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Accommodation

  • 19-08-2012 6:52pm
    #1
    robbiep94
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭


    Just wondering how much money you need a week. after shopping for food, while staying in accommodation?

    Past experiences please:D


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  • #2
    smeal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 623 ✭✭✭smeal


    robbiep94 wrote: »
    Just wondering how much money you need a week. after shopping for food, while staying in accommodation?

    Past experiences please:D

    Depends where you're going to college.
    Dublin roughly 100-120euro per week for accommodation, 20/30euro food, 20euro travel money then if you're planning on going out add another 30euro or so to that depending on how much you go out then of course that doesnt include any week you need books/materials for college. Probably talking 200euro a week for everything. It's very expensive.


  • #3
    XxMCRxBabyxX
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    robbiep94 wrote: »
    Just wondering how much money you need a week. after shopping for food, while staying in accommodation?

    Past experiences please:D

    Personally I usually last on 40 - 50 while in college not including Rent or bills. And that's a higher estimate. However I don't drink

    It's amazing how cheap you can get food. Tesco's 3 meats for €9 keeps you eating well and cheaply.


  • #4
    hollingr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭hollingr


    learn how to cook properly to drastically reduce food budget and still eat really well.

    how much money you spend per week is going to mostly depend on how lazy/organised you are.


  • #5
    WilhelmFink
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭WilhelmFink


    http://www.icosirl.ie/eng/student_information/cost_of_living/


  • #6
    SusieBlue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    I used to go through about €70 a week.

    €25 on travel.
    €20 on food.
    €5 on photocopying course material.
    €10 on going out.

    If you need to hand assignments in, also be prepared for that week to cost you more. Most lecturers require that the assignments are bind together professionally which can cost about €5.

    I always tried to save €10 a week for emergencies, such as if I ran out of credit or if I needed to buy paracetemol/cough medicine or whatever.

    Also, my accommodation used key cards for the bedrooms/front doors. We had heavy fire doors, and many a time I walked out of my bedroom only to suddenly realise I had left my key in there, ending up locked out. We were charged €10 to have reception open the door for us so its always handy to have spare cash in case this happens to you.

    There were many times at the start before I learned to budget where I'd run out of money on a Tuesday for whatever reason and be screwed for the rest of the week cause I wouldn't be home till Friday.


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