And not on your own. You would move in with a handful of others, including the odd county councillor. And you'd arrange for young people to set you tasks and periodically vote to evict people from the house.
Well that's what youth workers in Barrow did. They borrowed the idea from a certain reality television show. Their version, retitled Big Mother, was a fundraiser and promotion for their new youth room, the Funky Monkey.
The North West Evening Mail reported how youth worker Wendy Phizacklea was declared the winner after a week in the house. Local young people from the Four Groves Estate in Barrow watched Wendy and the other contestants sleep, eat and play in the Funky Monkey.
Adapting television shows is far from unusual, though. Hundreds of real-life versions of the adapted programme, "I'm a youth worker, get me out of here", are played all over the country every week.
The phrase "age discrimination" generally conjures up an image of elderly workers elbowed out to make room for new blood. Only a few weeks ago the National Audit Office produced a report suggesting discrimination against over-50s was costing the economy billions a year in lost output, reduced taxes and increased welfare payments.
Attitudes could be changing, as minds get focused ahead of legislation operative from October 2006 that will outlaw age discrimination. A survey by a law firm has made the astonishing discovery that more young people believe they suffer from discrimination in the workplace than older employees. It could be time for a report into the economic costs of marginalising young people in the workforce.
Who is interested in reading about the world of 10-year-old girls? Visitors to The Guardian's web site, apparently.
An article on the make-up routines and magazine reading habits of girls stormed to number two in the site's popular story hit parade.
It attracted nearly 130,000 visits, gathering more than twice as much interest as the Poland v England World Cup qualifier that was happening in the same week.
Perhaps The Guardian has more 10-year-old readers than some of us might have guessed.
