Getting Ready for School

[amarie24]

Things I don't like: Seeing that my college's bookstore offers a whole nursing package of books that total to about $500 and then offers the pharmacology book separately for about $200. So, books for this semester alone could've come to $700.

Things I do like: Going through my nursing packet that I got from the ADN office after I called to confirm my enrollment, and using both my book list there and the ISBN numbers from my college's bookstore's website...to then scour Amazon and shop there instead. I find cheaper, earlier edition, & used versions of 98% of my books in the space of one evening.

Things I also like: All of my books, plus Pinky's new charger (couldn't find any in-store, -lolsobs-), only come up to about $60, a far, far cry from $700.

I like, I like.


--Amarie

Comments

[wingedbeast]

Wow, a savings of (I don't want to do math so insert the right percentage, here)!

Have you peaked into any of those books as of yet?

[amarie24]

Well, it's a big percentage, that's for sure! Haha!

"Peeked", you mean? Well, no not anymore than I could while I was thoroughly looking at them on Amazon. I only just ordered them yesterday, so I expect that they won't be here until sometime next week in a big ol' box. ^ ^

[wingedbeast]

I mean it exactly like I pronounced it!

[amarie24]

Oh, okay! LOLOLOLOLOLOL! I gotcha, now! (That's such a clever play of words, Beast, hahaha!!)

[redsixwing]

Well done you!

That's some serious skills.

[amarie24]

Oh naw, Red! Not any serious skills. Just, uhh...being a bit frugal here and there, haha!

[silveradept]

Well done! 90+% savings is a great way to start things.

[amarie24]

I know, right?! -SQUEEE!!!-

[pebblerocker]

Great job, excellent bargain-hunting! Textbook prices sound like they're totally off the wall and into another building...

[amarie24]

Oh, thank you kindly, Pebble! Yeaaaaaaahhh...the higher education system in America is a fucking joke and then some. I don't know if it's like this in your country, but yes, it's not uncommon to spend anywhere from $200 to $700 on books alone.

Like, my boss from when I was a work-study student? When her eldest daughter was taking a trigonometry class, the books (included the access codes, workbook, etc.) all totaled up to about $700.

$700. For just one class.

The other teacher, who I also thought of as my boss (and was one of my mom's teachers when she was in LPN school!), forlornly shook her head and said, "See...that's just like robbery to me."

And it most certainly is robbery indeed.