How I Saved Enough to Buy a House With My Parents’ Money

Excerpted from my latest piece for McSweeney’s, on their front page today.

A lot of people have been asking me how I put away enough money to buy a house. Well, it’s pretty simple: I saved up for a while, and when that wasn’t nearly enough, I paid for the house with my parents’ money.

But simple doesn’t mean easy! I had to make some tough lifestyle change…