Posts Tagged by shopping
Tips for shopping with a student discount
| June 9, 2012 | Posted by Jake Butler under lifestyle |
Being a student is one of the only times in life when you’re actually encouraged to spend less money and make use of your student discount. In fact, the only other time in life you’re going to be offered as many savings is when you get your old age pensioner discount. So read these thrifty tips to learn how to make the most of your student discount now. Do you need it? First, you need to ensure you are buying what you need and not just buying for the sake of proudly proclaiming, “I saved £1.20 on my new novelty rabbit ear shaped salad serving spoons!” (Or insert your own equally pointless product.) Obviously, we students all like to think… more
Covering my shame has never been so difficult
| May 16, 2012 | Posted by Cameron MacLeod under satire |
I went clothes shopping recently. Voluntarily, in the sense that it was just marginally preferable to pneumonia and a prison sentence as a result of public nudity. This is typically a bi-annual event at best, so I tend to see changes in fashion as sudden events. What follows is an interpretation of what York’s main retailers of young men’s clothing had to offer. The once-distinct boundary between the two gendered sections of clothes shops has become so seamlessly blurred that the average sensible man is now in danger of accidentally cross-dressing. Most clothes shops seem to have been annexed by the nauseatingly flamboyant and unappealing cast of Hollyoaks, and overwhelmingly saturated with their gaudy “retro” bullshit and arse-smothering chinos, which incidentally are equipped… more
AJ’s advice – how to get by with no money
| March 31, 2012 | Posted by Alaa Jasim under AJ's Advice |
Having just figured out that in four years time I, along with thousands of other students, will be in £50,000 worth of debt, this is a topic that concerns not only me but, I’m sure, most students who are starting university next year. Saying that “money will be tight” is something of an understatement, and a lot of people are worrying about how they’re going to get by during their student years. It’s not going to be the best position to be in, but we still have to make the most of being in university while we can – after all, it is supposed to be the best time of our lives. So what can we do with very little… more
AJ’s advice – week thirteen
| December 3, 2011 | Posted by Alaa Jasim under AJ's Advice |
We’ve left yet another month behind, and what can I say? Christmas fever has set in. People are manically buying presents having realised they haven’t done any shopping for this year, and let’s face it, the cities are going mad. Trouble for us students is that buying decent presents cheaply is pretty hard, isn’t it? Or rather, watching the purse strings is hard. People don’t realise how much they’re spending until it gets to the day where we all get our bank statements and look upon them in horror. And then that, my friends, is when we realise we’re utterly skint. “What can we do to avoid this?” I hear you all scream and shout enthusiastically whilst staring at the… more
