Crunching numbers
Unable to return to sleep after my body decided to play a trick on me and wake up 2 hours before I intended to to wake up for work, my mind begain to wander, and I started researching all my bills and such, and making lists of appointments I need to set soon, things like that.
To my astonishment and utter pleasure, I've discovered, that with my new job, theoritically I can move out of my home and into my own place with a roomate. With the bills I have now: gym, phone, car, car insurance, best buy & student loans, spread out over the course of a month and getting paid weekly making it easy to keep up with payments, if I could find a place in the 500-700/month range, I could afford it, and have enough money to live off of comfortably for the rest of the month, for food and gas and things like this.
But currently, there is no need to move out of my home yet. In no way am I attached to this place and afraid to move out. I just simply don't have a reason yet. I have privacy, I work, I get along with my Mom and Grandma for the most part, I can leave whenever I want to, arrive whenever I want to, the room I have would probably be no bigger than a room I'd have when I moved out. Sure the house is in National City and not some place like Hillcrest or anywhere around the center of San Diego, but that's fine, I'm right next to the free way, takes me like 15 minutes to get to downtown, with traffic and like 6 to get there without. I don't really have much to complain about, plus, I'm needed here.
There are only a couple reasons I can think of that would make me move out. One, my privacy has become an issue, my mom will have invaded it entirely too much, seeing something she probably will regret and have a very bad reaction to this, or she tries to lay down the law, which she's tried to do my whole life, but never - even as a kid - listened, and it just becomes so much of an unhealthy living situation that its just time for me to go and be on my own. Two, I just simply want to move out, either because I suddenly feel it is time, or I come across someone I'd want to live with be it a friend or a boyfriend, and we find a fucking awesome place to live for an affordable price in a nice area. Or three, I get kicked out or something, which I don't think would ever happen, my mom loves me too much for that.
It makes me happy, and makes me feel somewhat grown up, knowing that I have the option to move out if I need to. But right now, I'll will continue to pay my bills and save up the money I'd be using for rent and such, and then see where I go from there.
To my astonishment and utter pleasure, I've discovered, that with my new job, theoritically I can move out of my home and into my own place with a roomate. With the bills I have now: gym, phone, car, car insurance, best buy & student loans, spread out over the course of a month and getting paid weekly making it easy to keep up with payments, if I could find a place in the 500-700/month range, I could afford it, and have enough money to live off of comfortably for the rest of the month, for food and gas and things like this.
But currently, there is no need to move out of my home yet. In no way am I attached to this place and afraid to move out. I just simply don't have a reason yet. I have privacy, I work, I get along with my Mom and Grandma for the most part, I can leave whenever I want to, arrive whenever I want to, the room I have would probably be no bigger than a room I'd have when I moved out. Sure the house is in National City and not some place like Hillcrest or anywhere around the center of San Diego, but that's fine, I'm right next to the free way, takes me like 15 minutes to get to downtown, with traffic and like 6 to get there without. I don't really have much to complain about, plus, I'm needed here.
There are only a couple reasons I can think of that would make me move out. One, my privacy has become an issue, my mom will have invaded it entirely too much, seeing something she probably will regret and have a very bad reaction to this, or she tries to lay down the law, which she's tried to do my whole life, but never - even as a kid - listened, and it just becomes so much of an unhealthy living situation that its just time for me to go and be on my own. Two, I just simply want to move out, either because I suddenly feel it is time, or I come across someone I'd want to live with be it a friend or a boyfriend, and we find a fucking awesome place to live for an affordable price in a nice area. Or three, I get kicked out or something, which I don't think would ever happen, my mom loves me too much for that.
It makes me happy, and makes me feel somewhat grown up, knowing that I have the option to move out if I need to. But right now, I'll will continue to pay my bills and save up the money I'd be using for rent and such, and then see where I go from there.