Keeping Costs Down When Moving to College
Here are a few tips to eliminate some expenses when moving to school. Not all of these may work for you (and you’ve probably thought of a few others!), but hopefully they will help you out a little bit during this crazy move-in time!
• Boxes: Ask for boxes from your local grocery store. I say grocery store because they receive so much produce that arrives in boxes. Many places will either just throw these boxes out or recycle them, so before you buy boxes …

Another year, another fun day of love. This holiday isn’t exactly easy on the wallets for most people (at least those with a significant other). Figure in dinner, gifts, and whatever entertainment and you’ve spent a decent chunk of money already. Here’s my biggest tip for you for today – look for deals. I would suggest calling restaurants to see if they have any specials going on (they likely will) and find a nice place that you can still eat on the cheap. It’ll be worth your time!
After a quick …

I have a confession. I’ve been holding out on you guys. Way back in March one of my earliest posts in starting this blog was a solid list of many different websites which you could use to find coupons. It can be found here. Most of the sites on there are pretty decent quality, but there’s one that far exceeds all the others.
Enter Retailmenot.com and all its goodness! This site is your one-stop shop for coupons to pretty much any online retailer that you can find. Go there and …

You may have recently seen a featured article on Yahoo that talked about “mystery” or “secret” shopping. This is something that has been around for quite some time, but isn’t real well known. Basically, you can get paid or reimbursed for going to stores, restaurants, etc. and do what you’d normally do when you go to those places. While you’re there you take note of the service, the atmosphere, the prices, and any other details that the mystery shopping company wants you to get.
You’re basically doing a “recon mission” for …

Most college students can’t really afford to blow money away on whatever they’d like. I’m definitely in that boat. Perhaps you need to take a look at your spending and spend your money more wisely.
Here’s a nice little site that will help you be thrifty in a wide variety of areas. Give it a look!
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Many, if not most colleges now have partnerships with the likes of Microsoft and other big companies. While, I’m going to stay away from the merits of programs like this, they really can save you a ton of money!
Somewhere on your school website you should be able to find a link to programs like this. If not, try doing a search for “Academic Purchase program” and it should come up with something. If that doesn’t work, go to our IT office homepage and see if they have any links. You …