Living On Your Own: The Complete Guide to Setting Up Your Money, Your Space, and Your Life

Striking out on your own after a lifetime of living with your parents is equal parts exhilarating and intimidating, but most of all, it is awkward. There is so much that people expect you to know that no one ever bothered to tell you—stuff you actually need to know to avoid bankrupting yourself through overspending, poisoning yourself with bad cooking, or drowning in a rising tide of dirty dishes and unwashed laundry.

But you don’t have to learn all this the hard way. “Living On Your Own: The Complete Guide to Setting Up Your Money, Your Space and Your Life” is the cheat sheet to help you take your first steps into adulthood with confidence.

Whether you’re moving into a college dorm or into post-college life, “Living On Your Own” gives you money-, time-, and trouble-saving tips, shortcuts, and lifehacks to make your transition smoother. Covering everything from the basics of budgeting to home cooking on the cheap to how to not catch an STD, “Living On Your Own” is an invaluable road-map to early adulthood.

Adam Plantinga holds a B.A. in English with a second major in Criminology/Law Studies from Marquette University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude in 1995. He has been a police officer for 17 years, and is currently a sergeant with the San Francisco Police Department. Plantinga’s first book, 400 Things Cops Know, received rave reviews from star crime writers such as Lee Child, Edward Conlon, and Joseph Wambaugh and was hailed as “the new bible for crime writers” in the Wall Street Journal. Plantinga lives in the Bay Area with his wife and daughters.