The Best and Worst of Visiting My Parents’ House
BEST
1. So many snacks
2. Have not been physically uncomfortable once since arrival (central air, ceiling fans, ice machine, pillow-top mattress, multiple couches, etc.)
3. DVR with one zillion movies and TV shows
4. Washer and Dryer IN THE HOUSE
5. Parents
WORST
1. So many snacks
2. Realization that I will never have a life this nice, ever (everrrr); embarrassment that I used to think I’d have a life nicer than this (there is nothing nicer than this, my parents are geniuses, what was I ever thinking not wanting to be exactly like them)
3. Humiliating price of entry: Had to enter house through basement, strip, put all clothes in washer on high, bag and seal suitcase, and then streak through the house for a disinfecting shower DESPITE NO PROOF THAT I AM A CARRIER OF BED BUGS (“That may be true, but we’re not taking any chances.”)
4. Questions about “How my credit card addiction is going” from father (dodged)
5. Breaking Bad and Melancholia both erased from DVR
looooove my parents’ house. the best is when they ask me to cat-sit. i love my parents’ house with my parents but i also love my parents’ house without my parents.
@wearitcounts Parent’s house without the parents is where it is at! Even if they’ve taken the snacks with them on vacation – worth it.
@highjump my parents often leave me cash money to purchase my own food, as well as a fully stocked fridge. i am twenty-eight. my parents are THE BEST PARENTS. (yes. i am spoiled. i know this.)
Totally. I used to take my parent’s lifestyle for granted, but now that I’m out in the world, I come home and think “How on earth did they GET all THIS?”
@Mari D Seriously. It’s like some luxurious fantasy world with antique rugs and a landscaped yard and twelve different kinds of cheese. Meanwhile, I’d settle for a bath tub I am willing to sit down in.
@TheclaAndTheSeals Yes, this! It’s a tough moment of realisation. Also, I have a bath every time I visit my parents, even if it’s in the middle of the day, just for the luxury (and cause I only have a shower cubicle at home..)
My sister and I used to go back home to our parents house on the weekends and we’d joke it was our country home. My parents would even leave bacon and pancakes for us if they were going to be out when we got home! So yeah, parents can be pretty awesome and why did I hate them growing up?!
I feel you, Logan. I feel you.
OH NO DO THEY HAVE ON DEMAND OR SOMETHING!?
my parents have never had cable/satellite and I am watching my Dish Latino as I type this, so I don’t even know what people are talking about when they say our generation is worse off than the last. (I kid.)
Do your parents read the Billfold and keep up on your credit card stuff that way?
I am also realizing that I will never be as well-off as my parents are now, but – I am probably going to get close to how they were when I was young, and that’s pretty awesome. I don’t think I WANT to have as much money as they do now… they seem to constantly feel the need to go bigger and better and spend more lavishly and just… no. I like that I do still feel the need to practice the relatively frugality they taught me when I was young, and hope I never lose that.
6. Costco-sized boxes of cereal.