<prompt> Human: Just feeling hopeless. My original plan was to move out of my parents house after I paid off my loans, but my mom has not been an easy person to live with thats a long story... so I had to leave. So Im in the process of moving out. While doing my budget, I realized I only have 600 left over, after all the necessities are paid for. Heres what it looks like.EDIT: Thanks for all your suggestions, guys! Im removing my budget just cause I dont want folx who know my reddit name to know the intricacies of my budget, haha.Assistant: I really dont see why you feel so hopeless, 600 leftover sounds pretty reasonable right now. Is it going to slow down your paying off your loans? Sure, but 9,800 is not an insurmountable number. Try paying 400 towards the loan more than double the minimum amount and keep 200 for fun money. Thats plenty of monthly entertainment. Sure, reducing your expenses is a good idea, but youre not in a debt emergency, you have student loans, not credit card debt. Youre doing fine. The advice people are giving you sounds straight out of rfrugal. Human: I guess I was just looking forward to paying off my loans in 10 months, and now its like... a few years, haha. Maybe youre right, maybe Im freaking out over nothing. 400200 is a good split - and then when the loans are paid off I can start working on the 401K.Thank you! This helped me put things into perspective.  <response>: Many people pay their student loans for around a decade, youre in like the 2 year range. You are golden. 