Advantages and disadvantages you want to know in order to enjoy living alone........

Getting out of your home and living alone is the first step to an adult. Living alone has many benefits, such as free time, but it also has disadvantages. Let's acquire knowledge about single life to start comfortable single life.

What are the benefits of living alone?

Free time

It is no exaggeration to say that the most merit of living alone is that you have free time. In my home, only my own room is a private space, and even if it is a family, living with someone is bound to a certain extent.

For example, there are rules for each family, such as time to wake up, time to eat, and curfew. If you go to bed for a long time, you may be told something, and there will be a noisy family at the curfew.

However, living alone can decide the rules by yourself. No matter how you spend your time, everyone is free, without being complained by anyone.

Don't worry about anyone

When you live in your home, there are many situations where things don't carry at your own pace. I want to go to the bathroom but I have to wait, I have to go home late and have to refrain from taking a bath, or I am waiting for the order of the bathroom during busy morning hours There are many things that you have to worry about each other, such as being frustrated.

When you live alone, you can do what you want to do at your own pace, so you will not feel the stress of having to wait for a turn or the guilt of having to wait.

You will learn life skills such as household chores

Even if you are always helping with house chores, there are few people who are doing all the chores alone. When you start living alone, you may find it difficult at first, as you will do everything you and your parents have done before.

However, knowing how hard household chores are, you can appreciate the merits of your family and gain the ability to live alone. When thinking about marriage in the future, people who have the ability to live will benefit from people who have never done housework.

There are disadvantages to living alone

It costs money to live alone

In order to live alone, you have to remember that it costs money. First of all, the money to rent a home, the cost of moving, the money to buy the necessary furniture and appliances, etc. will cost you a lot.

In addition, in order to keep living alone, it is necessary to cover rent, utility expenses, communication expenses, food expenses, etc. with your own income. Before living alone, you need to calculate to some extent how much money you need.

It is hard to do all the housework

When you live in your own home, there are many who say that most of the housework such as washing, cleaning and cooking is done by parents. However, if you start living alone, you have to do the necessary household chores yourself.

When you are working, there are many people who find it hard to do housework more than you think.

Washing and cleaning together is not a problem, but you have to eat daily. Getting tired from work, going home and cooking from there is quite a challenge. However, it will cost you money on a daily basis at the convenience store lunch box, so it would be better to stock the side dishes.

It is easy to feel lonely because there is no other person to talk to

When you live in your own home, there are a lot of places where someone is at home and you can watch TV and talk together.

However, if you live alone, basically you will only be at home. Even if you talk to people at work, when you go to work, you may be "don't talk to anyone all day" unless you leave home on the day off.

Living alone and feeling particularly lonely is when I visit my home and come back to my room or when I feel ill and go to bed. In order not to feel loneliness, it is good to create a hobbies that can be immersive, and it is also good to make friends who are connected by SNS.

How much does it cost to live a new graduate student alone?

Breakdown of living expenses for new graduates

I will list the minimum expenses necessary for new graduates to live a month.

The biggest expense is the rent first. The average national rent is said to be around 60,000 to 70,000. Next is utility expenses, but the water cost is about 3,000 yen, and the gas cost is about 2,000 yen. However, with regard to the cost of utilities, in cold areas such as Hokkaido, the gas and kerosene costs that apply to winter may exceed 10,000 yen.

Also, the communication cost is a huge expense. It costs about 4,000 yen to 7,000 yen for the cost of mobile phones and smartphones, and about 4,000 yen to 5,000 yen if you connect an internet connection to your home.

Then, the cost of food depends on whether you cook or not. If you choose to cook your own meals, the food expenses for living alone will be reduced to about 20,000 to 30,000, but if you rely on eating out and a convenience store, the 50,000 yen will slightly exceed the moon.

In addition, about 20,000 miscellaneous expenses necessary for daily necessities such as shampoo and tissue paper, and 20,000 expenses for personal expenses are the breakdown of expenses for general new graduates. In all, it will be about 180,000 yen to live one month.

How much do new graduates earn income?

Even if you are a new graduate, your pay varies depending on the industry, and there are differences depending on your academic background. There will be some differences depending on the area where you live.

On a national average, it is said that the starting salary for college graduates with a final academic background is around 2 to 2.5 million yen per year. On the other hand, the average salary for high school graduates is 1.5 to 1.8 million yen a year. However, the skills required by different companies are different, so this is not necessarily the case.

Is it possible to live alone with 150,000 hands?

The average monthly income of new graduates is around 150,000 to 200,000. If it is 200,000 yen, you can live with a certain degree of freedom, but if you live alone at 150,000, you need to cut down what you can save as much as possible.

First of all, it is the rent that costs the most money. The average national average is 6 to 70,000 yen, but if you live for 150,000 yen, you should keep the rent to 40 to 60,000.

It is difficult to keep down the absolutely necessary expenses such as utility costs, but with regard to food expenses, it is possible to save a great deal by cooking yourself. In addition, you can save communication expenses such as smartphone charges by changing to a cheaper model.

How much does it cost for a college student to live alone?

Breakdown of the money spent on student living alone

If you are a student, the money you need depends on whether you are staying in a school dormitory or lodging, or renting an apartment and going to live alone, depending on the rent.

Breakdown of the money that takes one month in average college student living alone is about 50,000 yen for housing expenses such as rent, approximately 20,000 yen for food expenses, approximately 10,000 yen for miscellaneous expenses, approximately 3,000 yen for transportation expenses, and telephone charges approximately It seems that it is about 3,000 yen and 10,000 yen expenses.

In addition, if you are a student, you will need to pay extra textbooks to study, which often costs around 10,000 yen a month.

If all is summed up, it turns out that a student's single living needs about 110,000 yen. I have to secure time to study, and it can be said that it is very tough to cover all expenses with a part-time job alone. Therefore, there are many students who get sent from their parents and work on a part-time job for the missing part.

Where do students earn their money?

The amount of money required for student living alone is approximately 110,000 yen. So, where did the students earn so much money? It seems that the most important weight is sent by parents. There are also many students using the scholarship program.

As an average breakdown of the student's income, it seems that it is common to send about 70,000 yen, the scholarship about 20,000 yen, and other missing part at part-time jobs, most often because of sending from parents. The average amount of money earned by university students living alone at part-time jobs is said to be 25,000 yen.

There are not enough living expenses for sending and part-time job alone!

The average amount sent by parents to college students living alone is about 70,000 yen. If you live in an apartment, it costs about 110,000 yen for a student's living alone, which is not enough.

However, there are neither original nor child when learning is neglected by increasing the part-time job too much. Some people who have confidence in their physical fitness may hold various part-time workers, but if you don't have a day to rest you will get tired. Therefore, there are many students who use the scholarship program. As we can receive assistance of around 20,000 yen a month, living expenses will be paid by this.

If there are people who are too busy studying and do not have time to do part-time work, it will be difficult to maintain one's living unless you save significantly on food and entertainment expenses.

Standard of thing and expense necessary for single life

Furniture necessary for living alone

The minimum furniture needed for living alone is futons, tables, curtains, and so on. If there is no storage facility in the room, storage furniture such as a chest, people who go to bed in bed will also need a bed.

The average price for each would be a set of about 10,000 yen for a futon, about 10,000 yen for a table, 7,000 yen for a curtain, about 20,000 yen for storage furniture, and about 30,000 yen for a bed. It will be about 80,000 to 90,000 in total.

Rather than having everything in stock, buying at a thrift shop or having something used at home can save you a lot more.

Appliances necessary for living alone

Household appliances necessary for living alone will be a considerable expense if it is arranged in one way. However, these are all inconvenient without them, so it is recommended that you have them all.

Refrigerators and washing machines can be bought for around 40,000 for single use. The TV is about 30,000 yen, the microwave oven is about 10,000 yen, the rice cooker is about 10,000 yen, and the vacuum cleaner is about 10,000 yen. You can get it at this price unless you have a particular commitment. Even so, it will be about 140,000 yen in total.

You can buy it at a recycling shop, but in view of the warranty, it seems that many home appliances are new.

How much does it cost to move alone?

If you want to bring furniture etc. from your home to live alone, moving expenses will be required. It is common to use a single-person pack moving service as there is little luggage for living alone.

The moving expenses will change during the busy season and not during the busy season, and will be higher during the busy season. So, if possible, you can save money by moving away from the busy season.

It is a standard of this expense, but is 50 ~ 60,000 yen in the busy season, and 30 ~ 40,000 yen is the market price otherwise. However, because extra charges will be incurred for packages that have moved out of the size of the container specified by the moving company, it is advisable to check in advance.

Things to know in order to enjoy single life

There are many people who will start living alone when they become college students or new working people, but it may be uneasy to leave home and live alone for the first time. In particular, how much money is spent on rent and living expenses, and whether you can live alone with your own salary is the most uneasy material.

In order to eliminate the anxiety, it is recommended that you check in advance the cost of living necessary for living alone, and what you have to prepare in advance, and do a simulation.