Student Shopping

The perks of being a student, NUS cards and free stuff :D

Despite fee's being extortionate now i am still managing to keep my shopping habit, thanks to student discounts, offers and shopping events. Since starting university I have been to 3, and they generally tend to be 1/2 weeks after freshers rush dies down.

Southgate Shopping Centre Student Lock In

South Gate is the main modern shopping district in Bath, which houses most well known high street stores including:

-H&M

-All Saints

-Boots

-Topshop

-Urban Outfitters

 The centre arranged and event where the shops would open between 7-9 and offer discounts and freebies, most shops took part in the event and there was even music and food stalls dotted about the centre. I took full advantage of the discounts stocking up on basics at H&M and beginning present shopping at urban outfitters.

LUSH cosmetics Student party

A week or so after the south gate event the local lush store held there own student lock in, we were treated to in store treatments (which I took full advantage of) Bath bomb and spoon races down the high street and goodie bags for being the first people at the event :) This was by far one of the best student events due to the friendly attitude of the staff, which meant I did not feel intimidated to ask to see lots of bath bombs, try little swatches of products and take advantage of the hand massages on offer. Luckily for me, my mum had sent me a voucher to treat myself with the day before so I had a guilt free shop and bought a mixture of my old favourites: Snow Fairy and Butterball as well as treating myself to some new products: Candy Mountain and Bubblegum Lip Scrub. As you can see from my product choices I'm a bit of a sucker for any of Lush's sweet themed products. As we were about to leave me and my friends were offered a goody bag each (No minimum spend-one of the girls had only bought a bath bomb); this turned out to be one of the best goody bags ever(including full size products with a value over £20!)! So packed with products and all things I wouldn't of necessarily tried on my own, these included h'suan wen hua, Volcano, silk stockings and Miranda Soap.

Cath Kidston Student lock in

Straight after the Lush Lock in was the Cath Kidston event just up the road. Like Lush they had extended opening hours specifically for students and were offering 25% off all products (student discount is normally only 10%), and if you spent over £25 you could get a goodie bag! I saw the £25 target as a challenge and easily managed to fill my basket up to the said quota buying things I convinced myself I needed. My purchases from the evening were:

Cosmetic Bag £12

Sandwich boxes £10

Manicure Set £14

The cosmetic bag was bought to house my Sewing Kit for Uni which consists of lots of important little tools which I knew I would lose if I didn't find them a cute home soon! It works out as being pretty much the right size with only the tiniest point of my scissors poking out (as I bought slightly larger fabric shears, normal or small size shears would fit fine). Despite all that I was told on student forums I didn't bring enough tupperware to store all my food and have a lunchbox so these where the perfect excuse, bulking up my lack of storage and cute enough to be used as a lunchbox for uni, and finally a sewing kit, which was an essential I had completely forgotten about until the week before I moved out and was then unable to find one before I moved.

All in all it was a successful few days of shopping and the discount always helps!

fff x