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  • Budgeting 101: How to Make a Budget in College
    Written by mara 1 Comment
    Last Updated:: August 20, 2008
    August 20, 2008 by Mara Strom Welcome to part three of our series on living on a budget at college. (If you haven’t already read them, check out the previous posts: Eating on a Budget and Textbooks on a Budget.) Let me start by apologizing for not getting this post up on Monday. I just moved this weekend and despite Major-Internet-Provider’s most fervent promises that I’d be on-line Monday, that obviously did not come to pass. Anyway, the move has given me a great opportunity to reflect on all the millions and millions of little expenses that seem to crop up when you move to a new place. From light bulbs to toilet bowl brushes, Target has done a brisk business from me the past few days. Come the start of school, you, too, will likely encounter the bottomless money pit tha...