How did you move out?

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  • AngelicxAnnihilation
    AngelicxAnnihilation Posts: 336 Member
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    Thanks so much, these are all really great ideas. While I know staying with my parents would be the cheapest, it's just hard to do so as I find my parents intolerable (like I'm sure everyone does). I have no privacy due to my mothers medical conditions and can never find anything because she's always into my stuff. It's just time to leave lol..

    @Ken, Right on for joining the Navy! It's sounds like you've had a good experience!
  • ken_hogan
    ken_hogan Posts: 854 Member
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    Thanks so much, these are all really great ideas. While I know staying with my parents would be the cheapest, it's just hard to do so as I find my parents intolerable (like I'm sure everyone does). I have no privacy due to my mothers medical conditions and can never find anything because she's always into my stuff. It's just time to leave lol..

    @Ken, Right on for joining the Navy! It's sounds like you've had a good experience!
    Thanks!! I'm sure that probably wasn't the answer you were looking for but had to throw it in :wink:
  • Amyann44
    Amyann44 Posts: 24 Member
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    At 18, I moved out on my own. Found a very affordable cute studio. Loved it!!
  • kmhenry84
    kmhenry84 Posts: 96 Member
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    I didn't move out. To this day I still live with my parents as I work and go to college.

    I say save your money. Stay home.

    This! If I could do over I'd do this....I just think about all the money I could've saved :sad:

    Yup.. Stay at home.. Wish I could do it again.
    Take the money you would be spending on rent, and put it into a savings account. Grin and bear with your parents. If you can save up enough money to cover for 6 months worth of rent and utilities, consider it then. Other than that, just keep yourself busy, and look at it as a place to lay your head at night.
    Wait until you are done with school and have a good paying job to move out.
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
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    I don't know a lot about welfare, I just kind of put it in there because I know a friend who's using it to pay for her expenses..

    You guys make it sound like renting with people has been a nightmare xD In my head I want my own place but will I have enough to support myself is the question :P

    Yeah, renting with others can be a pain. Or not, all depends on who you rent with. We all would have liked to live on our own by you gotta do what you gotta do and for many, that means renting with others.
    I also think its a learning experience. Eventually most people will end up sharing a house with someone, it's not a bad idea to learn ways to deal and what your deal breakers are early.
  • MelsAuntie
    MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
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    I had to live in a dorm the first two years. College rules. No living off campus unless you were a townie. Or I'd have lived at home and just made the 25-minute drive twice a day. No such thing as co-ed dorms, floor monitors making sure we had no men in our rooms. This was 1968, dears.
  • Emisole
    Emisole Posts: 65
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    First time around, parents partially paid for an apartment while I went to college for a year.

    Second time around, I joined the Air Force. Haha.
  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
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    Thanks so much, these are all really great ideas. While I know staying with my parents would be the cheapest, it's just hard to do so as I find my parents intolerable (like I'm sure everyone does). I have no privacy due to my mothers medical conditions and can never find anything because she's always into my stuff. It's just time to leave lol..

    @Ken, Right on for joining the Navy! It's sounds like you've had a good experience!

    I moved out the second I graduated high school because I wanted my own rules. With that comes responsibility. I'm going to school in the fall, full time 18 hours and working 50+ hours a week running a store. It's crazy and busy but I love doing what ever I want, whenever the **** I want.
  • Madame_Goldbricker
    Madame_Goldbricker Posts: 1,625 Member
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    I moved out at 19 when I had my daughter. Worked 25+ a week (shifts), & attended college. Thank god for a great childminder & had some childcare support from family. Moved into a 2 floor up dive that my friend had moved out of, & another friend moved into after I moved out lol Must have been like some rite of passage thing!.. Definately live at home for as long as you can & save some cash. If thats not an option then I'd share with ppl, as when the "REAL" cost of living hits home it doesn't half hurt :laugh:
  • Tamm04
    Tamm04 Posts: 182 Member
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    Got married, family packed my stuff while I was on my honeymoon, and they drove it 800 miles away to where I was going to live with hubby (we later moved back to my home state).
  • betterthanbefpre
    betterthanbefpre Posts: 168 Member
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    If you have an option stay home, go to school then move out.
  • pteryndactyl
    pteryndactyl Posts: 303 Member
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    First...I wouldn't consider moving until you have ~6 months of expenses saved up.

    Second...if you can stay at home even longer, do it. I know parents can be a pain, but seriously most of the time that's nothing in comparison to the stress and problems you'll deal with once you're on your own.

    I'm 23 and planning to move out (w/ my boyfriend) in a few weeks. I stayed at home through college and my first year of working. Living at home = saving TONS of money! But my parents are awesome sooo....
  • marieann82
    marieann82 Posts: 150 Member
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    I didn't move out. To this day I still live with my parents as I work and go to college.

    I say save your money. Stay home.

    This! If I could do over I'd do this....I just think about all the money I could've saved :sad:

    Yup.. Stay at home.. Wish I could do it again.
    Take the money you would be spending on rent, and put it into a savings account. Grin and bear with your parents. If you can save up enough money to cover for 6 months worth of rent and utilities, consider it then. Other than that, just keep yourself busy, and look at it as a place to lay your head at night.
    Wait until you are done with school and have a good paying job to move out.

    AGREED!
  • NormInv
    NormInv Posts: 3,295 Member
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    Craigslist
  • DonnieFoozball
    DonnieFoozball Posts: 12 Member
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    Crumby living environments, forced camaraderie, strangers in your personal space, etc. are some of the best experiences from college, and also the greatest (IMHO) chances to make great life long friends. Dorms are a great place to meet people and 'shop' for future roommates. If you're not talking about college, but instead are talking about launching into the workforce, I would suggest rooming with a friend if you can, or a friend of a friend. They are safer than a complete Craigslist stranger (maybe?). FYI: I may be biased since I'm 37 and my closes friends to this day are friends and former roommates from college. (Granted, there are lots of people I am glad to not see or hear from ALSO, but that is part of the growth experience too.... Also, having lived with roommates in the past, made me better able to 'adjust' to living with a new 'roommate' after I got married. )
  • Madame_Goldbricker
    Madame_Goldbricker Posts: 1,625 Member
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    Craigslist

    Hmmm, hopefully not one of those "looking for 18+, slim, blonde, to share house - must be prepared to do light dusting duties in underwear!!" type ad's on there. :huh:
  • CMB1979
    CMB1979 Posts: 588 Member
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    My first job out of college was a leasing specialist for an apartment community.

    My apartment was at a 20% discount and I didn't have to put down a deposit.
  • honeysprinkles
    honeysprinkles Posts: 1,757 Member
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    First year I lived in a dorm, second year I moved into an apartment with my then fiance (now husband). The third year we moved into a 2br apartment with his brother (who was also a student at the time) but then we couldn't even afford that and we had the option to move 45 minutes back to our hometown into a house their grandpa owns (but isn't living in) for cheaper rent (and a lot more space.) Fourth year, which will be this year, we are moving back closer to school and on our own, and we're married now too.

    I really didn't like having roommates, but sometimes it's necessary.
    Most of my living expenses are paid for with financial aid and student loans...not ideal, but necessary for right now! Getting married helps because now we're both considered independent financially so our financial aid is based on our income and not our parents, which it should be because neither of our parents support us or pay for our school.
  • Cp731
    Cp731 Posts: 3,195 Member
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    Are you capable of paying bills? Did your parents show you how to use a checking account and balance a check book.
    Will you have a job that will allow you to pay all the rent if 1 of your roommates Bails? You want to be prepared for the downside.
    Do you know how to do your own laundry? Have you ever went food shopping for yourself?
    Do you have any pets your trying to take with you?
    It can be difficult in figuring how you will pay for rent, laundry, food, hygiene products, you have to factor everything in right down to Toilet Paper.
    Are you good with budgeting money? So you know not to order a pizza if your cell phone needs to be paid, cuz 20$ is 20$
    Have you considered what type of transportation you will be using? Public or do you have your own car?

    When you move out are your parents willing to pick up the slack, meaning help ya out from time to time? Or are you gonna be one of those kids that calls home daily because you need something?
  • honeysprinkles
    honeysprinkles Posts: 1,757 Member
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    I don't know a lot about welfare, I just kind of put it in there because I know a friend who's using it to pay for her expenses..

    You guys make it sound like renting with people has been a nightmare xD In my head I want my own place but will I have enough to support myself is the question :P
    usually you can qualify for food stamps if you're a college student and you work a minimum of 20 hours per week...which can actually be hard as a part time worker because a lot of places won't even schedule you that much, especially if you have a full time class schedule to work around!

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