<p>I will bring $1k with me to college to spend on any expenses. I will have workstudy and a part time job as well. I should be making about $600 each semester for workstudy, and maybe about $2k from my part time job.</p>
<p>I kind of laid out a monthly budget on things i'd be spending my money on, is this to much or to little? I really want to be prepared as i can. I'm a female btw.</p>
<p>Going out/Parties/Evenst: $50
Shopping: $50
Laundry: $20
Food: $50
Fees/Loaninterest[paying it off whiel in school]/Supplies for dorms/classes: $50
Nails/Eyebrows: $20
Gas: $50
Savings: $50+</p>
<p>This is what I was thinking for this year:
(On campus/no car)
Food(this include refreshments): $60
Goingout/Events/Tickets (minus food): $20-$70
Laundry: $12
Haircut: $40
Other Expensive/Shopping: $100
Savings: At least 25% of what I don’t spend.</p>
<p>EDIT: I’m a COMPLETE IDIOT! </p>
<p>Lol. Anyway DANG! Y’all plan to spend a lot!</p>
<p>Do you have a meal plan or are you planning on making most of your own food? If you need to make 2-3 meals a day plus snacks/drinks, $50 may be too little. Also, how much are you driving? Are you commuting? I’m not bringing a car to college, but in high school, driving to school and running errands probably cost me around $80-100 in gas. My brother commuted to college and was closer to $100-120 a month in gas.</p>
<p>$50 a month for food? Are you going to have a meal plan as well? If not, $50 likely won’t be enough of a food budget. If you’re eating 2-3 meals a day as part of a meal plan though, and the $50 is just for snacks and whatnot, then $50 should be sufficient.</p>
<p>What do you mean when you say “going out/parties?” That can mean a lot of things. If you’re just hanging out with some friends, having a coffee or something, and maybe going to parties a few times a month or so, then $50 should be enough. If by “going out” you mean going out clubbing and going to concerts and stuff like that…then $50 probably won’t cut it.</p>
<p>Overall though, that seems pretty reasonable to me. As long as you live within your means, and don’t let yourself start spending a bunch of extra money over month, you should be fine.</p>
<p>If your a chick you should get your bf to buy you stuff and if your a dude then basically you need $1000 every month or maybe even every week for spending cash. Just get it from your parents. Tell them you are working but you don’t have to really if they give you enuf.</p>
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<p>Yeah, that’s a great way to learn how to be self sufficient. </p>
<p>$1000 a month? $1000 a WEEK!?!? What the hell are you spending this money on? I’m a guy, and I spend maybe $50 a week. $100 a week at the most. </p>
<p>Sexual equality does not mean “boyfriends supporting their girlfriends.”</p>
<p>I do have a meal plan, going to have about two meals a day. I am staying in a dorm, the only time i’ll be driving would be running errands like stopping by Walmart/food place, or to my job at the mall.</p>
<p>@zombie, that’s far from a lot. </p>
<p>@cw: you’re allowed car on campus?</p>
<p>@Descuff Yes, parking permits = $168 per semester. GAH</p>
<p>$168? I just happen to be lucky with free bus ride to off campus Walmart lol</p>
<p>@Descuff Wow, I guess I’m just super poor lol.</p>
<p>So I just counted how many clothes I’m planning to bring and see that I have about 30 tanks/undershirts and 40 shirts… And only 10 jeans. Its so hard to eliminate clothes though. :(</p>
<p>Idea: You could help yourself even more by eliminating nails/eyebrows by learning to do them yourselves. They are not essential and very easy to learn.</p>
<p>$50 gas per month would be good if you don’t drive a lot + gas is cheap in your area. I spend about $65 on gas per 12-14 days but I’m a commuter. Even over the summer when I only drove to work/to home, I spent about $60 on gas per 2 weeks (job was pretty close but gas was expensive during this time lol).</p>
<p>$50 for going out/events/parties seems very little just because I think that could cover the cost of just one ticket to a school event. $50 would be good if you plan on almost never going to school events and mostly just go out and eat once and grab coffee. Even now, most of my budget seems to go to my social life and gas.</p>
<p>Ok. $1000 every week is extravigant but that’s what maybe one month is at least. If you got a car then its at least that. But if you drive people around you can get them to pay you. So you never know.</p>
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<p>If you’re spending $1000 a month, you need to do some serious budgeting. Perhaps if you’re coming from a very wealthy family, and getting a huge allowance…but that is far from the norm. I’m a guy…and a pretty low maintenance guy at that…but I do like to go out to eat a lot. My spending every month rarely exceeds $400 or so. It’s usually closer to $300. </p>
<p>Having a car certainly adds an expense, but unless you’re driving hundreds of miles every month, I can’t imagine it adding up to that much of a difference.</p>
<p>Ugh I miss the days of no rent payments :’(</p>
<p>Freshman year I probably spent $350-500 a month depending.</p>
<p>I’m looking at $300 per month now. Should be manageable.</p>
<p>Wow. I’m a parent and $300 seems like a lot. I was thinking maybe $25-$30 a week…</p>
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<p>It really depends. As far as just day to day living expenses like buying a few necessities(soap, deodorant, toilet paper etc), and a few extra snacks…then $25-30 a week isn’t unreasonable. If you want to go out out on the weekends though, and go out to eat occasionally, it’ll cost a little more than that. If you figure in going out to eat and going to a movie or something once a week, that’s easily an extra $20-30 each week. Going out to a party on the weekend can add an extra $15 or something.</p>
<p>If you’re a total introvert that never really goes out and socializes though, expenses can be kept pretty low.</p>
<p>Some of the $1000 a month suggestions here are absolutely obscene though.</p>
<p>I’m in a CC right now, and I’m an older student(26). After I transfer, I’m not planning on dorming, but getting an apartment. This is going to add quite considerably to my monthly expenses, but I’ll also be getting a lot of scholarships on top of my financial aid(hopefully), as well as continuing to do work study.</p>