Once I quit work, I had someone home for lunch every single day of my life. So my days went like this.. get up.. make breakfast, clean up the house, toss in the laundry, make lunch.. finish working, do the shopping, put away the laundry, start dinner.. every day.. every day . Then my son went in the Army.. but I still had daughter and hubby.. Sone came home. both son and daughter got married in 2001.. They were both gone perhaps a month when the economy tanked and son brought wife home to live with us.. They ended up staying for 5 years due to many differnt things. I didn't mine. I figured they's move out some time. They did and hubby decided it was time to retire. So. after a lifetime of having someone in the house all the time I still do. I would love to have a week or even a weekend to myself. However, I expect someday I truely will be alone and then I won't like it one bit!