Paying my Apartment Rent with Bitcoin Cash

Last year, I was so excited for the Face-to-face classes to resume again because I wanted to move out of our house already. I felt that I needed to go away from my parents because being with them feels a little toxic sometimes and I'm slowly becoming comfortable staying in my comfort zone. I thought I need to start living independently again, where I'm the one responsible for myself and no one is going to help me with my daily chores, such as cooking and cleaning so that I would be trained to live like that.

However, when I realized that it would just be another financial burden to me since the face-to-face classes are more expensive than when having an online class, I wanted the F2F classes to be postponed or canceled again. I thought I couldn't shoulder all of my expenses if we start having classes in the classroom already since my parents can't support me financially anymore. But then, the executives of our University are pushing the limited face-to-face class to resume so I had no choice but to make a choice.

At first, I have 3 options with regard to how I'm going to attend my classes.

The first one is through commuting on a regular basis, where I would have to take the bus from our town going to the city and then ride a jeepney going to our University. Then after classes, I would go back home so I will ride on a jeepney and bus again. If I chose this option, that means I would spend almost 6 hours commuting and 380 pesos ($7.42) for the bus and jeepney fare every time I attend my face-to-face classes, or about 3,040 pesos ($59.36) every month. Not to mention, I will also get to interact with other passengers if I commute and I might only get sick every time since I have a weak immune system.

My second option is to rent a bed space in a dormitory where one room would be shared between other boarders, for a maximum of 3 to 4 persons. Although it's a little cheaper since I'll only spend 1,200 pesos ($23.43) per month for the rent, I wouldn't have that much privacy and I don't really like having too many people to interact with.

And the last option I have is to rent an apartment. I saw a studio-type apartment for rent worth 5,000 pesos ($100) per month and I thought it was a good deal already. However, I wouldn't be able to afford the monthly rent if I were to stay there alone. It's a good thing that an old friend of mine is also looking for an apartment so I thought we'll just share so that we'll have fewer expenses. And we decided to get the unit and pay 2,500 pesos ($50) each.

And since the landlady is requiring us to pay a 1-month advance and 1-month deposit amounting to 10,000 pesos ($200) where we'll pay 5,000 pesos ($100) each, I couldn't help but be stressed about it again. Like I always say, in the real world, I'm just a broke struggling college student and my parents can't provide that amount too.

However, it's really such a huge help for me that I got Bitcoin Cash and crypto in my life, which is my life-saver. So the other day, I decided to harvest all of my farm earnings on the SmartBCH network and also sold some of my tokens, and I immediately withdrew the BCH I obtained to my bitcoin.com wallet and sent it straight to my coins.ph wallet.

Today, I converted $100 (5,045 pesos) worth of Bitcoin Cash or about 0.32 BCH on my coins.ph wallet and sent it to my GCash so that I will withdraw the money into fiat to pay for the apartment rent.

I just feel relieved right now that I have already secured the monthly rent for February and also have a deposit, which I will use on my last month there. Well, now I just have to think about my other monthly expenses such as for the food and load allowance.

I've been converting BCH often and I'll probably convert more in the future if the need arises. While it hurts to convert BCH into fiat right now because of the low price, at least BCH is serving its purpose. I'll just keep hustling to earn some Bitcoin Cash again.