Student budget - is £100/week enough??

Hi guys, I'm new here.

I'm going to be starting at university in September and I'm looking for some budgeting advice.

My parents will be paying for all the basics like accommodation, travel to and from uni, textbooks, insurance and food. After this, they will give me an allowance of £100 a week for expenses but I don't know if this is enough?

Many thanks,

James

If you're excluding accommodation, food and travel, basically you're being given £100 a week to go out on, buy random things with, etc - it's plenty imho!

I lived off half that for everything after paying for accommodation. £100 to essentially spend on going out and clothes is a lot.

This is what I initially thought, but it soon adds up. For example, a night out usually costs at least £30. Add a coffee each day and thats another £20. So two nights out and coffee = £80. Then if you go out for just one very cheap meal at £20 that's it, £100 gone already.....

My parents will be paying for clothes. What about meals out though?? A few visits to restaurants a week and it's almost gone...

This is what I initially thought, but it soon adds up. For example, a night out usually costs at least £30. Add a coffee each day and thats another £20. So two nights out and coffee = £80. Then if you go out for just one very cheap meal at £20 that's it, £100 gone already.....

This is what I initially thought, but it soon adds up. For example, a night out usually costs at least £30. Add a coffee each day and thats another £20. So two nights out and coffee = £80. Then if you go out for just one very cheap meal at £20 that's it, £100 gone already.....

Do you need a coffee everyday? or do you mean getting a coffee socially? i feel like buying a coffee from starbucks everyday is unnecessary and pretty expensive in the long term

Yeah It's a piss take! My parents are loaded and still didn't give me more than 50 pound a week! plus I wasn't even allowed to get the accommodation of my choice. My only worry is why you seem to be spending £20 on a coffee? a night out for me can cost upwards of £100 actually and thats not counting the strip clubs and escorts!

Do you need a coffee everyday?

My parents will be paying for clothes. What about meals out though?? A few visits to restaurants a week and it's almost gone

I need three coffees every day. The whole ETH Zurich runs on coffee, for instance.

This is what I initially thought, but it soon adds up. For example, a night out usually costs at least £30. Add a coffee each day and thats another £20. So two nights out and coffee = £80. Then if you go out for just one very cheap meal at £20 that's it, £100 gone already.....

My parents will be paying for clothes. What about meals out though?? A few visits to restaurants a week and it's almost gone...

I am going to assume that you are serious

You will be going to restaurants alone ... no students visit them with anything like this frequency

You will be extremely well off compared with most students who have negative money to live on even after only paying accommodation, never mind food/clothes/books/travel/etc

£20 over the whole week? so only about £3 per day on latté

I drink far more than that per day but I do not pay £20 a week on coffee