When I moved into my place by myself, I probably spent the first few weeks in a tank top and underwear

until it got a little bit colder, and then I put socks on.

This is death, sex and money.

Don't have sex because you will get pregnant and die.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

They don't get it. I'm dead.

And need to talk about more.

Independence costs money.

I'm Anna Sale.

Last year I asked for your stories about living alone.

For 37 year old Jen in Brooklyn, living by herself

meant not always wearing pants. It is really awesome to sit around your own

apartment in as little clothes as you like to wear.

That was just one of the perks that you told me about.

Cooking the things I want to eat, playing the music that only I enjoy listening to

dancing around my living room to R.E.C.T.

Countless minutes of no interruptions.

Books stacked on a certain way on my shelf.

It is definitely a freedom of that I've not had ever. More and more Americans

are living alone. The number has tripled since 1970 and today more than a quarter of

American households are home to just one person.

So there are a lot of people having this experience,

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