You’ve probably heard of a few of these already, but do you know about all of these? Here, we’ve compiled reasons for you to spend money right now, but you can do so without the unnecessary guilt because you are a student SAVING money.
The Obvious: Amazon Prime Student
The list of benefits along with Amazon Prime seem endless. First, you have 6 free months for a trial, and then Amazon Prime for half price. Most notably you have Prime delivery, or free one-day delivery. I’m sure we’ve all been heavily relying on Amazon for any forgotten essentials, books, or room decor to live your lavish life.
Specifically with Amazon Prime Student, you also have a free membership with Grubhub Plus Student, a free month of Course Hero, and three free months of usage for the Calm app.
Otherwise, you also have access to all the regular benefits as an Amazon Prime member. To learn more, you can read everything here. Do make note of any listed terms and conditions.
The Helpful: Office 365 Education
All students are able to sign up for Office 365 Education. This includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and more. This can be helpful with organization, whether it is making it easy to share information/documents with others or syncing information across devices. To sign up, you can start here.
The Necessity: Spotify + Hulu + SHOWTIME
This is obviously the superior choice for only $4.99/month. There do exist alternatives such as Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Prime Music—the list goes on forever. I guess you can check these out but just know Spotify is superior *rolling eyes emoji*. Not to mention you also get access to Hulu and SHOWTIME.
Personally, having music readily available to stream has been super useful to me, whether it is helping me get into the studying mindset or making the walk to main campus a little less boring and tiring.
The Expensive: Technology Discounts
We live in an age of technology, but unfortunately technology can be pretty expensive. However, as these are essentially necessities at this point, plenty of companies have discounts to make your bank account a little less depressing.
Apple currently has free AirPods along with discounted AppleCare when you buy a Mac or iPad. Best Buy has a student discount program that can help lead you to discounted products. Samsung also has their Education Discount Program that can help you save up to 30%.
Literally… just show your student ID…
Or use the power of that .edu email. Whenever you make a purchase, just ask to see if they have a student discount. Plenty of clothing brands such as Aeropostale, Banana Republic, H&M etc. offer up to 15% off any purchase. Certain places such as Chipotle or Chik-Fil-A also offer a free drink with your purchase.
Worst case, there’s no discount, but if successful, you will be rewarded with some savings and a feeling of victory that triumphs the guilt of buying something you might’ve not needed anyways.
And those are all your reasons to spend money this week.