At what age did you become 100% financially independent? I.e. not a single thing paid for by parents including things like staying under their insurance

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22, I lived at home for the first 6 months after graduation then got my own place and that was that.

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18 - lived at home but paid for everything else (school, car, insurance, clothes, etc).

17 years old

18 - my parents retired so I couldn’t be on their insurance

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