Do you find the more you stay home the more you want to stay home?

I used to like to go out to an occasional concert -- usually classic rock bands, but like me, they're getting old, and I can watch them in their prime on YouTube from the comfort of my couch. It's not quite as exciting as seeing them live. There is something to be said for being in the crowd, caught up in the moment, excited to see the band members in person... and the sound these days is usually much better than when I was young where sometimes it was so distorted, you could barely make out what song they were playing. Of course, in those altered states days, I sometimes didn't know where I was.

What was I talking about?... oh, yeah... not wanting to go out. 😄

My wife likes to go out to restaurants and get waited on, whereas I'd rather stay home. I tell her that I'll wait on her, and that sometimes works, but she still wants to go out. Of course, we only get restaurant food these days delivered, since we don't want to risk getting covid.

Once the weather turns in the spring, we're going to take a road trip somewhere. Hopefully, the pandemic will be under control by then and we'll have gotten vaccinated.
 

AprilSun said:
In the past, I always wanted to go places. But, the last few years I have changed. I have found that the more I stay home, the more I want to stay home. I just don't enjoy getting out like I used to. I have told some friends about this and they say they are the same way. Are you like this now?
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Yes. At the beginning of this pandemic I was so stressed about not being able to go to the restaurants to eat cuz I like to people watch and I hated not being able to go into Walmart when I needed stuff. Now that I order everything online I really don't care if I ever go anywhere ever again. 😁
 
I am tired of staying home and done with doing so. Because of allergies and a variety of medical issues it looks like I will not be able to get vaccinated. I will not return to eating inside a restaurant which can’t really afford to do anyway at this time. I will not return to the indoor movies or the rare trip to the indoor mall etc.

I will take my puppy to training classes at Petsmart and go grocery shopping at various stores. Go to the bookstore and other strip mall stores as usual. I will take necessary precautions but I feel I can not avoid the virus for forever. And I am done living in a cave.
 

MarciKS said:
I'm cool with my cave. I should hang decorative lights like Christmas lights in my cave. 😁
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I have to socialize Bella, virus or not, and I am going to do so. She is suppose to meet 40 people at least before she turns 4 months old. I plan on that happening. There is nothing worst or sadder than a yard dog. Most of them become very aggressive, we will never let that happen.
 
Aneeda72 said:
I have to socialize Bella, virus or not, and I am going to do so. She is suppose to meet 40 people at least before she turns 4 months old. I plan on that happening. There is nothing worst or sadder than a yard dog. Most of them become very aggressive, we will never let that happen.
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why does she have to meet 40 people?
 
We used to go out dancing or something several times a week but even before the pandemic, we had cut back. Part of that is the traffic, which is terrible in the area we live in. I always had a hard time wanting to go out in the winter, just wanted to stay in and be warm. Now we never go anywhere at night and not much in the daytime. We do have a yard so we go outside on nice days. It doesn't bother me to stay home. I dont think we will ever go back to going out as much.
 
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Jeweltea said:
We used to go out dancing or something several times a week but even before the pandemic, we had cut back. Part of that is the traffic, which is terrible in the area we live in. I always had a hard time wanting to go out in the winter, just wanted to stay in and be warm. Now we never go anywhere at night and not much in the daytime. We do have a yard so we go outside on nice days. It doesn't bother me to stay home. I dont think we will ever go back to going out as much.
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I dont go out a lot, never did, but we had limited going out on Friday, payday, to get groceries spending as little time as possible as in the stores. Saturday’s we went to the movie and ate out, that, of course, is gone forever. 😢

With the virus we still went to Lowe’s, Home Depot when needed, but never went elsewhere. Now we will go other places with puppy, but still not the mall. Too crowded and too dangerous IMO, and we rarely went there before anyway. Husband is getting vaccinated but it looks more and more like I won’t be able to.

Oh, well, there are a million things I could die of and the virus is just one of them. 😂
 
We are out much more often than in. There's a large group of us that seem to have found one another through social events and social media. I have never joined anything like Facebook, so I'm not even sure how it works or what you do.

In the run up to Christmas, our friends, whom we know affectionately as, the gang, would normally meet up at a Chinese restaurant for one of those set meals where course after course keep on coming. Once the meal has finished and the tables cleared, part of the restaurant becomes a dance floor, where we do our best to burn off a few of the calories that we have just consumed. It's at our Christmas function that we exchange our Christmas cards.

All that of course, was a non starter this year, so we exchanged cards in the mail as has been the way for many a year. In our friends cards I wrote a letter going through all the dances, festivals, classic car shows, weekend get togethers, just about as much as I could remember, then I ran photocopies off for everyone and placed it inside their cards. The reaction was so agreeably pleasing, we were indeed, all missing one another. Roll on the vaccine.
 
What kind of dancing do you do? We do mostly ballroom, some Argentine Tango and Lindy.
horseless carriage said:
We are out much more often than in. There's a large group of us that seem to have found one another through social events and social media. I have never joined anything like Facebook, so I'm not even sure how it works or what you do.

In the run up to Christmas, our friends, whom we know affectionately as, the gang, would normally meet up at a Chinese restaurant for one of those set meals where course after course keep on coming. Once the meal has finished and the tables cleared, part of the restaurant becomes a dance floor, where we do our best to burn off a few of the calories that we have just consumed. It's at our Christmas function that we exchange our Christmas cards.

All that of course, was a non starter this year, so we exchanged cards in the mail as has been the way for many a year. In our friends cards I wrote a letter going through all the dances, festivals, classic car shows, weekend get togethers, just about as much as I could remember, then I ran photocopies off for everyone and placed it inside their cards. The reaction was so agreeably pleasing, we were indeed, all missing one another. Roll on
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Aneeda72 said:
I dont go out a lot, never did, but we had limited going out on Friday, payday, to get groceries spending as little time as possible as in the stores. Saturday’s we went to the movie and ate out, that, of course, is gone forever. 😢

With the virus we still went to Lowe’s, Home Depot when needed, but never went elsewhere. Now we will go other places with puppy, but still not the mall. Too crowded and too dangerous IMO, and we rarely went there before anyway. Husband is getting vaccinated but it looks more and more like I won’t be able to.

Oh, well, there are a million things I could die of and the virus is just one of them. 😂
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Hopefully enough people will get vaccinated so the virus will not be so common and even if you can't get vaccinated, it will be safer to go out.
 
Nathan said:
Both myself and my wife are super homebodies, so the quarantine doesn't affect our lifestyle much. I've actually been homebody-ish since the early 90s, after my divorce. My ex always had to go go go somewhere every weekend. I was always happy right where I'm at.
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And there's nothing wrong with that. Each to their own.
 
Interesting to re-read this 2 year old thread in light of the momentous changes the past year has brought. A stay-at-home life meant content and carefree for most of us then. Now it is restrictive.

I was curious to see what my thinking had been in 2019 but found no post so will add it now.

I've had strong hermit tendencies for years and the older I become the stronger they get so virus restrictions now make an easy excuse. Prior to Covid, I was the neighborhood eccentric. I have normalized now. :LOL:
 
AprilSun said:
In the past, I always wanted to go places. But, the last few years I have changed. I have found that the more I stay home, the more I want to stay home. I just don't enjoy getting out like I used to. I have told some friends about this and they say they are the same way. Are you like this now?
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When we were just entering retirement, our financial advisor told us that as we got older, we would likely want to stay at home more, so we should do the things we wanted to do early on and spend some of that retirement savings. With this COVID-19 situation, we have been staying home like most folks, and finding that this is what we want to do anyway. Well, I suppose the good thing is that we have a nice cushion in case sudden expenses come up since we haven't spent it. :)

Tony
 
MickaC said:
I've never been a social butterfly.
Stayed put doesn't affect me much.
But i do miss physical connection with some, and grandkids.
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That is probably why my wife and I are feeling the lockdown so hard. Not having children and therefore, grandchildren, our friends have become a kind of surrogate family, and, like us, they do like to party.
 
I've always been a homebody other than occasional dinners with friends and a short trip or two a year. I enjoy that my work requires some time in a nearby city. Started planning a UK trip the end of last year that obviously didn't happen. That's a bummer.

Getting the camper van last month has felt so freeing. It's a Covid-mobile. Order curbside, eat in the van, potty afterwards and roll on! The only time I have to get out is at the gas pump.
 

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