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Living on the Cheap, how can it be done?

  • 24-08-2009 04:00PM
    #1
    El Siglo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭


    This is a crucial skill, if you're studying anthropology to zoology living on the cheap is something to get into early. This will probably be the hardest transition to make, but if properly executed, you'll be sorted for the year.
    Some points to start things off:
    • Never eat at the arts café/Insomnia.Elements, they're far too expensive.
    • SU Shop, €1.15 for coffee, and even less if you bring your own cup (about €0.80).
    • Indo, Times, Guardian are something like €0.80 in the SU Shops, but better still go on the website themselves fore news etc...
    • Avoid shopping in small shops (i.e. if it's not a medium to large supermarket, it will be expensive) so avoid Spar, Centra etc... for big shopping.
    • Learn the location of your nearest Aldi, Lidl etc...
    • Don't buy books.
    • Invest in a lunch box.
    • Invest in a thermos (I know it sounds pathetic but you'll save about €15.00/week on average).
    • Beans are full of protein, carbs, vitamins and minerals, excellent supplement to any meal, and are about €0.65 in Lidl.
    • Eggs are dirt cheap, full of protein worth supplementing any 'carb fest' (i.e. lots of pasta).
    • Aldi: 2 kilos pasta = €2.00 and 4 jars sauce = €4.00.
    • Bring pasta/ham sandwiches into college for lunch or cycle home for lunch.
    • If you smoke, cut down or quit. If you have to smoke, learn how to roll packet of drum will set you back €4.00.
    • If you drink, start at home first - always, it's really cheap then going out.
    • Buy cans from Lidl or Aldi, get used to drinking Excelsior and Buckfast.
    • 'Liberate' food from back home, if you meat this is very important.
    • Start having porridge for breakfast. A large bag of it will set you back €3.00 and lasts about 3 weeks.
    • Same goes for weetabix, 48 pack in Lidl will set you back about €3.83 in Lidl.
    This is all I can think of at the moment, feel free to add to it!:D
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  • #2
    remus808
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭remus808


    Curry Chips in the Forum Bar in the Student Centre are really cheap and will leave you stuffed.


  • #3
    Extrasupervery
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭Extrasupervery


    I like this thread


  • #4
    Mardy Bum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    El Siglo your a bit of a legend. First years should be re-paying you!


  • #5
    Pride Fighter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    There is a William Hill in Donnybrook. The 78 club is in town, it is a good casino for over 21's.

    Screw saving every penny. Gamble your way to a life of luxury and decadence.


  • #6
    Mardy Bum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    Colossus the be all and end of all of casinos. Sound croupiers, destroyed souls throwing their dole away. Stick your weeks money on red and watch the cash flow in!*
    May not be true


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  • #7
    munchie14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 114 ✭✭munchie14


    Pride Fighter wrote: »
    There is a William Hill in Donnybrook. The 78 club is in town, it is a good casino for over 21's.

    Screw saving every penny. Gamble your way to a life of luxury and decadence.
    do you know where the nearist casino/poker rooms are to campus for over 18s


  • #8
    RandolphEsq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,296 ✭✭✭RandolphEsq


    munchie14 wrote: »
    do you know where the nearist casino/poker rooms are to campus for over 18s

    Fitzwilliam Card club. Get the 10 bus to Baggot Street and hop off outside the barbers there. It is right at the junction.

    Living on the cheap;
    - Condoms from www.discountcondomking.com
    - Acquire the taste of straight spirits
    - Walk home from town after a night out. Only 50 mins walk from D'Olier street to UCD
    - Weetabix + porridge = the breakfast of champions
    - Society nights = free food and/or alcohol
    - Delivered pizza is disgusting and extortionately priced too
    - Learn not to eat as much, so then you don't need to eat, and then you don't have to buy as much food!


  • #9
    Mardy Bum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    Fitzwilliams lovely but can't beat colossus' charm!

    Cook you're own dinner is the best bit of advice. SU bar food is sh*t!


  • #10
    JoeyH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 64 ✭✭JoeyH


    How much is smirnoff in dublin? Can u get 2.5 ltrs there?


  • #11
    El Siglo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    Mardy Bum wrote: »
    El Siglo your a bit of a legend. First years should be re-paying you!

    Cheers!:pac:

    In general:
    Yes I will be accepting payments* from freshers outside of the forum bar; cash only, no cheques!:D




    *If you're a bird and a bit of a looker, we can 'negotiate' payment options...;)


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  • #12
    Mardy Bum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    *If you're a bird and a bit of a looker, we can 'negotiate' payment options...;)[/QUOTE]

    No dude no im not a bird, almost feel like retracting my comment now:eek:
    :p


  • #13
    Tom65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭Tom65


    Discarded pizza boxes are an excellent source of cheese.


  • #14
    El Siglo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    Mardy Bum wrote: »
    *If you're a bird and a bit of a looker, we can 'negotiate' payment options...;)

    No dude no im not a bird, almost feel like retracting my comment now:eek:
    :p[/QUOTE]

    I wasn't referring to you, I was referring to any females present, I probably should have stipulated: "Not referring to you personally Mardy Bum.":pac:


  • #15
    Tom65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭Tom65


    El Siglo wrote: »
    No dude no im not a bird, almost feel like retracting my comment now:eek:
    :p

    I wasn't referring to you, I was referring to any females present, I probably should have stipulated: "Not referring to you personally Mardy Bum.":pac:[/QUOTE]


    Nice recovery :p


  • #16
    Mardy Bum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    El Siglo wrote: »
    I wasn't referring to you, I was referring to any females present, I probably should have stipulated: "Not referring to you personally Mardy Bum.":pac:

    Sound. You should start a thread, get the ball rolling like! Highest bidder and all that...


  • #17
    El Siglo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    Tom65 wrote: »
    I wasn't referring to you, I was referring to any females present, I probably should have stipulated: "Not referring to you personally Mardy Bum.":pac:


    Nice recovery :p

    Thanks!
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  • #18
    El Siglo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    Mardy Bum wrote: »
    Sound. You should start a thread, get the ball rolling like! Highest bidder and all that...

    Ooohhhhh that could be slightly risqué....;)


  • #19
    Mardy Bum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    El Siglo wrote: »
    Ooohhhhh that could be slightly risqué....;)

    Start if off ambiguously!

    El Siglo Appreciation thread:


  • #20
    Tom65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭Tom65


    Jesus, get a room you two.


  • #21
    Mushy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,202 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    That cheap, sand-paper-esque toilet paper...its now your friend!

    Agree on cereals mentioned, altho if ya want variety, do get it. But buy the cheaper stuff, Tesco-brand stuff. Actually, buy all Tesco brand stuff(or of equivalent cheapness).


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  • #22
    Ginja Ninja
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,532 ✭✭✭Ginja Ninja


    Where's the nearest/handiest tesco/aldi/lidl/cheap as chips and pretty crappy shop to UCD?[on-campus]


  • #23
    33% God
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭33% God


    Ginja Ninja wrote: »
    Where's the nearest/handiest tesco/aldi/lidl/cheap as chips and pretty crappy shop to UCD?[on-campus]
    Nearest Tesco is on Nutley lane. It's about 15/20 minutes walk from the front entrance
    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=53.309262,-6.217875&daddr=Tesco+Supermarket+%4053.318621,-6.213455&hl=en&geocode=%3BFd2TLQMdsTCh_w&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=0&sz=15&dirflg=w&sll=53.311724,-6.215172&sspn=0.019615,0.055747&ie=UTF8&ll=53.312134,-6.216717&spn=0.019615,0.055747&t=h&z=15

    You can of course get them to deliver, and considering they usually either have free delivery going on on some sort of offer for online shoppers it can work out as cheap.


  • #24
    munchie14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 114 ✭✭munchie14


    my advice for living cheaply
    dont get sick:P


  • #25
    shanegj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭shanegj


    Also some clubs and societies will have coffee mornings etc, where you can get free tea, coffee and sometimes biscuits


  • #26
    El Siglo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    munchie14 wrote: »
    my advice for living cheaply
    dont get sick:P

    Or you could fill this form out and see if you can get your healthcare sorted that way.


  • #27
    El Siglo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    Folks I heard a slightly funny story of cases of scurvy occuring with freshers, if you don't know what scurvy is have a read of this. Anyway, apparently first year students in another college I'm working in started to develop scurvy because they lived on a diet of toast and no real fruit and vegetables etc... So learn how to cook properly and make sure you supplement any cheap diet with sufficient fruit and vegetables, or you could end up looking like this:
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  • #28
    Ginja Ninja
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,532 ✭✭✭Ginja Ninja


    ^^Not sure how much of that is BS.But,anywho,if your lacking on vitamins:Grab some nettles[not literally] and boil them ,then drink the liquid.Very high in iron vitamin D and vitamin C.If there's any pine trees on campus do the above with the needles,gives a tonic[that tastes like a air freshener] and has a higher Vitamin C concentration than orange juice.



    ............I'm gonna miss the country :cool:


  • #29
    damselnat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 520 ✭✭✭damselnat


    El Siglo wrote: »
    ... So learn how to cook properly and make sure you supplement any cheap diet with sufficient fruit and vegetables, or you could end up looking like this:
    519c932e-2b2c-4838-90f0-c145fcc7de66.widec.jpg;)
    and if you're going to buy fruit and veg, Moore Street is suddenly your destination of choice....


  • #30
    dyl10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,355 ✭✭✭dyl10


    Get yourself a student travel card and a bus ticket!


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  • #31
    Extrasupervery
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭Extrasupervery


    I wouldn't mind looking like Pete Doherty

    (even though I'm a girl)


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