We’ve all heard our fair share of college clichés and daydreamed about weekly restaurant hangouts, Facebook-worthy photos of exotic college trips and unforgettable late night adventures with friends.
Unfortunately, college really isn’t as glamorous and carefree as the movies make the experience out to be. In reality, for most of us, college requires quite a bit of number crunching, working long hours and resisting the urge to splurge. Let’s be real, college isn’t cheap! There’s tuition, room and board, living expenses… you get the idea.
Luckily, you can already start to lessen the financial burden now while you’re still in high school. Check out these six ways for pre-collegiettes to save up money before going to school!
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Irene Berman-Vaporis, a recent Boston University grad, also found it easier to save up money in a similar fashion when she worked at an ice cream shop the summer before college. “I limited my spending money to only the tips that I made while working, and I saved every penny I made from my paycheck,” Irene says. “It helped that my paycheck was direct-deposited into my debit account each week, because I paid for everything using the cash I had earned from tips. That way, I could physically see when I was out of spending money.” Having a wallet-full of cash might just be incentive enough to think twice about spending it all.
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