Hey math is cool! I wanna try!

7.50 an hour, 40 hours a week = 300

lets tax that and bring it down to 200

200 a week for a month is 800 dollars

you get a studio apartment in a cheap part of town for 500 all utilities included. You have provided yourself with shelter and have 300 a month left over

we'll put gas at 100. No car payment cause you're not an idiot and dont buy 18,000 dollar vehicles when you can find a decent one for under 1000 and you've already payed that off. so you're down to 200

that's 50 a week for food and whatever else you want

25 should provide you with food (you can do it for half that though), you get water from the tap, all your needs are now met and you got 25 a week left over for whatever (probably liability insurance for your car). Cool!


you want more money? Maybe youre close enough to your job to walk or bike. congrats! you've just saved 100 a month on what you would be spending on gas. Find some roommates to go in on a 3 bedroom apartment. You can get one of those for like 700. Thats 233 a person. You saved yourself 267 dollars on rent. The total saved = 367 dollars a month! woo-hoo!

you don't have student loans to pay off cause you decided in highschool that you really didn't need much more than minimum wage to survive and the quality of ones life isn't really dependant on how much money they have. Shit, you could live in a van and go camping every day. why not?