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You adjust. My income dropped enormously when I set out on my own, but you also just start to buy less stuff, treat going out to dinner as a rare present to yourself vs. a 3 times a week thing, drop to more economical ways of travel, etc. After awhile you don't even notice it and even look back on your old spending ways as a little ridiculous.



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