Extra space in the SU budget in 2017 - three places to find money in your budget
Life as a student is far from a bed of roses and the future SU-reform, it will hardly be easier to keep scraping by financially, if you are a student in higher education in one of the larger university towns. Therefore, it is more important than ever to be careful with his money, so if you would like to have extra space in your economy in 2017, here's three tips on how you can save money in the coming year.
1: The rent - Rent your apartment or room out via Airbnb
The first place that there are good opportunities to save money, or rather to make money if you are a student, is the same rent. The phenomenon Airbnb is in fact, in a short time become extremely popular in Denmark by foreign tourists, because of very high prices, and this can rightly take advantage of students.
As a student in higher education has for both a relatively long summer holidays and especially Christmas holiday, where you have excellent opportunities to make a good buck, if you live in a rental home in Copenhagen or Aarhus and choose to rent it out to foreign tourists . On the way you can in fact get an extra grant for his rent, and thus becomes your house expenses lower. At best, one can thus save two to three months rent per year, which certainly can be felt in any SU-budget.
2: The food budget - Trade high into the net
Another place where there can be good money to save for an average Danish students are food budget. Everyone knows that there is money to be saved by buying discount products, but this requires that you are very aware of what you put in your cart when shopping, and just to go shopping is something that most young people just like will be over. So if you will save money and time, you can consider buying her groceries online instead.
During 2016 there has been a wide range of new electronic supermarkets in Denmark, and with them it is possible to act in large quantities, as well as to save money and especially time when you can ship its products right to your door when you want it. The only requirement for this to be a success is that you have a freezer, so you can freeze, among other meats and vegetables down. By trading large quantities can be easily and quickly bought food for two weeks at a time, thus avoiding so-called day-to-day shopping, which is really expensive in the long run.
3: Drop expensive beauty products - it's 'Normal'
A third and final place, where there may be little savings for students and enough name wonder the female students are when it comes to beauty products. If one here would like to save money on everything from hair to makeup and especially nail polish , you can either consider buying it via a chain as Normal, which sells a range of branded products at discount prices, which means that you can save between 30- 50% on a wide range of everyday products and on an annual basis, it may be a few thousand kroner.