How to make money last

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Pekka
Well, I hope I'm fortunate and can score the books I need from library everytime, or I'm screwed big time .

The photocopier is your friend.

I photocopied every book I needed from 2nd year on. Saved me 1500 dollars.

[KrazyHorse]

What's up with the smilies?

[DanS]

Aren't you going to have to do weekly road trips to cross the border for properly-priced booze?

[Pekka]

Yep.. and as I said, I'm doing software engineering, so I really don't need all the books.

[Pekka]

DanS, Soon the prices will drop, as Estonia becomes a member of the EU! Down with taxes!

[CorpusScorpius]

Learn how to Win at Poker........Learn to Love Peanut Butter......

[Odin]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
What's up with the smilies?

Poly's 5th birthday, WOOHOO!!!

FREE MONEY!?! Iwant to go to college in Finland.

KH, you COPIED all your books!!! That must of taken a while. Books are expensive though, so I bet it's worth it. I am going to use that advice when I start college in the fall of '04. THANKS!

[Solly]

5 things:

1) A several kg bag of potatoes for one week
2) A several kg bag of rice the next
3) Protein-rich beans rather than meat
4) Multi-vitamin pill rather than fruit and veg
5) Most importantly, cheap cider

[Firelad]

I've got a friend who lives on rice and water plus veggies from the downtown market (Cheap and Good, nice arabs sell), rides bicycle to get anywhere (and we live in a city on the top of a mountain) and spends around $1.5 -$2 a month on phone calls... When he really wants variety in his diet he goes to a friend.
BTW you can earn good money by playing on the street if you can play an instrument decently. It's also fun.

[Ben Kenobi]

KH, you COPIED all your books!!! That must of taken a while. Books are expensive though, so I bet it's worth it.

Did that as well to save money at university. If you don't mind hogging a library copier for the first few weeks, you'll do fine.

Why don't you tutor high school students? I did that this summer and got a free meal a day at a pizza place for close to 2 months with just one student. As a university student, you ought to be able to tutor any subject you took before getting into university.

[DanielXY]

200 is plenty.
You can easy live off 30 for cheap food per month.
If you really want to push it for good food you can go up to 2,50 € a day. But hey, than you live like a king

Just think about it if you spend 50€ a month on food (1,67/day) you still got 150€ for other stuff. Ok lets take out another 40,- € for Eletricity, Cell-Phone, and so on.
Thats 110,- für fun stuff.
Assuming you spend 10€ a night thats 11 nights/m! And you can cut those cost/night in half easy.

Clothing isnt expensive either if you are worried about that. I once bough a pair of shoes, 2 jeans and 3 shirts for 60,- € all together. All new. If you look for second hand stuff there is much more to save!
Flee markets are your friend for small stuff (Need a coffee-machine? Costs around 1,- €)

[Pekka]

obiwan18, nope nope nope.. won't work. Tutoring is not an option for me. Tutoring is not any kind of business here, you just can't make money of it, and services like these are free. Too bad .

Odin, nothing is free. Nothing, never.

I can turn to my parents every now and then, if I'm in trouble, but I don't want to take their money. It makes me feel dirty. What Boddington said is good advices, works here too.

[Gibsie]

Since you're diong a geeky subject, get a stupidly well-paid job making webpages.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Odin
KH, you COPIED all your books!!! That must of taken a while. Books are expensive though, so I bet it's worth it. I am going to use that advice when I start college in the fall of '04. THANKS!

It's worth it. A standard 500 page textbook (costing 120$) can be photocopied in an hour (once you get good at it) at a price (including binding) of 10$ (two pages per sheet).

Secondly, if you have 5 books that you need and 4 friends then you each copy one, and before binding it you run the loose copy into the automatic feed (which takes almost no time).

Total cost to you: 2 hours and 50$
Original cost: 600$

That's an hourly rate of 275$

[Cruddy]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


The photocopier is your friend.

I photocopied every book I needed from 2nd year on. Saved me 1500 dollars.

There is a cheaper way, although it's much more labour intensive.

Scan the books into your PC and print them. Even better, don't print them, just burn the scans to a CD.

It's a pain in the arse for a technical tome, but so long as the work is for your own private study it's legal.

Other tips - the big enemy of cheap living is Saturday nights indoors - so get yourself a part time bar job. That earns a little extra cash, gets you out and still lets you chat up presentable females - not a bad deal.

Vitamin pills - take the sting out of cheap living. Lay in a 500 tab supply - much cheaper bought in bulk off the Internet than at your local pharmacist.

Beer brewing - it's quicker than wine making, but setting yourself up with equipment can be expensive. My advice here is buy 2nd hand rather than new - and get a local contact or 2 for advice (put an advert in a local paper or something).

Organising parties at Uni is a great way to get popular (makes getting help easier when you are stuck) and it's also a great way to take your mind off your studies - sometimes very important to take a big break.

Finally, check your accomodation every so often. Cheaper places to live could crop up, saving you a bit of extra cash - so be prepared to move a couple of times after you start.