50 Things You Can Do With €50
You know how they say “there’s no such thing as free money”? Well sometimes ‘they’ are wrong. As part of their new students’ campaign, HSBC will be adding €50 to every student* who opens a new account with them. But what can you do with the extra cash you’ve now got laying about? Here’s 50 of our suggestions:
1. Go on an Asos splurge ahead of the new school year
2. Buy 15-20 second hand reading books
3. Decorate your room with some MaltaPark treasures
4. Buy 2 months of Tal-Linja travel
5. Watch 5 movies… in a row
6. Buy cheap flights for a weekend holiday
7. Buy a cookbook and ingredients and learn to feed yourself well
8. Get a gym membership
9. Buy all the stationery
10. Get 4 months worth of mobile plans for students
11. Take an online course
12. Make a serious contribution to a charity
13. Buy a good chair to work on at home
14. Purchase apps to help you organise your life
15. Try all the slushies available at Tony’s (Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq)
16. Try all the rides at the Luna Park
17. Get in touch with your wild side and try some adventure sports
18. Stock up on energy drinks for the upcoming year
19. Put the money aside for the inevitable assignment printing costs
20. Try all the Maltese flavours of ice cream available
21. Buy a tent and some camping gear and enjoy Malta’s countryside
22. Contribute towards a Kickstarter campaign
23. Spend a day Badger Karting
24. Go watch a new movie every week for a month (popcorn included)
25. Go to one of Malta’s top-rated restaurants
26. Go paintballing
27. Finally buy new underwear
28. Get a massage from a legit parlor (opaque door-stickers featuring fantasy women are usually a bad sign)
29. Get tickets to that amazing concert you’ve been dying to go to
30. Buy local artist’s music
31. Beat the rush and pre-order a family member’s Christmas gift
32. Get a high-end hair/beard treatment
33. Go thrift-shopping and walk away with buckets of bargains
34. Buy some adorable new covers for your iPhone
35. Splurge on a lavish Comino day
36. Go on a Segway Tour
37. Join a class and learn a new language
38. Go video-game crazy on the Steam sale
39. Get Spotify Premium for 6 months
40. Buy a Passion Planner and organise all the things
41. Check out LIDL’s best kitchen appliances on sale that week (waffle iron anyone?)
42. Buy a bunch of board games
43. Start saving up for that special something you’ve had your eye on for a while
44. Hire a personal trainer and get a tailored workout plan
45. Adopt a pet (and buy it every treat you see).
46. Buy a legit Halloween/Carnival/general life costume
47. Go on a makeup and hair products splurge
48. Put it in your savings account, and keep it for a rainy day
49. Buy 5 disposable cameras, have an epic adventure, develop and hang all the photos
50. Stock up on equipment for a home-gym
*Offer subject to verification of November 2016 stipend credited into a YES4 Students account. Other conditions apply. For full Terms and Conditions please visit hsbc.com.mt/YES2016