live cheaply
if you don’t want a
job, you have to make
cutbacks. but
before you start
drinking meths and
eating handfuls of
nutmeg, try these
things instead.
drink cheaper brave the cold stop buying stuff
Since drinking can be horrifically South Wales isn’t the coldest place Sounds obvious, but there are some
expensive depending on where you in the world - always bear this fact in corners which can be cut, even
go, the obvious choice if you want to mind. It may not be sub-Saharan Af- after you’ve stopped spending tons
save money is to get blotto at home. rica, but it’s certainly not the Arctic. in Topshop or Topman. Stop buying
Corner-shop cider, budget vodka Hold this comparison dear to your music. I don’t care how many indie
and cheap wine are all perennial heart, because heating’s expensive. kids howled in anguish as I typed
favourites, but never, ever underesti- Pile on the layers, Michelin Man that; it’s just not necessary anymore.
mate the benefits of trying something style. All those clothes obscuring your One word: Spotify. It’s free (if you’re
different.Providing amazing units-per- bedroom floor? Wear them. All at willing to wait for an invite) and has
pound ratios, drinks like port are vast- more music than you can shake a
ly underestimated – alcoholic dark never earn more proverbial stick at. Plus, it’s fantastic
horses, if you will. Failing that, there’s for tormenting housemates with
always meths – who needs eyesight or than £15k. you terrible tunes. Google Books also
a functioning liver, anyway? often provides a costless alternative
won’t be rolling in to those textbooks that you’ll scan
the back cover of once and then never
eat cheaper it, but you’ll save a actually read, yet are cruelly expected
to buy by most course tutors.
Fairly standard for staying alive bomb in loan
– there’s only so long you can subsist never earn too
on food parcels from home. Tesco repayments much money
Value and Sainsbury’s Basics ranges
may be depressingly Spartan in their once. I’m talking multiple hoodies, if A contradiction in terms, you may
packaging, but they’re about as cheap that’s what it takes to survive without be thinking. But think of it this way:
as you’ll ever get. Just imagine how central heating. And a coat, even if when you finish university you’ll
well you can fulfil that traditional stu- you are indoors. Student life is all have racked up a mountain of debt.
dent stereotype of living off of beans about the thrill of living on the edge Thousands of pounds which you owe
on toast when you can buy beans for – and there’s no way you can truly to the Student Loans Company. And
29p. You could also try conning your call it living dangerously if you’ve you have to pay it all back... when you
way out of cooking most days by tak- got any sensation remaining in your start earning over £15,000 per year, at
ing it in turns with your housemates. extremities. least. Easy solution? Never earn more
Just pray that you’re living with the than £15k. Sure, you won’t be rolling
next Delia. in it, but just think of all that money
you’ll be saving in repayments.
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