I really need to read a woman's reaction to this article (will share with a few friends right away). If you can achieve this beyond a bachelor pad, the weed that you are smoking is indeed of very high quality.
Also, go for the smallest living space that is needed, or the need to nest will fill it. Quality, in what you do have, also helps.
The caveat is we are not planning on children, which simplifies this.
But then I moved in with a girl after school and all that went away, we needed to buy kitchen shit, dvd shit, bedroom shit, shit to hang on the walls, stuffed animals from thinkgeek that look like sushi, etc.
As someone that hasn't had a TV for over 6 years, it's amazing how much more time you have for the things you actually want to do in life.
Sometimes the things you want to do in life are things you can do with a significant other, where your mutual interests converge.
I hope you find someone who is as interested in smug one-upmanship as yourself.
Thanks for the kind words.
My girlfriend loves hiking, camping, walking to the library, knitting and hand crafts. We honestly don't have time for "dvd shit" in our lives.
What were you expecting to find when you came to these comments?
I think of bachelor pads as really more defined by "stuff". Most single guys I know have huge piles of entertainment stuff especially: big-screen TVs, videogame systems, a wall of videogames and DVDs, miscellaneous electronic gadgets that seemed cool at the time, etc.
That sort of lifestyle is just as damaged as the sort that compels people to store every pizza box and newspaper in the corner and prevents them from throwing anything away.