What I've learned by living alone...

1. Single girls should not shop for food - of ANY kind - at Costco. The only exception to this rule is if you need to buy 100 paper towels at a time. Cuz you know, you always need paper towels.

2. Food WILL spoil. This is a direct result of forgetting you have four bell peppers in the refrigerator. Four bell peppers you will never really all use at one time, or in one month.

3. It is really not necessary to buy four bell peppers just because they're four for $1.

4. Sometimes, you just have to buy less and pay the same amount as if you were to buy more. *This reminds me of a scene in 'Must Love Dogs' where Diane Lane goes to the deli to buy one or two (can't remember exactly how many) chicken breasts and the butcher tries to talk her into buying an entire chicken for only $0.40 more and she explains that she really doesn't need the entire chicken because she doesn't 'want chicken just layin' around'. I often have food just 'layin' around'.

5. When your closet runs out of space to put yet another shoe rack in it, that means it's probably time to join a support group for shoe addicts.

6. Weeds, gardening, anything landscape related, SUCKS! RoundUp does not!

7. It's ok to leave your just laundered unmentionables on the sofa in the living room. Hell, who's coming over anyways?

8. Sometimes it's ok to just kick off your shoes and leave them in the middle of the entryway when you walk in at the end of the day.

9. If you happen to trip over the above mentioned shoes the next time you walk by, it's no one else's fault but yours.

10. It's really easy to stay up until 3:30 in the morning surfing the internet for the perfect Dior sunglasses.

And there are plenty more...but those are the only ones I can think of for now.