Movin' on out

Moving out. I at the tender age of 23 have moved out of my sisters/moms roof, and let me tell you it has not been fun. I was thrown into it without having time to plan (not that I would let's be honesty), it was one day not having to pay rent then suddenly I have to pay rent and lights + water.


Then just as we move in the washing machine we had doesn't work, we actually had to stomp clothes so that we would have clean clothes. That's all in the first week so that's fun. I had a scenario in my head of how it would be to move but obviously that never happens because you know, reality.

I'm not 100% sure where I'm going with this post but I'm sure at some point I'll find some structure. My current situation of moving out is I live my with boyfriend, his brother and a friend of theirs, so you can imagine how much testosterone I'm living with. This is very much a boys house, I could decorate it they won't stop me but... I don't have the cash. But to be honest, my hearts not in it, it's not home home. My boyfriend and I are kind of just waiting out the lease to move to somewhere that we can actually call home. I have gained a decent amount of knowledge that I can take with me to the next place I rent.

Everything breaks 

By that I mean as soon as you sort one thing out, something else will break. For example like I mentioned above the washing machine broke and we got it fixed, then it broke again and we had it fixed again. Guess what happened then? If you guessed washing machine you'd be wrong, my fricken tv broke. I'm currently watching series on my laptop, which is only like 11inchs I think. As someone who now has to pay for things that go wrong in a house, it seems like everything just keeps breaking. You can make the perfect budget for a month and guaranteed something will pop up that you probably don't have the extra money to sort it out but it will be something that you need daily and have to fix.

There is always washing

Even after you've done the laundry you'll look again and there are more clothes to wash. When I still lived with my mom I would do my laundry some of the time and sometimes she would do it for me, and I would separate colours and underwear. But now honestly I just chuck everything into the washing machine and hope for the best. Although I really don't mind doing the washing because when it comes to hanging it on the line, I put my earphones in and listen to a murder podcast which is in a weird way relaxing.

Attitudes

I don't know if this happens exclusively with housemates but it has happened with mine. Peoples attitudes change very quickly and you can't let it bother you especially when you live with them. Because of things that don't directly have anything to do with me but my housemate's attitude has changed towards my boyfriend and me, and I was letting it affect me for a bit I was walking on eggshells in my own house. I changed my behaviour because of someone else and made myself feel uncomfortable when they were chillin'.

Rent is a bitch

I keep wanting to use the phrase  "to be honest" in this post and I need to stop. Anyway because of a financially unstable last job, trying to pay rent has been an actual mission. I know they always say expect the best, plan for the worse and I did not. I have no savings at all, R0,00 in my bank. So when things got really difficult I had nothing to fall back on. It's really really important that once you start paying rent and no longer under your parent's roof that you have a savings for bad months because you never know whats going to happen.