My name is Dylan. I\u2019m twenty years old, living with my parents. I\u2019m in $17,598.16 of debt, between credit cards and my car loan. The most I\u2019ve got saved at the moment is $551.19 and my goal is to save up enough to pay my car off, which is around $15,000. I\u2019m in the process of paying my two credit cards off. This part of my blog is where I\u2019ll keep track of each step (and misstep) I take towards getting my full independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This isn\u2019t going to be one of those picture-perfect finance blogs where the numbers are all clean and the advice feels like it came from a millionaire. I\u2019m not a millionaire. I\u2019m a twenty-year-old young adult trying to get my life together, one paycheck at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ll be sharing exactly what I save, what I spend, and what I mess up on. If I blow $20 on fast food when I swore I wouldn\u2019t, it\u2019s going in here. If I pay off a card early, it\u2019s going in here. No pretending, no glossing over the hard parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m tracking it because I want proof that it\u2019s possible to start small, stay consistent, and end up in a completely different place a year from now. I don\u2019t have a deadline, but I do have a plan\u2014and I\u2019m about to put it to the test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My name is Dylan. I\u2019m twenty years old, living with my parents. I\u2019m in $17,598.16 of debt, between credit cards and my car loan. The most I\u2019ve got saved at the moment is $551.19 and my goal is to save up enough to pay my car off, which is around $15,000. I\u2019m in the process […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[20,16,21,22],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-moving-out-chronicles","tag-budgeting","tag-introductory","tag-moving-out","tag-saving-money"],"yoast_head":"\n