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What's the most 'bachelor' thing you ever did? (1 Viewer)

Broncoholic said:
Also, once turned a shopping cart into an outdoor grill.
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Man in the yellow hat said:
Had to wear tie/dress pants to work. My iron disappeared. Warmed a frying pan on the stove and ironed my clothes with it.
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jb1020 said:
I walked into a holiday inn once and told them i was out of towels. they gave me 4. went home and my lack of towels problem was solved.
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Copeman said:
Desperately needed to wash some clothes. Was out of Laundry detergent so I threw a bar of soap in. Don't do that. Ever.
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=Smackdown= said:
Tied flashlight to a ceiling fan/light that didn't work.
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There's some great stuff in this thread. I love the can-do problem solving spirit.
 
This isn't really a "bachelor" thing but it fits with the overall motif.

Freshman year of college, I lived on an all guys floor. One day I walked into the bathroom and all the stall dividers and doors for the toilets were gone. Some dooshes had ripped them down in the middle of the night. :hot:

It took awhile for the administration to fix them. Most guys went to another floor if they had to take care of business, but occasionally you'd walk in there, look over, and some guy would be dropping a deuce prison style. :pics:

 
My brother and his roomate, both bachelors, live in an apartment here in Wisconsin and to save money won't turn on the heat. I mean I go to visit and I better bring my parka. They're huddled up on the couch with sweatshirts and blankets covering themselves up. They say its a matter of principle. :hot:

Before I was married, I had the ole mattress on the floor (first an air mattress, then a real one), camp chairs for furniture to watch tv and peed in the kitchen sink occasionally since it was closer than the bathroom.

 
RudiStein said:
But did you have the random orange traffic cone in the corner for 'decoration'?
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Never had the traffic cone, but I did have a christmas lawn ornament (a reindeer made of christmas lights) indoors for decoration. Hooked it up to a light switch to turn it on and off.Also used as decoration:- expired licence plates- random computer parts- framed photograph of someone else's dogs- various WWE action figures- different colored beer cans stacked in such a manner as to spell out my address
 
My old roommates and I used to have a couch on cinder blocks behind our regular couch in the living room for more viewing area. We called it the dog pound. Not an original name, but it came in handy.

 
Slept on a mattress that I took from the dumpster. A little lysol and it was good to go.

Our white shower curtain had one side that eventually was all black from mildew. nasty.

 
Went "shopping" for furniture on trash night. People who live/lived in urban areas will know what I mean. Which would of course be preceded with a night of boozing. In one apartment I lived in, over the course of time we gathered the following for our living room:

an old Victorian style couch that was white with pink flowers and smelled like moth balls

a beat up old leather LazyBoy with duct tape holding portions of the cushion together

a small TV (12 inch?) with a hole on the left side that we placed on top of my roomates TV so we could get dual TV watching in the same room

an Ikea couch that was missing a cushion so we replaced it with a pillow

a lamp of a girl in a grass skirt

I also used to lock myself out of my old Chevy Nova (before power locks). One time I was at a Pizza Hut on the way to a game and locked myself out. With no time to wait for a cop to help bust me out, I went into Pizza Hut and explained my situation and they gave me a spatula to break into my car. Two pizza hut guys who had to come watch and my buddy were watching me break into my own car and laughing their arses off but I broke in and we didn't miss the first pitch :thumbup:

 
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Out of money and out of beer, but not ready to call it a night, sat in a walk in box in a liquor store drinking

 
Some gems from the original thread (somethingawful)

"I didn't want to with finding a clean spoon, so I drank pudding out of the little cup it came in. Wiped my face on the chair in which I was sitting."

"My bed frame had broken on one side so I just slept diagonally for a couple of weeks before finally fixing it."

"I've used beer instead of water when brushing my teeth"

"I was about to sit down to a nice pot of ramen, and enjoy it with a ruler. My roommate wanted some, so I dumped half of it on a piece of paper, and snapped the ruler in half so he would have a utensil as well.

I've also eaten Easy Mac with a staple remover by cocking my head back and letting the noodles fall into my mouth."

And my favorite:

"If I've had my underwear on so long it gets itchy and I don't want to do laundry, I'll just shove a paper towel down there for a day or two."

 
RudiStein said:
"I was about to sit down to a nice pot of ramen, and enjoy it with a ruler. My roommate wanted some, so I dumped half of it on a piece of paper, and snapped the ruler in half so he would have a utensil as well.I've also eaten Easy Mac with a staple remover by cocking my head back and letting the noodles fall into my mouth."
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:thumbup:Ruler!
 
Buddy of mine worked in the schools workshop

we made and sold homemade/painted bongs out of our dorm room

we needed munchie money

 
I once had to eat Ramen noodles without the season packet. Still not sure how I lost it.

All I had was bedroom furniture and the living room was the warmest room so I put all my bedroom furniture into the living room. When you walked in the house you were in my bedroom. As it turns out this was actually a pretty brilliant thing when I would have lady friends over. Now if the pastor stopped in or something it was a bit awkward.

I slept in some friends laundry room for a whole semester.

Forgot that I also had a TV that you could only see parts of the picture for a few months. Reminded me of when I was a kid and you couldn't get the horizontal hold right on the tv.

 
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Was out with friends at the bar right across the street and I was macking on a hot stripper. At closing time, I couldn't find my keys and there was a buddy from out of town was staying at my place. Rather than miss out on the hot tail, I told my buddy to just smash a window in. He did.

 
RudiStein said:
Some gems from the original thread (somethingawful)

"I didn't want to with finding a clean spoon, so I drank pudding out of the little cup it came in. Wiped my face on the chair in which I was sitting."

"My bed frame had broken on one side so I just slept diagonally for a couple of weeks before finally fixing it."

"I've used beer instead of water when brushing my teeth"

"I was about to sit down to a nice pot of ramen, and enjoy it with a ruler. My roommate wanted some, so I dumped half of it on a piece of paper, and snapped the ruler in half so he would have a utensil as well.

I've also eaten Easy Mac with a staple remover by cocking my head back and letting the noodles fall into my mouth."

And my favorite:

"If I've had my underwear on so long it gets itchy and I don't want to do laundry, I'll just shove a paper towel down there for a day or two."
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This happened to me. Same night my flip phone broke and the joint, but the wires were still intact, so the phone still worked. I just would hold the top and bottom parts like an old school phone.

 
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Homer J Simpson said:
Was out with friends at the bar right across the street and I was macking on a hot stripper. At closing time, I couldn't find my keys and there was a buddy from out of town was staying at my place. Rather than miss out on the hot tail, I told my buddy to just smash a window in. He did.
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You still missed out on the hot tail, didn't you?
 
The "no heat" thing reminded me...

One night we got home from spring break and the heat was out. Apartment was freezing, but it was too late to get it fixed. I turned on and opened the gas stove and went to bed. Probably not the safest, but it helped.

 
At Mardi Gras one year, we paid to park in a garage and slept in my car. Can't remember if it was because we couldn't afford a hotel room or if there were no hotel rooms available. Pretty sure it was the former.

 
Had an apartment with a long shelf along one wall that was decorated with the "wall of 40s" -- gems of the collection included Ice Man, Colt 45 Ice, and Big Bear.

Lived for 2.5 years in a basement room at a buddy's house that was scarcely larger than my queen-sized mattress, though it did have a bathroom connected to it. I vacuumed my 3 square feet of exposed carpet approximately 4 times in that span, and my buddy apparently had to spend about 2 hours and gallons of harsh chemicals to clean the layer of film off the shower stall when he sold the place a couple years after I moved out.

 
RudiStein said:
I also remember one of my roommates buying a cheapo Hibachi knock-off, using it once, and then letting it sit on the patio for the next 6 months...with a couple of blackened hot dogs still on it.
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We used to steal grills from people's backyards. :shrug:
RudiStein said:
Back when I shared an apartment with a couple of other guys we never bought lightbulbs. We would wait until late at night and then steal bulbs from either the complex parking structure or neighbor's porch lights.
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Did this
Tecumseh said:
milk crates for furniture
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and this
Nigel Tufnel said:
Drank Natural Light.
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hundreds of suitcases of theseI had a trash can made out of wire hangers that was then used to collect beer cans. To this day I have never seen so many fruit flies in one place in my life.

 
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We had a utensil drawer in the kitchen dedicated to bottle cap storage. Because we HAD to do this so that we could see how many we could collect. We were WILD!

 
In college, a bunch of my roomates and I were watching a college b-ball game. The outcome wasn't what we had hoped so we threw a couple of beer bottles against the wall in our living room. A few turned into every empty that was around and there were a lot of them. The end result was a layer of broken glass along the base of the wall about 2 inches deep and a foot wide. The next morning I took our vacuum, sucked everything up, then threw the vacuum in a dumpster.

I didn't pay for gas in my studio my senior year in college so instead of turning the heat on, I would blast the 4 gas burners on my stove for 20 minutes or so to heat the place up.

Just out of college, my roomates and I were walking back from the bar, and we saw a box by a dumpster. Inside the box was a bunch of old liquor bottles. Some of them were unopened, some of them were half full. We took the box and drank the liquor of the course of a few weeks. It was all weird stuff that I have never seen before like, "Margarita Liquor" which was sort of a margarita flavored schnapps. Still can't believe I ingested stuff I found in the trash, like a homeless person.

 
Not sure if this is bachelor or just being poor.

Drove across state to see a concert and me and my buddy were meeting a couple of girls there. We were all supposed to split for the motel. The girls didn't pay and so on the way home we are running out of gas and broke and starved. My buddy finds an old check for about $12 in his glove box. We put $10 worth of gas in the car and split a package of zingers. To this day it was the best food I've ever tasted.

Ok so that story sucks....

:shrug:

 
KGB said:
I ran out of food. And I mean everything. I didn't even have icecubes. I found I bag of microwave popcorn deep in a cabinet but had no microwave. I tried to empty it into a pot and cook it. FYI. That doesn't work. Not even if you put a little water in it. I don't know why. You would think it would.
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:shrug: :wub: :lmao:
 
I am realizing that my family lived like a "bachelor" when I was a kid... :shrug:

, we just called it poor.

Drank Blue Cheese dressing for 3 days cause fridge was empty and that was the only thing I couldnt tell was bad or not..

 
I've got quite a few:

-Leinenkugel's and Old Milwaukee Long neck boxes were: a table, two nightstands and a chair

-Stole duffel bags full of toilet paper from hotel; they had the huge rolls that don't fit on a dispenser

-Slept on a Hammock that was in the middle of my living room (my permanent bed for 6 months)

-Heated garlic on the stove before having lady friends over to make the house smell like somebody had cooked

-Went to hotel and said I needed another pillow, and left with it. The hammock pillow was too uncomfortable

-Had a sofa and chair that I found on the road, waiting for garbage pick-up

-bought 5 for $1 store Mac n cheese, and mixed a 1 fifth portion of Kraft Mac n Cheese w/ it to make it palatable

-went to happy hour and ate all the free food I needed on Fridays = didn't need to purchase lunch or dinner

-went to the local brewery for free beers approx. 15 weeks Fridays in a row (prior to heading to happy hour for free food)

 
In my college dorm my roommate taped an empty Camel Hard Pack to the outside of our door to hold a spare key. We didn't want to make it obvious that this was a hiding spot so we started taping all our empty packs to the door. By the end of the year the entire door was covered in Camel boxes.

 
SeveredHorseHeads said:
In college, a bunch of my roomates and I were watching a college b-ball game. The outcome wasn't what we had hoped so we threw a couple of beer bottles against the wall in our living room. A few turned into every empty that was around and there were a lot of them. The end result was a layer of broken glass along the base of the wall about 2 inches deep and a foot wide. The next morning I took our vacuum, sucked everything up, then threw the vacuum in a dumpster.

I didn't pay for gas in my studio my senior year in college so instead of turning the heat on, I would blast the 4 gas burners on my stove for 20 minutes or so to heat the place up.

Just out of college, my roomates and I were walking back from the bar, and we saw a box by a dumpster. Inside the box was a bunch of old liquor bottles. Some of them were unopened, some of them were half full. We took the box and drank the liquor of the course of a few weeks. It was all weird stuff that I have never seen before like, "Margarita Liquor" which was sort of a margarita flavored schnapps. Still can't believe I ingested stuff I found in the trash, like a homeless person.
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Sometimes the only difference between a bachelor and a homeless person is 4 walls and a roof.
 
Buddy had a party one night where our drink of choice was White Russians. We didn't realize we drank all the milk in the house. Only a few people ended up crashing there and when we woke up the next day we wanted cereal. With no milk we put Kool-Aid on our Cap'n Crunch.

 
Put down someone else's old carpet that they were throwing out on top of my regular carpet, so I wouldn't have to clean it when I moved out.

 
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