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How much to live on per week
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I just finished a 3 year degree as a mature student and my budget was £50 per week....I survived, lived pretty well actually!
I didn't rigidly break the money down, I took the £50 out in cash every Friday, and once it was gone it was gone..... I bought two books at the start of my course and no more, the library had plenty and you can get lots on google books. All toiletries and make up etc was stocked up at Christmas and birthday as I have a love for expensive stuff. £50 was perfectly do-able, and my course was 37.5 hrs a week! Admittedly I did end up getting a job part time but all the money from that went towards running my car.0 -
~Chameleon~ wrote: »But that's the whole point, I am a student on limited funds
:eek: Really?!:rotfl:
I know you're a student......
I wonder what you mean by limited funds?
But enjoy your coffee! xHere dead we lie because we did not choose
To live and shame the land from which we sprung.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,
But young men think it is,
And we were young.
A E Housman0 -
Well done Littlegreen!Here dead we lie because we did not choose
To live and shame the land from which we sprung.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,
But young men think it is,
And we were young.
A E Housman0 -
That seems very low.
Here are student living costs estimated by Universities.
Oxford Exeter Birmingham Nottingham Trent Bristol Manchester Liverpool Sussex Newcastle Reading Bath LSE UCL Cardiff Sheffield Kent Cambridge Edinburgh Hertfordshire Essex
Quite a big difference from your estimate.
They can't all be wrong!
The last few weeks she's spent approx £40 and put away the extra £30 to save towards her deposit that she'll need when she has to move out of halls at the end of her first year.
She's started batch cooking, she's lucky that she's very close to a great market where she can get fresh meat, fruit and veg and a large Asian supermarket where she can buy rice (and noodles) cheaply.
She's also only 25 miles away so can get home easily to do her washing, because otherwise it's £3.50 for a wash and £2 to use the dryers, she prefers to spend the money to come home once every few weeks because she says the machines at her halls don't really wash very well and she gets fed when she comes home :rotfl:
So it is perfectly possible for a student to live on the amount the OP suggested.0 -
rubytuesday wrote: »:eek: Really?!:rotfl:
I know you're a student......
I wonder what you mean by limited funds?
But enjoy your coffee! x
Yes, really
Well, I'm not going to divulge my financial details on an open forum but as this is my second degree I'm not entitled to the usual student finance so funding it entirely on my current income/savings.“You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.”0 -
~Chameleon~ wrote: »Yes, really
Well, I'm not going to divulge my financial details on an open forum but as this is my second degree I'm not entitled to the usual student finance so funding it entirely on my current income/savings.
Which is why I said earlier that your financial situation is very different from the average student, most of whom will not have had such a lucrative career previously.0 -
Which is why I said earlier that your financial situation is very different from the average student, most of whom will not have had such a lucrative career previously.
Oh, if only!!! :rotfl:
People really are under a great misapprehension about what vets actually earn. And having also battled illness for many of those years I can assure you I'm not much better off than the majority of students right now!
ETA: I'm now chilling out after a long day with a few glasses of Prosseco (£5 special from Tesco) but I guess that's not allowed as a student either“You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.”0 -
~Chameleon~ wrote: »Yes, really
Well, I'm not going to divulge my financial details on an open forum but as this is my second degree I'm not entitled to the usual student finance so funding it entirely on my current income/savings.
I don't blame you!
What are you studying now?Here dead we lie because we did not choose
To live and shame the land from which we sprung.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,
But young men think it is,
And we were young.
A E Housman0 -
Don't be silly you're allowed the wine just not the coffee.
You are a student after all!:rotfl:Here dead we lie because we did not choose
To live and shame the land from which we sprung.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,
But young men think it is,
And we were young.
A E Housman0 -
rubytuesday wrote: »I don't blame you!
What are you studying now?
I've turned my attention from animals to humans (more fool me! :rotfl: ) but it's a bioscience, human health, nutrition based degree“You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.”0
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