Ludicrous skint studentness

[Andy008]

What were the most extreme things people have done as students to save money?

I used to use each teabag 3 or 4 times.

[dotjhawkes]

chip in for a fivers worth

[paddy_36]

This is disgusting, but removing tobacco from cigarette ends (our own, I should add!) to make roll-ups whenever we ran out of money. Yuuuck!

[gary baldy]

Weeing in the sink to save on water when flushing the toilet.

[brachiopod]

Picking up old veg from the gutter outside the fruit and veg stores on Green Street, E7.

Eating snails from the back garden (with garlic from aforementioned source).

[henneth]

Spending �5 a week on economy frozen food so I could spend �80 a week down the pub.

[Robert G]

Left the Ferrari in the garage and walked to tutorials.

[gary baldy]

I was never a skint student but i was on the dole in the 80's. We used wait in the launderette for people to put a wash on and usually they would just leave it, go shopping or something and come back. As soon as they were gone we'd stick our stuff in aswell and hope the cycle finished before they came back. Ah! Happy days!

[cliffsdoll]

year and years ago when we first married, me and my husband were really skint ,he was on the dole and we lived in one room, to ensure we had a meal the next day we saved the peelings fom the potatoes, washed them, then fried them and made sandwiches, they were quite nice actually.

[kittiecris]

cheepest thing i do is take in a paket soup for lunch so you only pay 5p for the cup of hot water, but thats not as bad as some of these other things. Ive a friend who buys things from the �1 shop and sells them on ebay to pay for her travell pass.

[lb24]

I just gradually extended my overdraft til it reached its limit so i wasn't skint.

[mimififi]

I married a "rich" guy in my second year! I have a degree and stay home with the kids, He has a Btech in performing arts and is an IT project manager for a bank in the city...Funny old life isn't it!

[Glossopswift]

We used to save the used teabags to mix with tobacco when �rolling our own�. Anyway, on to my cheapskate story - I was stuck in on my own one night because I couldn�t afford to go out so I went to our local shop and asked what was the most booze I could get for �1.50 which was all I had. He gave me a 3 litre bottle of lager for a quid � sorted! I got home, poured a glass and it tasted foul. Looking closer at the label I found it was 3 years out of date. I took it back to the shop and asked if he had one in date but he hadn�t, so he offered me another 2 of the out of date bottles for free. I accepted, and even paid 30p for a bottle of lemonade to cheer it up! I was such a sad get as a student. I had the thrupenny bits for a week.

[Chrissielou]

this is shockingly immoral, but if one of us had a birthday then we'd all go out for dinner and then complain to the manager at the end that the food/service was sub standard and usually we'd end up with free pudding and drinks or a 50% discount!