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Do You Have A Student Discount?

August 24, 2022                 I, Krystal, haven’t always been thrifty. In fact, I used to get a bit embarrassed by my friends that would ask for discounts or present coupons for purchases. I thought, if I had the money, why wouldn’t I pay full price? Don’t even get me started on how much I have likely paid for purchases when in overseas places where haggling is the ‘norm’ – I could never do it. However, this mindset has certainly changed over time for me. Immensely. For the better half of my adult life, I have enjoyed scanning Sunday ads for the best grocery prices, finding deals on other household items needed, and I love starting at the sale rack in stores. When Alisa and I first started dating I told her I was cheap, but really, I’m just thrifty; I love a good experience and will pay full price if I have to but love to see if I can find a discount first. With being in Project Money and trying to still have fun, we’ve started being even more strategic about it, so are not paying full price. Our newest discovery was realizing we can qualify for student discounts since we are both Grad students. Which, with the cost of tuition, we’ll gladly take any perk we can get to reduce some costs.    To get student discounts, though, we each needed a student ID, so a few weeks ago we headed to our college campus, so we have our headshots taken and IDs made. We have started making a list of places we can use our student IDs so we can have some more “economical” date nights and/or ideas to do with friends when they are visiting town. While there is a plethora of ways we save money on different purchases, here are just some of the local discounts we will get now thanks to our student IDs:
Individual = $65/year
Student = $35/year

Adult Daily Admission = $22
Student Daily Admission = $18
(First Thursday of each month is also free)
Adult Daily Admission = $9
Student Daily Admission = $6
-OR-
Individual = $40/year
Student = $20/year
Adult Daily Admission = $20
Student Daily Admission = $14
$5 off ticket price

Thursdays = $7.50  tickets and a free 46oz bag of popcorn
$8 student tickets any day
-OR-
$7 tickets (for anyone) Monday and Tuesdays
Only student ticket for those 18 and under, however:
35 and under - $20 tickets
Tuesday and Wednesday performances – pay what you canAdult Daily Admission = $
Student Daily Admission = $Do you know of any other local student discounts we could get that are not on our list? Ple You might also be interested in Whew and wow! This has been quite a challenging and eye-opening process! It has been very hard to do this project as part of a couple when both of us appear... During the week of November 23, we wrote about how we were going to look into options for cost-saving measures. One of those measures was to analyze any... This past weekend, we took our annual trip down to Chicago, which was also paired with a trip to the theater. With being in Project Money, have been more... Something that stands out lately are the number of outlets competing for one’s time, attention, and especially our hard earned money. I don’t know about... If it wasn't so cold out right now, we might not believe that the end of the year is fast approaching, but alas – it is! With that, we have been starting... Initially, we weren’t sure exactly what to write about for this week’s blog post. However, the subject came to us this past weekend as we were reviewing... Many of us enjoy hosting parties with friends and family for seasonal activities and Holidays but don’t want to break the bank doing so! For me and Krystal... I don't know about you, but I, Krystal, grew up in a pretty cold house during winter. We lived in a rural-ish area where natural gas did not run, thus... One thing we’re still working through is being a bit more proactive about unexpected house costs. Sure, we have small savings account for house expenses...