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How poor were you in college?

I ate chips and salsa for dinner at Pancho's instead of ordering.
 
Using dryer sheets as TP is brilliant...I never made it to that step. Whenever I ran out of TP/napkins/tissues, I always unrolled the cardboard TP roll, which was the impetus to buy new TP.
 
awakeandready said:
For the summer of 2008 I was working in Winston and my friend from HS wanted to live with me. We found a bedroom to share on Craigslist and then started looking for a bed to share as well. We were looking for a full but found a Queen mattress, boxspring, and frame for $75. Drove to wherever it was (some trailer park near Kernersville ~15 miles away) and picked it up. We had to tie it to the roof of my Accord to get it to the house. Got it to the house and it wouldn't fit up the stairs. I think I've posted about it before but thus began the saga that eventually lead to stripping the boxspring, cutting off 2 corners and then cutting it in half, and duct taping it once it got upstairs. I just got rid of that mattress after 3 years when HTTD and I moved to Greensboro.

That summer we also saved a McDonald's cup so we could go in and get free refills and as well as strongly considered siphoning gas. My friend may or may not have made some money after being gifted illegal substances for giving a girl a ride home from work.
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WTF aren't you a girl?

I didn't have a meal plan my senior year and just bummed meal swipes off people about three meals a week. Also we drank High Life Light cases from Food Lion for $8.88 for about a month until we couldn't stand it anymore.
 
DeaconCav06 said:
I sold my spanish textbook prior to taking the exam. That was so I could booze though.
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Oh yeah... so Wake kids being oblivious used to throw out textbooks at the end of the year. I would do a quick pass through and bring any books left behind to Ed McKay to pay for posties.
 
buckets said:
Oh yeah... so Wake kids being oblivious used to throw out textbooks at the end of the year. I would do a quick pass through and bring any books left behind to Ed McKay to pay for posties.
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This one wasn't too bad, but definitely used to jump into the dumpster in the post office and snag the coups for Hero House.
 
I had friends steal other people's books from the library during exams so they could sell them for post exams money. Bookstore was like a total cash system with no record keeping so they never got caught. Pretty dick move though.
 
DeaconCav06 said:
This one wasn't too bad, but definitely used to jump into the dumpster in the post office and snag the coups for Hero House.
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2 for 1 Qdoba was amazing. I wish we had Poe's Rep back then so I could give it you guys for having a drawer of like fifty of those.
 
I had a close friend who stole from the campus Chick-Fil-A at minimum twice a week. We affectionately referred to him as the chicken bandit.
 
DeaconCav06 said:
This one wasn't too bad, but definitely used to jump into the dumpster in the post office and snag the coups for Hero House.
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definitely did this, except for the qdoba coupons. i never could believe just how many people dumped those things in the trash! i would use the BOGO ones, get two burritos, and make four meals out of it. and you could collect 20+ of those things at a time out of the paper bins in the post office.
 
In grad school, I checked my books out of the library. If ZSR didn't have it, I ILL'ed that shit.
 
buckets said:
2 for 1 Qdoba was amazing. I wish we had Poe's Rep back then so I could give it you guys for having a drawer of like fifty of those.
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Yeah, man. We had an entire drawer full of nothing but those yellow newsletters.
 
I worked in the OG&B office and ripped Bojangles coupons out of the extra newspapers that didn't get picked up each week. I don't think I paid full price for Bo's at all senior year.
 
There was a big krispy kreme fundraiser my freshmen year, and after I polished off my dozen I went around to the girls halls to see if they were all done with theirs. I ended up with three extra boxes of doughnuts.
 
Where were you guys finding all of these awesome coups? I don't remember a lot floating around campus. I didn't eat out a whole bunch until senior year, though.
 
Oh, and mandatory 'vending machine card trick in Poteat' post.
 
awakeandready said:
Where were you guys finding all of these awesome coups? I don't remember a lot floating around campus. I didn't eat out a whole bunch until senior year, though.
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they would put them in every single person's mailbox
 
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