I'm quite like you! However, I don't live in self-catered halls but spent £314.19 last semester, not including rent or the admin fee for next year's house, but I did spend two weeks at home due to placement. So it's certainly possible for other people if you budget and I do eat pretty healthily. It helps cooking batch meals like lasagna, chilli con carne and cottage pie etc.
Generally I only spend money on food and I always buy the cheapest stuff, so I don't worry about budgeting. Exceptions are that I also buy a lot of diet coke and also tobacco, which are habits I need to stop.
Generally I only spend money on food and I always buy the cheapest stuff, so I don't worry about budgeting. Exceptions are that I also buy a lot of diet coke and also tobacco, which are habits I need to stop.
Ah try and cut down on the smoking if you can ; you'll appreciate the rewards in the long run
I'm quite like you! However, I don't live in self-catered halls but spent £314.19 last semester, not including rent or the admin fee for next year's house, but I did spend two weeks at home due to placement. So it's certainly possible for other people if you budget and I do eat pretty healthily. It helps cooking batch meals like lasagna, chilli con carne and cottage pie etc.
Yeh batch meals is a good idea for sure Next year I'll be self catered so trying to budget on food will be a nice challenge
I don't tend to budget much since I tend to buy cheaper but filling foods, and I put aside all my rent/ bill/ flying home money at the start of each semester. Need to keep an eye on it though this semester as I am due up at the hospital 3 times a week now for the next 10 weeks, meaning I had to get a bus pass.
£15-£20 food budget this term. No more alcohol (I only spent like five pound a week, maybe ten, but my tolerance is ridiculously high so it isn't worth it unless I need something to drink and water is free).
Trying to spend a maximum of 40 a week, even that I'll try to be super frugal. But I say about 20 a week is my average.
The way my uni organises catered halls is extremely good as I get breakfast dinner and also get £27 on a meal card each week which I can spend at any of the places on campus offering food and in my case that's a lot of places so I end up not spending any money on food but I still know of people who will order takeaways for example which is rather silly Look at what your uni charges for catered halls cause in some cases it really isn't worth it as some palces I know only give you a certain amount of money on a card and you're expected to get all your food with it or other places won't provide meals at the weekend so in these cases it's probably better of going self catered
Oh my and yh you see so many people who say they won't go out cause they have no money yet still end up going when people beg them and end up knee deep into their overdrafts ; I know someone who was in like -250 by the end of the first semester
Luckily I worked a ton over christmas and summer so I've got enough money. No need for overdrafts either because of grants from my university and a local charity .
I don't know how people can get to like £17 by the end of the semester
Less than £300 excluding stuff like long term memberships and christmas presents for my family. I had £120 in cash at the start of uni and I took out around 10 bank transactions which were between £10-30 each. Other stuff I didn't include: gym and club memberships, safety equipment and christmas presents for my family. I spent money on some things I won't again like a £5 burger at freshers week (yes that was pointless) since I thought some people I knew would be there but the "secret social" was a bit too secret and ice skating.
Luckily I worked a ton over christmas and summer so I've got enough money. No need for overdrafts either because of grants from my university and a local charity .
I don't know how people can get to like £17 by the end of the semester
Yh it really isn't that hard to budget tbh ; people just spend too much on silly things like takeaways and alcohol ect