Start Up Costs

Living with your parents, in all honesty, is a huge privilege. While living with them, they pay for almost all of the expenses including shelter, food, clothes, insurance, and plenty of other important things just to name a few of them. If you want to live on your own, it pretty much means that you are throwing all of those privileges out the window. Moving out and being independent should not be a spur of the moment decision. This type of action should be thoroughly planned out. Living on your own and being independent involves two very important expenses: Start up and recurring expenses.
Start up expenses are the costs associated solely with the implantation of a plan, project, or business. In our case it would be for a plan. Start up costs
These are the regularly occurring costs or estimated costs which are documented with one record. Recurring expenses include the utilities you have to pay every month, groceries that you have to get every time you run out of food, clothes, and lastly of course is the rent. Rent and utilities pretty much falls in the same sort of category. You absolutely have to have both of them to even be able to walk into the apartment. Rent will cost you a really high price of about $400 per month but you have to pay for it because you want to have somewhere to live. Utilities are what keeps your heat/air on, runs your water for you to be able to take a shower, and keeps you out of the dark. If you are paying for your rent you have to pay the utilities and these will cost you about $100 every month. Rent and utilities alone should make you want to stay at home for as long as you can. If you have enough money from all of the other expenses, you still have to pay for groceries every month. Paying $300 a month alone just for food is a very costly need. Another important expense is the clothes that you will need every so often. A safe price for clothing would be about $150 and that is really pushing