Just as sure as a shepherd should never be without their staff, a student should never leave home without their student card. Your student card is your passport to a life filled with huge discounts and savings. So, you should get used to asking if there's a student discount, no matter where you go.
For instance, travel will be one of your biggest costs in college and is unavoidable. However, your student card allows you to get a €10 Student Leap Card. So, if you travel to college by bus or rail, use your student card to get special student rates.
It’s the same if you’re buying fast food, picking up a new laptop or heading to a GAA match. You can get great student discounts on them too. Even airlines offer discounts on your flights and baggage. All you have to do is ask.
And it doesn’t end there. When it comes to feeding yourself, you can also use your student card to enjoy student rates on everything from pizzas and burgers, to noodles and burritos.
But you don’t even have to be in some places to enjoy a special student rate. Lots of websites give student discounts with online purchases.
Whether you’re looking to stream music, buy a phone, get glasses, purchase a laptop or just kit yourself out in some new gym gear, all the top suppliers usually have great student offers available too. But for you to get the most out of them, it’s all in the research – if you don’t ask you don’t get. The best money-saving hack is to know the full potential of your student status.
