Guest Post

Guest post written by Rolf Tate

My sister recently graduated from college and moved in to a house with two roommates. My sister and both of her roommates are just starting out in their careers and cannot afford to spend any extra money right now. She was telling me that one of her roommates did not want to get cable because it was too expensive. My sister however, really still wanted to have cable and she was not sure what to do. I told her to google “direct tv package” to look at all of the packages available and maybe she and her roommates could find one they could agree on. She said that he would try it. I told her that this is probably only one of the few problems that were going to arise with a roommate, but that it was always better to talk about any conflicts than to just let them go. I also told her that if she had to give up something in order to save money, that tv might be something she might not miss too much. I am glad that she is having the experience of living with someone else, as well as learning to budget her money.