What is good about an empty house?

For the whole month of June, my house has been mostly empty.  I guess that is kind of like "mostly dead".  I have been a little sad, so I decided to make a list of what is good about an empty house.  I couldn't come up with a top ten list, but here are the ones I came up with, not necessarily in any order.

• I can clean the house and it is still clean the next day, and maybe even the next.  Of course the doors to their rooms are closed because I haven't gotten the nerve to clean them yet.
• I don't have to plan meals, because Dad is much simpler in the food department.
• The electric and water bill is much lower even as hot as it has been.
• I can listen to what I want to, as loud as I want to without hearing "really, Mom, what is THAT?"
• No one knocks on the bedroom door as soon as I shut it.
• I can clean the refrigerator because the shelves are empty.
• I don't hear 5 different ipods all playing different music.
• I don't have to leave the room when it comes time to decide what movie "we" are watching.
• I get the whole couch to myself.
• I can leave the house without my wardrobe being criticized (at least by people that will say it out loud)
• The girls call for advice, actually listen and more often than not, take it.

I guess I did come up with more than 10.  There is one more.  Every birthday, Christmas, Mother's Day when the girls asked what I wanted, I told them "peace and harmony in the Tyson home".  I have a whole lot of that now but a scrap every now and then would be nice to spice things up a little