My reclusive years have been very happy indeed.

I wish they could last for ever...

I've never really investigated having my food delivered... would they deliver cigarettes and alcohol too? still i'd have to go out the house for supplies all the time... i'm just not that organised. If I really planned it I could probably spend a lot more time home. And I'd enjoy it wholeheartedly. Getting everything delivered would be great... i need a credit card!

I think the longest I've stayed in is 2 weeks but that's quite a while ago, when I was living with parents / foster parents who would do the shopping.... good times. I remember engaging in one ridiculous RPG session with no memory card and not turning my PSone off or leaving the house for like 2 weeks, and the only reason I did go out was to get drugs >_<

If there was a MMORPG version of school I wouldnt leave my house for sure.
I remember when I got Halo 3 I spent my whole holidays on it without stepping outside.

When I was 16-17 I didn't go outside for almost the entire year.

I haven't stepped foot in public (though I've ridden in a car) in about 5 years, and I doubt if I ever will again.

probably a few months...
i still got to hang out with friends if there is an event of art...
all my friends are anime artist and i met them all through the internet.

about 2 1/2 years, after dropping out of college.

Before I started being homeschool I think the longest I'd stayed inside was two weeks. As of right now I never leave my house on weekdays. I only go out on the weekend when I stay at my closest friends' place. So I'm pretty much inside 5/7 days of the week, I guess.

the longest i've gone is usually a few weeks to a month.

Three months.

I voted a few days but upon thinking about it, i've stayed inside the most probably was a week. That's without even seeing outside (I was on a ship).

Over 5 days from having the flu combined with a chest infection. It was a little after the beginning of my deep depression and I tried to go to work while being sick for the week prior. I just kept on getting worse and worse until my boss and the owner came up to me and asked how I was doing, lol. I really did not want to stay home alone with my thoughts, but at the same time I could barely move at work. ugh. Such a bad winter that year.

I think at one pretty bad point in my life a month at least... maybe nearing two...
That was around this time last year, was not a good time for me -_-

A few days at most. Like Satou I don't have the luxury of being a full hikikomori

It's not what I'd consider as being a "luxury".

The longest was a few months. It would be longer but I have to visit my mom, go to school, etc.

When I was in school I used to spend the summer vacations plus one or two months without going outside. I'm currently in university, and attend lectures once in two weeks or so. I tend to avoid it, but when I have to give/recieve some documents I rely on myself too, even though sometimes the crowds here are horrible and hard to bear even for a "normal" person. Masochistic nature helps in cases like this. I try to rely on my family's charity only for food but I don't work either.

the longest was probably about three months. it was summertime and i was living with an aunt who worked all the time.
she would nag me all the time to go out and do something, but we lived in the middle of nowhere and i had no friends.
i spent the entire summer indoors on the internet and sleeping.

I guess the longest I've gone without going outside AT ALL would be a few weeks. After that long I generally feel like I have to get some fresh air, and go write in my backyard or take my dog on a walk. But if you don't count that, I suppose a few months.

A week or so for me. It's difficult since I still live with my family and my mother drags me out every moment she can. My anxiety and demophobia is getting worse though so I'm trying to avoid outside as much as I can.

The most I normally go is a few days to week during summer vacations. It's not so much that I don't want to go outside, it's just that I'm content being by myself, and if I don't have to go outside...I wont. But then my dad nags at me and offers to take me out for sushi. It's not like I can say, "no." I love sushi Another thing that get's me to go outside is a really bad craving for Taco Bell If it weren't for school and food, for the most part, I would hardly leave my house because I would have no reason to.

I've been inside for upwards of 6 months.

a couple of months for me. the weather here is too temperamental. it's either too hot or too rainy. and people tend to stare. so i don't go out much.

Wow - a poll with over 100 votes.

I don't think any other poll here has received this many votes.