College. It’s ridiculously expensive.

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$196.75!!!

We are now into the new fall semester for our two (two!) college people and I just have to talk about books.

Everyone knows that college is expensive.  Even community college where Denton and Hayden are both attending right now.  But some things are just beyond bearing in my opinion.  Each new semester I make ask Hayden nicely to give me his class schedule with the book requirements on it.  And then I begin my search for the very lowest of the low prices on what we are going to have to give our arms and legs over to purchase said books.

Last semester we rented one of his book’s and saved around $30.00.  One he could access online and we saved around $90.00.  Woohoo!  This time he’s taking BIO 101 and they informed us 1 week BEFORE SCHOOL STARTED, that they had upgraded to a new book and that they hadn’t arrived yet.  Finally two day’s before school started we found out which book he would need and even online it’s the same price as the bookstore.  $196.75!!

I did find it used online, but even with expedited shipping we were only going to save about $40.00, and yes, I know it’s still $40.00, but we’ve been down that road before and not gotten books until well after he needed them.  Not good.  $40 or my baby’s peace of mind is a no-brainer.

So this morning, Hayden says to me that he needs a very large binder for his BIO class.  I I get him one from our stash and casually ask him why he needs such a large one.  He laughs and says “You paid two hundred dollars for this book and it’s not even a book.”  It’s about three inches of loose paper that is hole punched.  Yes.  They couldn’t even be bothered to bind this stupid thing.

I have mined the internet so that we can all have some comic relief from the stresses and bank account drainage that is college.  Enjoy!

And last but not least….a friend shared this on her Facebook this week.

When you find out what books cost this semester….

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