Comments on: How to Live Like a Broke College Student

By: asaus868w

asaus868w — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 22:34:01 +0000

Easier money.

I earn money the old fashion way by staying at home and doing random surfing and it doesn’t hurt at all.I must say that when I first went to the Swagbucks website, I was a little confused and somewhat skeptical. It mentioned things like being a “premier rewards site” and a leading online search engine. But if they were a search engine, then how does one generate the rewards from? And why have I never heard of them? Well, it turns out that Swagbucks is indeed pretty legit.

It’s amazingly simple. You just sign up and you can either go to their website each time you want to gain points for surfing the web, or you can just download the Swagbucks toolbar and do your searches from there.

Then each time you do a search using the Swagbucks search engine, you gain Swag Bucks which are good towards a wide variety of prizes, including everything from GPS systems to memorabilia to gift cards to actual cash via PayPal.

During the writing of this review, I installed the Swagbucks toolbar on my computer at home. At the completion of this review, I had already gained 410 Swag Bucks! Now, I’ve only got 40 to go before I can get a $5 Amazon gift card!

By: Shirley

Shirley — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:05:02 +0000

~ It’s an interesting thought that we could try it for a month or so and see how it goes. Sadly, I enjoy eating out and would miss it… But it could be eye-opening.~

My daughter worked her way through college and the statement that I hear time and again now is, “I will NEVER eat ramen noodles again!”

By: TheLovelyLadyE

TheLovelyLadyE — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 02:36:57 +0000

You gave me a good laugh. I’m still trying to tackle the big things and here you are with your budget nailed down to the MUSTARD. Keep up the good work

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:15:38 +0000

still working on the more money part….

By: aua868s

aua868s — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:49:44 +0000

i still pick up the lowest cost bread from the supermarket shelf…a habit which started in college…still can’t let go off it!..lol

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:37:52 +0000

I went to college so that I did not have to live like a broke college student also. However, I found out that I made more money each year in college than once I got my fancy desk job. But hey, I have medical insurance and paid vacation now.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:15:21 +0000

I had to smile on this one. Try not spending for a week? Clearly we’re just not normal. Since I decided to take advantage of my company’s work from home policy nearly a year ago, I normally only leave the house on the weekend. We live 20min from the edge of town and the nearest store or restaurant so shopping doesn’t just happen by accident. The kids use the school bus and take their lunches – no cafeteria food. My husband commutes to the edge of town and then takes the bus into downtown, and takes his lunch. Monday-Friday there is normally NO spending. Every Saturday we head out to do groceries, gas up the car and enjoy our once a week takeout coffee. Yup, we’re wild spenders! That’s it for this week’s spending – if we’re excluding mortgage, utilities, groceries and gas, then all we spent was $3 on coffee. Our grocery budget seems high at $200/wk (we have a 15yr old son/eating machine…) but otherwise I think we may already be living like broke students.
For many years we spent on restaurants and furnishing our home. I guess that just lost it’s appeal and other things are now more important and it just goes against my nature to spend on anything unecessary. I see every potential purchase as lost travel dollars. In return for choosing to live waaaay below our means we are able to travel extensively with the kids and are plotting an early retirement. So I guess to be successful on the “Try Not Spending for an Entire Week” challenge, we’d just have to skip our Saturday $1.50 coffees.

By: daemondust

daemondust — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:37:11 +0000

That’s something I definitely miss about College. I still walk to work, but that’s only about a mile each way; nothing like what I did when I was walking to work AND walking all over campus every day.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:02:38 +0000

Thanks for the advice. My girlfriend and I traveled the world and now are moving to, of all things, a college town. We definitely will be taking these tips along with our own college experience to live the cheap life.

Thanks

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:01:30 +0000

Thanks
Dave

By: DDFD at DivorcedDadFrugalDad

DDFD at DivorcedDadFrugalDad — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:49:48 +0000

Good advice for college students and “responsible” adult alike . . .

By: Observer

Observer — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:52:41 +0000

30 years after being a broke college student, I am still living like a broke college student. Having a minimum wage income makes it easy to live like a broke college student.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:46:10 +0000

It was great when I lived in college. I had no money, but I enjoyed my life and had tons of free time. Now that I work 40 hours a week, I don’t have much free time, but I have money.

By: M.Wanzer

M.Wanzer — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:15:38 +0000

“I went to college so I don’t have to live like a college student.” I think this is a true statement, but people go overboard with that mentality. I don’t think the author is saying live like you are completely broke (like the college days) I think he is more so saying that it is possible to show more restraint than we tend to once we graduate and have decent jobs. Plus, with the amount of student loan debt that people graduate with now, I think living like a college student is a decent idea until your are debt free or at least know what you want to do with your life. Most people graduate from college, go into a field and are not even that sure if they like it. Think about what type of life you want to live and what you need to do to create that life before you started the crazy spending. Just because you have it now..does not mean you won’t be paying dearly for a lavish lifestyle in the future, if you arent careful.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:55:46 +0000

I agree with your point, and the article, but not your personal attack. I know this is the norm on the Internet, but I’ve found this blog to generally be a bit more respectful, which is why I hang out here.