If you were ordered to stay in your home how long could you?

I am a homebuddy by nature but of course I do long for the outside world too. I could probably last for 2 weeks. After that, I would be kicking my way out of the house!

Being a working woman I love to be at home. I eagerly wait for holidays to come so that I can be at home. like to watch movies. can spend some time with my family especially my child. But I dont think that being at home for more than 2 or 3 weeks is fine for me. Will get bored. Here you have mentioned about the flu as the reason if it is so, then you should be at home and should be careful. Store enough food and water. If you there is water in the tap..you can boil it and use. it will be safe. Take care of your health. it is important. Good luck.

Me and my wife usually stay home almost all day. We just go out when we go to work. We really like being indoors and we feel we have lots of things to do when we're together. I think we won't have any problems when that situation arise.

I think that would be hard especially when you have a family to contend with. I think I can take as long as two weeks but beyond that I think life would be very hard already. If provision for food would be provided for me maybe I could still extend one more week for that to happen though.

Well i can stay at home as much as i need to. Yeah, as long as there's water and enough food. Can we add internet? I mean it gets boring after a day so i need my fix of internet. lol! That's not too much to ask right? lol! I'm a home body so this is really nothing new to me. I mean i have all the convenience right here at home so going out isn't really a big deal to me.

I could stay home for a long time. I have books, music, movies, and games to keep myself occupied. As long as food didn't run out, I'd be ok. I think I would get a little stir crazy after a week or so, but I think I could handle it. I do live alone, so I might be lonely, but fortunately I have a computer (internet) and a phone (to call people) so I wouldn't be completely isolated. Though I would admittedly have a hard time not seeing anyone, it would be more important to stay healthy, and I think that would be my number one priority.

As long as need be. Although, if you're asking the questiopn of; "When the cabin fever will start setting in? When will the madness break you?"...well, it's hard to say. It took three or four months to start fwwling restless due to the winter...a tiny dose of cabin fever...so I suppose thats some indication. We've about that much food. I could survive our tap water, too, we're on a well...it just wouldn't be terribly fun. However, should I find out that the reason I'm stuck in my house is somehow false, or fabricated, then I'm out in a second...be danged the consequences.

I don't see it coming to this really. Still, I could go for a month or so easily i think. I guess my biggest problem would be in wondering how my rent would be paid if I'm not going out and earning any money. ya...lack of income would be the biggest problem.

I could stay coup up for a long time( well after I went shopping of course). What worry's me a bit is if my husband got stuck in quarantine away from home. He works at a hospital and they reserve the right to do this to any of the hospital employee's if they feel there is a bio threat,tornado coming and anything to do along those lines. So I have no ideal how long they would hold him if something like that happened. Right now we have enough food to last a few weeks, almost out of bottle water though. But after I go shopping at the store I should have enough food to last a month or longer after I buy some food staples that have a long storage life.Later when I go to the store I'm going to double up on the bottle water also.

Given the opportunity to run to the grocery store we would be okay for a while. I think if it happened tonight we would last about a month on the food we have in the house. It would be hard with the kids.

i think i can stay for a long time inside our home. maybe for a few months. everything i need, we have in our home. food, water, and even my entertainment is here. a tv, computer, basically, i won't be bored in our home and i can stay for a long time. happy earning!

Hi happythoughts, I have to honestly say that I myself am disabled and I am not able to work just yet but hopefully soon I will be able to. I have times to where I am home alot and others I am not but if I had no choice and if I had to I could probably stay in for maybe two months I do have plenty to keep me busy but I also need my family and friends.

Im a home buddy but I won't last more than a month at home without socializing to my family and friends. Survival is not a question, coz if we have enough food and water its not a problem. Boredom is the real issue here. Even if i have a computer and i stay online talking to people its still different in meeting them in person. We can play as many games as we want, still, our human needs for social activities will always come knocking. There are people who can stand living in an island by themselves as long as they have pets, but I'm not sure how long a man will survive without really talking to anyone. In my case, I'll be paranoid... lol...

It would be perfectly possible to stay at home for several months. I have reasonable stocks of food and water(which includes a system to capture rain water to the toilet and etc). Moreover, with a computer, and internet acess, boredom is not a problem

I have enough food for several months, maybe half a year, but water would be a problem if the utilities were turned off. I have some stashed, but not nearly enough - maybe enough for a couple of weeks at the most. I ought to do something about that! Other than food and water, I'd be happy to stay at home for the most part. There's enough to keep me busy for a long time and I have enough books and magazines, besides the piano and guitar and other things I enjoy doing.

I think how long we could physically stay in is kind of moot because we would start to get cabin fever after a few days and after a week or so somebody would fly the coop. LOL

I can't stay in one place for long... it will make me going crazy. However, if it is necessary to stay home then I would try... water is not a big issue to me, I can boil water to drink if I run out of bottle water.

Hi, I don't mind staying home if there is enough food and water, plus the internet and tv is working. I would also have my books to keep me company; so I suppose I can stay home for a long, long time.

Interesting thought. Now, if it was just myself I could do it no problem. But, I have two teenage children who would end up killing themselves with all the fighting and arguing they do...so...yeah, what would be the worse of the two evils? I think I'd either have to put them into a coma so they could sleep the whole restricted time or something. Food and water really wouldn't be the issue...but is the trash still being picked up on a weekly basis? If not, I think I'd go for the whole fruits and veggies...and buy some of those worms that eat up the garbage and help with the soil. That is, if it's still safe. *Pleiades

I can stay back very very long time in my house if there are adequate supplies for food water and an internet connection. That's all I really need .... not much of demand I would say. For fresh air I feel opening my doors and windows will fulfill my fresh oxygen needs. Having the internet will anyway keep me busy all day long because these days we generally spend much more time on the net rather than watching TV or something else. If I could afford a cook all the more good for me .... that's the best I can have. No headache of cooking too and whenever I am hungry food will be ready. Now that doesn't mean I do not love cooking but I like to cook occasionally.