How to Save Money and Maintain a Social Life While Unemployed and Finishing School

1. Buy in Bulk! (Use your parents Costco membership card to your advantage. Free Samples!)
2. Get a Target Credit Card! You get 5% off purchases and when you bring your own bag you save 5 cents! So many savings! It’s a college students dream! But then again for those of you who can’t handle a credit card or Target and its many useless wonders please disregard  this.
3. Go to the Park.
4. Go to events hosted by your school. They always have free food.
5. Join a club.
6. Attend all Rush Events. Everything’s free! You get to check out the many sororities/fraternities without having the pressure to join. Just go for the fun of it.
7. Befriend the cafeteria workers. At this point you’re so broke and hungry that you don’t mind eating others leftovers!
8. Rent a cheap apartment with a bunch of your friends. The more people the less space there is, but the cheaper the rent! And according to California law you can have up to 10 people in a residential house. Look it up! Well unless you go to UCR because in Riverside living with more than six girls is prohibited because it’s considered to be a brothel. Yikes!
9. Go into hermit mode. Turn off your phone. Avoid posting/liking things on Facebook and other social networking sites. Although this does go against maintaining a social life.

On a side note*

When you’re trying to avoid spending money but don’t want to tell your friends that you’re too cheap/broke to hang out, use one of the following excuses:

• I have an 8 page paper I need to write!
• I have so much reading I need to catch up on.
• I’m really tired. Gonna call it a night. Too many all nighters can kill you ya know!
• I need to do my laundry. URGH I smell! I have no clean clothes!!
• You: “I have a midterm I’ve got to cram for!” Your friend: “But midterms are over…”     You: “Yeah but my teacher is really weird.”

So good luck my fellow college students! And remember to find the balance between studying and having a social life.