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<li><p>She has a used car that she paid for herself in H.S. It is necessary for her to get to her summer job but she doesn’t take it to college. The few times she has come home it has been by train.</p></li>
<li><p>She tries but it isn’t always easy to utilize used books.</p></li>
<li><p>She has her own laptop which we think is a necessity.</p></li>
<li><p>Meal plan for freshmen is compulsory and she’s frantically trying to use up the several hundred dollars that can only be spent in their cafe. The meal plan food is notoriously bad and she doesn’t hang out in the cafe but is treating friends as they all celebrate the end of exams. Next year she’ll be paying for her own food in a suite.</p></li>
<li><p>We’re pretty much demanding she use the 30 credits she earned prior to college so we can save one year’s expenses. A lot depends on the selected major though. We’re hoping
at least for a semester’s worth.</p></li>
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I didn’t know any students were still using a landline. All the ones I know only use their cell phones which another one of those recent items that people now consider a necessity.</p>
<p>“If the college is in a community where cell phone service is good, not having a landline may be a good way to save a little money. I’m surprised the article didn’t mention this.”</p>
<p>Landline? What are those? (joking…but I don’t even think those were OFFERED at my kids school)</p>
<p>guess we cross posted…</p>
<p>At D’s college, a landline came with the room. But no one used it. I think we called it once because we needed to get a hold of D and she wasn’t answering her phone (turns out she lost it or it broke or some other annual catastrophe). Scared everyone to death!</p>
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<p>Hope that helps.</p>
<h1>3 is ridiculous. #5 assumes that paying for credits=actual education.</h1>
<p>The others I agree with.</p>
<p>This whole landline vs cell is so funny to me - we live in an area with spotty cell reception at best and in our house there is no reception at all. Our whole community is much less cell phone oriented. It never really occurred to me that she would have a cell phone exclusively. Hmmm…might be time for a cell phone upgrade!</p>
<p>Gee - this thread just added to my expenses!</p>
<p>There is a landline in S1’s dorm room. I do not know the number. Neither does he.
Another thing S does without in college: an alarm clock. Cell works just fine.</p>
<p>I think most of the girls would do just fine without half of the staff they bring to and accumulate in the dorm.</p>
<p>I agree with all of these suggestions except #3. I don’t think any student should go to college without a computer, and I don’t think I could be convinced otherwise.</p>
<p>Agree about the cellphone doubling as an alarm clock…and wristwatch…and who knows what else!</p>
<h1>3 is a joke right?</h1>
<p>Go without a computer?
If that is how you are gonna be, ya can save a lot of money by not going to college at all .
But neither of my kids own a car & both attend/ed schools close ( & cheap) to drive/train/bus.
we buy books online- but also biggest independent new/used bookstore was in the city of D’s college- + her school bookstore has pretty good prices- Iv’e checked.</p>
<p>Thai/Vietnamese food is cheaper than the cafeteria and often than cooking it yourself!</p>
<p>I won’t be doing 3 or 5.</p>
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<p>Actually, you need at least two alarm clocks with LOUD rings, in addition to the cell phone.</p>
<p>This is because you will inevitably have an 8 am final exam in a semester in which none of your classes started before noon, and it’s going to take that many alarm clocks, scattered in different places in your room, none of which you can reach from your bed, to give you any chance of getting to that exam on time. It also helps to have a cranky roommate who intended to sleep in that day, who will threaten you with bodily harm if you don’t get up, turn all those alarms off, and get out.</p>
<p>Do people even own wristwatches anymore? I thought the cell phone industry killed the wristwatch industry.</p>
<p>The cell phone also doubles as a camera.</p>
<p>Another way to save money: drink tap water (except during your dining hall meals). Some college students waste vast amounts of money on bottled water, soda, Gatorade, and other nonessential beverages.</p>
<p>Alcohol is nonessential, too, but that’s a different story.</p>
<p>I’ll second what Marian said about drinking tap water instead of bottled water. My D used tap water put through a Brita filter pitcher, carried to class in a reusable water bottle. Even considering the cost of the filters, she saved a lot by not buying bottled water. </p>
<p>Plus, she lowered her environmental impact…think of how many little plastic water bottles did not get thrown away / recycled because she used tap water.</p>
<p>Yes, there is excellent tap water we we live and even better where D will go to colleges. </p>
<p>Needless to say alchohol, cigarettes etc are not needed.</p>
<p>Where my D will go to school, student teaching, nursing and internships would be impossible without car.</p>
<p>Agree, computer is likely necessary.</p>
<p>And alarm clock – my D has two, one by bed, one requires getting out of bed to turn off. </p>
<p>We are moving into pre-college life training, which means practicing not relying on mom/</p>
<p>Completely disagree about the computer. I feel it is essential.</p>
<p>As for a car, it’s not an issue for us, D will attend school in a city. That said, back in my own college days several of my friends had cars as a way to get to nursing clinic classes or student observing/teaching. In a medium sized midwestern city with very limited public transportation a car was needed.</p>
<p>I agree with others who find recommendation #3- no computer- to be absurd.</p>
<p>Duke basketball player Caitlin Howe didn’t own a computer, and she managed to graduate with a 3.703 gpa and make the ACC Honor Roll 3 times. She’s a rising 2L at UBuffalo.</p>
<p>^ she would have probably graduated with 4. if she had only had a computer.</p>