COMING SOON
The modern guide to doing life solo.
Doing It Solo is a new home base for solo life: smart guides, useful tools, and fresh ideas for living, traveling, spending, eating, organizing, and moving through the world on your own terms.
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First up: the book
How We Got the Place to Ourselves is the first Doing It Solo book: a pop-history tour of how living alone became possible, ordinary, expensive, stylish, and structurally demanding.
From boarding houses and bachelor girls to efficiency apartments, refrigerators, Social Security, no-fault divorce, solo dining, micro-apartments, and the modern single tax, the book tells the backstory of one of the defining shifts in modern life: the rise of the one-person household.
It’s the origin story of the solo life many people are living now—at home and beyond it.
What’s coming to doingitsolo.com
Solo home & household systems
Tools for running a one-person home: food planning, budgeting, emergency prep, move-in checklists, cleaning rhythms, and household admin.
Solo travel & going-out guides
Practical, confidence-building resources for traveling, dining, exploring, attending events, and enjoying public life on your own.
Money, logistics & decision tools
Guides and downloads for navigating the “single tax,” planning from one income, making big decisions solo, and building backup systems that don’t depend on a default partner.
Books, essays & cultural history
Smart, engaging writing on how solo life became modern life — from living alone to traveling alone to claiming time, space, and experience for yourself.