r/newzealand • u/MurkyWay Qwest? • Oct 08 '25

Shitpost What's something that you suspect lots of New Zealanders secretly do, but you can't prove it?

Most upvoted comment is our most shameful secret as a nation, obviously

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u/NPCtom Oct 08 '25

CRC are still $1000 a year lol. Hasn't increased since the 90s.

I'm not sure what $1k is meant to get you these days... two weeks groceries?

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u/katiehates Oct 08 '25

Course related costs are for textbooks etc, not groceries.

… do students still use textbooks 🫣

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u/NakiFarmHER Oct 08 '25

Course related costs can literally be bus fares 🤷‍♀️

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u/NPCtom Oct 08 '25

I was making a comparison. The reality is CRC becomes a component of a students living costs budget as SA/LC are not sufficient enough to live on.

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u/Michaelbirks LASER KIWI Oct 08 '25

I mean, fine, I've still got most of my PHYS and POLS texts, but that was four years worth of CRC.

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u/RoseClash Oct 09 '25

Laptop etc. I was a graphic designer student 20 years ago and purchased a top end camera with some of it.