Life Skills 101: A Practical Guide to Leaving Home and Living on Your Own - Softcover

Revised and updated for 2011, the fifth edition of Life Skills 101: A Practical Guide to Leaving Home and Living on Your Own is a valuable guide to the complete spectrum of skills required to successfully master the challenges of being a responsible adult; whether that means living alone, with roommates or even with Mom and Dad. Subjects include financial know-how, job search success; interview, social, dining and workplace etiquette, consumer savvy, home hunting and lease negotiations. The guide provides the reader with essential advice on maintaining their home, car, laundry, time and well-being. The book also includes effective suggestions on saving and stretching one's money, as well as positive actions for practicing environmental awareness.

Are You Ready for the Challenge of Living on Your Own? Living on your own for the first time can be an exciting rite of passage, especially when you are confident you possess the life skills necessary to easily maneuver through your new world and meet your new life at your best. Life Skills 101 is an indispensable reference guide to the basic knowledge and practical information you need to make living on your own-or with roommates-a thoroughly successful experience.