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It’s a Life

College and university textbooks are painfully pricey. To make it worse, some professors have an annoying habit of changing textbooks from one year to the next for the same course, so you can’t even count on making back some of that money by selling off your barely-used textbook to your roommate’s younger brother at the end of term. But here are a couple of ways you can cut down the cost of your college textbooks — realistically.

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Go for Used Textbooks

Here’s a HUGE tip. Don’t buy your second semester books until all the party boys have had a chance to blow their full term’s spending money and are looking for a quick sale of anything they’ve got to spare — textbooks included — to keep the good times rolling.
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The Worst Advice Ev-ah!

The Worst Advice Ev-ah!

What’s the worst advice you’ve ever got? That’s the topic for this week’s Blog Gang meme, and you can bet your crazy old auntie I’m going to wade in on this one! Come to think of it, there’s been one heck of a lot of bad advice in my life – and that’s only counting [...]

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Canada Day in the Wild East & I'm Not Dead Yet

Canada Day in the Wild East & I'm Not Dead Yet

Happy Canada Day! Photo: Phillie Casablanca We’ll get to the low-key-Canadian-patriotic celebrating stuff in a minute. First, I want to say thanks to all you lovely Internet People who sent emails, noticing that the Domestik Goddess was uncharacteristically quiet and wondering if I’d died… got me all misty-eyed, some of you! “Rumours of my death [...]

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Is That Any Way to Start a New Year?

Is That Any Way to Start a New Year?

So you never got around to making those New Year’s Resolutions? Nuhuh, me neither. But it’s still not too late. And if you’re at all like me, your list of resolutions for 2009 — if we were going to make resolutions, which I’m not saying for a minute is going to happen — are high-quality BS indeed.
In fact, the current list might look disturbingly like the very same resolutions we made back in senior year of high school, and every year since…

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Geek Chic

Geek Chic

One battered old-faithful dictionary on my shelves, published circa 1975, defines a geek as “a carnival performer who performs sensationally morbid or disgusting acts, as biting off the head of a live chicken. ” You may be deeply relieved to know that I’ve upgraded to a squeaky-new Canadian Oxford, although I can’t claim it’s a [...]

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