The Never Ending Story: Students Stop Spending and Save
Heidi Rae Stenquist
Issue date: 11/10/09 Section: Features
Ask around, everyone will tell you how to spend your money. How you can save it, and make the most of it, so listen. I heard someone say once, "Every teacher takes a good idea," it has always stuck with me. I think it was a child development teacher I had, before I changed my major… again! What it meant to me was is take a good idea and apply it. Hold onto it, use it. Stubbornness and resistance can only last so long in our life before we must give in to a different, perhaps, even better way. It all goes back to choices and the perhaps of a better tomorrow. I myself am stubborn and have learned the hard way many times that I should have listened all along. Listening is key, listen to what works for you.
Look at your own "college lifestyle expenses," where can you trim the fat? Can you get more for your money? Will you? Will you remind yourself to stay on top
of your game and pay those bills on time, pay them down and not incur more? Making the most of how little you have, will empower you. Being accountable to one's own life is imperative; you are the foundation of society. Contribute.
I live a 7 minute bike ride from work now and I'm constantly reminded about not driving my car to work. Since I live close to work I'm saving at least twenty dollars a week. I have walked and rode my bike, but it's not yet an everyday thing. I'm getting there, like the rest of us who use reason and logic to figure it out. I'm trying to cut down on my own unnecessary car emissions. I'm trying to cut down on unnecessary costs by thinking about my spending, I'm trying! It's all any of us can do.
Albert Einstein believed, "The unexamined life is not worth living." I agree. We know when we can or cannot. When we should and should not or whether it's right or wrong for us or for others. My Mother used to say, "You made your bed, now you lay in it." Those words still shake me up. "You have no one to blame but yourself," she'd say. I now understand they shaped my thinking today. Nobody wants to be wrong or get themselves in a hole financially but I know that the emphasis on 'who' was to blame is a learning tool that still works today. They made you aware that, sloppy or neat, comfortable or not, 'YOU' make your life and decide for yourself what you will or won't do without. Just remember to examine the costs of your daily life, tomorrow is a whole new day.
Look at your own "college lifestyle expenses," where can you trim the fat? Can you get more for your money? Will you? Will you remind yourself to stay on top
of your game and pay those bills on time, pay them down and not incur more? Making the most of how little you have, will empower you. Being accountable to one's own life is imperative; you are the foundation of society. Contribute.
I live a 7 minute bike ride from work now and I'm constantly reminded about not driving my car to work. Since I live close to work I'm saving at least twenty dollars a week. I have walked and rode my bike, but it's not yet an everyday thing. I'm getting there, like the rest of us who use reason and logic to figure it out. I'm trying to cut down on my own unnecessary car emissions. I'm trying to cut down on unnecessary costs by thinking about my spending, I'm trying! It's all any of us can do.
Albert Einstein believed, "The unexamined life is not worth living." I agree. We know when we can or cannot. When we should and should not or whether it's right or wrong for us or for others. My Mother used to say, "You made your bed, now you lay in it." Those words still shake me up. "You have no one to blame but yourself," she'd say. I now understand they shaped my thinking today. Nobody wants to be wrong or get themselves in a hole financially but I know that the emphasis on 'who' was to blame is a learning tool that still works today. They made you aware that, sloppy or neat, comfortable or not, 'YOU' make your life and decide for yourself what you will or won't do without. Just remember to examine the costs of your daily life, tomorrow is a whole new day.
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