How can I leave home without worrying my mother too much?

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My mother is very protective and for many reasons(long story there.) I needed to move out and kinda did. I moved in with my older sister and her family but my goal is to move out on my own someday. But my mom still try's to get me to move back in with her very month or so.

I see that you're somewhere in the u.k. do you have dollar store there? It's a store where everything costs a $1 and tax. The store are not great for everything but buying clearing supplies there would put cost down.

Things have took a turn for the worse for me in the past week: yesterday I was told that men from the council had visited again, and that the central heating replacement which I mentioned back on post #384 couldn't be postponed this time (I don't know when it's scheduled for yet, I think it's September). Not only that, but they now want to replace the kitchen too. Cue more carping from my mam about how I was supposed to have bought them a house so that the family wouldn't be subject to this mayhem.

When I was taking her for shopping this afternoon (she'd pleaded with me to take her out to get her away from my dad -- she also said that Dad's "plus-carer" bus pass was making her feel "shackled" to him, as he'd moan about her wasting money if she went out on the bus on her own) she mentioned how she thought house prices were still rising, and that it was better to put my money in property anyway as it meant I could still claim unemployment benefits if I lost my job (which I couldn't if I had the money in the bank).

Then she seemed to drop the bombshell when she said "if you insist on buying a house outright, you'll only be able to get a dump! I bet even the Joblings (they're the CEO and COO where I work) didn't buy their house outright with no mortgage!"

My response was "so I'm supposed to live with you forever then? On my wage I couldn't afford to pay a mortgage for a house for you, and pay rent or a mortgage on a place for myself as well!" To which she replied "You're just a selfish so-and-so, who wants to spend all that money on a place for yourself, and then claim that you're somehow helping us out, as 'now you can move into a two-bed (council) disabled bungalow'!". She also started going on about how if I was so gung-ho about wanting my own place, why I wasn't helping out more where I'm currently living to show I could manage. She insinuated that I'd done a lot more housework (apart from the two long Saturday night sessions tidying cupboards, most of the things I'd done actually took very little of my time -- stuff like making my breakfast, feeding my sister's aquarium fish, and starting the washing machine for the most part) when Dad was in hospital, so why couldn't I do it now?

What do you recommend to do if I'm finding it difficult to find the spoons to actually start looking at places to live (either for the family or for myself) in order to motivate myself? I know I'm not even going to get (moral) support from my dad, as he thinks I shouldn't move out unless I need to relocate for work purposes. I think I'd find it too stressful though learning to look after myself and starting a new job at the same time.

Oh, well, at least a lot of the stuff we don't need was taken to the recycling centre over the course of last week (I drove it there with my Dad -- it's about one mile away). The only stuff still in the loft is Xmas decorations, for the most part.