what's the longest time you didn't leave your house?

why?
did you feel like going crazy?

shut-in aspie rubes to thread

After we brought our daughter home, my wife didn't go outside for over a week. There was sleep-dep involved, but she went pretty kookoo.

does this include long-term illness? cuz i had pneumonia when i was kid and i don't think i left the house for almost a month.

on my own as an adult and not sick? probably 3 days or longer.

Heh, I've done easily over a week without being sick. I hate the outside world. You just make sure you either have supplies or have someone who will go for you without feeling like they're doing you too many favours. It is actually pretty easy not to go out.

A day at most, usually due to being sick. And even then sometimes I've stumbled out just to get to the 7-11 for Sudafed and the like.

Yeah, but Ned, your life sounds AWESOME. If I was you, I'd probably be out all the time, just dancing in the street going 'yeah, I'm Ned Raggett, ask me to recite pi to you'.

That's totally not sarcastic, btw. I would love to be Ned.

Hahah well thank you. I'm actually about to head out to an R Crumb exhibition but I think I will refrain from invitations to hear pi while I'm there.

Ah, go on... I'll start.... 3.14...

The summer after my freshman year of college, I spent a stretch of two weeks at home just reading and listening to records, and only left the house when my dad made me go out and work in the garden. I also didn't shower during this time. It was kind of neat, in that way that washing a car after not washing it for a couple of years is so rewarding.

probably at least a week. unemployment + being broke = a whole lot of time spent at home trying to figure out what food you have left that might be edible.

when i had the flu about 10 years ago, i think it was maybe 4 or 5 days. i can't think of any non-incapacitated time that's been more than 36 hours or so. leaving the house is one of the best things i know for just general mood elevation. not that being home bums me out, i like being home. but i need a balance of inside and outside. if i'm out and about for too long, i start to feel exhausted and just want to go home. if i'm at home for too long, i feel cloistered and stir crazy.

Maybe 48 hours or so? This past Christmas / New Years I had two weeks in a row with 5 days off, nobody we knew in town, no travel, the gym was closed, totally alone at home with my wife. We stocked up on food, had just bought a big TV, and had the extended editions of the Lord of the Rings on DVD and just holed up with no other human contact.

Undoubtedly it was some time when I was too ill to leave the house. Perhaps three or four days at most.

I'd love to be able to go for a week or more at a time, but unfortunately annoying things like needing to get food (oh yeah and gong to work) always seem to intrude.

I think the longest stretches were when I was in the process of moving to the UK, I moved back to my mum's house for a couple of months trying to save money. The nearest shop was over a mile away and I had no car so I kind of avoided going if I possibly could. I'd wander around the garden a bit... actually, maybe this doesn't count as we had a couple of acres so that was quite a bit of wandering, but I certainly didn't see any other human beings.

After about a week, I'd find I'd go a bit mad, start inventing imaginary friends to talk to and stuff. But for the most part, I actually really liked it.

Longest I've gone was for maybe thirteen days. It was around Christmas time a couple months after my father passed away and I just didn't feel like it.

Eventually I got hungry and tired of having pizza delivered.

I never thought about having food delivered! Problem is, I find interacting with delivery people somehow more personal and disruptive than just going to a shop. Especially if you learn to shop late at night.

After we brought our daughter home, my wife didn't go outside for over a week. There was sleep-dep involved, but she went pretty kookoo.

My husband didn't understand why I could not stay home with a baby alone. I just went kah kah crazy. Had to bve in the shop, in a light room, people around,...

To answer the question: I srsly don't know. Probably not longer than 48 hours. I remember delivering Ophelia and remaining in the hospital for about six days. So in total just over a week (cause it took about 48 hrs to pop her out). It was fucking WEIRD coming out again.

Must be 2 days maximum. Even when you're sick you still have to get out to buy some food.

Heh, I've done easily over a week without being sick. I hate the outside world.

I've got this beat. I regularly have two week stretches where I don't go out. Particularly in summer because I don't like hot weather. Man, I wish I was socially well adjusted like Ned or Tuomas, but my default 'tude is "eff everybody". Actually in August might be able to make it four weeks.

Even when you're sick you still have to get out to buy some food.

Supermarkets deliver.

There were definitely days on end that I stayed in during the winter snow we had last December. It was nice.

I remember not leaving the house for at least a week and a half when I was particularly ill at the age of around 14. That was pretty grim.

In non-sick times - I dunno. Maybe two days over Christmas?

I do this quite a bit when I'm back home during break. My home is my castle. Living in suburbia also has a lot to do with it, I imagine.

Supermarkets deliver.

Not in here they don't. Or maybe some of the classier ones do, but I couldn't afford that. Plus I've always lived close to a local grocery store.

going to the shop is important but yes xmas last year i had a turkey that lasted me 6 days so i stayed in for a long weekend so 4.5 days? ever since i worked i think i haven't had a whole week off that isn't going away (i.e. not staying at home)

although i must have had summer holidays back in school days where i lounged around at home for weeks on end without go out of the house..

having a dog means leaving the house every day. even without it i doubt i'd have gone more than two days in quite a while.

Thank the lord I work on weekends! I have once or twice gone "shopping" on a saturday. Sheer horror. Same for supermakets on a saturday: hell on earth. I prefer going after six on a weekday.

Back home after hospital stay/op, was about 1 month. Maybe 2. It was a while ago, and it's a dim memory now.

I prefer going after six ten p.m. on a weekday. I cannot stand crowded supermarkets. The only drawback to going late, around here anywhere, is that for some stupid reason I've never been fully able to comprehend, the stores shut off the self-checkout lanes during "non-peak" hours. So I'm usually forced to stand in the sole checkout lane open that late.

To answer the thread question, about 5 days during the first year after I graduated from college. I had taken some days off work to spend with my girlfriend of the time, who had decided to break up with me the week before, by telling me she had been sleeping with my former roommate. Luckily I had just done some grocery shopping, so I watched movies and listened to records for 5 days straight. On the eve of 6 days, friends showed up and pretty much forced me to go out.

When I had orthopedic surgery about 10 years ago, there was a stretch of at least a week where I not only didn't leave the house, I was confined to two rooms: A bedroom, and the bathroom. I had to lie down all the time to keep my leg elevated, so I spend all day, every day, on my back with my leg up on pillows. The only time I wasn't lying down was when I was using the bathroom or eating.

Aside from that, I don't think it's been more than 2-3 days, usually due to a Cleveland snowstorm.

MN winter cold snaps are very good at keeping you indoors; I think I've stayed in for 3-4 days at a time through those (since graduating high school; growing up we pretty much had to go to school no matter how cold it was, boo).

Also, I remember being home for 2 weeks in 1st grade when I got the chicken pox.

Recently I spent about 4 consecutive days shut in my tiny flat revising for MSc exams and overall over a two week revision and examination period only left the house about three times and only then to walk 100 yards to the newsagent. Deeply unpleasant. I really, really hope that I passed and I won't have to repeat the experience.

I'm certain I've gone a week before, and probably when the weather was very nice. Open up the windows and avoid humanity in cool comfort. Chill with the cat, lying in a sunbeam on the floor. Good times.

I regularly go a couple days at a stretch. So would a lot more people if they didn't have to go somewhere else to work.

Not counting times when I've been sick, probably only a day or so. I can be kind of fidgety and get antsy if I'm inside for too long. I'll often just take a quick drive or walk just to get out for a while.

You know, this is hard to calculate. Maybe it only seems like a week sometimes. Maybe because I keep weird hours. Maybe I left the house for five minutes and walked half a block to buy a new lighter or something, then came right back. Does that even count?

Does taking out the trash count?

You can obviate that need by installing a garbage chute from your second floor window.

Where I live now, I think I spent 4 days inside solidly after my hernia operation.

im not leaving until the state lets me :-/

"Not counting times when I've been sick, probably only a day or so. I can be kind of fidgety and get antsy if I'm inside for too long. I'll often just take a quick drive or walk just to get out for a while.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 11:24 (3 hours ago) Permalink

me too.
it's weird cause i thought most people would feel like that, but it seems the majority in here are indifferent,or even like staying in the house for longer than 24 hours continuously.
maybe it's the weather differnces? people who live in colder places are more used to stay in?!

About 3 1/2 days a coupla winters ago. Miserable February days outside, wonderful inside. Like Elvis T, I ordered pizza. (Can't remember if I visited the laundry room or took out trash or whatever.)