Extravagant spending on college campus Recently, the issue of extravagant spending on college campus has been brought into focus. Nowadays, many students' expense is even much more than their parents', which makes us keep wondering how could this thing happen. The causes for this issue are varied, of which the main cause is comparing phenomenon. In college, we live with our roommates and it's human nature to maintain our image in front of those whom we are not familiar with, which makes us buy more beautiful clothes, shoes to make up ourselves, as a result, spending increased unconsciously. Certainly, what we talked above is not the sole reason. Falling in love is also responsible for this problem. As students, most of us are not economically independent, so, if we want to buy something for girlfriends or boyfriends, we have to spend more. Furthermore, unreasonable way of managing money could be one reason. As the saying goes that thrift is a good virtue. In my opinion, we shouldn't feel ashamed to be thrifty. In contrast, we should feel ashamed to live a luxurious life using our parents' money.