With the high costs of tuition, books, rise in gas prices, and your usually bills it is hard to save money as a college student.  We all here “you should start saving for your future.”  But how?  How can you save money if you have all these college expenses and more?  Very easy, check out some of the ways you can save money as a college student below:

School vs. Going home - If you go to school and you have a schedule with a couple hours in between classes stay at school.  Don’t go home if you have a couple hours in between classes.  With the high gas prices, it is hard to afford doing this.  Think what is so important that makes you need to go home?  If you go on the computer or if you study when you get home, get a laptop or use a computer and the library and study.  This can save you a ton of money if you are known for doing this a couple times a week.  You should definitely consider doing this if your car has poor gas mileage, and if you live more than a hour an hour away from school.

Carpool – If you can try and carpool with your friends.  Get together when you are making your school schedule, and try and take all your general education classes at the same time.  Not only will this give you a study buddy, but it will also save you a ton of money on gas.

Keep up with your car’s maintenance – Make sure you keep up with your vehicles needs.  Be sure to get oil changes and keep your tires inflated.  These will help tremendously by helping with your cars gas mileage.  Also keep in mind not to run your vehicle hard and take the highway to save your gas!

Get a gas credit card – If you didn’t know you can save a ton of money by using a gas credit card instead of cash or a debit card.  This is a great way to build your credit and save money.  By using a gas credit card you are capable of saving up to 10% on your purchases at the pump.  Say you fill up for $50.00, you will be saving $5.00! If you fill up once every week and times that 52 times a week (for the year) you will be saving $260!  That can help pay part of your tuition!  With that $260.00 you can use that to get gift cards or pay off your bill.  Where do you get them?  www.findgascards.com  is the easiest site to use, will all the information you need when it comes to selecting the card you want.

There are many ways to save on gas you just have to take action.  We all complain about the high gas prices but there are many things you can do to help save your pennies at the pump.  Consider some of the ideas above and see how you’ll be saving!