Your friend is going to reduce living expenses, what of the following way would you recommend to your friend and why? Find a roommate or housemate to share the living expenses; buy some technology products(like the latest mobile phone) less frequently; shop for less expensive food to cook at home or go to the restaurant less frequently.
Most people live alone in a renting apartment with high living expenses. Some of them are struggling to reduce the living expenses by looking for a roommate to share live expenses, purchasing technology product less frequently, or buying discount food and cooking at home. If my friend asked me for advice, I would probably say the most practical and effective solution would be finding a roommate decline the living expenses.
There is much to be said for having roommate to live together. Firstly, as well as sharing monthly renting fee, a roommate can also bears half of the cost of utilities, both of which are inevitable expenses in each month bill. To illustrate, I have been sharing a apartment with my friend since I graduated in 2017. Including rent, utilities, wifi, and property management fee, each of us paid around RMB1,500 each month, which means both of us have been saving about RMB18,000 a year. In contrast, my colleague, who lives alone, has spent third fouth of her salary to pay for thoes fee alone, much less than to have some deposit. Therefore, for the sake of reduction of living expenses, I would highly recommend my friend to find a housemate.
Having a roommate could be in favour of to the decrease in demand of technology product and a encouragement for cooking at home rather than going to restaurants. The merits of living with other people is that they can share whatever they have to each other, including electric products and food. For example, my computor that I only used for a few times a month, was accidentially broken. When I was planning to buy a new one, my roommate said she would love to share hers to me so that I could save the money. Moreover, most people dislike having dinner alone for the reasons that it is hard to cook for only one person; and it is too much work for one person to cook everyday. However, two people can have more choices and lessen the amount of work. For instance, I and my roommate usually have 3 dishes each time and we cook in turn. Hence, I would advice my friend to look for a roommate to achieve her goal of diminishing spent.
In summary, through living with a roommate, people can not only to reduce their living expense like rent and utilities, but also to diminish the demands for purchasing electric product and having dinner ouside. It is fair to say that finding a roommate to share living expenses is the best way to cut down the living budget.