Nobody knows when will be the end of the recession. It has been going for months. The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry announced that 17.2% of Korean people are spending less money on leisure, 20.5% less on buying clothes and 16.5% less on eating out than before. There is no exception in campus life. College students are looking for part time jobs desperately as a means of living and for school expenses. |
Visit a nearby blood center and donate your blood. It will help other people`s lives and in appreciation they will give you a movie ticket. If you do a plain donation it will only take 10 minutes to finish but if you do a blood ingredient donation it will take 30 minutes. |
Suppose you spend 5,000 Won on dinner and spend 3,000 Won on drinking coffee at a café, then it costs about 250,000 Won per month. So unless you live too far from school you`d better go home early and have dinner with your family. If you live alone, choose inexpensive food items like beans and eggs which are healthy and make you full at the same time. |
In this hard time, shopping makes people feel better but we have to prioritize our spending and be more careful. We have to choose our daily meal over luxury clothes and learn to live a simple life. Select apparel and accessories that can be worn in multiple ways for multiple seasons. |
When you have to save money, the first place you can easily skim back on is beauty products. But you don`t need to give up having beautiful hair. You can use natural ingredients like eggs or mayonnaise as treatments. Less using shampoo can help dry and curly hair. |
Now is the time to re-evaluate what makes us really happy. No more gathering at a cyber cafe and a coffee shop. Just invite your friends home and dust off favorite board games playing all night. |