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03 February 2011, 01:08 PM
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Get out of the comfort and security of your parents home would be a good start! Life is more than just material want. Being an only child and a daddy's girl is no excuse for not taking the first steps on life's ladder. Rather than tugging on your parents apron strings, try working to keep a roof over your head, budget your finances for food, bills, clothing, etc and live an independent life. I left home around your age and moved to the other side of the country to get work. Worked hard to get to where I am today with a lot of fun in between, have a nice house, a loving family with 3 daughters who are all daddy's girls!!! When the time comes, I would never dream of holding them back but will of course support them the best I can every step of the way. Not saying this is what will happen for you or that it is what you want, but you still need to take the first steps.
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03 February 2011, 03:33 PM
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I moved out my mum and dad's house when i was about your age....bout 9 years ago.
I moved into a flat, with my now wife and with the current climate, i doubt i could afford the same flat now. You really need someone else to help pay half and that way afford somewhere half-decent.
I've been through the whole boredom thing and sometimes still do, but last year i took up golf and have enjoyed that thoroughly. Not as expensive as buying and fiddling with a scoob(although it could be if you want it) and if the weather ain't great, then your a bit stuffed, but it got me out the house and gave me something to focus on.
Last year i also got married and hope to start a family soon, so that'll give me plenty to do.
I know a guy i went to school with. He's a few months older than me and still lives with his parents. Not that long ago he sold his 5 month old Focus RS and now drives an Audi Q7. I occasionally thing that could have been me if i still stayed with maw n paw, but with the rest of my life being the way it is, i wouldn't swap. Getting a house is a major thing and the ONLY thing i'd say to do, if you don't intend travelling or becoming a student. Now is the time to buy, if you can get a mortgage and when you start makin babies, you'll reap the rewards evetually.
I moved into a flat, with my now wife and with the current climate, i doubt i could afford the same flat now. You really need someone else to help pay half and that way afford somewhere half-decent.
I've been through the whole boredom thing and sometimes still do, but last year i took up golf and have enjoyed that thoroughly. Not as expensive as buying and fiddling with a scoob(although it could be if you want it) and if the weather ain't great, then your a bit stuffed, but it got me out the house and gave me something to focus on.
Last year i also got married and hope to start a family soon, so that'll give me plenty to do.
I know a guy i went to school with. He's a few months older than me and still lives with his parents. Not that long ago he sold his 5 month old Focus RS and now drives an Audi Q7. I occasionally thing that could have been me if i still stayed with maw n paw, but with the rest of my life being the way it is, i wouldn't swap. Getting a house is a major thing and the ONLY thing i'd say to do, if you don't intend travelling or becoming a student. Now is the time to buy, if you can get a mortgage and when you start makin babies, you'll reap the rewards evetually.
03 February 2011, 04:13 PM
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Also, I find things get more interesting as you get older, you know more, make connections and just know more stuff, go and read some books, not Heat or any of that puerile **** but actual books with no pictures, it is amazing what you find interesting as you get older that seemed so dull when you were younger, I have to say I have enjoyed life more being older, certainly past 30, you lose the self conciousness and just get on with things.
03 February 2011, 04:14 PM
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Just read something which would amuse me. It may help to lit boredom too.
Might pop to Tesco to give it a go 
Originally Posted by BitterWallet
It goes like this. Whenever someone ****s me over in a supermarket (based on anything from looks, attire, hitting me with trolley, the light hitting them wrong, overwhelming whiff of patchouli oil), I find an object to put in their trolley. My wife and I have a cobbled together points system, but it’s ****ing great.
Some examples – a side of ham for a hippy-looking type; condoms or Durex ‘play’ for a couple; something very organic for the pikey family who’ve only bought frozen blue-stripe crap… you get the idea.
Extra points are obtained if:
1) They actually buy it
2) You manage to put a heavy object in a basket, not a trolley
3) You manage (as my friend did once) to slam-dunk a coconut into someone’s handbag (he missed the trolley)
4) You get busted and manage to blag your way out of it
5) You start a row between a couple
6) You start a row when a parent accuses their child of putting things into the trolley.
7) You manage to add obscene quantities of something they already have.
Basically, you can make up the rules as you go along as long as you get very little shopping done yourself and generally cause problems for anyone who pisses you off.
You heard it here first. Try it. You’ll love it.
Some examples – a side of ham for a hippy-looking type; condoms or Durex ‘play’ for a couple; something very organic for the pikey family who’ve only bought frozen blue-stripe crap… you get the idea.
Extra points are obtained if:
1) They actually buy it
2) You manage to put a heavy object in a basket, not a trolley
3) You manage (as my friend did once) to slam-dunk a coconut into someone’s handbag (he missed the trolley)
4) You get busted and manage to blag your way out of it
5) You start a row between a couple
6) You start a row when a parent accuses their child of putting things into the trolley.
7) You manage to add obscene quantities of something they already have.
Basically, you can make up the rules as you go along as long as you get very little shopping done yourself and generally cause problems for anyone who pisses you off.
You heard it here first. Try it. You’ll love it.
03 February 2011, 04:17 PM
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That's a cracking point Jacko!
I dream of owning a house on the beach, so i could stare at the ocean for hours....i'd have been bored silly at an idea like that a few years back.
I dream of owning a house on the beach, so i could stare at the ocean for hours....i'd have been bored silly at an idea like that a few years back.
03 February 2011, 04:44 PM
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At 21 I was in a relationship which was going nowhere, job which was going nowhere so decided to do something about it and went to Uni! Best thing I could have done. OK, I was poor for 3 years, but the life experience you get is awesome. (I know things are different these days and I am talking about 18 years ago.)
Get up and do something. Material things will only bring you pleasure for a short period of time. Your car only makes you happy when you're driving it, what about the other 80%+ of your life? When I die, I don't want to say "I wish I had done that." No one lays on their deathbed and says I wish I had watched more telly, or bought more dresses.
So, get off your butt and take a chance. It could be life changing!
Get up and do something. Material things will only bring you pleasure for a short period of time. Your car only makes you happy when you're driving it, what about the other 80%+ of your life? When I die, I don't want to say "I wish I had done that." No one lays on their deathbed and says I wish I had watched more telly, or bought more dresses.
So, get off your butt and take a chance. It could be life changing!
To the OP, at 21 you`ve got a looooooooong way to go......
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