So I'm incredibly lucky as I receive the maximum loan (£8,200), my dad gives me an allowance of £300 a month (he spent my inheritance so is making it up this way), and I have a job at uni which whilst term time (24 weeks of the year roughly) gets me £150 a week at least, I'm hoping to sort out a job for holiday time soon but no guarantee. I live in the cheapest halls so term time rent and bills is £3,500 for the year. My phone bill is £33 a month and I get contact lenses that are roughly £15 a month.
I currently have 6k from having a job for 3 years in savings but I want to save AS much as possible for when I leave uni. I'm sociable but I'm not stupid. Recently I've been treating myself A LOT to clothes/a bike/tv/driving lessons as since I have always been the 'poor sensible kid' and for once I'm the only one at uni with money. However fun time is over and I want to ensure I have enough savings to buy a house once I leave university in 2/3 years since I'm constantly anxious about having no money in the future (like my mother).
So my plan is draw out an amount of money (£30-£50 roughly?) every Monday and keep that for my food/hygiene/social life etc, anything I don't spend that week can be saved for the next week etc. I do spend a LOT of money on food since I love it and even coming from a poorish background, food was always a priority.
How much money should I roughly draw out weekly (every week since I buy my own food when at home home) and how can I ensure I stick to this as in the past I've struggled and taken "treat yourself" to a whole new level.
Submitted April 16, 2017 at 04:29PM by deslol3 http://ift.tt/2pqKrDr
