Finish this sentence: I was so poor in college that I _____

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Col's thread and comments on dorm rooms got me to thinking......yeah, my room wasn't that nice in college. I lived with my first husband and we had those little cotton fold out chairs, banana boxes for end tables (our roomate (we had a roommate....3 people in a one bedroom apt for $275 a month LOL) anyway our roomate worked produce at a grocery store) and we had an old waterbed.

Anyway to finish the sentence...


I was so poor in college that I once made a girlfriend of mine a birthday present (can't even remember what the present was at this point) and then I wrapped the present in aluminum foil and fashioned a bow out of dental floss and q-tips.

*giggle*
 
Ummm...I once took out a cash advance on my credit card to pay rent. I totally had an entire entertainment unit made of tomatoe boxes. I shouldn't call it an "entertainment unit" it held a tv and vcr, and a bunch of movies. There were 6 girls in one house, and we still couldn't pay the cable bill, so we just had my VHS movies to keep us entertained.
 
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Hmmmm......I'll have to think about this one. I somehow managed not to end up too poor in college (thank you mom and dad!! :p)
 
haha I'm in college NOW! and we're doing alright i think. LOL no tomato box furniture so that's a plus!
 
LOL I had real furniture.. and lived in a nice apartment with 2 lesbians :D :D

Hmm... I think the "poorest la is a college girl moment" was when I ate a jar of green olives for two days cause I had no money for foodz.
 
I was so poor that we (my now DH and I) waited until he got his monthly $10 Grocery Store gift card before buying groceries. Somehow we made it work.
 
I was a mom already when I went to college, with two kids (Jenna was 1 when I started school). We had a two bedroom apartment and lots of hand me down furniture. We were poorer than we are now, but that's cause hubby was also in school at the time, so we were living on student loans and grants.
 
my parents cried when they left at me at my freshman apartment. it was such a hole! but i had signed a one-year lease before i saw the apartment. housing is TOUGH to find in Provo, Utah, before the fall semester begins! then when my sisters went to college, they had a nice apartment! that's what i get for being the oldest! i was much better off than most people who lived around me, though. i always had food, even if it was just spaghetti or cereal. but i didn't buy any new clothes my entire freshman year. not even a pair of socks. i was on a tight budget. and i am grateful to my parents for that. yes, they provided me with rent & food money, but they didn't spoil me and i learned how to spend money appropriately. when i returned for my sophomore year, i got a job!
 
ahhh...you touched a nerve...I was so poor, that I remember handwashing my clothes in the tub because I had no quarters for laundry...with a job and on fullide scholarship

My mother was a bit more generous by the time my little sister went off to school...paying for her tuition, gym membership, auto insurance, expensive salon products and makeup, and rent in a nice condo, along with a monthly stipend for other stuff

grrrrr
 
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Went to ECU, the state's biggest party school, blew the thousand bucks I managed to save up working all summer...within the first month of school....then charged up my credit cards, all partying and living it up with my roomates and friends from high school like a big dummy and all before Christmas break my freshman year. Yeah, I ended up coming home. It was a total disaster and I wish I had the money I threw away and hadn't made so many stupid mistakes that I still regret to this day.
Fast forward, to my "real" college days which were at a local two year school after my daughter was born. We ate a lot of oodles of noodles and sandwiches and begged my mom to wash some clothes for us every now and then. I have to say that being married with a family makes it much harder to do college.
 
webseitler said:
Called my dad and cried a lot? LOL!
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Exactly! I was (am) a spoiled princess.

My husband put himself through college and lived on campus for 4 years. When he moved off campus he lived in a shack. It was literally and old shack with a tin roof. It had cracks in the floors between rooms and slugs would come up at night so he has to pour salt all over the floors.
 
I was so poor in college that I ate Ramen noodles almost every day and came up with inventive ways to make it taste better.
 
hhhmmm... my folks subsidized me & i worked so I wasn't all that poor most of the time...

Oh wait, I was so poor in college that I could only afford quarter draft nights and not $5 all you can drink nights. :)
 
I wasn't really poor in college either. I had almost a full ride the first 2 years, only paid for my books I think and my parents paid for those. Then for the last 2 years I had grants and student loans to cover the rest. I also had an almost full time job working in a real estate office doing accounting and other office stuff (my degree was in Accounting and Management). I started there at the end of my junior year of high school and worked there until about 2 months before my college graduation. I lived at home most of the time I was in school, except for part of my junior year when I got a small 1 bedroom apartment. I only lived there about 8-9 months and then we got engaged so I moved back home for part of my senior year so I could save money while we were planning our wedding. I graduated in May and we got married in August and then we got our first apartment together.
 
aggiefamily said:
Exactly! I was (am) a spoiled princess.
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LOL! Okay, not quite like that for me... ;) It's just that I'd call to say "hi" and when he'd ask how I was doing and: :crying: Then he'd end up buying my books for me and I was on top of the world! I didn't set out to get him to do it though.

But my husband would agree with that statement--he thinks I'm a spoiled princess sometimes. :p
 
I was so poor I didn't even go to college, haha! Oh well, life is good as is, so I'm not complaining there!

Love reading all these replies though!
 
as a Freshman at my college we were required to live in the dorms and have a meal plan to the cafeteria. It was all paid for with my scholarships, and students loans luckily.

BUT the cafeteria only had "meal hours" so if your classes were during the meal times you didn't get a meal. Plus - let's face it most cafeteria food is gross.

My mom only gave me a $25 "allowance" a week. Yeah - that doesn't go that far. So since I couldn't buy groceries I would go to the cafeteria at dinner time (less of a rush) and get "to go" boxes and fill them with food I could use to make meals I wanted to eat. I would go straight to the salad bar and get fresh veggies and fruit, bread & bagels. One box would have condiments - butter, salad dressing, cream cheese. ect. Then I would take my to go boxes back to my dorm room and stock my fridge LOL.
 
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