💚Festival season - How To Not Spend Your Entire Summer Budget In a Week💚

Festival season is fast approaching, and with that comes (ugh) a lot of expenses. We are here to help you not spending all your cash in two days. Remember, making your money last through the summer is a major key to having a successful winter, financially at least.

As we all know festival tickets are expensive. A lot of festivals have open opportunities for you to volunteer. This way you get to attend the festival, not pay for the tickets and most importantly gain job experience.

Choosing your designer wear wisely – or clothing, in general, is a major key. Survival of the fittest also should also be taken into consideration when it comes to the festival season – especially for your precious clothing. Who doesn’t want to look their fittest on this summer’s festivals?

So here´s the thing, coming out of a festival with all your clothes intact would be an accomplishment.

Dressing up in vibrant colors, and making sure you stand out is a huge part of festival season. Your choices of accessory is therefore also an important part. It’s also the items that are most likely to get lost, or stolen whatever you prefer.

Using your favorite designer sunglasses is probably the worst decision you could make. Buying accessories from Primark, or another store that wouldn’t ruin your whole summer budget.

Buying second-hand festival outfits might be a good idea. With the traditional mud bath that often occurs at a festival, wearing your favorite designer clothing isn’t the best idea. Buying second hand is in trend but most importantly cheap and good for the environment as well. Think of it as a treasure hunt. Walking into a charity shop, and actually finding treasures can be difficult, but when you do find it there is no greater feeling.

With festivals also comes other expenses than clothing (ugh) and there is a lot of them. Tents, alcohol, and transport are all part of the bundle of expenses that needs to be covered during festival season. Pairing up with a friend or two to share the expenses of travel and accommodation can save you a lot of money. Also agreeing with your companion to how much money you but in your joint wallet/purse will also help you to stick within your budget.

In the run-up to festivals, you are looking at purchasing clothes or equipment. Using a website or tool like PIWoP (Price I want to Pay) could help you save a lot of money. It allows you to create a list of items that you want plus the price you are willing to pay. You will then get a notification if any item on your list drops in price. What a dream right?

And last but not least, if you are indeed a student take advantage of that. As we are all aware student discount can save you a lot of money. Especially around festival season. Keep a lookout in all your usual stores regularly to keep up to date with the discounts.