5 Lessons I’ve Learned While Living Alone for the First Time.
5 Lessons I’ve Learned While Living Alone for the First Time. 1. Staying on budget is hard. Really hard. Before living on my own this summer, I never understood why people couldn’t easily create budgets and stick to them. Budgeting seemed like a simple process: Plan. Create. Stick to it. Now that I’ve lived on my own this summer I’ve learned that budgeting is definitely not as clear cut as I initially thought. I’ve realized that a budget can and should be a flexible goal made with a weekly or monthly timeline, and I found that my restrictive budgeting tendencies (and subsequent failures at sticking to my budget) have revealed a lot about what I value in life (in particular: food). I’m nowhere near the amount of money spent that I initially planned before my summer began (#tbt to me dutifully planning out my projected summer spending habits in May), but I’ve had a lot of fun experiencing new things and figuring out when to tell myself no, which is a l...