It is no secret that a young person can be squeezed financially when your only income is SU. Books are expensive and rents in the large Danish study cities is high, which means that you often need to be creative to get the budget to make ends meet.

In this article we give you 3 tips on how you can save money on everything from broadband to education.

1. Use comparison services

You've probably experienced that you go out and buy broadband, a new mobile phone, car insurance or perhaps an unemployment fund membership, but that it is impossible to gain an overview of the prices charged by various providers.

This often results in that you choose the provider that you came across first, and probably is not either the best or cheapest option.

To avoid this, you can apply some of the many comparison services available online. There are comparison services on broadband, phone subscriptions, TV packages and loans to name just a few. These services do the hard work for you, and collect prices of all providers in the market. These prices are then added to the service's website, where you through a table can get an overview of your options.

An example of such a sammenligninstjeneste is cheap-bredbånd.nu where you for example. To see a full list of the best broadband in the market right now based on, among other broadband provider Trust Pilot score.

With such sammenligninstjeneste you can find the best and cheapest broadband, and thus save money on broadband.

2. Use discount codes

On almost all web shops you have the opportunity to use discount codes. Vouchers can give you a certain discount, for example. free shipping or a percentage discount, for example. 10% discount on your purchase, and there is money to be saved if you use the discount codes. Typically, you can see if you have the opportunity to use a discount code at a given shop, if at checkout stands something like. "Use Discount code", "use discount coupon" or "do you have a coupon code?".

A good tip is that if you see that you can use coupons on the shop you are buying from, so try to google "discount code [name of the shop]." Perhaps you will find a discount code for this particular shop, which can save you some money!

3. Take free courses online instead of paying for them

It is always good to seek out new knowledge and improve their skills, especially when you are young and should build his resume. Unfortunately, costing the good courses and seminars lot of money, so it is rare that you will have access to them without having paid dearly for it.

Fortunately, more and more free deals on online courses where you via videos and podcasts can obtain the same information that you would get by attending in person up to a paid course. For example. NemProgrammering.dk, you can take free courses in eg Photoshop, Word and Wordpress website development. You can also take Premium courses for example. SEO , but these courses cost a little (still smaller than a physical course).

Other good sources of free knowledge is YouTube, where you can actually find really very good and free material.

On Coursera.org you can also take free courses from universities around the world. Coursera.org have over 1,000 online courses, so it's just to go to war!