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What are some extreme actions you plan to take, or are currently taking, to save money during law school?
living quarters...ect.

Only eating ramen and rice

edit: also smoking crack instead of snorting coke.

I'm holding off on hiring a butler until at least 3L

what is everyones expected COL?

I hope to take out and live on roughly 12k. I'm gonna need your prayers

cardnal124 wrote:Only eating ramen and rice

edit: also smoking crack instead of snorting coke.

That is simply too high of a price just to save a little money! There's nothing wrong with paying interest on your coke money!

nick637 wrote:what is everyones expected COL?

I hope to take out and live on roughly 12k. I'm gonna need your prayers

What are you expecting to get out of that 12k?

My husband is a PhD candidate planning on teaching, which pays roughly 35K a year. We are going to try to live almost entirely off his salary and modest savings, depending on the city we end up in. Yikes.

jks289 wrote:My husband is a PhD candidate planning on teaching, which pays roughly 35K a year. We are going to try to live almost entirely off his salary and modest savings, depending on the city we end up in. Yikes.

This is pretty close to my situation. My girlfriend will (hopefully) have a K-12 teaching job next year and we hope to live off her salary.

Mr. Pablo wrote:

nick637 wrote:what is everyones expected COL?

I hope to take out and live on roughly 12k. I'm gonna need your prayers

What are you expecting to get out of that 12k?

everything

rent= 400/month
food= 80/month

books= 1500

leaves money left over for anything else i may need. Is this too much or too little

TipTravHoot wrote:

jks289 wrote:My husband is a PhD candidate planning on teaching, which pays roughly 35K a year. We are going to try to live almost entirely off his salary and modest savings, depending on the city we end up in. Yikes.

This is pretty close to my situation. My girlfriend will (hopefully) have a K-12 teaching job next year and we hope to live off her salary.

What city are you living in? At the moment I am deposited at WUSTL. I think it is totally doable in St Louis. But if I get off a WL and we end up in a big city it seems a lot less likely.

I won't be buying anything on this list http://www.oddee.com/item_88021.aspx

nick637 wrote:

Mr. Pablo wrote:

nick637 wrote:what is everyones expected COL?

I hope to take out and live on roughly 12k. I'm gonna need your prayers

What are you expecting to get out of that 12k?

everything

rent= 400/month
food= 80/month

books= 1500

leaves money left over for anything else i may need. Is this too much or too little

$80/month on food? How is that possible?

AtticusFinch wrote:I won't be buying anything on this list http://www.oddee.com/item_88021.aspx

except for the tequila right?

nick637 wrote:what is everyones expected COL?

I hope to take out and live on roughly 12k. I'm gonna need your prayers

Depending on the city I commit to, I hope to live off about $15K - $20K a semester (being, rent, food, transportation, and other), but will be actively seeking any way possible to shave a couple bucks off.

I don't plan on doing this but if you are savvy and have the right ideas you can do this. My friend applied to organizations that provided students with loans at low interest rates. I think one was the fed gov't and the other was the Lutheran church. She then lived and paid tuition with one loan and invested the other in something safe. At the end she had earned enough money off of her loans to pay nearly pay them both off. Basically she was able to go to school nearly for free.

jks289 wrote:
$80/month on food? How is that possible?

It isn't.

jks289 wrote:

nick637 wrote:

Mr. Pablo wrote:

nick637 wrote:what is everyones expected COL?

I hope to take out and live on roughly 12k. I'm gonna need your prayers

What are you expecting to get out of that 12k?

everything

rent= 400/month
food= 80/month

books= 1500

leaves money left over for anything else i may need. Is this too much or too little

$80/month on food? How is that possible?

i spend around that now. Its about shopping early in the morn or late at night to get marked down shit. granted, you have to be able to try new and varied food groups every week

I'm going to live in a van. down by the river.

My sacrifice: Moving the family (wife and daughter) in with my in-law's, selling my beautiful '08 Tundra Crewmax and '09 Accord, riding a bike to school, no drinking anymore, and selling every bit of furniture and item of worth I have. The upside to all of it is that I will be living with a view of the Pacific Ocean on one side of the house, and a view of downtown San Diego on the other.

nick637 wrote:
everything

rent= 400/month
food= 80/month

books= 1500

leaves money left over for anything else i may need. Is this too much or too little

Too little. What city can you get rent for $400, or eat for $80? The average American now spends $17/day on food. Rent where I am going to school is $1300 for a studio.

nick637 wrote:

Mr. Pablo wrote:

nick637 wrote:what is everyones expected COL?

I hope to take out and live on roughly 12k. I'm gonna need your prayers

What are you expecting to get out of that 12k?

everything

rent= 400/month
food= 80/month

books= 1500

leaves money left over for anything else i may need. Is this too much or too little

I think you should be ok depending on where you are going to be living. I live in Ohio and I feed, clothe, and house myself, my wife, and my two kids on 350/week after taxes, which for a 17 week semester is about 6,000.

In UG I lived off $5,000/$6,000 per year. And I paid about $2,000 of that up front to cover what my student loans/scholarships didn't cover.

Looking back I don't know how I did it. I am going to try for $10,000 this year.

shepdawg wrote:My sacrifice: Moving the family (wife and daughter) in with my in-law's, selling my beautiful '08 Tundra Crewmax and '09 Accord, riding a bike to school, no drinking anymore, and selling every bit of furniture and item of worth I have. The upside to all of it is that I will be living with a view of the Pacific Ocean on one side of the house, and a view of downtown San Diego on the other.

nick637 wrote:
everything

rent= 400/month
food= 80/month

books= 1500

leaves money left over for anything else i may need. Is this too much or too little

Too little. What city can you get rent for $400, or eat for $80? The average American now spends $17/day on food. Rent where I am going to school is $1300 for a studio.

ive been looking on craigslist for studios in Cleveland.

bworsowicz wrote:

nick637 wrote:

Mr. Pablo wrote:

nick637 wrote:what is everyones expected COL?

I hope to take out and live on roughly 12k. I'm gonna need your prayers

What are you expecting to get out of that 12k?

everything

rent= 400/month
food= 80/month

books= 1500

leaves money left over for anything else i may need. Is this too much or too little

I think you should be ok depending on where you are going to be living. I live in Ohio and I feed, clothe, and house myself, my wife, and my two kids on 350/week after taxes, which for a 17 week semester is about 6,000.

ya, being in the midwest has its advantages

nick637 wrote:

AtticusFinch wrote:I won't be buying anything on this list http://www.oddee.com/item_88021.aspx

except for the tequila right?

Can't make a margarita without it.

nick637 wrote:

shepdawg wrote:My sacrifice: Moving the family (wife and daughter) in with my in-law's, selling my beautiful '08 Tundra Crewmax and '09 Accord, riding a bike to school, no drinking anymore, and selling every bit of furniture and item of worth I have. The upside to all of it is that I will be living with a view of the Pacific Ocean on one side of the house, and a view of downtown San Diego on the other.

nick637 wrote:
everything

rent= 400/month
food= 80/month

books= 1500

leaves money left over for anything else i may need. Is this too much or too little

Too little. What city can you get rent for $400, or eat for $80? The average American now spends $17/day on food. Rent where I am going to school is $1300 for a studio.

ive been looking on craigslist for studios in Cleveland.

If you can't find a studio for $400 in Cleveland I will be SHOCKED.