How Much Money Will You Be Living On Per Week At Uni???
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Re: How Much Money Will You Be Living On Per Week At Uni???I made about £80 matched betting in the first week, then I got bored with it, but if you've got time and the commitment, it's definitely an easy way to make some free cash.(Original post by Darkphilosopher)
Around £40 per week. Although I am going to try and raise some cash during the year with matched betting and hopefully jobs during the holidays.
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Re: How Much Money Will You Be Living On Per Week At Uni???That is a lot(Original post by affleming)
yes well I get 11,000 a year from studentfinance and university bursaries so I reckon I can save at least 5500. -
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Re: How Much Money Will You Be Living On Per Week At Uni???I know(Original post by Popadom1992)
That is a lot
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Re: How Much Money Will You Be Living On Per Week At Uni???Ignoring rent and bills, so just for food and going out and stuff, I probably average around £60-70, in the Midlands.
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You lot make me sound mental...
For food/drinks I was planning on doing something like 15 a week
How does someone plan to spend 165 quid a week?
If I didn't head down to London or to Bham/Nham so often I'd spend far less. And then there's vodka, and wine. Though I CBA to work out what they cost weekly, bulk buying ftw.
You could totally do £15 a week for food, but... I can't imagine it being that great. And if you like meat, well you're sorta ****ed. I spend like £15 a week on chicken and fish.Last edited by concubine; 07-08-2012 at 15:16. -
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Re: How Much Money Will You Be Living On Per Week At Uni???There's a noodle shop where if I order a large box of spicy (meat in it) noodles, at a certain time, I get an extra box free, I think it's 6 quid. They are kind of big so I think I can last two days with one box but like you said it isn't great.(Original post by concubine)
Ignoring rent and bills, so just for food and going out and stuff, I probably average around £60-70, in the Midlands.
If I didn't head down to London or to Bham/Nham so often I'd spend far less. And then there's vodka, and wine. Though I CBA to work out what they cost weekly, bulk buying ftw.
You could totally do £15 a week for food, but... I can't imagine it being that great. And if you like meat, well you're sorta ****ed. I spend like £15 a week on chicken and fish.
I imagine the best way to get the most out of 15 quid is to actually learn to cook stuff so If I don't do that, my main alternative is the noodles.
While I do have more than enough money, do you think it is reasonably sane minded to try and modify your habits/ lifestyle so that you can control how much debt you'll be after uni? I really want to try and keep mine under 25k. I didn't have a good start because I spent first year in en suit halls...
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Re: How Much Money Will You Be Living On Per Week At Uni???I plan to take the train some weekends and holidays, though not very often. I'll be taking it to London and elsewhere, but I'll have a Railcard so hopefully it shouldn't cost too much in the long run.(Original post by timeofflight)
Yeah, 250 is maddness. I shop online a lot for clothes and toiletries and things like that and predominently shop in Waitrose for my food. I know it's London, but Waitrose has standard pricing countrywide (other places are still cheeper) and the internet it *quite universial*. As far as I can see it's only transport and going out that is going to be a lot more and even then I can't see it being £200! I would take that with a massive pinch of salt.
Having said that, the killer for me is getting the train home. I live near London and am at uni quite a way away so the train is a big expence. It will all depend on where you live and how often you go home (I don't visit, just holidays) and its still my biggest expence. -
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Re: How Much Money Will You Be Living On Per Week At Uni???Some of these budgets people are coming out with are insane! £200 a week as a student?!? But seriously though the past 2 years I have comfortably lived with a 50-60 a week budget for food and that and then putting £20 aside for a night out or two during the week. That £20 usually turned into about £30 or so thanks to Domino's and "2 for Tuesday" haha.
Managed to grab a paid placement at my university for the year coming though so I can live with everyone at uni and go out and what ever else whilst not having to budget at all!
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Re: How Much Money Will You Be Living On Per Week At Uni???Last year I had around £90 to spend a week which is pretty decent and very manageable in my opinion. This year I should have around £10-15 pounds to live off once I take away my rent and average out the utility bills. Pray to God that I'll be able to find a part time job otherwise, it's pasta for tea everyday and no drinking or social life.
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Re: How Much Money Will You Be Living On Per Week At Uni???^ Last year I had about £90 to spend per week as well lol.
I'm predicting about £35/week this year since I'm not living in cheap halls anymore, and that my contract is 52 weeks compared to last year's 39 weeks. And I thought I was going to have it tough lol. -
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Re: How Much Money Will You Be Living On Per Week At Uni???My loans, grant and bursary will total £7600+ this year. Allowing for that to last from 1st Oct to 31st May (36 weeks) then i have a total of £211 per week.
My accommodation will be between £85 and £121 per week depending on when i can get my deposit to book one but assuming the cheapest then my accommodation totals £3100 leaving £125 per week which will be roughly broken down per month as follows...
Toiletries - £20 (Pound shops sell exactly the same stuff as Boots ect..)
Food - £80 (Shop around and you can live comfortably)
General spending - £100
Phone - £10 (3 sim only)
Transport - £70 (unlimited bus and train travel within Yorkshire)
£100 - Clothes
Provided i can get a job the end of May (reasonable) then i should be pretty well off. -
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Re: How Much Money Will You Be Living On Per Week At Uni???(Original post by timeofflight)
Seriously, some people on here. I don't understand what they are doing to be spending that much money. What are you buying to cost that much per week?
Agreed. During uni last 3 years (outside London, but Oxford still has some quite high rents), after rent being paid, I could live on around £30 a week unless I spend money on course materials - I walk everywhere, to campus and to city etc. Most of my money would go on grocery shopping. I guess I don't drink alcohol so may be why? And seriously - you wouldn't need an allowance for clothing every week.. what else would you buy? -
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I think the main difference is that some people spend money on going out and clothes...
if you go out 2 times a week and spend 25 pouns thats 50 pounds just on going out...
one pair of designer brand jeans costs 100 pounds etc
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Re: How Much Money Will You Be Living On Per Week At Uni???After my accommodation, I'll have around £60 a week which I know I can live pretty easily on I think. I never really spend more than £15/20 on a night out and I don't think I'll need any new clothes apart from stuff like tights
Don't know why people are worrying about living on £100 a week, thats plenty! -
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Re: How Much Money Will You Be Living On Per Week At Uni???I'm counting on getting a job student finance might just pay my accommodation ... so i need money for food and anything else, i've managed to save up quite a bit over the last two years of part-time working which is good but i don't want to have to worry about money so i'm getting a job anyway, luckily i work for tesco and they run a student transfer scheme so hopefully get moved to another store and go back to home store during holidays(Original post by Silver Aurora)
Am I the only one who plans to get a job and go from there? Maybe I'll get something to start with but I doubt it. Going for like 20/30 a week in the start... move upto the big 40!
