🇬🇧 What you should know before to live alone

Today there are other tips for those who want to live alone and for those who already live alone. Today's advice is about what makes your life easier if you learn before leaving your parents' home. Some of these things I had to learn from life because my family didn't offer me that information. I ended up learning later. And I know that I can have some things to learn about it, so if you have any suggestions not mentioned in the text, share them in the comments.

• Learn to cook. Even if you decide to leave the house to study gastronomy elsewhere, even if you have enough money to order restaurant food every day, it is good to know how to cook something in advance. Exercising and improving this, at least, will help you differentiate between good and bad food and not be too embarrassed when meeting someone at home.
• Find out how to use a dishwasher. Okay, that you can learn after leaving the house. In Brazil we have a culture of having a person who cooks, does the cleaning and all the domestic service for a fee. I have never used a dishwasher in my life. But it is a good deal. Especially in cold places without water heating like here in the Brazilian south. It is one of my consumer goals to be achieved in the next two years. In my list of priorities the move is at the top, but do you know that nice thing called a gift that I talked about a few days ago? It can change everything. Also sponsorships.
• Study financial mathematics. It helps you when it comes to shopping something for home, shopping for clothes, defining investments... Financial math is that part of the school lessons that everyone should pay attention to and ask the teacher questions if they have doubts.
• The electrical connections must be changed from time to time. I burned two computer stabilizers to have this problem in two places where I lived in Porto Alegre.
• Disconnect from the family a little.  Life alone is definitely easier if we develop a certain detachment from the family, in the sense of trying to be ourselves, choosing and buying our clothes and other objects and other attitudes so as not to have to call our father or mother fifty times a week. In my first year of living in another city, I only made short calls and never more than one a week. I left my city at the age of 22 and since I was 17, 18 I have bought my clothes with my salary.
• Having knowledge of domestic services (house cleaning, washing, ironing, etc.). I hate that part.  I do maintenance, but occasionally it's okay to pay someone to do it. But having enough knowledge to do maintenance is good.  And it helps save some valuable money for more important things.
• Learn to receive. It is not necessarily to understand all the rules of etiquette. This is, frankly, something that I need to improve. But it is a question of defining the rules for the reception, creating a "visitor's manual", either in writing, in the form of a video, report or as you prefer. I think that in our house, living alone, those who make the rules are us and the others, aware of this, respect or do not visit us. It is our space. It doesn't make sense that our privacy is violated by anyone. But it is important that every visit knows the rules before going. In any situation, we must also try to respect the guests.

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