10 Ways to Save Money During College

If you're like me, then you entered college broke and wondering how you were going to pay for everything. The first weeks will be the most overwhelming. You will learn about all the bills and books you have to buy, and you are left without a clue. I have used some savings methods which I plan to share so that maybe you won't feel so dumbfounded your first couple of weeks.

Not Getting Taken

About a month or two before school starts you will get offers in the mail about what you'll need from your college. They will have partnered up with some company who will offer to sell it to you. Don't get taken. My letter told me that the bed was a unique size, and that no sheets would fit on it except the $49 kind they were offering. Not only were they offering sheets but a "full bundle" of things I would need. This is the thing, they didn't know me, so how could they possibly know what I needed? I kept the list and looked around the house. To my surprise found ¾ of the list in a closet where we just placed random stuff. Their bundle cost $300, but at a savings store I could buy everything on the list for $66. With the savings store minus everything I already had I only spent about $20. The only thing I ended paying for through the school was a $5 mailbox key.

Savings #1: The offers you receive won't be cheap, but don't fully ignore them. Read the offers. Write a list of things included that you need. Look around the house for things you already have.

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