College students are known to be broke. If you find yourself low on money, you're sure to relate to these common struggles:
1. Deciding if your cold is bad enough to buy off brand cold medicine
It happens to all of us, college germs. They are everywhere and when everyone moves back to school they bring all of their germs with them. Its about that time of the semester when you get that terrible cold. You know, the kind where you can't breathe when you eat and your head hurts so bad you'd rather be decapitated? Yeah that bad. You then have to asses whether your illness is worth dropped $5 on some shitty off brand medicine that probably wont even help. We all know that we cant afford the NyQuill Bedtime stuff, that was a luxury we left back at home with Mom.
2. Stealing toilet paper from the campus bathrooms.
I would be lying if I said I haven't done this. Listen, sometimes toilet paper just isn't in the budget and it really sneaks up on you and then all of a sudden you have two rolls left. Then you're on campus and you see all the toilet paper they have in the bathrooms. Then you realize that your tuition is probably paying for them. Just grab on and put it in your backpack like the true broke student you are. Everyone does it, or at least everyone has thought about it.
3. Trying to steal food from the dining hall
I think this is a common rule at most universities, but you can't take food outside of the dining hall. Well us poor college students love a good challenge. We have mastered the art of sitting at hidden tables and slowly sliding those extra tater tots into the ziploc you have in your backpack. And on the days where you aren't so stealthy and the lunch lady catches you. Just go ahead and stand up and walk out, thats probably the worst walk of shame.
4. Reusing things that are not reusable
I am the best at reusing things. I try to eat food that isnt really messy so that I can wash off the paper plate with a little water, and BOOM, good as new. Every girl loves the Neutrogena makeup wipes, I mean cmon they rock. They are so freaking big, like who needs one wipe for one face? So I just leave it out on my counter, the next day add a little water and you have a brand new makeup wipe. (You're welcome ladies)
5. Using broken things because you can't afford to buy a new pair
Oh you're headphones only play music out of one ear? Join the club. For months I had to tape my phone charger 5 different times just so it would properly charge my phone. Either that or I would have to bend it at some absurd angle so that it would charge. My big purse I take to class on occasion, yeah that strap is being held together by a ponytail. P.S, ductape can fix anything.
At the end of the day, all broke college students have their own tricks to get around living on our own. We share them and try them out and thank each other later for changing our small, broke, world.
