20 Ways Students Waste Their Money

Money is extremly valuable at university and listed here are 20 ways that university students waste their money. Significant amounts of money can be saved by by not doing these things! So try and avoid doing these things and save your self so of that much needed cash!

1. Throwing away loose change and losing cash in their room or mysteriously on nights out.
2. Buying take-away food they don’t need ot don’t eat after a night out.
3. Buying drinks you know are going to taste bad.
4. Joining clubs you have no intention of going to.
5. Forgetting your student ID and having to pay the normal price for something.
6. Not going to lectures, you paid quite a large amount of money for each of them and it's the reason your at uni!
7. Buying snacks and sandwiches on campus that would have been cheaper to make at home (ever thought of making a packed lunch).
8. In catered halls not going to meals that are paid for, in particular breakfast.
9. Trashing halls or houses on drunken nights, setting off fire alarms and generally draining your deposit.
10. Buying clothing and electronics that are not really needed.
11. Having a TV license for a TV that is barely watched.
12. Buying a laptop which is only kept in the house (think of the insurance increase)
13. Not thinking about what they are going to buy in a supermarket before going (make a shopping list and stick to it).
14. Losing their phone/wallet on a night out.
15. Leaving their room unlocked so anyone can walk in and take stuff.
16. Throwing up and ruining clothes, incorrect usages of the washing machine and dryer resulting in shrinkage.
17. Failing to wash up before food becomes physically unmovable from kitchen equipment or leaving it in water so long it rusts.
18. Smashing cups and plates when trying to make a drunken midnight snack.
19. Dropping food and drink all over your carpet and bed while eating your drunken midnight snack.
20. Throwing up on your bed after the drunken midnight snack.

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