@NITRODUBS damn you're younger than I'm living in a studio while you're getting a house

good job

seriously

We would’ve just bought, but since duke isn’t done with college yet and we really don’t know where we’ll have to move once he’s done, we just settled for a rental

And thank you!

Ohio has pretty cheap rent too though, so it’s not so bad. The house is 100$ a month out of my original price range but it was just so perfect and in such a nice area I didn’t want to pass it up

I live in a really cheap rent area

The garage has a really nice work bench, which is perfect because duke does wood work and I do metal smithing

$460 a month for my studio

Honestly if I were you I’d just stay there and save money until you really need more space

We wouldn’t have moved if I didn’t need more space for work for my moms shop

I like the area but I don't wanna live here my whole life

State wise or city wise?

uh

well, I don't wanna reopen the whole discussion of my ideal place to live because people always argue with me about it lol

but, anyway, I'm gonna try to save up money here and then find another studio somewhere else

Psh I don’t question why people want what they want

I get ridiculed for wanting a homestead pretty much whenever I mention it

Even living in a studio isn’t bad honestly. Like I like my apartment because it’s so low maintenance and pretty nice for a workaholic lol.

you might not question but other people do

no it's not bad at all

I could honestly live my whole life like this

Yeah at the job I’m about to leave I was working constant 45-50 hour weeks so I wouldn’t have been able to handle mowing grass and such

And hey, space isn’t always an issue. There’s a woman in here with like 3-4 kids who lives in a trailer

God...

my friends who have 14 siblings somehow managed and their dad is a truck driver

though I'm sure they were getting a lot of gibs

I know a guy who works with me. Makes 25$ an hour and supports all 13 of his kids and wife

With no gibs

how is that mathematically possible?

You can really cut a lot of corners. Kids aren’t as expensive as the media tries to tell you

Making your own bread costs only 30 cents a loaf. Making nearly everything from scratch will save you big money

He raises his own chickens, sells eggs, has goats and sells goat milk

Oh, and meat rabbits are super cheap to raise, easy to harvest, and reproduce very quickly. I think the cost totaled up to like 25 cents a pound or something

Median salary for my degree is $49,000 1 year after graduation. I calculated that I could live amazingly well off that in Spokane by myself. With a family it would be a totally different story though.

that's 1/4th what I pay for chicken right now

Really, don’t worry about it too much. I make 30,000 a year and still save 800$ a month while living on my own.

Yeah buying chicken is still pretty cheap, so I wouldn’t criticize that lol

That’s not the only way to cut corners either. It’s different for everyone. For me it was buying less coffee from coffee shops lol

I don't worry about it at all tbh

whatever happens is gonna happen