‘Money’ Posts

3 Savings Methods That Help You Get What You Want

3 Savings Methods That Help You Get What You Want

Whether you want to save up for the latest gadget, future travels, or to fund hobbies, finding effective savings methods is often the most difficult task you’ll encounter when attempting to hold on to money. More often than not, you’ll cut down on your spending by attempting to be frugal for a short amount of ...

6 Ways To Go To Concerts For Free

6 Ways To Go To Concerts For Free

You hate Ticketmaster fees? Get in line. No one wants to pay them, but these same people don’t know how to get around them. Here’s the deal, you don’t have to even buy tickets for shows if you’re smart. There are plenty of ways to get around all the drama and still get into the ...

30 Cheap Date Ideas For College Students

30 Cheap Date Ideas For College Students

Here’s something new: you’re in college and you’re broke. Actually, that’s not new. And your cash flow is even smaller once you find a significant other. In just a few words, here are some cheap date ideas that can help you save money and have fun at the same time! Watch the sun set – ...

Five Ways To Make Extra Cash In College

Five Ways To Make Extra Cash In College

Money: the one thing ever college student would love to have more of, aside from sleep, food, and arguably a longer weekend. All over the internet you are sure to find dozens of get rich quick schemes, ranging from taking hundreds of surveys for a few cents each to selling energy drinks in a pyramid ...

Filing Your 2012 Taxes in College: A Checklist

Filing Your 2012 Taxes in College: A Checklist

Guess what? It’s tax season. What are you going to do about it? For college students, filing taxes is an incredibly daunting task. After voting on taxes last November, and listening to endless political arguments about who should pay them, the last thing you want to do is file your taxes. Well, whether you’re claiming ...

Automatically Find Online Coupons with Honey

Automatically Find Online Coupons with Honey

Christmas is now less than two weeks away, which means it is officially crunch time for shopping. With the savings of Black Friday and Cyber Monday gone, those with online shopping to do now have to scramble to find the best deal for an iPad Mini or a Kindle Fire. But if you’ve procrastinated on ...

7 Ways Technology Can Save You Money

7 Ways Technology Can Save You Money

1. Freecycle  One man’s trash is, afterall, another man’s treasure. This website may not be much to look at, but it provides a forum for a perpetual swap meet. Divided by city or town, Freecycle is entirely free to join using a Yahoo, Gmail, or Facebook account. Users can receive optional email notifications in the form ...

Eight Tips For Buying a Used Car on Craigslist

Eight Tips For Buying a Used Car on Craigslist

Buying a used car is not a very simple task. One must search through hundreds of online advertisements, meet with shady owners, settle for a car you may not particularly love, and spend a lot of money. However, these following tips may help with lessening that burden, and make your car buying experience a tad ...

How To Be Frugal In College

How To Be Frugal In College

One of the most important lessons that I’ll take away from my time in college is understanding how to manage my finances. I’ve never considered myself a “starving college student” since I was fortunate enough to have parents who could support the cost of my tuition and living. But as I approach closer to graduation, ...

Call and Text for Free with These Apps

Call and Text for Free with These Apps

Chances are that if you’re a college student, you’re still on your parents cell phone plan. If that’s the case, it’s also extremely likely that they’ve at some point chewed you out over the amount of calling and texting you’ve been doing. Since cutting down on your texting is clearly not an option, there’s luckily ...

Two Years of Free Storage for Your School on Dropbox

Two Years of Free Storage for Your School on Dropbox

Cloud storage is quickly becoming an irreplaceable tool for college life as the ability to use any document on any device allows for more accessibility than ever before. Programs like OneNote and Evernote have proven to be great note taking tools that are making traditional paper notebooks obsolete, and a litany of new storage services ...

Read Over 40,000 Books for Free with Project Gutenberg

Read Over 40,000 Books for Free with Project Gutenberg

We love eReaders here at HackCollege. Granted, there’s plenty to be said for reading from a traditional paper back, but one of the greatest advantages of the eBook format is how well it works with content licensed under the public domain. 70 years after a book’s author has died, the work itself is considered copyright-free, and may ...

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