First impression traumasThe Micro-Transactions of Regret: Unnecessary Expenses
It is almost never the big, planned purchases that bankrupt a college student; it is the death by a thousand tiny, impulsive transactions. The modern student budget is secretly drained by micro-expenses that feel completely harmless in the moment. It is the daily iced coffees required to survive 8 AM lectures, the spontaneous expensive cafe plans in CP because everyone else was going, and the late-night fast food deliveries fueled by assignment stress. Before you know it, those small daily treats have snowballed into a massive, unavoidable financial crisis.
