I work at a nonprofit in Washington, D.

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I make $52,000 a year, and my husband is a government contractor and makes $93,000 a year.

We live in Arlington, Virginia, just across the river from Washington, D.

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Who lived in this apartment for just over six months.

It's two bedrooms and 1400 square feet, are based.

Friend is 3300 which we split.

My husband and I paid 2300 and then our roommate.

My brother in law pays 1000.

It's definitely a bit bigger than we need, but we love having an M unit with lots of light.

It's amazing coming in here in the morning and having like throughout the entire day, it's also really quiet, which we love.

I typically wake up at 6 a.m. On a shower and I get dressed and get ready for the day.

I don't do a ton of shopping.

I probably spend maybe 400 to $500 a year on clothes just because I know I need to be saving for student loans to pay those off.

And it's just not as much of a priority right now.

By 6 45 were in the kitchen, making breakfast and coffee.

We usually go grocery shopping once a week for all our food.

We typically spend 122 $150 a week on grocers, and we pay for that with a drink credit card, and then that's paid off by the end of the month.

With our joint checking, we each put a percentage of our income into the joint checking account.

We have a joint savings account, and we also have personal statements counts.

We have $12,000 in our joint savings account and my personal savings account.

I have $750.

I have 4700 and my Roth IRA and I have about 700 in my for one K.

I also have about $11,000 in stocks I personally own.

Our goal is to put in $500 per month into our joint savings, but sometimes our wedding or travel can change that number a little bit.

We both have student loan debt.

I have about 28,000 and my husband has 5000.

My student loan bills currently about $379 month.

I always try to pay more than the minimum.

My husband and I are really into coffee.

We typically make a pore over before we head off to work way.

Love trying new coffee roasters.

We like to go out on the weekends and go cycling to check out new local roasters.

We really love cycling.

It's a big part of our lives.

For breakfast, we usually have toast with peanut butter and cinnamon.

We typically pretty healthy because my husband has type one diabetes.

We cook dinner every night, and I bring leftovers for lunch.

I also bring yogurt, fruit and some nuts and granola snack on it.

Work.

Traveling is really important to us.

We like to go on at least one big trip a year as well.

A smaller weekend trips to visit family and Friends Way don't have a set amount for trips, but we try to save money when we can by staying with friends and family.

Way had one big trip earlier this year.

There was about 2300 and we had another trip this summer that was about 4500.

I try to leave for work by 6 55 and I always listen to podcasts on the way, and I run home from work.

So I packed my running closing gear.

I walk to work my running shoes and I have shoes in my office that I changed into when I get there.

My brother in law slash roommate has a car that will let us use on the weekends.

We typically use it for grocery shopping, and we should be in about $20 per month for gas.

Unless we take it for a trip on the weekend, then we'll pay for the gas for the whole trip.

I think it's hard because there's some friends that are very well established.

It seems at least from outside that house, you know, they don't seem to have any major debts.

And then I have other friends that are still in school, still finishing stuff, still kind of breaking into adulthood, and so they seem a bit more shaky or they definitely still have debt like student loans and things like that.