when you wake up after a night out just in time to see the sky getting dark and your proud accomplishment for the day is buying a loaf of half price bread from Lidl, ten minutes before it closes.
You avoid checking your bank balance because you're scared of the ugly truth..
Exactly how i lost half my rent money. If i don't look at it, the overdraft doesn't exist.
Right now im avoiding checking my bank balance after i went out thursday, and have no memory of it, but woke up with change in my bag and friends thanking me for buying them drinks.
When you wash up the entire kitchen while your flat mates are out because you have 'nothing to do' and after the place is spotless. Compared to the mountains of plates and dried in food that have been left out before.
Then next day, one of your flat mates has a 'flat talk' about how they wash up and no one else does anything.
I stopped cleaning up after people on this day.
This happened to me. Said housemate was politely told to STFU
You become happy to accept free stuff without embarrassment...
Normal group of employed friends. One offers to buy takeaway for all of them. You'd usually get a lot of 'No, no, it's fine... you can't pay for mine! I'll pay for my own!' and probably do so.
Group of students in the same situation. People invite more friends round to take advantage of this glorious offer and don't hesitate to place special orders.
You become happy to accept free stuff without embarrassment...
Normal group of employed friends. One offers to buy takeaway for all of them. You'd usually get a lot of 'No, no, it's fine... you can't pay for mine! I'll pay for my own!' and probably do so.
Group of students in the same situation. People invite more friends round to take advantage of this glorious offer and don't hesitate to place special orders.
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I don't know any students who would actually do that. Maybe my friends are just polite people
When you've got £20 and no overdraft to see you through to the next loan drop, including going out for your best mates 21st and your mums birthday on the same weekend as Mother's Day, and you laugh and say "challenge accepted".
You eventually become so lazy you cant even make it to the nearest supermarket and just eat cereal for breakfast, snacks, lunch and then for dinner you go all out on luxury cuisine and order 2 minute noodles, which you purchased in bulk two weeks ago!