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[carla]

Ok, I'm just wondering how everyone affords uni, and any cost cutting strategies you have come across...I feel poor already!!
Thanks!

 

[kalli]

buy second hand text books...

 

[clairegirl]

bring ur lunch to uni

 

[Shuter]

Get a trust fund.

 

[GirlGoneMad]

There is a similar thread in UWS section...

http://boredofstudies.org/community/showthread.php?t=57070

 

[shannonm]

get a job ?

 

[doe]

dont buy fancy pens

every time i do they never work very well

 

[Ziff]

Put yourself up for adoption and hope you're adopted by well meaning rich north shore parents.

 

[clairegirl]

i still mines the best lol

bring your lunch to uni everyday... everytime i go... i end up spending about 10 bucks on food a day.... including drinks n stuff
its' bullshit

and don't get addicted to poool!!! like seriously my friend probably spent about 500 bucks on that last semester ... no lie.. :s

 

[Cape]

You can get addicted to pool at uws - its FREE!!!

 

[flipsyde]

same at KvB .. freeee!

 

[clairegirl]

lol are u serious! dayam if pool was free at macquarie.. you'de have people living there seriously, we have about 15 pool tables and whenever i go, everyones always using them!! damn blasted student union! get some more dammit!

 

[Purp|e]

budget, and if desperate sell useless body parts on the black market.

 

[Frigid]

i still mines the best lol

bring your lunch to uni everyday... everytime i go... i end up spending about 10 bucks on food a day.... including drinks n stuff
its' bullshit

all i can say is very very true. that's why you should go to a uni that isn't near shopping centres/CBD/food centres...

*cries from losing $1k to various sushi bars in the past year*

 

[timbk2]

bring food from home at least 3times a week (u'd get sick of it if your brought it everyday)

buy books second hand and then re-sell them to students below you who wil need them the next year, scope out all the 'cheap eats' around the uni.

If possible buy half yearly/yearly train tickets.
And yes, make sure you get a job.

 

[velox]

steal school students cityrail/state bus passes.

 

[SashatheMan]

cut back on luxuries like fancy gear, latest clothes , blingbling and toiletpaper

 

[alien]

BUDGET
that way you know how much you don't have to spend *sigh*

 

[iambored]

bring food
bring drink
only buy snacks
make yourself hate uni food
don't buy texts
if you have to buy them buy them second hand
borrow books from library rather than photocopying them
have a 4 day timetable to save one day's travel fare
don't spend money for no reason
talk to friends or do work rather than wandering places where there are things to buy

 

[loquasagacious]

Work
Ride bike catch bus/train or walk don't drive
Bring own food/drink
Buy second hand books (in the case of law you can photocopy the 5 page that are actually different between edition 4 and 5)
Use free uni internet
Buy cheaper clothes
Scap money off parents.

As Purple says you have surplus body parts - specifically skin (which will even re-grow), One lung, One kidney, an appendix (you don't really need it), half a liver (it re-grows). In addition to this investigate sperm banks, I havn't looked into it myself but I know that overseas both sperm and blood banks pay donors.