Comment by engeljohnb

I go to bed at 8-9pm and get up at 4:30.

My fiance and I don't have kids. I'm sure this is the biggest factor to allow me to live by this schedule.

Having a short commute helps a lot obviously, but I still was able to keep this schedule back when I had an hour commute. Back then, if we had even one errand to run after work, it was straight to bed when we got home, so we usually tried to keep errands to the weekend. Even if we had no errands, a lot of days we only had time to cook dinner and watch an episode of the Office.

Now we have a 10min commute, so after work we have time for an errand or two, then go to the gym, then we can even watch movie or something before bed.

I cook easy meals, things that don't take long and don't require more than a pot or a skillet. I don't mean microwave garbage or instant ramen either. I mean things like soups and beer-steamed sausage.

However, this usually leads me to eating the same few meals over and over. If I ever want more variety, I meal-prep on the weekend.

My fiance and I don't usually clean on weekdays. We probably live like slobs by some people's standards, but we're never more than 20min from a clean house.

As for social life... All of our friends live too far away to see them on weekdays anyway.