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Budget my paycheck with me as a 27-year-old nurse, single mom living in my parents garage apartment so I can pay off $51,000 worth of student loan debt. I work a full-time 9 to 5 as a registered nurse in a very small town and after taxes, deductions, and contributions, I took home $2,227. First thing that I think of when I get paid is what bills do I have to cover? And for this paycheck, I only had to pay my mom and dad $471. $300 of that goes to rent and the remaining is for my phone bill and car insurance. Once my bills are out of the way, I then budget out my expenses. My expenses pretty much remain the same every single paycheck. I allocate $350 for groceries. Per month, I probably spend around $700 to $800, but I really want to get that down. So lately, I've been eating really simple meals. Even though I don't eat out anymore, I do let my daughter eat out and I allocate $25 for that. For gas, I'm planning to spend about $80. Actually, might go over this budget because gas has just been so expensively lately. And for miscellaneous, I budget myself $75 for this. This is for all of the unexpectedly made purchases. And then for our kittens, I allocate $75 for them. Moving on to debt. The only debt that I currently have is my student loans and I have to pay a minimum of $335 for them. For investments, I currently don't invest for myself. I really want to get back to it after I'm done paying back my student loans, but I still do invest for my daughter. I have a Robinhood account for her and I invest $50 per paycheck. After budgeting out my entire paycheck, I have $789 left to spend. I'm currently on a debt payoff journey, so that $789 will be used for my student loan debt, but there's a twist. I won't be the one to say how much I get to pay back for. I let someone else do that for me. So follow along because that I will be sharing that in my next video.