google is a girl's best friend. — Google is a girl'southward best friend.

10. Google

I don't care what they say nigh diamonds. Google is a girl'southward best friend. Not only can the Internet keep y'all connected with family and friends and provide hours of entertainment, merely information technology tin can also exist used to notice the answer to most any question. Non sure how to update that newly bought Garmin? Ask Google. Looking for a recipe for single-serve salmon? Google. Need the number for a car mechanic? You guessed it—Google. Just look for reliable sources and have what you read with a grain of salt (just because it'southward online doesn't make information technology true). Apply a virtual pinboard like Pinterest to organize the useful tricks and tips y'all learn. And remember to spend at least a picayune time with real faces and places every twenty-four hour period, abroad from that calculator.

This content is accurate and true to the all-time of the author's knowledge and is not meant to substitute for formal and individualized advice from a qualified professional.

jayden on July 15, 2015:

Wow this is non entirely sexist at all! I tin't call back of a single girl I know, including myself who is capable of opening a jar or killing a bug on her own. Maybe we shouldn't alive alone, and should but stay with mom and dad until a overnice young prince on a white equus caballus comes along.

Faith A Mullen (author) on June 08, 2014:

Torrs13 - aforementioned with me! I of the down sides of having long hair. Thank you for reading!

Tori Canonge from N Carolina on June 06, 2014:

The Zip Information technology would have come in handy for me when I had my own apartment. I tin't even begin to count the numbered things that my hair clogged the drain.

Stephanie from Canada on January 29, 2013:

Oh wow, that's awesome.

Faith A Mullen (author) on January 29, 2013:

They make pinkish tasers too, for women who want that level of safety :)

Stephanie from Canada on January 28, 2013:

Yes ma'am. I hold. Some other tip is a baseball game bat abreast the doorway at the front door if you need it ;)

Faith A Mullen (author) on January 28, 2013:

Thank you, Neinahpets! Anything that will help a girl defend herself is a great idea!

Stephanie from Canada on January 28, 2013:

Oh wow... I definitely wish I had of had the offset one so many times when I lived alone. To add on to that one, a snake drain cleaner for the toilet would be a nice one for the list.

I second the mace. I kept one in my purse that was in a container that looked like a perfume spray shaped like a middle tube... it was fifty-fifty pink! It's too smart to continue something like that next to your bed or on a tabular array next to the front door.

Great commodity, voted upwards!

Faith A Mullen (author) on January 17, 2013:

Thank you for the vote, Mary615! I like the ideas y'all thought of for your daughter. A girl cannot be too careful when it comes to prophylactic.

Mary Hyatt from Florida on January 16, 2013:

Bully list. I can't call back of anything you forgot! When my daughter left for college, I gave her a tire inflater that runs off the motorcar battery. She loves it and has used it many times. I also gave her a container of Mace that goes on the keychain.

I voted this UP, etc.

Organized religion A Mullen (author) on January 15, 2013:

Lol! Cheers, Anne-Marie. I have been thankful for my drain cleaner countless times also.

Anne-Marie Yerks from Imperial Oak, Michigan on January 15, 2013:

Hilarious. I agree 100% about the drain thingie. I have used mine countless times.