Freshers Week Money!!!

I spent about £400 ish and that kept me going for 3 weeks worth of drinking every night, fancy dress costumes and food etc

Reply 3

messynessie

lunar_angelic

heyy was just wondering how much everyone is planning to take/spend during freshers week as im gathering we wont have our loans to blow (think there was a method in their madness there though!!) Is everyone having a budget or just gonna go silly?!!?

Take lots at the beginning in general. Like, you can have a budget for the rest of the year but that won't cover fresher's week, bus passes etc, kitchen things you've forgotten, stocking up on food, books and uni stuff... and I took most of that with me and I still spent loads. (and I didn't drink, haha)

Reply 4

Darxy

Yeah i don't think i dared look at how much i spent in freshers week, if you turn up to intro things you'll realise you need far too many expensive books... and then you can't be bothered to cook for the first week so you get take aways, and then the nights out... it adds up :smile:

i know people who spent over £500 but if you take a bit of notice you'll spend faaar less :smile:

Reply 5

I spent about a grand in the first week, and 2 grand in the next month after that.

Reply 6

xthatgurlx

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21:13

I don't think I'll be spending much since you get loads of free food and stuff during freshers week.

I'll probably spend more on going out :biggrin:

free foood?
where? LOL

Reply 7

xthatgurlx

free foood?
where? LOL

I haven't seen any of the free food flying about either. There's 30000 students that go to Leeds so perhaps it all got eaten by the time I woke up.

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fake plastic love

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Elipsis

I spent about a grand in the first week, and 2 grand in the next month after that.

Thats craazy!

Reply 9

guitarromantic

A grand? ****. How much do you people drink? Or is just so you can boast about how much you spent...

Reply 10

guitarromantic

A grand? ****. How much do you people drink? Or is just so you can boast about how much you spent...

I had about 30-50 units per night all through the first term. I worked for most of the grand and the rest was from over draft so it's not like i'm a rich kid.

Reply 11

guitarromantic

I just tried to work that out and it sounds like you're suggesting you drank 10+ pints every night for a three month period. If that's true then a) your liver is probably ****ed and b) do you really need to drink that much? I mean yeah, Fresher's Week, it's a huge cliché but it's focused on drinking. But to that degree? Really?

Reply 12

space_aura

i never saw any free food at freshers week
but 250-300 should do it i would reckon.
just be careful to sign up for ridiculous things you will never go to!

Reply 13

Friedrich Nietzsche

Freshers week is rubbish.

But you'll definitely need at least 16 thousand pounds to enjoy it.

Reply 14

guitarromantic

I just tried to work that out and it sounds like you're suggesting you drank 10+ pints every night for a three month period. If that's true then a) your liver is probably ****ed and b) do you really need to drink that much? I mean yeah, Fresher's Week, it's a huge cliché but it's focused on drinking. But to that degree? Really?

It's not like I was even that wasted. I was generally drinking 3 bottles of wine before I even got out, which I admit was stupid, but it's just the way it was. I don't enjoy drinking anymore, and i've pretty much stopped aside from having the occasionally pint of cider on a sunny day. The whole mentality of the freshers environment seems really crap to me now, but it's not like i'm in a position to judge being as I had a pretty big problem. By the end of the term it became apparent that I had to stop living that life style, I was losing hair and my skin had gone horrible. I really don't understand why everybody is so focused on what is perhaps the worst drug in existence.

Reply 15

messynessie