Wealthy Student Blog

The book has arrived! Writers for the site please : )

Burf — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:00:28 +0000

Hey everyone,

Busy, busy, busy that’s all I can say. Good news today when I popped down to the post office to collect my mystery package - it was paperback copies of the book ‘Defeat Student Debt - The Wealthystudent.co.uk guide to making the most out of university life’ and (I may be biased!) but it looks great.

This coming week we’ll have a new email format coming up and we’ll also be letting people know the winners of the writing competition. Some of you guys have your writing in the book and we’ll be letting everyone know who those people are very soon.

Things are gearing up for a big launch in September once we get this awful summer weather out of the way - I hope you guys have gone on holiday somewhere nice this year. I recommend Greece for 7 nights of sun, sea, sand and sandwiches.

With this gearing up we are looking for a fabulous team of writers and we’re asking you to join this Facebook group if you’re interested. See you there!

Newsnight, James Caan & more on ‘recession’

Burf — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:24:05 +0000

I saw the James Caan from the BBC’s dragons den a couple of nights ago on Newsnight discussing or not whether there was going to be a recession and what should be done to stop it.

All things are pointing to a recession at the moment…

Sinking house prices
High energy costs
High food costs
High oil costs
Banks won’t lend money for mortgages
The employment market is slowing

and more things besides. I agreed with what James was saying in that the government must help us out here. If the government don’t want a recession then they must ‘ease the pinch’ on the average British person right now. It’s time to start cutting tax on energy and petrol and place these taxes elsewhere.

I personally have the viewpoint that there is so much wastage by the government that many millions of taxpayers money is virtually ‘lost’ due to poor allocation of the money or the money is not used to its full extent.

Recession won’t hit students so bad because the students will get the same amount of money regardless. The only thing to hit students bad (as I have said before) is these top up fees, high energy costs and rising food costs.

This is partly why this site is here. To help you guys out a bit more!

Take care for now

Roll on September

Burf — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:04:23 +0000

Just a quick one today.

Big news on the book that’s coming out - it’s just been sent to the publishers! It is going to be available on Amazon.co.uk for £7.99 but of course will be available free in e-book form by signing up on the email. You can see the front cover design on the front page of the site.

Sample drafts have already been sent out and the reviews have been extremely good! We’ll be sending out a near perfect copy on the email within the next couple of weeks so look out for that!

Hopefully you’ve already booked your holiday away from the UK as the weather doesn’t seem all that great, I want to be away again!

Take care for now,

Burf x x

All the hands to the pump

Burf — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:08:36 +0000

Hey guys n girls! Summer is finally upon us and the sun is shining outside and I am sweating my ass off trying to bring you as many discounts and vouchers as I can before the new academic year starts. I am just putting the finishing touches to the book before it goes off to the publishers at the end of the week. It should be out on Amazon.co.uk by mid August (if all goes well).

The book will be available free on this site in an e-book version via on the email sign up. Perhaps if you’re a new student then you could ask mum or dad nicely to get you a paperback copy!

Remember to keep money close to your chest over summer, it’s a good time to keep some sort of budget going before September comes around. Rising oil prices means don’t put your foot down when driving around and make sure to watch your budget for food - prices are going up!I am off on a long awaited to Kos on Saturday so keep chatting on the forums and give us any feedback on admin@wealthystudent.co.uk - we’d love to hear from you!

Talk soon,

Burf.

PS. I pulled out Holland in the sweepstake - result! I love the Dutch. Did you know the women chat up the men there and their favourite line is - “Would you like to share a biscuit with me in the morning?” It means that they want breakfast with this person and therefore would like to sleep with that person. Genius!

When two become one…

Burf — Sat, 10 May 2008 08:56:41 +0000

It’s been a while and we have busy behind the scenes at wealthystudent!

With a long discussion and seeing how everything is working we are deciding to scale down everything onto one main site (wealthystudent.co.uk) - we do currently have four sites - the banking, savings and phones site.

The main reason for this is it should be much easier to use and everything will be in one place. There is also going to be change in the way the website is set up. The menu bar is going to be going someplace different and it should look pretty sweet!

We have also made a MAJOR decision to give the book we are writing away for FREE on the website. That’s a free e-book version for everyone. This book is going to change the way students think about money and their University experience. We believe everyone should read it for free.

We are hoping that people take the book seriously and don’t treat it like a free piece of junk. I think we’ll have to play some mysterious trick to make everyone think they paid good money for it but they really got it for free.

The book will be out by the end of August and available on Amazon.

That reminds me…keep entering the competition so that you can get your advice in this book! Not enough entries so far!

Click here to enter the competition

Recession? I think so.

Burf — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:48:09 +0000

The economy is looking like it’s going to collapse. The government are panicking by putting £50million of our own money into the banking system in an attempt to get a few more people on the housing market and stop the inevitable collapse of house prices.

The prices will crash and this is good for current students as in 4 or 5 years time housing SHOULD be more affordable. A well known economist predicted there would be a housing price crash starting in 2008. He says there is an 18 year cycle. 14 years of stable or growing prices followed by around 4 years of falling prices.

So how will the recession affect students?

Money will be tighter with costs of everyday goods going up, but if you can pick up a part-time job and save a bit of cash whilst you’re at University you’ll be in a great position when you finish.

You’ll need to start being a bit tighter with your cash and not piss it all away drinking to 4am every morning. Be a wealthy student, not a skint student!

I’ll be blogging more soon on this subject, but busy writing this book at the moment!

Competition and My thoughts on the Government

Burf — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:01:06 +0000

I have a nice title for the book that has come in the competition ‘The Wealthy Student Handbook’ - providing a wealth of knowledge for the student community.

It’s going to be tough to be it - but you can try here.

With this blog I am going to get into some meatier subject matter to get my real views on things out there.

This week: Where does all the money really go?

I am talking about taxes and what the general public pays. Of course we pay taxes to maintain the services - police, army, hospitals and those things, but is every single pound and penny going to good places?

I personally don’t think it is.

There is so much waste of money in our society and our government has to take the blame here. I know if every penny was spent properly students wouldn’t have top up fees and being slammed with 4.8% interest.

We need to fight the student corner but we also need to fight our own corner as a British citizens. Where is every single pound of our money going? All we seem to have found out lately is that MP’s can now claim thousands on a new kitchen for their second home.

In Scotland students don’t have the same fees as us. Why not here?

We need answers and in our quest to help students, we’ll also be trying to get these answers.

Are you with us?

Okay you guys win, we’ll put the prize money up.

Burf — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:45:39 +0000

8 entries so far which is good but not quite good enough!

That means you have forced me to bump it up to £100. No more until we get loads more entries!

That’s got to be four nights out the town at least!

There is also a second prize of a ipod shuffle.

Again, we need to have at least 50 entries by the end of April or we’ll have to roll over till May.

So you get your competition entries in.

This is just a short blog post but in the next post which will be in a couple of days about a so called ‘expert’ who wanted me to pull wealthystudent.co.uk down. Hmm…who could it be? Who would do such a petty thing?

Over a years work has gone into this site and it’s here to raise awareness and fight student debt. No one will take it down.

You’ll find out who it was pretty soon.

For now take it easy guys. Look after yourselves this weekend! My arm is finally out of my cast but I can’t move the damn thing. One day I’ll be a normal human being again!

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PS: Ooh I forgot! Check out our page at Beach Break Live - The perfect student summer festival!

A book is coming and the love of my life Karl Pilkington

Burf — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:19:43 +0000

Hey guys and girls,

Good news today. I have the go ahead to get a book out there and should be out by September for all the new freshers to soak up.

It’s going to be the ultimate guide to student life, with a fresh approach to how to attack life as a student and get the most out of University life.

This means we have changed the competition yet again and unfortunately cut the prize fund for the moment as I have blown all my money making the site and testing some advertising. With your help we can have a bigger prize fund, you got to donate 47p or join that survey site.

See here for more details on the new competition

All you have to do now is write a few words in the right part of the forum (here) and you may well get your writing published for future generations of students to read. As well as getting some cash and a new CV.

On a side note, I love Karl Pilkington.

Watch this video…

I am sure that Karl did the world renowned podcasts with Ricky and Steve Merchant. It is rumoured that he is not going to do anymore because people think his real name is Graham.

I can’t deal with this.

Life without a new daily dose of Karl is like being shot in the face.I have started a campaign on the forums to bring him back. Please join in!

Press, free stuff and a catch up.

Burf — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:19:39 +0000

Core blimey it’s tough letting students know about a site without a million pound budget to blow.

If you live in the West Herts area, I will be appearing on Radio Verulam 92.6FM for a small interview about the site and what I’d like to achieve. Should be somewhere between 4pm and 5pm.

I also sent out this press release a few days ago to try and pick up some momentum and introduce new students to the site.

The forums are taking shape nicely and more and more people are joining up on the email (we only send out a couple of times a month with a bit of info and deals).

I feel that if we are going to grow by word of mouth then I need to add loads more content and useful information on making more money, physical health, mental health, more free stuff and much more. What do you think? (Leave a comment below).

On a side note, the economy seems to be in dire streets at the moment. Inflation is causing prices on everyday goods to go through the roof, banks won’t let us borrow anymore which means we are grinding to a halt. So what does this mean for you?

I think for students it doesn’t mean it’s too bad. We can ride out the wave for the next 2 or 3 years and house prices will have come down and the economy stabilised.

We just need to worry about how much we are spending and not getting in more debt than we need to be. Take advantage of student free stuff and the monthly competition where you can win money! (Shameless plug).

Take care of your cash and join our fight against the crippling student debt.

Stick with us.

PS: I may start doing a video blog soon. So exciting!