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20 Things I Could Buy With All the Money I Owe in Student Loans

Elise Powers
Sep 09, 2015
Western Washington University
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20 Things I Could Buy With All the Money I Owe in Student Loans
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The average college student graduates with $30,000 in debt, give or take a few thousand. So while I’m busy spending a small fortune on my education, I thought I’d torture myself a little more by taking a look at all of the things I could have put my money toward with the $40,000 I will end my college career owing.

Don’t get me wrong – my college experience has been life-changing. And WWU is the best. But when I start thinking about all the money I owe for my degree, the shopaholic in me starts dreaming about all of the goodies I could have gotten instead. So while my peers and I were spending our money on awesome and totally useful classes like glass blowing and chemistry, we could have been out blowing our loans on things like this:


1. 13,378 Taco Bell Crunchwrap Supremes

2. 320 pairs of Birkenstock sandals

3. This adorable pink colonial house in North Adams, Massachusetts


4. 53 and a half IPhone 6 pluses

5. 133 female pygmy goats

6. 8,421 Grande White Chocolate Mocha’s from Starbucks

7. 112 of these ever-so-practical Michael Kors bags

8. 16,327 8.4 fl. oz. cans of Red Bull

9. 5,006 months of Netflix

10. 5,000 Lemon Drops

11. 4,469 rolls of $100.00 Bill printed Toilet Paper

12. 7,619 Turkey Tom sub sandwich’s from Jimmy John’s

13. Three of these diamond studded Tiffany & Co. wristwatches

14. A small business

15. Two 2015 Volkswagen Beetles

16. A full-size replica of the Iron Throne from Game of Thrones

17. 8,000 tubes of bacon-flavored toothpaste

18. Almost 15 waterproof TVs


19. A PedalPub party bike

20. Six giant chandeliers made of Gummy Bears

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