Myself, being a full time student have truly embraced the word "cuttting back".
Allthough because of my advid Bargain skills I am still able to occasionally treat myself. Here are some suggestions for my fellow students!
1.
SPC Card. it's $8 and you can get discounts at over 100 stores (food, clothing, activities etc.)! Within the past few monts I have
saved over 150 dollars thanks to my SPC Card (purchase at Athletes World or your local university)www.spccard.ca
2.
Air Miles, Rewards Cards (Save On Foods, Petro Points)
All of these add up. Over 90% of the stores you shop at I can guarantee that you can use these.
Petro Canada has this deal for savings cards on right now. You can save 5cents for every litre of gas. So far I have saved 10 dollars. 10 dollars is 3 lattes!
3.
Entertainment Books: if you can spare the extra cash to buy them ($40) I can guarantee these will be worth your while. If you like to dine out, got swimming, snowboarding, shopping, take care of your car, go carting minigolfing and many more than you will save. My boyfriends looooves Las Margaritas. For us to go normally it would have been over 40 dollars. But in the coiupon book, alot of the coupons are for Buy one entree get one free. So in total we spent only 25 dollars! Also you can save on booking with hotels. www.entertainment.com
4.
Selling your books on Amazon.ca and School Buy Backs.
Amazon.ca has a great forum for selling your used textbooks. I have made over 70 dollars off of two books that the school would not buy back! Make sure that if you dont think you will use your textbook again that you take advantage of buybacks! I received over 40% of what I spent on books back in CA$H!
More to Come!