About The Provident PhD

Provident means prudent, thrifty, sensible, and economic. The Provident PhD is a personal financial blog for graduate student families, particularly for families with one spouse raising the children and the other attending school full time. The contributors are all current or recently graduated student families. The experience of financing school through savings, student loans, and summer jobs has a refining effect on a family’s financial skills. We hope The Provident PhD will be a forum for sharing practical, money saving ideas, including some specific to the unique college family audience. For example, posts offer suggestions on couponing, cheap dates, food storage, simple car maintenance, and how to take advantage of the perks of student status. Of course discovering ways to save money should be a universal pursuit and we hope The Provident PhD will be a useful tool to those outside the graduate student family audience.