living expenses
Daily spending needs
Living expenses are the ongoing costs of daily life—housing, food, utilities, transportation, and similar necessities.
The term appears in discussions of budgeting, relocation, or financial planning: The job pays well, but living expenses in the city are high.
Distinguished from one-time purchases or discretionary spending, living expenses are the baseline costs of maintaining a household.
- rentPayment for temporary use
- utilitiesEssential infrastructure services
- monthly billsPeriodic charges due regularly
- car insurancePolicy covering vehicle damage
- property taxesGovernment charges on land
electricity · tuition fees · mortgage · vehicle maintenance · gasoline · toiletries · retirement contributions · out of pocket · basic needs · school supplies · maintenance fees · necessities · haircuts · gym memberships · parking fees · groceries · tolls · textbooks
- expensesexpenses, expenditure, cost, costs, rent
- personal financesavings, income, credit, investments, bills
- budgetingbudget, budgets, budget app, budget template, budget allocation
- living costsprice index, consumer price index, rent prices, utility bills, food prices
- federal loansdirect loans, direct loan, subsidized loans, subsidized loan, unsubsidized loan
- Financial AidPell Grant, scholarships, grants, federal grants, fellowships
living expensesdiscretionary spending
Non-obligatory personal expenditures
luxury spending · extravagances · indulgences · splurges · impulse purchases