Your Student Budget Starts Too Late // TSMB 01

You find a room in Prague for 12,000 CZK per month. The number works. You update your budget and start imagining where the desk will go. Then you learn that the deposit and agency fee each equal one month’s rent: 12,000 CZK rent12,000 CZK deposit12,000 CZK agency fee The room costs 12,000 CZK a month. Getting inside costs 36,000 CZK. That is a hypothetical example, not a Prague average. But it shows how a realistic monthly budget can fail before the month has properly started. Your budget may...